Chen Danqing
| Chen Danqing | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1953 (age 62) Shanghai, China |
| Nationality |
United States Republic of China |
| Notable work | Tibetan Paintings |
Chen Danqing (simplified Chinese: 陈丹青; traditional Chinese: 陳丹青; pinyin: Chén Dānqīng) is a Chinese American artist, writer, and art critic. He was born in Shanghai in 1953, and graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts. As his grandfather moved to Taiwan with the Nationalist government, he has the nationality of the Republic of China (he now travels to mainland China with the Mainland Travel Permit for Taiwan Residents). He moved to the United States in the 1980s, and became a citizen there.
Life
Chen Danqing's original family home is Taishan, Guangdong province. He started learning oil painting under the guidance of his teacher in secondary school, and acquainted himself with young artists like Chen Yifei and Xia Baoyuan.
Time in China
In the 1970s, after he graduated from his secondary school when he was still a teenager at his 16, he was forced to go to the countryside, firstly in southern Ganzhou, and later with the help of Chen Yifei, he moved to the suburbs of Nanjing and settled down there. During this period, his completed works include "Writing a Letter to Chairman Mao" (a painting that expresses the aspiration of youths to stay in rural area), "Golden Harvest Farmland Bathed in Tears", plus a number of oil paintings and Lianhuanhua works on the topic of Chinese Civil War. Well known within the "art circles", his sketches were imitated by his peers and later scholars.
With the restoration of the National Higher Education Entrance Examination in 1978 after the ending of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Danqing was admitted to the oil paintings department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student, and later stayed and taught at the school after his graduation in 1980. In the same year, his thesis work "Tibetan Paintings" received a much wider recognition than any of his previous works, and is now considered a representative among works that rose against the dogmatic creations produced under the Cultural Revolution.
Moving to the U.S.
In 1982, Chen moved to New York, USA, for professional painter. In the early 1980s, Chen painted in the Socialist Realist style, and was at one stage described by the government as the most talented oil painter in China. But beginning with his series of paintings about Tibetans in the mid-1980s, Chen broke away from the manners of officialdom. Chen was represented exclusively by Wally Findlay Galleries in New York, Palm Beach, Beverly Hills and Paris. Influenced by French Realist Jean-Francois Millet, his Tibetans series in turn had a tremendous influence on the emerging Native Soil Painting movement. This new work departed from the monumental size of his earlier Socialist Realist painting in favour of the intimate style and scale of the nineteenth-century French naturalists. He portrayed the Tibetans in a dignified, forthright way, avoiding the patronizing depictions of ethnic minorities common at the time. Chen's later work has retained the sharp, realistic qualities of the Tibetan series, and has often focused on portrayals of young women.
Returning from the U.S. to China
Back to China in 2000, Tsinghua University Academy of fine arts professor, doctoral supervisor.
In October 2004, because of dissatisfaction with enrollment system, to Tsinghua Academy of resignation, to 2007 laboratory officially out six students after graduation.
Chen (1995) in Taipei, Hong Kong (1998) and Beijing, Wuhan, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai (2000) a one-man show. In addition, he has published essays "New York Suo ji (2000)", "Chen Music Notes (2002)", "The Extra Material (2003)", "Step Backwards Set (2004), "Collection of Serial on the Back (2007), "Waste Collection (2009)", which published many ideas for education and urban problems. Participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony of the planning design, and the prose written in the book of zhang of the design team.
Description of artwork
Chen was well known for his Realist paintings, garnering critical acclaim for his portraits of Tibetans.[1] The artworks painted by Chen Danqing in 70s included sketch. The fact that Chen has learnt to make oil painting in his junior form of secondary school. In about 1976, he was got an opportunity to Tibet, the place where has a significant influence to his future art developments. The trip to Tibet induced him to make a number of paintings about the ethnic minorities of the nation ('Tibetans paintings/series').[2]
Tibetan paintings
In 1978, Chen Danqing admitted to the Central Academy of Painting graduate classes. In 1980, he created a stack of seven paintings and sketches as a graduation creation in Tibet. Seven paintings are: "Mother and Child", "Pilgrimage", "One City", "Shepherd", "City of the Two", "Shampoo" and "Kamba Man." Later convention to collectively as "Tibetan paintings."[3] Chendanqing was only 25 years old at this time.
1980, Chen Danqing "Tibetan paintings," caused a great shock in the fine arts and the arts, all competing newspapers published literature and commentary. "Tibetan paintings," laid the historic landmark status as Chinese art, known as a landmark realism classic. "Tibetan paintings" continue to get attention, commentary, research, and renowned at home and abroad. So far the art world, there are still "ChenDanQing Complex."[4]
"Tibetan paintings," is recognized as China realist painting from the former Soviet influence in turning the steering traceable European tradition and the beginning. Meanwhile, the "Tibetan paintings" or on the prevalence of long-term and serious dogmatic political subversion thematic creation mode. In particular historical era, valuable land for the first time openly reject false hustle and bustle of the theme, the reduction in the art of good faith, will focus on the vision side, non-heroic, non-themed real life. Contains a human spirit - on human values and calls for further reflection. "Tibetan paintings" became the originator of the 1970s and 1980s with the representatives of alternating periods of realism thought, far-reaching, after its domestic "85 New Wave" and foreshadowed the modern art movement.[5]
Still Life
In 1995, all the paintings which danqing drew hanging on the wall are "Still Life." He completed a set of 15 meters long and two meters high ten-linked painting "Still Life", in which the nine screens, a variety of pictures of contemporary installation art. He thought that since painting pictures, you can just picture books, painting pictures. Two years later, he spread out a few of the pictures on the floor, painted a painting. Since then, his sketch book rampant, from dark to light him, from complex to simple; steering Chinese painting images from the history of Western art images; from a pile of stacked books to a book open. He often put in different times and in different prints together into the painting.
