Lu Chen
Chinese painter and art educator Lu Chen is good at figure painting in ink and wash, as well as Chinese calligraphy. He came from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, he studied at Suzhou Art School in 1951, and then was admitted to the Department of Chinese Painting, CAFA in 1953, learning from Ye Qianyu, Jiang Zhaohe, Li...
Wu Biduan
As an artistic ‘versatile talent’, he has built a rich artistic creative world, and his artistic characteristics are very clear in the prints, sketches, illustrations, sketches, colored ink. He has a good vision on life, but his temperament is very simple, he has always been modest, instead of utilitarian. When he described a character, it...
Tan Quanshu
Tan Quanshu is an outstanding creator and educator in the printmaking of contemporary China. He graduated from the High School affiliated to CAFA, and then was admitted to the Department of Printmaking at CAFA, having learned from Li Hua; he has been in a teaching post since he graduated in 1962. He served as the...
Platform China presents “Song Yuanyuan: Downstage, Upstaged”
Song looks to fairy tales – crammed with bowls of porridge, ruby slippers, and magical beans – for a language through which to understand these insignificant objects. And yet a scene filled with only minor characters eventually collapses back into context for something else.
Qin Xuanfu
Qin Xuanfu upheld his attitude towards life as “embracing the life and embracing the nature, fight to the death”, being courageous in breaking through the self, with a far-reaching impact on the development of Chinese oil painting. The oil paintings “Lady Kabangqi’s Portrait”, “A Maid”, “Merry-Go-Round” have been selected for the Spring Salon of Paris,...
Yu Hong
The generation of Yu Hong has a unique experience, their growth and national growth is in parallel. At that time, China had gradually walked away from isolation, and so did Yu Hong, who began to love life; during which the disco craze entered mainland China, which indicated that Chinese dramatic reform was dawning. This group...
Qiu Zhijie
Born in Fujian Province, P.R. China in 1969, Qiu Zhijie graduated from the Printmaking Department, China Academy of Art in 1992, and began to be involved in contemporary art events. Now he is the Dean of the School of Experimental Art, CAFA, living in Hangzhou and Beijing. Qiu’s creative events involve a variety of styles,...
Wu Jian’an
Wu’s thinking and exploration, on the one hand, has facilitated the evolution of his personal style, not only creating a brand new mode of expression that is completely different from what’s prevailing in Chinese contemporary art, but also produced a prospect that is highly distinct and inspirational. On the other hand, Wu has also endowed...
Xu Hualing
Xu Hualing’s works are both in between the real ego and the illusionary identity, between virtual painting and real video, between the traditional easel painting and contemporary installation. Xu Hualing has created aesthetic alienation between the traditional and contemporary in the contemporary self-examination and self-disclosure.
Lu Peng
Lu Peng is Director of Institutions of CHINART and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Theory at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Born in 1956 in Chongqing, Sichuan province, Professor Lu graduated from the Political Education Department of Sichuan Normal University in 1982 and was awarded a PhD...
Lv Pinchang
In contemporary Chinese sculptural circles, Lv Pinchang’s achievement lies in his ability to alternate between producing sculpture and ceramics, his contradictions and confusions also exist between sculpture and ceramics, how to unify the attention on one of the basic sculptural values “sense of volume and tactile”, and the love of “the beauty of form and...
Stella Zhang
Stella Zhang’s art is mostly in monochromes of white and black and shades of grey. This is the classic ink-inspired palette of scholarly Chinese wen-ren, literati artists, that reflects her own traditional training at CAFA in Beijing. Viewpoint-0: White on White is a fitting title of one of her earlier series, as the coded languages...
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