Woodcut master Shang Mingpeng engraves his work.[File photo]

Xu Xiaogang believed that wood engraving joining hands with Internet walks a new road on the Internet.[File photo]

[InKunming--Yunnan]  Art works are not products put on the shelf, but products should be appreciated and enjoyed by all human. When Pu'er's Breeze Gallery came into being on the Internet, distance between art and human is greatly shortened. People could view Pu'er’s out-of-print woodcut by the gallery.

Pu'er's Breeze Gallery is a woodcut collecting center on the Internet, which contains hundreds of out-of-print woodcuts. Yunnan’s new-generation artists such as Chen Long, Chen Li, Shang Mingpeng, Shi Xiaoming, Leng Guangmian, Gao Chaoming put their woodcut art works to show up on the Pu'er's Breeze Gallery website on the internet.

After artists’ hard work, fantastic woodcut works that demonstrated Yunnan and Pu’er’s ethnic culture, natural landscapes emerge, becoming a name card of Pu’er City and influencing contemporary fine arts in the nation and in the world. By the Breeze Gallery, Pu'er’s woodcut works were sold in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen in China, and even sold in Europe and in the United States.

The out-of-print woodcuts from talented artists of Breeze Gallery tell marvelous stories of Pu’er and Yunnan by combining the artists’ carving and printing skills together. For instance, the artist Shang Mingpeng's famous woodcut features cultural characteristics of Ancient Tea Route in Yunnan.

To create the famous woodcut, Shang Mingpeng spent ten years visiting historical relics, acquiring knowledge about tea, recording different traits of tea, etc. Shang Mingpeng made painstaking efforts to complete the work.

Xiaogang Digital Technology Co., Ltd. is a well-known internet enterprise in Pu’er City. Xu Xiaogang, the head of the company, is a fan of out-of-print woodcuts. To boost development of out-of-print woodcuts, Xu Xiaogang and his associates invested a great deal of money. This is the reason why Breeze Gallery exists on the internet.

In a nutshell, when time passes by, Pu'er’s out-of-print woodcut is just like a gushing river murmuring in art field. More and more people could appreciate unique charm of the woodcut from the Breeze Gallery website.

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(Editors: Rachel, Cathy Chen)