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Yun-Fei Ji
Yun-Fei Ji (; born 1963) is a Chinese-American painter who has been based largely in New York City since 1990.Yau, John"Alone and Together on The Stage of The World,"''The Brooklyn Rail'', June 2004. Retrieved May 19, 2023.Fateman, Johanna"Yun-Fei Ji,"''The New Yorker'', January 2023. Retrieved May 22, 2023. His art synthesizes old and new representational modes, subverting the classical idealism of centuries-old Chinese scroll and landscape painting traditions to tell contemporary stories of survival amid ecological and social disruption.Shen, Danni"Yun-Fei Ji's Ghost Stories of the Living,"''Hyperallergic'', June 29, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2023.Wilson, Michael"Yun-Fei Ji, Pratt Manhattan Gallery,"''Artforum'', May 2003, p. 171. Retrieved May 22, 2023. He employs metaphor, symbolic allusion and devices such as caricature and the grotesque to create tumultuous, Kafka-esque worlds that writers suggest address two cultural revolutions: the first, communist one and its spiritual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ji (surname 季)
Jì is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized as Chi in Wade–Giles, and Gwai in Cantonese. Ji is the 142nd most common surname in China, with a population of 960,000. It is listed the 134th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. Etymology In ancient usage, the characters of ''meng'' (孟), '' zhong'' (仲), '' shu'' (叔) and ''ji'' (季) were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family. The Chinese character Ji 季 is composed of two parts: 禾 (grain) and 子 (son), and originally means "young grain". Later it acquired the meaning of "the youngest", and was frequently used in the name or title of the youngest son (or daughter) of a family. It is from this usage that the character became a surname. According to analysis based on the early 11th-century dictionary ''Guangyun'', in Middle Chinese the character was pronounced wi Demographics As of 2008, Ji 季 is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
