"which was a stark contrast to other students' performances — usually recitations or choruses in English. Although the band played mainly covers of other bands, it was still a huge novelty to China during the late 1970s. Its debut was reported by CRI and the group subsequently held live concerts in other Beijing-based Chinese universities. However, it was not long before the band was eventually dissolved, when the four members graduated from the University and went for life trajectories other than rock stars. Wan Li Ma Wang Wan Li Ma Wang is a Chinese rock group formed in 1979, which"
"and mounted an unofficial exhibition in a park adjacent to the National Art Museum in Beijing. When officials closed the exhibition, the group staged a historic protest that became a rallying point for cultural openness in the early years of China’s post–Cultural Revolution political thaw; significantly, they succeeded in reopening the exhibition. The group went on to stage a second public exhibition, though their activities tapered off in the early 1980s, when many members emigrated abroad. The group’s member artists include Ai Weiwei, Wang Keping, Li Shuang, Huang Rui, and affiliates Zhang Hongtu and Zhang Wei, Ma Desheng, Yan Li,"
"Shuying, Wang Aihe, Wei Hai, Yang Yushu (Founding Member), Zhang Da'an (Founding Member), Zhao Wenliang (Founding Member), and Zheng Ziyan. Active primarily from the mid 1960s to late 1970s. On July 7, 1979, the first public exhibition of the Wuming painting group opened in Beijing’s Beihai Park. Ma Kelu and his Wuming Group spent a lot of time painting and sketching outdoors for hours because at the time there was no such concept as a “studio” for artists to work in. Due to many works done outdoors Make Lu became extremely sensitive to the divisions of day and night and"
"Wuming Painting Collective The Wuming Painting Collective (also translated as No Name Painting Association or Anonymous Painting Group, ) was a counter-culture Chinese art collective and movement formed in 1959. Based in Beijing, the collective was characterized by its depictions of idyllic landscapes and plein air approach of painting in public parks. The group is considered the first self organized art collective of the Cultural Revolution. Though the group lacked formal leadership, its founders Zhao Wenliang (b. 1937, ) and Yang Yushu (b.1944, ) provided the Wuming with significant guidance and direction. While the majority of the collective's artwork featured"
"From the 1960s onwards, the Group became the pioneering art society in Taiwan, using the new modern style as their visual manifesto. Their iconic style is a hybridisation of bold brush strokes of Eastern calligraphy tradition and shapes and colours of Western aesthetics, characterised by innovative representation of freedom, conceptualisation, and format of painting. Founding Members: Chuang Tse (Zhuang Zhi, 莊喆), Feng Chung-jui (Feng Zhongrui, 馮 鍾 睿), Kuo Tung-jung (Guo Dongrong, 郭東榮), Li Fang-chih (Li Fangzhi, 李芳枝), Kuo Yu-lun (Guo Yulun, 郭豫倫), Chen Jing-rong (陳景容), and Ku Fu-Sheng (Gu Fusheng, 顧福生), and they were subsequently joined by other artists"
"a result of the purging of the reformists in the protest, avant-garde activity declined, but at the same time, Chinese avant-garde art drew increased attention from the international world. In 1990, Wang met and acquainted with the Beijing-based art group called the New Measurement Group (""Xin kedu""), which included Chen Shaoping, Gu Dexin, and Wang Luyan. The group shared many of Wang's perspectives in conceptual and experimental art practices and art making. After graduating from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Wang produced his ""Tea House"" series (1989–1990), paintings that depict elderly residents drinking tea and passing time in local"
"Jez Fang, Nikko Cloud, Hsieh Hsiao Wei, Hsieh Hsiao Ting, Victoria Macarte, Christopher Ioan Roberts, Christopher J Staley, Natalia Velka, and Gabrielle Van Der Elst. The group performed their first self-titled work ""Deep Brain Stimulation"" at Ruin Academy in Taipei in 2011. Other works include ""Yǐ Shǔ Yí Shù Yí Shú Yí Shū Yī Shù Yǐ Shū Yì Shù"" (Chinese: 蟻鼠移樹姨叔遺書醫術已輸藝術; pinyin: yǐshǔ yíshù yíshú yíshū yīshù yǐshū yìshù), a work inspired by the poetry of Mimi Ye. Jia-Jen Lin Jia-Jen Lin (Chinese: 林嘉貞; pinyin: ""Lín Jiājen"") is a Taiwanese visual artist based in New York City. Her work spans"
