The latest movement to borrow elements from the Surrealist idiom is Cynical Realism,
a Chinese contemporary painting movement - led by Yue Minjun (b. 1962) and Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958)- which emerged during the 1990s in Beijing.
Cynical Realism is a satirical style of
Chinese contemporary painting which appeared in the 1990s following the suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.
Its art shows have featured Minimalism, Young British Artists, as well as the best of
Chinese contemporary painting.
Cynical Realism
Chinese contemporary painting movement which emerged in Beijing in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square.
Its exhibitions have featured Minimalism, Young British Artists, postmodernist art as well as the best of
Chinese contemporary painting.
The director, who has been quietly buying and selling for years, even made a rare personal appearance on the Christie's floor the day before the auction to be seen with the five
Chinese contemporary paintings he had put up for sale.
«China New Art», Lisbon Museum of Art, Portugal; «Faces and Bodies from Middle Kingdom: Chinese Art of the 90s», Prague Art Museum, Prague, Czech Republic; «8 +8 - 1: 15 Chinese Artists», Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong; «Quotation Marks:
Chinese Contemporary Paintings», Modern Art Museum, Singapore; «Red and Grey: Eight Avant - Garde Chinese Artists», Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore; «Hundred Years of Chinese Portrait», National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
For the past few years, auction rooms in London, New York and Hong Kong have crackled with fierce interest in
Chinese contemporary paintings as prices broke record after record.
He began with
Chinese contemporary paintings, especially those created between the early 1980s and late 1990s.
Not exact matches
Accompanying the exposition are a picture and paragraph devoted to architecture (Solomon's Temple), a lithograph of the Jerusalem temple, a pictorial representation of Solomon and Queen Sheba from Ethiopia, a
painting by Cornelis de Vos of Solomon offering sacrifices to idols, a map of the divided kingdoms, a
contemporary Chinese painting of Elijah, another
painting of Elijah by Peter Paul Rubens, a 17th - century needlepoint rendition of Jezebel's death, a sidebar devoted to the term «Jezebel,» and a picture of a panel showing King Jehu offering tribute to the Assyrians.
Bedroom - Agung
Paintings by
contemporary Chinese artists adorn the walls of the Agung bedroom.
Developed by Climax Studios in collaboration with Ubisoft Montreal, Assassin's Creed Chronicles brings the thrill of being a Master Assassin to 2.5 D. Brought to life by fusing the essence of
Chinese 16th - century traditional brush strokes with more
contemporary impressionistic styles, Shao Jun's adventure will immerse players in a living
painting as they traverse undetected across China's historical landmarks.
Collecting area: Old Masters; Impressionism; modern
painting;
Chinese sculpture;
contemporary art; works on paper
As one of the first artists in China to radically synthesize Western modernism and traditional
Chinese ink -
painting, Qin Feng is a pioneer in
contemporary Chinese ink art.
One of the most influential painters of twentieth - century China, Zhang Daqian is said to have transformed traditional
Chinese painting into a
contemporary form.
Hong Kong based artist Wucius Wong explores the synthesis of traditional
Chinese painting and
contemporary Western design, primarily through ink art.
Gallery Elena Shchukina presents Weaving Threads of Silk: When
Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy Encounter Western Art, an exhibition of
paintings by Shanghai - based
Chinese artist TSAI YuLung
For over two decades, Song Dong has been at the forefront of
Chinese contemporary art, embracing performance, video, installation, photography, conceptual
painting and theater, and often combining mediums within a single work.
The first solo show in an Italian museum of
Chinese artist Ding Yi will propose a journey of about forty
paintings and drawings, a sculpture and an installation that requires the interaction of visitors, which aims to bring the public closer to the man considered to be the most important abstract painter in
contemporary China, by presenting his complex artistic practice and evolution from the nineties to the present day to the public.
Huang Rui, a non-conformist
Chinese contemporary artist is internationally known for his artistic expression of social and cultural criticism in
painting, installation, and performance art.
He works with a wide range of genres, such as sculpture, installation,
painting, performance, and interactive multimedia, and has participated in several international exhibitions, including Shanghai Biennale, Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Gwangju Biennale in South Korea,
Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Documenta, with exhibitions presented at the National Art Museum of China, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai Long Museum, Today Art Museum, Songzhuang Art Center, Museum of the Orient in Portugal, Iberia Center for
Contemporary Art, C5 Art, Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing, Central Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Center, Times Art Museum, White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, Centro Cultural Providencia in Chile, and Bonn Museum of Modern Art in Germany, and also solo exhibitions held at Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art in Beijing, and Phoenix Art Palace.
Christie's Bertazzoni notes the similarities between late Picassos and increasingly popular
contemporary Chinese paintings, particularly in the use of caricature and a subliminally disenchanted political tone.
This is the latest in a series of exhibitions of
contemporary Chinese ink
paintings held by the gallery, which Giuseppe Eskenazi credits to his son Daniel, who is particularly interested in the area.
