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Songzhuang Art Colony
The Songzhuang Art Colony (), located in Songzhuang Town of Tongzhou District (in the eastern suburbs of Beijing), is the most famous and biggest artist community in Beijing. More than 2,000 artists live there. Originally representing the avant-garde, the area now accommodates artists who paint in varying styles, ranging from the avant-garde to the academic. Sculptors and photographers also call the area home. The character of Songzhuang art colony The previously institutionalized and socially motivated art system produced many of the initial artists of the Chinese avant-garde. Were it not for the breakaway radicals of the last two decades, there simply would be no artistic community in Songzhuang, even if its present concerns are perhaps more of a monetary rather than a sociological nature. With a shift catering more towards the foreign market occurring in the 1980s, and the rise of the nouveau-riche at the beginning of the new century, today it is both the growing upper middl ...
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New Media Art
New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technology, technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D printing, and cyborg art. The term defines itself by the thereby created artwork, which differentiates itself from that deriving from conventional visual arts (i.e. architecture, painting, sculpture, etc.). New Media art has origins in the worlds of science, art, and performance. Some common themes found in new media art include databases, political and social activism, Afrofuturism, feminism, and identity, a ubiquitous theme found throughout is the incorporation of new technology into the work. The emphasis on medium is a defining feature of much contemporary art and many art schools and major universities now offer majors in "New Genres" or "New Media" and a growing number of graduate programs have emerged international ...
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Conceptual Art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called installations, may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions. This method was fundamental to American artist Sol LeWitt's definition of conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print: Tony Godfrey, author of ''Conceptual Art (Art & Ideas)'' (1998), asserts that conceptual art questions the nature of art, a notion that Joseph Kosuth elevated to a definition of art itself in his seminal, early manifesto of conceptual art, ''Art after Philosophy'' (1969). The notion that art should examine its own nature was already a potent aspect of the influential art critic Clement Greenberg's vision of Modern art during the 1950s. With the emergence of an exclusively language-based art in the 1960s, however, conceptual ...
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Chinese Fine Art
Much traditional Chinese art was made for the imperial court, often to be then redistributed as gifts. As well as Chinese painting, sculpture and Chinese calligraphy, there are a great range of what may be called decorative arts, decorative or applied arts. Chinese fine art is distinguished from Chinese folk art, which differs in its style and purpose. This article gives an overview of the many different applied arts of China. Calligraphy The Chinese imperial court collected calligraphy pieces from the most skilled calligraphers in the country. The collection contains many masterpieces made by well-known calligraphers throughout Chinese art history. Furthermore, because of calligraphy's high artistic value, calligraphy collecting was popular among several Chinese emperors in multiple dynasties. File:Ouyang Xun Bu Shang Tie.jpg, ''Bu Shang Tie'' by Ouyang Xun, Palace Museum, Beijing File:Crossing the Frozen River.jpg, ''Crossing the Frozen River'', a poem in running script by K ...
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Li Xianting
Li Xianting (; born 1949 in Jilin) is an independent art critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art in China. Graduated from Chinese Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Art in 1978, he became the editor of Fine Art Magazine until 1983. From 1985 to 1989 he was the editor of the authoritative China Fine Art Newspaper, and was active as independent critic and curator based in Beijing henceforth. In the late seventies and eighties, Li Xianting was involved in advocating and introducing the avant-garde art form in China. He organized the "Stars exhibition" in 1979, and coined the terms "Cynical Realismand "Political Pop". He also lectured and curated international shows, including the China Pavilion at the 45th Venice Biennale (1995). He is now the director of Songzhuang Art Museuand Li Xianting's Film Fun References 1.Cornell University websitbr /> 2.The Prince Claus Fund websitbr /> 3."Memories of 1989", www.artzinechina.co
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Yao Junzhong
Yao or YAO may refer to: * Yao (surname), the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么 * Yao (ruler), a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor * Yao Ming, Chinese Basketball All-Star that played for the Houston Rockets * Euphrasie Kouassi Yao, Ivorian politician * Yao people, ethnic minority group of southern China and Vietnam * Yao languages spoken by the Yao * Yao people (East Africa), people of south-central Africa * Yao language, a Bantu language spoken by the waYao people in Africa * Yao language (Trinidad), an extinct Cariban language formerly spoken on Trinidad * Yao may be short for yaodong, a type of Chinese cave dwelling * Yao (Gnosticism), the name of an archon in Gnostic scripture * Yao, Chad, a town in Chad * Yao, Osaka, a city in Japan ** Related: Yao Airport * Yao (爻), the term for the marks used in the preparation of trigrams and hexagrams in I Ching that is also the basis for Kangxi radical 89 * Yao, a character in the ''Mulan'' franchise * ...