"新刻度小組; WANG Chuan, 王川; WANG Guangyi, 王廣義; WANG Huaxiang, 王華祥; WANG Jianwei, 汪建偉; WANG Jinsong, 王勁松; WANG Youshen, 王友身; WANG Ziwei, 王子衛; WEI Guangqing, 魏光慶; WU Shanzhuan, 吳山專; XIA Xiaowan, 夏小萬; XIAO Lu, 肖魯; XIN Haizhou, 忻海洲; XU Anming, 徐安明; XU Bing, 徐冰; YE Yongqing, 葉永青; YU Youhan, 余友涵; ZENG Fanzhi, 曾梵志; ZHANG Bo, 張波; ZHANG Peili, 張培力; ZHANG Xiaogang, 張曉剛; ZHANG Yongjian, 張永見; ZHOU Chunya, 周春芽; and ZHOU Jirong, 周吉榮 China's New Art, Post-1989 China's New Art, Post-1989 was the first major collection of Chinese experimental art to exhibit outside the country. The exhibition took place between January 30"
"every year, no works were excluded. Regardless of how often they would take part, regardless of how many works they wanted to show, every member could participate anytime, anywhere in the joint exhibition. This was the so-called MOUVE spirit.” Clearly, “the name was a symbol of avant-garde and of youth.” On March 19, 1938, the artists who had formed the new group, Wan-chuan Chang (Zhāng Wànchuán 張萬傳), Jui-Lin Hung (Hóng Ruìlín 洪瑞麟), Dewang Chen (Chén Déwàng 陳德旺), Chi-ch’eng Lu (Lǚ Jīzhèng 呂基正), Chunde Chen (Chén Chūndé 陳春德), Ching-cheng Huang (Huang Qing-cheng 黃清埕), and Liu-jen Teng (Děng Liùrén 等六人) had their"
"Li Wei, Wang Guangyi, Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, Yang Zhichao, Zhan Wang, Zheng Lianjie, Zhang Dali, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhang Huan, Zhu Yu, Ma Kelu, Ding Fang, Shang Yang, Gao Minglu and Guo Jian. Beginning in the late 1980s there was unprecedented exposure for younger Chinese visual artists in the west to some degree through the agency of curators based outside the country such as Hou Hanru. Local curators within the country such as Gao Minglu and critics such as Li Xianting (栗憲庭) reinforced this promotion of particular brands of painting that had recently emerged, while also spreading the idea of"
"Along with these developments in professional art circles, there was a proliferation of peasant art depicting everyday life in the rural areas on wall murals and in open-air painting exhibitions. Notable modern Chinese painters include Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Cai Jin, Chang Ta Chien, Pan Tianshou, Wu Changshi, Fu Baoshi, Wang Kangle, and Zhang Chongren. Contemporary Chinese art (, Zhongguo Dangdai Yishu) often referred to as Chinese avant-garde art, continued to develop since the 1980s as an outgrowth of modern art developments post-Cultural Revolution. Contemporary Chinese art fully incorporates painting, film, video, photography, and performance. Until recently, art"
"M+ Sigg Collection - (1976) Loaders - (1976) The Hall of Supreme - (1981) EXPE10, The M+ Sigg Collection - (1983) AB17, The M+ Sigg Collection - (1984) ""AC 10"", The Art Institute of Chicago Zhang Wei (painter) Zhang Wei (Chinese: 張偉), born 1952, is a Chinese painter and an important figure in the development of abstract art in the postmodern China. Widely considered one of the founding members of the self-organized group of young painters known as the No Name Group, he continues to create abstract art even now. Born in Beijing, China, in 1952 into a wealthy family,"
"Ma Kelu Ma Kelu (born April 8, 1954, Shanghai) is a Chinese painter. He first rose to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a member of the No Name Group, a circle of largely self-taught, underground artists based in Beijing, who worked in direct contravention of the Chinese government's official sponsorship of Socialist Realism. After the crackdown against avante garde artists during the ""anti-spiritual pollution"" campaign in 1986, he began to show his paintings in galleries in Berlin, New York, Boston, London, and Vancouver. In 2006, Ma's work was featured in the ""No Name Group Retrospective"" in"