The President Director of Avia Avian, an Indonesia - based manufacturer of
paint, coating and building materials and furniture, is one of the country's top art collectors, with a collection that spans Southeast Asian
Paintings, Asian 20th Century and
Contemporary Art, and
Chinese Modern
Paintings.
«Like the Western works which appeal to me,
contemporary Chinese ink
painting is timeless,» says Eskenazi.
Newman appears again in Twice Hammered (2011), where one finds the reproduction of Diao's earlier Barnett Newman: The
Paintings (1990; for which Diao presents all of Newman's paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary
Paintings (1990; for which Diao presents all of Newman's
paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary
paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century
Chinese and Asian
Contemporary Art sale.
Just two years later, he had created the first of his so - called «cross
paintings,» a template of abstraction that he would follow for the next three decades as the
contemporary Chinese art world made its own great leap forward.
LINE selects a wide collection of artworks from ten
Chinese contemporary artists who are based in China and Australia, covering a multiple variety of traditional and
contemporary media of
Chinese painting, oil
painting, print, sculpture, installation and video art.
In November last year (2013) Shanghai based
Chinese artist Zhang Enli immersed his audience into the luscious colours and gestural strokes of his Space
Painting installation at the Institute of
Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.
Throughout the live auctions there were 22 notable records across Impressionist & Modern Art, American
painting, Latin American art,
contemporary sculpture, decorative art, Islamic
painting,
Chinese Works of Art, and American Decorative art.
The museum's collection of over 19,000 works of art includes important holdings of Neolithic
Chinese ceramics, Ming and Qing Dynasty
Chinese painting, Old Master works on paper, Italian Baroque
painting, early American
painting, Abstract Expressionist
painting,
contemporary photography, and video art.
YZKYou combine Renaissance bronzes with
contemporary painting, modern art,
Chinese art, African art.
Founded in 1959 and now comprising five wings, nearly 8,000 works, and more than 38,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Colby College Museum of Art has built an important collection that specializes in American and
contemporary art with additional, select collections of
Chinese antiquities, European
paintings, and works on paper.
As the fine arts museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart is home to thought - provoking exhibitions and an exquisite collection of more than 15,000 objects, including modern masterpieces, millennia - old
Chinese artworks, rich examples of European
painting, and provocative works of
contemporary art.
yi zhou is a
chinese artist who creates multimedia installation artworks combining film, digital animation, photography, sculpture,
painting, drawing, and
contemporary music composition.
Mixing seduction and horror, fetishism with ideological iconography, his
paintings give the viewer a sense of peering through a peephole into in the
contemporary Chinese consciousness.
His biggest contribution to experimental
Chinese contemporary art, however, is his combination of classical landscape
painting and body art.
Tables, chairs, and power outlets are scattered throughout the Museum, offering you an inspirational environment where you can prepare for finals next to modern masterpieces, ancient
Chinese vessels, Old Master
paintings, and
contemporary sculpture.
The 35 - year - old rising star is considered one of the foremost
contemporary artists working in traditional
Chinese ink
painting today, with the pieces on display — including a panoramic thirty - two - foot silk scroll and a diptych portrait — demonstrate how he deploys ancient techniques and themes to explore
contemporary thoughts and ideas.
In series such as «Wire» (2003 ---RRB-, «Still Life» (2009 ----RRB- and «Landscape in the Mist» (2012), Wu uses
contemporary formats, including projection and video, to emphasize and reinterpret the poetic aethetics of classical
Chinese paintings.
The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty
Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature
painting, Baroque
painting, old master prints and drawings, early American
painting, nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century photography, Conceptual art, international
contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan.
And when he's gazed into it in amassing his private collection, he's seen photography,
contemporary Chinese art, abstract
painting and other art forms.
The bald - headed youth which first appeared in the artist's
paintings in the early 1990s has become Fang Lijun's characteristic figure and has been widely interpreted as the symbol of disillusion, mockery and rebellion in
contemporary Chinese society.
Zeng Fanzhi (1964) is one of the most popular
Chinese contemporary painters and one of Asia's most commercially successful artists, recognized for his exceptional
paintings heavily influenced by his physical and emotional circumstances.
That night, Zeng Fanzhi's
painting set a world auction record for the artist and for
Chinese contemporary art.
The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, included the artist's work in
Chinese Oil
Painting in the 20th Century (2000) and Towards a New Image: 20 Years of
Contemporary Chinese Painting (2001), both of which traveled to the Shanghai Art Museum.
The exhibition opened on August 28 with a panel discussion by distinguished curators, scholars, and critics, who explored her work and its relationship to
contemporary Chinese and American
painting.
Hollywood film director Oliver Stone, who recently completed the George W Bush biopic W, sold three
contemporary Chinese paintings at Christie's in Hong Kong on Sunday for # 2.9 million.
With that last phrase dropped, the title is left ambiguous; the world in question at White Cube Mason's Yard is that of
contemporary Chinese abstract
painting, and the questions of who and what defines and owns this world are up in the air.
Climbing the grand spiralling staircase of the China Club in Hong Kong is like drawing a cork on the history of modern and
contemporary Chinese painting.