An artist of the people
9 months ago

An artist of the people

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Ancient luminaries of literature and science. New portraiture Jiang, who basically taught himself to paint, sculpt and design, became a professor of Chinese painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1950, under the deanship of Xu Beihong, another great modern artist who favored a realistic approach to art. His subjects were farmers and workers engaged in the booming construction after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and families spending time together in an era of peace. Meanwhile, he blazed a new trail in Chinese figure painting, beginning in the 1950s and through to the 1980s, the late years of his life: doing portraits of ancient luminaries which he saw as hugely important to carry on the country's history and cultural legacies. Other subjects included Tang Dynasty poets Li Bai and Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty, Li Shizhen, the 16th-century pharmacologist who authored Bencao Gangmu, and Zhang Heng, the Han Dynasty scientist who invented the seismoscope for earthquake registering.

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Tracing the origins of Confucian inspiration
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Tracing the origins of Confucian inspiration

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A Tang Dynasty portrait of centenarian Fu Sheng, a brave scholar who spent his lifetime protecting Confucianism around the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC. By "interpreting rituals with benevolence", Confucius, a pioneering educator who also first initiated private schools in China, established an all-encompassing moral code that was closely tied to human nature. More than 300 years later, Emperor Wu …

Tracing the origins of Confucian inspiration
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Tracing the origins of Confucian inspiration

China Daily  

A Tang Dynasty portrait of centenarian Fu Sheng, a brave scholar who spent his lifetime protecting Confucianism around the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC. By "interpreting rituals with benevolence", Confucius, a pioneering educator who also first initiated private schools in China, established an all-encompassing moral code that was closely tied to human nature. More than 300 years later, Emperor Wu …

Artist's Beijing solo continues literati painting tradition
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Artist's Beijing solo continues literati painting tradition

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2024 No.3, by Shen Xiaotong "Shen Xiaotong's artistic career has traversed the 40-year evolution of China's contemporary art scene," said Xing Yu, curator of the artist's Beijing solo. Quoting the Freudian theory of psychoanalysis, Xing highlighted that the artist's latest creation had departed from his early conceptual paintings rooted in the id, to the literati-style painting driven by the super-ego. …

Painting across borders
6 months ago

Painting across borders

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Ren and Morgan giving a lecture at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1997. Ren says that he sees the need to establish a globalized, high-level art education mechanism through which Chinese and Western professors and artists would be able to work together to teach, mentor and supervise students. "I am now like a talent hunter — all American professors, …

Painting across borders
6 months ago

Painting across borders

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Ren Ming with three artist friends, Fred Martin and Jeremy Morgan from the San Francisco Art Institute, and David Frazer of the Rhode Island School of Design, at their joint exhibition at the Beijing 798 Art Zone in 2014. "I hoped to fill that gap by showing them an authentic, comprehensive and complete history of Chinese art," Ren remembers thinking …

Painting across borders
6 months ago

Painting across borders

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Ren Ming with three artist friends, Fred Martin and Jeremy Morgan from the San Francisco Art Institute, and David Frazer of the Rhode Island School of Design, at their joint exhibition at the Beijing 798 Art Zone in 2014. "I hoped to fill that gap by showing them an authentic, comprehensive and complete history of Chinese art," Ren remembers thinking …

Painting across borders
6 months ago

Painting across borders

China Daily  

Ren Ming with three artist friends, Fred Martin and Jeremy Morgan from the San Francisco Art Institute, and David Frazer of the Rhode Island School of Design, at their joint exhibition at the Beijing 798 Art Zone in 2014. "I hoped to fill that gap by showing them an authentic, comprehensive and complete history of Chinese art," Ren remembers thinking …

French professor showcases Chinese ink paintings in exhibition
8 months, 2 weeks ago

French professor showcases Chinese ink paintings in exhibition

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Professor Benoit Vermander of Fudan University showcases more than 60 ink paintings created over the past decade. A Chinese ink painting exhibition, featuring paintings created by Professor Benoit Vermander of Fudan University, kicked off on Wednesday at the university in Shanghai, aiming to promote cultural exchanges between China and France. The exhibition showcases more than 60 ink paintings created over …

French professor showcases Chinese ink paintings in exhibition
8 months, 2 weeks ago

French professor showcases Chinese ink paintings in exhibition

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Professor Benoit Vermander of Fudan University showcases more than 60 ink paintings created over the past decade. A Chinese ink painting exhibition, featuring paintings created by Professor Benoit Vermander of Fudan University, kicked off on Wednesday at the university in Shanghai, aiming to promote cultural exchanges between China and France. The exhibition showcases more than 60 ink paintings created over …

An artist of the people
9 months ago

An artist of the people

China Daily  

A portrait of ancient poet Du Fu is one of the signature works by Jiang Zhaohe at the ongoing exhibition Gazing Into the Vast Expanse in Beijing. Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu, who's regarded as one of the greatest, would not have expected to become the subject of an online pop culture trend in 2012, the 1,300th anniversary of his …

An artist of the people
9 months ago

An artist of the people

China Daily  

Jiang Zhaohe's paintings mostly feature ordinary people. And they show Jiang's longtime investments in profiling figures, by combining the outlining techniques of Chinese ink art and the three-dimensional effect of Western art, which can be traced back to his years of exploration in Shanghai in the 1930s. Back then, his gift and diligence already impressed artists of eminence such as …

