He staged his first performance, Angel (1993), at the National Art Museum of China ... and incense as well as subjects like Confucius and the Buddha, Zhang draws attention to his cultural history and ...
history, and memory in China today. Born in 1958 in Kunming, China, Zhang went on study painting at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chongqing. Forced to work construction and other odd jobs instead of ...
The most often quoted appraisal of Zhang Daqian, an artist at the summit of 20th-century Chinese art, is by another great modern artist Xu Beihong, who referred to him as "a person seen once in 500 ...
Misunderstood and often feared, insects play a crucial role in nature – something that 31-year-old Wendy Zhang hopes to ...
We are used to seeing eastern landscapes and cultures depicted by western painters, but in Zhang Enli’s beguiling works we see ... ‘My experience in Scotland always reminds me of a moment in history,’ ...