China Contemporary art
Hsiao Chin is a Chinese modernist painter who has worked in Europe.
Born into an intellectual family in Shanghai, Hsiao moved to Taiwan in 1949 and was educated in the art department of the Taipei Teachers' Training School in Taiwan Province of Taipei (now National Taipei Teachers' University). In 1955, he and seven other artists founded the Ton Fan Art Group, the first postwar contemporary art group in Taiwan that attempted to break free from realism and sought a modern expression of Eastern spirituality.
As an innovative artist and co-founder of significant modernist movements in Taiwan and Europe, Hsiao's work explored Asian philosophy while embracing forms of Western postwar avant-garde practices.
In the mid-1950s, Hsiao settled in Milan, where he lived for half a century. In 1961, along with Italian painter Antonio Calderara and Japanese sculptor Adzuma Kenjiro in Milan, he co-founded the Punto movement, which brought together numerous Eastern and Western abstractionist artists. Xiao Qin's work has been exhibited around the world, including New York's MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Art Museum of China, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, and the National Taiwan Museum of Art.
Lu Chuntao is a Chinese painter.
He studied at the Shanghai University of International Studies and is the deputy director of the Shanghai Institute of Calligraphy and Painting.
Lu Chuntao expresses his mood and feelings through semi-abstract paintings. His paintings are imbued with vibrating life, with splendor and different colors, they are full of joy. This shows a commitment to the "Shanghai School of Painting" and a respect for traditional pictorial painting. The artist has a casual and concise style of Western painting, but retains the spiritual kinship and full meaning of Chinese traditional painting.
David Diao is a Chinese American artist and teacher based in New York City. He first won acclaim and public attention with an exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in 1969. He is known for his simplification of form, minimal compositions, and uses of stylized text and typography. Diao's work was included at dOCUMENTA 13. His work is featured in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, Rennes's public council collection, among others. Diao taught at the Cooper Union in the early 70s and was then mostly doing color field painting made by squeegying paint across a large canvas. In 2008 he had his first exhibition in China. In 2012, he was elected into the National Academy of Design. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2015).
Wang Guangyi (Chinese: 王广义) is a contemporary Chinese artist. He is known as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989, and for his Great Criticism series of paintings, which use images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising.
Han Hsiang-ning is a Taiwanese-American artist. Han has participated in many prominent museum exhibitions. He often uses spray painting and paints photo-realistic street scenes. In 1961, he joined the "Fifth Moon Group". He began abstract form oil painting, and his works first appeared in the magazine Pen Review. In 1963 he began working with roller and stencils on rice paper, still abstract, emphasizing form and space structure. In 1969 he began spray painting works using acrylic paint on canvas, created the "Invisible Image" series. In 1971, in the process of spray gun painting, found how to create different combinations of sprayed color dots, a form of pointillism. In 1971 he continued the spray gun technique, but began using New York city-scenes as a subject and his camera as sketching tool. In 1972 he launched studies on industrial scenes with vivid images. He completed his first self-portrait in 1981. In 1983 he began using brushes to paint watercolor and ink on paper. His subjects being street crowds and bird's eye views of intersections of New York streets.
Wenjue He is a famous Chinese painter whose work is inspired by films. In the internationally acclaimed series, the viewer is presented with abstract emotions that are achieved with quick strokes that create a mystical aura. Themes from various films in Wenjue He's works include war, politics, human nature, eroticism and culture. They depict social events and historical changes, which are the most important criteria for the artist when choosing his films.
Ye Hongxing (Chinese: 叶红杏) is a Chinese artist.
Ye Hongxing's work uses traditional Chinese motifs and contemporary elements to create visually sublime scenes that impose an opposition of calm and complex madness. Using the traditional Western medium of oil paint, she creates attractive self-portraits with eyes closed and a calm expression superimposed on multi-coloured currencies or vibrant decorative and sinuous floral patterns derived from traditional Chinese porcelain.
Li Huayi (Chinese: 李華弌) is a contemporary ink artist whose admiration for the monumental landscapes of the Northern Song dynasty with his training in both traditional Chinese ink and Western art, inspired him to create his own style of ink painting.
Li has established a distinct connection between contemporary and traditional, and nature and humanity, by integrating his contemporary perspective with the eternal values of traditional literati painting.
Li Huayi's works are collected by museums worldwide including the British Museum, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Art Museums, the Brooklyn Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Suzhou Museum, M+ Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
Zhu Jinshi is a Chinese artist and pioneer of Chinese abstract painting and installation. He paints colourful abstractions reminiscent of German Expressionism, with highly sculptural surfaces in thickly applied oil paint.
While in Europe, Zhu Jinshi began experimenting with performance, installation and conceptual art. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing.
Terence Koh is a Canadian artist. He is known for his provocative and often controversial works that explore themes of spirituality, sexuality, and identity.
Koh works in a variety of media, including sculpture, performance, and installation. He often incorporates found objects and materials into his pieces, such as bones, hair, and glitter.
One of his most well-known works is "Gone, Yet Still," a performance piece in which the artist covered himself in white paint and stood motionless in a gallery for hours at a time. The work explored ideas of stillness, mortality, and transcendence.
Koh's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Tate Modern in London.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2007. His work is noted for its confrontational and often unsettling qualities, as well as its ability to challenge viewers' assumptions and beliefs about art and the world around them.