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Wang Qiuren
Wang may refer to: Names * Wang (surname) (王), a common Chinese surname * Wāng (汪), a less common Chinese surname * Titles in Chinese nobility * A title in Korean nobility * A title in Mongolian nobility Places * Wang River in Thailand * Wang Township, Minnesota, a township in the United States * Wang, Bavaria, a town in the district of Freising, Bavaria, Germany * Wang, Austria, a town in the district of Scheibbs in Lower Austria * An abbreviation for the town of Wangaratta, Australia * Wang Theatre, in Boston, Massacheussetts * Charles B. Wang Center, an Asian American center at Stony Brook University Other * Wang (Tibetan Buddhism), a form of empowerment or initiation * Wang tile, in mathematics, are a class of formal systems * ''Wang'' (musical), an 1891 New York musical * Wang Film Productions, Taiwanese-American animation studios * Wang Laboratories, an American computer company founded by Dr. An Wang * WWNG, a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to serve ...
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Liu Fenghua
/ ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text Hundred Family Surnames. Today, it is the 4th most common surname in Mainland China as well as one of the most common surnames in the world. Distribution In 2019 劉 was the fourth most common surname in Mainland China. Additionally, it was the most common surname in Jiangxi province. In 2013 it was found to be the 5th most common surname, shared by 67,700,000 people or 5.1% of the population, with the province with the most people being Shandong.中国四百大姓, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013 Origin One source is that they descend from the Qí (祁) clan of Emperor Yao. For example the founding emperor of the Han dynasty (one of China's golden ages), Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) was a descend ...
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Gao Huijun
Francesca Kao (born 24 August 1972) is a Taiwanese Tsou actress, singer and television host, known for her duet with Jacky Cheung, "You're the Most Precious". Since 2003, Kao has acted in numerous television series and films. She has won two Golden Bell Awards, one in 2007 and another in 2010, for her roles in the Da Ai dramas ''Beautiful Dawn'' and ''Green Lawn''. She is the granddaughter of Uyongʉ Yata'uyungana Uyongʉ Yata'uyungana (July 5, 1908 – April 17, 1954), also known as Uong'e Yatauyungana, Yata Issei (矢多一生), Kao Yi-sheng (高一生), was a Taiwanese Tsou musician and educator of the Tfuya tribe. He served as a local officer and a le .... Filmography Television series Film Television show Music video Discography Studio albums Compilation albums Theater Awards and nominations References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kao, Francesca 1972 births Living people People from Chiayi County 20th-century Taiwanese ...
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Liu Wei (artist)
Liu Wei (; born 1972 in Beijing) is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. He works in varied media – video, installation, drawing, sculpture, and painting – with no uniting stylistic tendency, though the Saatchi Gallery finds a uniting theme of "a sentiment of excess, corruption, and aggression reflective of cultural anxiety". Conceptualism, satire, and humor are the hallmarks of his works. His works include the ''Super Structure'' series of model cityscapes constructed from dog chews; the ''Purple Air'' oil paintings of stylised skyscraper cityscapes; the ''Landscape Series'' of landscapes made from photographic composites of human buttocks; and ''Indigestion II'', a two-metre model turd. He has shown work in exhibitions including ''21: World Wide Video Festival'' in Amsterdam, ''Cinema du Reel'' at the Pompidou Centre in France, ''Over One Billion Served'' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and ''Between Past and Future'' at the International Center for Ph ...
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Chaobai River
The Chaobai River () is a river in northern China. The river is 458 km long and flows from the confluence of the Chao and Bai Rivers at the Miyun Reservoir in Beijing Municipality through Hebei Province and into the Grand Canal of the Hai River system in Tianjin Municipality Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popula .... Its average depth is 2.5 meters. References Rivers of Beijing {{China-river-stub ...
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