An artist of the people
9 months ago

An artist of the people

China Daily  

Jiang Zhaohe's paintings mostly feature ordinary people. And they show Jiang's longtime investments in profiling figures, by combining the outlining techniques of Chinese ink art and the three-dimensional effect of Western art, which can be traced back to his years of exploration in Shanghai in the 1930s. Back then, his gift and diligence already impressed artists of eminence such as …

An artist of the people
9 months ago

An artist of the people

China Daily  

A portrait of ancient poet Du Fu is one of the signature works by Jiang Zhaohe at the ongoing exhibition Gazing Into the Vast Expanse in Beijing. Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu, who's regarded as one of the greatest, would not have expected to become the subject of an online pop culture trend in 2012, the 1,300th anniversary of his …

An artist of the people
9 months ago

An artist of the people

China Daily  

A portrait of ancient poet Du Fu is one of the signature works by Jiang Zhaohe at the ongoing exhibition Gazing Into the Vast Expanse in Beijing. Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu, who's regarded as one of the greatest, would not have expected to become the subject of an online pop culture trend in 2012, the 1,300th anniversary of his …

Brush up on the past
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Brush up on the past

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A painting from Huang Binhong's Flowers Album, on display at the show Immortal Legacy in Beijing. Nearly seven decades after his death, Huang Binhong's art remains visually unappealing and just as difficult to comprehend as ever for many members of the public. Now hailed as one of the greatest ink artists of 20th-century China, Huang created a distinctive vocabulary of …

What's on
1 year, 5 months ago

What's on

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Design pioneer Chen Zhifo was a renowned figure in the flower-and-bird genre of Chinese painting. Tribute to Design, an exhibition at Guan Shanyue Art Museum through to July 16, in Shenzhen, introduces Chen's accomplishment in designing graphic patterns, book covers and magazines. Chen studied graphic design in Japan, during which he came to understand its importance in modern life, and …

Veteran of art leaves deep spiritual legacy
1 year, 6 months ago

Veteran of art leaves deep spiritual legacy

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Traveling Afar, part of the Powerlong Museum's collection in Shanghai. Huang, a self-taught artist and former professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, witnessed the progress of Chinese art throughout the 20th century, and he himself took an active part in the course. Born to a family in destitution, Huang finished primary school and in his early teens, he …

Ink masters who gave depth and scope to an art tradition
1 year, 8 months ago

Ink masters who gave depth and scope to an art tradition

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Landscape paintings by Pan Tianshou and Huang Binhong are on display at the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The two are often viewed as the modern-day equivalent of the Ma-Xia school, named after prominent Song artists Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, whose innovation also added new levels to Chinese painting. Yu Xuhong, director …

Ink masters who gave depth and scope to an art tradition
1 year, 8 months ago

Ink masters who gave depth and scope to an art tradition

China Daily  

Landscape paintings by Pan Tianshou and Huang Binhong are on display at the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The two are often viewed as the modern-day equivalent of the Ma-Xia school, named after prominent Song artists Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, whose innovation also added new levels to Chinese painting. Yu Xuhong, director …

An artist of the people
2 years, 3 months ago

An artist of the people

China Daily  

Ye Qianyu's sketches shown at an ongoing exhibition at the China National Academy of Painting include examples of work the artist created for Mao Dun's novel Ziye and drafts for his seminal piece The Liberation of Beiping. Ye's works were drawn from his personal experiences of living in Shanghai and socializing with people from different backgrounds. These drawings are on …

Facing up to the past
2 years, 3 months ago

Facing up to the past

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A painting depicting Qing Dynasty emperor Kangxi in his study. Qi Baishi, one of the most well-known masters of classic Chinese art in the 20th century, gained popularity for his vivid depictions of comparatively smaller living beings such as shrimps, insects, fish and crabs. His works deliver an auspicious, playful atmosphere and express an optimistic, lighthearted attitude toward life. But …

Facing up to the past
2 years, 3 months ago

Facing up to the past

China Daily  

A painting depicting Qing Dynasty emperor Kangxi in his study. Qi Baishi, one of the most well-known masters of classic Chinese art in the 20th century, gained popularity for his vivid depictions of comparatively smaller living beings such as shrimps, insects, fish and crabs. His works deliver an auspicious, playful atmosphere and express an optimistic, lighthearted attitude toward life. But …

Facing up to the past
2 years, 3 months ago

Facing up to the past

China Daily  

A painting depicting Qing Dynasty emperor Kangxi in his study. Qi Baishi, one of the most well-known masters of classic Chinese art in the 20th century, gained popularity for his vivid depictions of comparatively smaller living beings such as shrimps, insects, fish and crabs. His works deliver an auspicious, playful atmosphere and express an optimistic, lighthearted attitude toward life. But …

What's on
3 years, 5 months ago

What's on

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Joint display Han Yu is an eminent painter and comic artist who has won several awards. In this regard, Beijing Fine Art Academy mounted an exhibition to juxtapose artworks by Qi and Han, now aged 90, to show a spiritual communication transgressing time. The ongoing exhibition, until Oct 8, shows selected paintings from the academy's collection of Qi's oeuvre and …

Ink oeuvre
3 years, 6 months ago

Ink oeuvre

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Li’s Lotus Pool is also on show. Li's paintings show an influence of great ancient painters, such as Zhu Da and the "four landscape painters surnamed Wang" of the Qing Dynasty, to convey a philosophical thinking of coexistence between humans and nature. "He always said real life and traditions were the sources of knowledge, and were what the National Academy …

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