Bernard Leach, full name Bernard Howell Leach, is a British ceramics artist and teacher, considered the founder of the British school of pottery, bringing together East and West through him.
Because he spent most of his life in the Far East, imbibing a particular aesthetic, Bernard Leach's style is a combination of Western and Eastern art and philosophy. In particular, there is a marked influence of Korean, Japanese and Chinese ceramics, as well as traditional techniques from England and Germany. Leach viewed ceramics as a holistic combination of art, philosophy, design, and craft.
Li Tianbing is a Chinese artist. Li Tianbing’s body of work is characterized by the dual influence of the Far-East and the West: the first being a legacy of Chinese painting imbued with Taoism, the second coming from the teachings of art professors such as Vladimir Veličković, Christian Boltanski and Giuseppe Penone while he studied at the Fine Arts School in Paris. His work was marked by a pivotal moment in 2006, when he compiled a family album comprising portraits of him as a child, for the purpose of denouncing the one-child policy, thus depicting an imaginary family through replications of himself. He henceforth developed a new visual language in which portraits abound, creating through his art a dialog between reality, imagination and fantasy. When working on his compositions, Li Tianbing essentially uses oil paint; however, another of his main means of expression remains drawing with Indian ink. He also enjoys working with watercolours, alternating between Chinese and European paintbrushes.
Fang Lijun (方力钧) is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. He was born into a wealthy family with a high social status. In the 1990s, there was a cultural movement in China referred to as Cynical Realism of which Fang Lijun was a member. Living in China during this critical time shaped his worldview in terms of his views on art, human values and morality.
Ma Liuming (马六明) is a contemporary Chinese painter active in performance art. He is known most of all for his exploration of the power and poetry of public nudity in China, where such behavior was strictly forbidden. That is why he has been the target of government censorship, unable to perform in his own country for most of his career.
In order to match his own uniquely androgynous appearance Ma Liuming developed his own performance persona — Fen-Ma Liuming, a hybrid figure of male and female components.
Yangyang Meng is a Chinese visual artist who lives and works in Beijing. In her art she realizes her emotionality and ability to think outside the box and take risks as an adventurer. The artist easily plays with color, lines and shadows on her canvases.
Yuè Mǐnjūn (Chinese: 岳敏君) is one of the most popular and expensive contemporary Chinese artists. He is widely known for his self-portraits, which show him with a frozen smile on his face and laughing from a full mouth. His works are often attributed to the school of cynical realism, but the artist himself does not identify with these schools of thought.
Wang Qingsong is a Chinese photographer. He studied at the Sichuan Academy of Art. He began his career as an oil painter, then moved on to photography. Wang Qingsong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose large-format photographs address the rapidly changing society of China. His photographs, appearing at first humorous and ironic, have a much deeper message.
Ren Rong is a Chinese modernist painter and sculptor who studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts and has been living and working in Germany since the 1980s.
He is known for his installations, metal sculptures, carved paper and wooden works.
Ren Rong's main focus in his art is on human-plant figures, a combination of hermaphroditic, floral and human forms, which the artist has been developing for many years.
Zhou Shaohua (Chinese: 周韶华), a Chinese painter and theorist, was born in October 1929 in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, China. Graduating from the Fine Arts department of Zhongyuan University in 1950, Zhou has had a distinguished career in both art and academia. He became the President of the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1978, significantly contributing to the Chinese art scene.
Zhou's career turned a pivotal corner in 1982 with his work "The Soul of the Yellow River," which marked a significant breakthrough in the history of Chinese Modern Art. His tenure as a professor at Huazhong Normal University in 1986 and his visit to Berlin in 1987 further expanded his artistic and cultural horizons.
Renowned for hosting over 80 solo exhibitions worldwide and authoring more than 20 publications, Zhou Shaohua has been a celebrated figure in the art world. His works have been showcased in various locations, including the C.A.F.A. Gallery in Beijing, Taipei Pacific Cultural Foundation in Taiwan, and in cities like Nagoya, Lübeck, and Stuttgart. His 2009 solo exhibition "Spirit of Melody" at the Bridge Gallery in Beijing and his participation in the "Love for Yangtze River - Hubei 'Yangtze River School'" exhibition in 2010 are notable highlights of his career.
Zhou Shaohua's artistry is celebrated for its unique blend of traditional Chinese techniques with a modern sensibility, making his work highly sought after by collectors, auctioneers, and art experts globally.
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Tian Shiguang was a distinguished Chinese artist, celebrated for his modern meticulous flower and bird paintings. Born in Leling, Shandong province, he spent his life in Beijing's Liulang village, contributing significantly to the Asian Modern & Contemporary art scene. His works, which have fetched prices ranging from modest to nearly a million USD at auctions, reflect his dedication to the traditional themes of Chinese art, imbued with a modern sensibility.
Tian's artistry was not confined to canvases but extended to the grandeur of public spaces. His creations grace the National Art Museum of China, the Great Hall of the People, and Tiananmen Square's Zhongnanhai Ziguang Pavilion, among other significant cultural institutions. His meticulous brushwork and vibrant compositions have been exhibited internationally, showcasing the universality and enduring appeal of his artistic vision.
For art collectors and enthusiasts, Tian Shiguang's paintings represent an intersection of classical Chinese technique and modern expression. His pieces are a testament to the rich cultural heritage of China and offer a unique investment in both aesthetic beauty and cultural significance.
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