www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語(yǔ)Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / People

Naked truths

By Zhu Linyong | China Daily | Updated: 2010-11-09 09:29

Naked truths
Admirers of Chen Danqing pack the Exhibition Hall of Oil Painting
?Academy of China for the painter's solo show. Jiang Dong / China Daily

Chen Danqing is in the news for a solo show of his oil paintings and his attacks on the state of art education in the country. Zhu Linyong reports

The organizers of Chen Danqing's major solo show were apparently taken by surprise when about 600 viewers swarmed into the Exhibition Hall of Oil Painting Academy of China, in an eastern Beijing suburb on Oct 31. Admirers of the 57-year-old oil painter, writer and outspoken public figure, from all walks of life, threw the opening into chaos as they hogged the microphone, asking him questions unrelated to the exhibition.

But Chen was unruffled, answering with ease and humor.

In the end, the renowned painter said: "Over the past 10 years, I have been attacking the education system. I will keep doing this in the coming years."

These remarks met with cheers and applause from the crowd.

Chen frequently grabs public attention for his acerbic remarks on a range of issues. Liu Bingsheng / For China Daily

Naked truths
Chen frequently grabs public attention for his acerbic remarks on a range of issues. Liu Bingsheng / For China Daily
"Chen is very much like a pop star," said Liu Chang, a young painter who traveled from Taiyuan, Shanxi province.

"Wherever he shows up and speaks, he gets a big audience. But the difference is, Chen's words have substance."

The exhibition, running until Dec 1, presents more than 100 of Chen's works from the past decade, since he returned to China. They comprise landscape sketches, realistic portrayals of art students, coal miners, peasants, and nudes, and his conceptual paintings in which he copies ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings and classical European masterpieces.

"The display reveals the artistry and diligence of a gifted artist who not only paints and teaches, but also assumes the role of a public intellectual," says Yang Feiyun, curator of the exhibition and dean of the Oil Painting Academy of China.

Over the past two decades, Chen has frequently grabbed public attention for his acerbic remarks on a range of topics.

After living in New York as a professional painter for 19 years, Chen came back in 2000 and accepted an offer from Tsinghua University, to serve as doctoral advisor at the school's Academy of Arts and Design.

But Chen said later that his resentment with the bureaucracy at the school and university grew with each day.

Chen handpicked five students from a large number of candidates who, he believed, had artistic talent.

He taught them painting, only to find none of them were able to graduate because they all failed the final exam in English.

Chen lambasted the decision declaring that English proficiency was a completely meaningless requirement.

His decision to quit Tsinghua University in 2005 sparked a heated debate over the state of art education in the country.

Portrait of a young lady by Chen Danqing, in 2010.

Naked truths
Portrait of a young lady by Chen Danqing, in 2010.
Chen has devoted the years since then to write books on politics, literature, urbanization, music, and of course, art education and culture.

He has urged the country's publicly funded art museums to serve the people instead of a handful of artists.

He has expressed dismay at the disappearance of old residential areas and historical buildings in his home city of Shanghai and in the Chinese capital.

And he has cautioned his contemporaries, who were appointed to the official Contemporary Art Academy of China in 2009, not to lose sight of their art.

However, Chen has managed to churn out new works, winning widespread critical acclaim. They include oil copies of ancient Chinese paintings and his depictions of eminent intellectuals such as Cai Yuanpei and Chen Yinque in 1920s China.

"In my paintings, I have a candid dialogue with myself. The painting process helps keep my mind sober," he says.

A self-taught oil artist, Chen spent his adolescent years briefly in Shanghai, before being dispatched to the rural areas for a decade to be re-educated.

He grew into one of the most influential artists in the country only with China's reform and opening-up.

He enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Arts for his post-graduation despite the fact that he had no professional training in oil art and held only a junior high school diploma.

His Painting Series on Tibet, created in the early 1980s, won him instant fame and positioned him as an influential figure in the early days of China's contemporary art history.

The series was hailed as a breakthrough, heralding a break from the socialist realism paintings that dominated the 1960s and 70s.

Along with other pioneering artists such as Luo Zhongli, He Duoling, and Meng Luding, Chen contributed to a new wave in China's art scene.

The country's oil painters began borrowing from European traditions in the 1980s and were influenced by artists such as Gustave Courbet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Vincent van Gogh. Previously, they followed the style of former Soviet Union artists.

Chen's travels abroad in the 1990s further broadened his horizons.

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产91精品一区二区麻豆亚洲 | 国产精亚洲视频 | 久草视频播放 | 亚洲精品久久久久久久777 | 男人的天堂在线 | 欧美一级v片 | 成年人在线免费观看视频网站 | 国产精品 色 | 欧美美女网站 | 日本精品在线观看 | 中国美女牲交一级毛片 | 人妖欧美一区二区三区四区 | 午夜日韩精品 | 成人综合网址 | 女人又黄的视频网站 | 亚洲天堂久久新 | 夜色精品国产一区二区 | 波多野结衣在线免费视频 | 日韩欧美在线一区二区三区 | 久草综合视频 | 久久久国产精品免费视频 | 成人在线一区二区三区 | 老司机午夜精品网站在线观看 | 欧美成年人网站 | 真正免费一级毛片在线播放 | 那种视频在线观看 | 在线一区播放 | 成人免费在线视频 | 亚洲欧美日本人成在线观看 | 美女图片131亚洲午夜 | re久久| 色婷婷久久综合中文久久蜜桃 | 日本a级片免费观看 | 2019国产精品 | 黄色影院在线 | 精品自拍视频 | 18在线观看国内精品视频 | 5级做人爱c视版免费视频 | 久色精品 | 久久精品国产亚洲aa | 波多野结衣中文在线播放 |