"exhibitions deemed controversial have been routinely shut down by police, and performance artists in particular faced the threat of arrest in the early 1990s. More recently there has been greater tolerance by the Chinese government, though many internationally acclaimed artists are still restricted from media exposure at home or have exhibitions ordered closed. Leading contemporary visual artists include Ai Weiwei, Cai Guoqiang, Cai Jin, Chan Shengyao, Fang Lijun, Fu Wenjun, He Xiangyu, Huang Yan, Huang Yong Ping, Han Yajuan, Kong Bai Ji, Li Hongbo, Li Hui, Liu Bolin, Lu Shengzhong, Ma Liuming, Qiu Shihua, Shen Shaomin, Shi Jinsong, Song Dong,"
"created problems for smooth progress in the creation of his paintings. “Life itself is an incident, perplexing, uncertain and helpless. Facing it is the only option” Ma Kelu Ma Kelu (born April 8, 1954, Shanghai) is a Chinese painter. He first rose to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a member of the No Name Group, a circle of largely self-taught, underground artists based in Beijing, who worked in direct contravention of the Chinese government's official sponsorship of Socialist Realism. After the crackdown against avante garde artists during the ""anti-spiritual pollution"" campaign in 1986, he began to"
"buddhist iconology with manga icons. Beyond numerous museum shows in Taiwan and Asia, he participated three times at the Venice Biennale: in 1999 he took part in the collateral event ""VOC- Handle with Care"", in 2009 he staged his solo show ""Temple of Sublime Beauty, Made in Taiwan"" and in 2011 he participated at ""Future Pass"". Yang Maolin Yang Maolin (traditional Chinese: 楊茂林, pinyin: Yang Mao-lin) is a noted contemporary Taiwanese artist. Born in 1953 in Changhua, Taiwan, Yang studied painting at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. He co-founded several artists groups linked to the Transavantgarde movement in Taiwan:"
"a specific genre. The story opens with three men – Lu Decheng, Yu Dongyue, and Yu Zhijian – who have just defaced Mao Zedong's portrait in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Decheng, Dongyue, and Zhijian are three friends from Southern China who have traveled to Beijing to express their sentiment towards the Chinese Communist Party. The leading character, Decheng, is the activist on which this book is inspired upon. As the story unfolds, discontent and frustration are shown through Decheng's life and the people surrounding him – from the education reforms of the Cultural Revolution to the Protest of 1989. Decheng's"
"Chris Dercon, who also spoke on behalf of the Chinese activist. Ai Weiwei wanted to pay tribute to those people in worse conditions than him, including civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang who faces eight years in prison, imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize-winning poet Liu Xiaobo, journalist Gao Yu, women's rights activist Su Changlan, activist Liu Ping and academic Ilham Tohti. Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. His father's (Ai Qing) original surname was written Jiang (). Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic"
"museums and galleries across the world. Ai Weiwei is a conceptual artist in China. Towards the later 20th century, he led societal movements challenging the Chinese Communist Party. Ai has felt the presence and pressures of the society that the Chinese government has imposed on the peoples, and that is generated into his artwork. “‘From a very young age I started to sense that an individual has to set an example in society’, he has said. ‘Your own acts and behaviour tell the world who you are and at the same time what kind of society you think it should"
"Ji, Ma Jun, Liu Liguo, MA, Chi Peng, SHI Qing, Ma Qiu-sha, Cheng Ran, Wu Rigen, Yang Shuangqing, Liang Shuo, Xu Tan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Fred Tomaselli, Danh Vo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chen Wei, Hu Xiangqian, Mei Yuangui, Ren Zh Li Qing (artist) Li Qing (born 1981) is an artist based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Li was born in the Zhejiang province. Li attended the China Academy of Art, graduating from the Oil Painting department in 2004. Li Qing's main medium is oil painting on canvas. He has also worked with photography. He is a painter whose work confronts issues surrounding"
