Liu Xiaodong, “Wedding Dress and Vegetables ... he paints empathetic portraits of people he hardly knows, ... as well as his use of a camera and collaboration with a self-directed filmmaker, ...

Liu Xiaodong is rare among contemporary Chinese artists. Most produce installations or conceptual pieces. He, the realist, documents contemporary life in China. “My only goal is to confront ...

Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong travels around the world painting ordinary people on extraordinarily massive canvases. As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their ...

Liu Xiaodong's watercolors of New York City on lockdown, along with his daily diary, can be viewed online at Lisson Gallery. Liu Xiaodong, Twin Sisters 2020.4.7 (2020). Courtesy of Lisson Gallery ...

Visitors view paintings by Liu Xiaodong at the ongoing exhibition, Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends, at UCCA Edge in Shanghai.[Photo provided to China Daily] The showcase, which was an artistic ...

Liu Xiaodong makes intimate portraits to convey big stories about China. In recent years, Mr. Liu has become a star of the contemporary-art market, where his vivid portraits and depictions of ...

Some of the works on show in an exhibition, Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends, in Beijing - Erecting a Pillar 2.[Photo provided to China Daily] In another scene, Liu murmurs as he pays respect at his ...

LONDON (Reuters) - One of China's best known artists, Liu Xiaodong, headed down to the pub for inspiration for his first London show. The soft-spoken, bespectacled 50-year-old artist has spent the ...

Liu Xiaodong’s ‘Three Transgenders,’ 2001. (Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery) Lisson Gallery, which has branches in London and Milan, announced that it now represents Chinese painter ...

Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong poses for a portrait in front of his painting titled "Green Pub" at the Lisson Gallery in London September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Winning Purchase Licensing Rights, ...