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- Chen Yifei
- Chen Yifei (1946-2005; Chinese name 陈逸飞), a famous Chinese painter and visual artist, was a key figure in the history of the development of Chinese oil painting and also the most famous Chinese painter among the western world. Taking Chinese elements as his subjects, Chen’s realistic works are filled with strong classical nostalgia and romantic feelings, especially those blue and lonely women who wear traditional clothes. By interpreting new conceptions about modernity and lifestyles, the p ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Chen-Yifei-Artist-1640/
- Wu Guanzhong
- Wu Guanzhong (1919.8.29-2010.6.25, Chinese name 吴冠中), born in the city of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China, was a contemporary Chinese painter, and an educator of modern painting. He taught at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and won many honors at home and abroad, for example, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, corresponding academician of Académie des Beaux-Arts. The artist was famous for both his artistic achievements and his moral character. He had published more than 40 alb ......
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- Wu Zuoren
- Wu Zuoren (1908.11.3-1997.4.9, Chinese name 吴作人), born in the city of Suzhou, was a contemporary Chinese artist famous for oil painting and traditional Chinese painting. He was the chairman of China Artists Association and the Dean of China Academy of Fine Arts, and was also in charge of other positions. He was honored with “Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture and a top level Belgian royal honorary order. Between 1966 and 1972, due to the ongoing G ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wu-Zuoren-Artist-1674/
- Chang Dai-chien
- Chang Dai-chien (1899.5.10-1983.4.2, Chinese name 张大千), born in the city of Neijiang, Sichuan Province, was a contemporary Chinese painter of “splash-ink” traditional Chinese painting and calligrapher. He was honored with the title “Zhang in the South and Qi in the North” together with Qi Baishi, which means that they were the best two Chinese painters of the time. He was elected “The Best Contemporary Painter in the World” by the International Fine Arts Association in New York, and was awarded ......
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- Zhang Xiaogang
- Zhang Xiaogang (1958- ; Chinese name 张晓刚), born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, was a world-renowned contemporary Chinese painter. He has been taking part in important exhibitions at home and abroad frequently since early 1990s and has won many international prizes. He began to be known world-wide when his “Bloodline: the Big Family” series were collected by many European museums in the beginning of 21st century. The artist expressed collective psychological memories and emotions by using the ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Zhang-Xiaogang-Artist-1667/
- Wang Yidong
- Wang Yidong (1955-; Chinese name 王沂东), born in the city of Penglai, Shandong Province, is one of the most talented contemporary Chinese oil painting artists. He is a member of the council of China Artists Association and also teaches at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has been holding solo exhibitions in the US, Hong Kong, Macao, Germany and other countries and regions. He integrates the classical western oil painting and the aesthetic connotation of Chinese ethnic culture into his w ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wang-Yidong-Artist-1664/
- Wang Guangyi
- Wang Guangyi (1957- ; Chinese name 王广义), born in Harbin, is a Chinese installation artist and painter and a main participant in the “Chinese New Art Movement” (“85 New Wave Movement”). He went through the 10-year Great Cultural Revolution in China when he was young. His traditional Chinese paintings are collected by Jiang Zemin, Li Peng and other Chinese State Leaders. He has held many solo art exhibitions at home and abroad since 1990s. His representative work “Great Criticism” Series, which ar ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wang-Guangyi-Artist-1663/
- Qi Baishi
- Qi Baishi (1864.1.1-1957.9.16; Chinese name 齐白石), also called Qi Chunzhi previously, was a modern master of traditional Chinese painting who was born in Xiangtan County, the city of Changsha, Hunan Province in Qing Dynasty. Picasso once praised him to be an outstanding Chinese painter. In his early years, he was a carpenter and later made a living by selling paintings. He settled down in Beijing when he was 57 years old. Qi Baishi was good at painting flowers and birds, worms, landscape and ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Qi-Baishi-Artist-1657/
- Luo Zhongli
- Luo Zhongli (1948-; Chinese name 罗中立), born in the city of Chongqing, is a Chinese painter, educator. He was the dean of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and is now the dean of Chinese Contemporary Academy of Arts and also in charge of many other positions. His works have been on show at many exhibitions at home and abroad and have won many prizes. His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, National History Museum of Belgium, and Taiwan Mount Gallery. He has published albums of pain ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Luo-Zhongli-Artist-1966/
- Ding Yanyong
- Ding Yanyong (1902-1978; Chinese name 丁衍庸), born in Maoming County, Guangzhou Province, was a Chinese painter and art educator who was good at oil painting, traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. He was one of the vital advocator of contemporary Chinese Art and held many solo exhibitions at home and abroad. He began to teach traditional Chinese painting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and also held the additional post of dean of the Art Department in Tsinghua Academy. Ding Yanyong ......
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- Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I
- ... emperor Maximilian I.In the Spring of 1512, the newly elected ...
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- Orchard in blossom louveciennes 1872
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- Rest on Flight to Egypt
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- The Thames below Westminster
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- Luncheon on the Grass
- ... work was started in the spring of 1865 and measured over ...
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- Springtime (The Reader or Woman Reading)
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- Sunrise (Marine)
- ... their stacks. Painted during the spring of 1873 as the countr ...
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- Poplars on the Banks of the River Epte
- ... poplar paintings made between the spring and autumn of 1891, the ...
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- Pathway in Monets Garden at Giverny
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- The Artist’s House at Argenteuil
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- Poplars on the Banks of the Epte
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- Haystacks at Giverny 1895
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- Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback
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- The Surrender of Breda
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- Flowers in a Crystal Vase
- ... in the bouquets painted in spring of 1882, with which the ...
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