"Zhiliu, and Cheng Shifa from the Shanghai School; Lin Fengmian, Guan Liang, and Wu Guanzhong who pioneered the blending of Chinese and Western art styles; and Hua Tianyou, a founder of modern Chinese sculpture. This exhibition showcases artworks created for a government project that encourages artworks featuring Shanghai's historical and cultural development. The themes include people, historical events, folk customs, and architecture. The project lasted three years from 2010 to 2013. ""The Picturesque China – Developing Chinese Fine Art in the New Century"" (锦绣中华—行进中的新世纪中国美术) was a year-long exhibition that features 21st-century artworks created by more than 260 Chinese artists. It"
"Sun Liangang Liangang Sun (Chinese: 孙连刚), born on January 28, 1969 in Beijing, China, is a Chinese contemporary artist. He is the initiator of contemporary Ideographism, director of Chinese Artists Association, and Curator of Caochangdi Art District. Liangang Sun is the founder of Caochangdi Art District. He positioned Caochangdi on a more experimental and more academic level. Sun dedicates to develop Caochangdi to assist young artists while considering less the commercial factors. For instance, the “Zero Capital Policy” provides outstanding young artists platforms that bringing them into public. Date: 2008 Venue: Louvre Artist: Sun Liangang Date: May 19, 2008 -"
"Art"" (海上生明月—中国近现代美术之源) is a permanent exhibition that chronicles the development of contemporary and modern Chinese art, starting with the Shanghai School at the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is divided into three periods (Qing, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China) and ten units, covering two floors with more than 6,000 works of art. The exhibition is curated by Lu Fusheng (卢辅圣). The Exhibition for Noted Painters (名家艺术陈列专馆) is a permanent exhibition that showcases works by some of the most famous modern Chinese artists. The first phase features the works of seven artists: He Tianjian, Xie"
"her schoolmates were deported to the rural area of Beijing and started farming for the next three years. During her spare time, Li kept practicing drawing and studying art for her ambition to attend professional art school. However, due to her special family background (Father was charged), Li’s dream did not come true in the end. Fortunately, she was discovered later by some of her artworks and accepted into China National Youth Theater as a stage designer. Then she became well-known for her contributions to the academy. In 1979, together with Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Qu Leilei, Ah"
"Mang Ke, Shu Ting, and Yang Lian. Early on, Huang Rui mostly created paintings that referenced various Western artistic styles such as Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Fauvism and Cubism. However, as his style developed, he became more experimental and began exploring different mediums including photography, printmaking, installation art and performance art. As a result, his work is not easily classified. Huang Rui's work is characterized by symmetry and simplicity of form, as well as by the use of primary colors. His work stands alone as aesthetically pleasing; however, he is recognized as a socially minded, and thus often controversial, artist. Throughout"
"Yan Singapore 米金蓓 中国, 北京 Mi, Jin bei Beijing, China 张德华 中国, 北京 Zhang, De Hua Beijing, China 1960 -2008 周京萍 美国, 加州 Zhou, Jing Ping California, USA 黄晓凤 中国, 北京 Huang, Xiao Feng Beijing, China 张桂凤 美国, 马州 Zhang, Gui Feng Maryland, USA 郝志华 美国, 加州 Hao, Zhi Hua(Patti Lee) California, USA 张宏梅 美国, 加州 Zhang, Hong Mei California, USA 黄秋艳 美国, 加州 Huang, Qiu Yan California, USA 王秀萍 中国, 北京 Wang, Xiu Ping Beijing, China 回旭娜 中国, 北京 Hui, Xu Na Beijing, China 吕燕 中国, 北京 Lu, Yan Beijing, China Back to previous page The team has showcased"
