Woodcut legend

Huang Yongyu, 98, is a Chinese art legend. He paints and draws, and publishes poems, essays and novels. His experiences of traveling, living and working across the country in his earlier years, and later abroad, have rendered his work with wit and a sense of humor. Forceful Cuts at the China Art Museum in Shanghai zooms in on Huang's woodcut prints, his most exhibited work genre. On show are around 200 works spanning his career of eight decades. Huang has said woodcut art is laborious but he enjoys it. Since the age of 16, he has produced woodcuts and always carried the needed equipments with him, be it during wartime or traveling around. Works on show include his best-known Ashima series, drawn from a long narrative poem of the Sani people, a branch of the Yi ethnic group, in Yunnan province. Huang says, "I live every day in the same way as I work on every plank of wood, paying great attention to spaces between the cuts and fear making mistakes."

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