"artists to establish a studio in the 798 Arts District of Beijing in 2002. Li is known as a history painter because he bases his work on a wide range of Chinese history, with an emphasis on modern Chinese history He uses images primarily from newspapers, magazines, the internet, book, and film stills. Despite this heavy use of political images, Li does not consider himself a political artist. His deconstruction of the images removes bias and invites interpretation. His favorite artist, however, is politically outspoken Ai Weiwei. He has been called a member of China's ""in-between"" generation. This is because"
"Six Masters of the early Qing period The Six Masters of the early Qing period () were a group of major Chinese artists who worked in the 17th and early 18th centuries (Qing dynasty). Also known as orthodox masters, they continued the tradition of the scholar-painter, following the injunctions of the artist-critic Dong Qichang late in the Ming Dynasty. The Six Masters included the flower painter Yun Shouping and the landscapists Wu Li and the Four Wangs: Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi, and Wang Hui. The works of the Six Masters are generally conservative, cautious, subtle, and complex, in"
"Zhang Wei (painter) Zhang Wei (Chinese: 張偉), born 1952, is a Chinese painter and an important figure in the development of abstract art in the postmodern China. Widely considered one of the founding members of the self-organized group of young painters known as the No Name Group, he continues to create abstract art even now. Born in Beijing, China, in 1952 into a wealthy family, Zhang Wei grew up in the old style courtyard home of his paternal grandfather-a successful business man-with his mother and siblings. During The Cultural Revolution the Red Guard destroyed the courtyard. His grandmother was beaten"
"solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art New York (MoMA). His works have also been collected for permanent collections by prominent institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Guggenheim Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou. Zhang Peili (artist) Zhang Peili (born 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, who works mainly with video. Zhang Peili was born in Hangzhou, China in November 1957. He attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) and graduated from the Department of Oil Painting in 1984. In 1985 and 1986, Zhang organized and participated in"
"and included works by Chinese contemporary artists Ai Weiwei, He Yunchang, Hong Hao, Hong Lei, Lu Shengzhong, Qiu Zhijie, Rong Rong & inri, Shi Jinsong, Song Dong, Wang Jianwei, Wang Tiande, Wu Jian’an, Yin Xiuzhen, Yu Hong, Zhan Wang, Zhang Peili, Zheng Guogu. In October 2009, Chambers Fine Art moved its New York gallery to a ground-floor space on 19th street in Chelsea's gallery district. Chambers Fine Art is named after the distinguished British architect, Sir William Chambers who, in addition to his architectural practice, was a leading exponent of Chinese principles in garden design in the late eighteenth century."
"miserable soul.” In 1985, Xiaogang began to emerge from the dark time in his life and joined the New Wave movement in China that saw a philosophical, artistic and intellectual explosion in Chinese culture. Zhang formed the South West Art Group in 1986 including fellow artists, Mao Xuhui, Pan Dehei, and Ye Yongqing among more than 80 others. The group moved for ‘an anti-urban regionalism` and also explored individual desire which according to Zhang had been suppressed by collectivist rationalization. They created self funded exhibitions which were a foundational step in the Chinese Avant-Garde movement. In 1988, Zhang was appointed"
"Wu Hufan (), Huang Baoyue (黄葆戉), Bai Jiao (白蕉), Ma Gongyu (马公愚), Qin Bomo (秦伯未), Hua Ji'an (华笃安), Zhu Hongda (朱鸿达), Wu Zhongjiong (吴仲坰); Tang Linze (汤临泽), Chen Zili (陈子彝), Qin Kangxiang (秦康祥), Wu Youqian (吴幼潜), Jin Tiezhi (金铁芝), Zhi Ci'an (支慈庵), Lai Chusheng (来楚生), Hou Fuchang (侯福昌), and Gao Luoyuan (高络园). Before the establishment of the society there were many local or small-sized organizations or artists groups existing, especially in Zhejiang and Shanghai, however, it was not formally registered nor recognized by the government (nonofficial). The seal artists from different schools and places first founded the Xiling Seal Society"