Chen Danqing returned home in 2000, he took the students to go to the Beijing Road Village "next life" painting farmer, veterans, to draw underground mine workers, also in the world of foreign galleries copy of "The Original Code." He always scold myself: honest put that back to painting, sketching stick. This is a picture of the times, but has always insisted on painting, realistic Chen Danqing said he is living in a "pre-modern" society. He exclusion rely photos, as he then alone will draw sketches of the "Tibetan paintings."
2010, Yang Feiyun and Chen Danqing and planned two major art exhibition - "Back to the Sketch," "In the Face of the Original Code", respectively, in Chinese Art, Chinese Academy of Oil Painting Exhibition. From Xu Beihong, Liu Hai Su until the moment the artist, three generations of painting, copying works first collective appearance. Chen danqing exhibition preface bluntly: painting, Chinese painting to learn and practice the concept of the highlights in the copy produced vague, meaning dislocation and artistic spirit floating above the painting and other issues.
Artwork
A number of Chen's paintings were sold in auction in the past.[6]
Group exhibition
· Army Art Exhibition ("march into Tibet," China Art Museum, Beijing 1977)
· National Art Exhibition ("Tears shaman harvest field" China Art Museum, Beijing 1977)
· Central Academy of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition ("Tibet group painting" CAFA Art Museum, Beijing 1980)
· People's Republic of China Art Exhibition (Spring Salon in Paris, France 1982)
· Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition (Wally Findlay Galleries, New York, USA · 1982)
· Group Show (Santa Ana Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art · USA 1987)
· China Five Thousand Years of Civilization Art Exhibition (Columbia Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in New York · 1998)
· Twentieth Century Neoclassical Retrospective (Museum of Modern Art · Belgium Wusi Deng 2001)
· China Dialogue Exhibition of Contemporary German Art (Du Du Fort Museum of Modern Art · Germany Myers 2002)
· The Original Image Ⅱ · Contemporary Works on Paper Exhibition (Yibo Gallery, Shanghai 2003)
· Art and War (Graz, Graz, Austria, 2003 Art Museum)
· Feel · Memory (Yibo Gallery, Shanghai 2004)
· Century Spirit · Chinese Contemporary Art Masters (Millennium Art Museum, Beijing 2004)
· Art and China's Revolution (Asia Society, New York, 2008 Art Museum)
· Doran 5 years · Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective (Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art · 2008)
· Very status · Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Twelve Masters (Wall Art Museum, Beijing 2009)
· Chinese Painting Exhibition of artists of the twentieth century (China National Grand Theater, Beijing 2009)
· Original Song 2011 Summer Exhibition (original song Gallery, Shanghai 2011)
· Khe Qingyuan · Chinese New Painting (Louise Blouin Foundation · London 2010)
· Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art History · Painting articles (Minsheng Art Museum · Shanghai 2010)
· Transformation of Chinese History, Art 2000-2009 (National Convention Center, Beijing 2010)
· Spirit and History (National Exhibition Tour 2010)
· 2010 Offshore Oil Painting · Sculpture Exhibition of Famous (Museum of Contemporary Art · Shanghai Zhangjiang 2010)
· Track and Qualitative · Beijing Film Academy 60th Anniversary Exhibition (Space Art Gallery, Beijing 2010)
· Youth · Youth Narrative Painting Exhibition (Shanghai Art Museum Shanghai 2010)
· Love and Hope - Support Japan affected children (Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2011)
· Visual Memory (Shanghai Art Museum Shanghai 2012)
· Four Decades of Stories · Time Friendship Art (Shanghai, Nanchang 2012)
· Integrate the New Extension - Returned Overseas Artists Painting Exhibition (Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing 2012)
· Group Jane Meta · National Ten Art Museum Exhibition (China Art Museum, Beijing 2013)
· The 55th Venice Biennale · Parallel Exhibition "Heart Beat" (Venice, Italy · 2013)
Solo exhibition
· Chen Danqing Exhibition My Paintings and Tibet (Wally Findlay Galleries, New York · United States)
· Chen Danqing Exhibition (Wally Findlay Galleries, Beverly Hills · USA)
· Chen Danqing Oil Painting Exhibition (Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei · 1995)
· Chen Danqing Exhibition (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Arts Centre · 1998)
· Chen Danqing 1968-1999 Sketch Painting Exhibition (Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Shenyang, Nanjing Shanghai 2000)
· Chen Danqing Print Exhibition (Miki International Art, Beijing 2010)
· Chen Danqing Returned Years (Chinese Painting Academy, Beijing 2010)
Curatorial
· Back to Painting (Museum of China, Beijing)
· In the Face of the Original Code (Chinese Painting Academy, Beijing)
· Shanghai Notepad · 1960 Photo Exhibition (Today Art Museum, Beijing)
· Tracer One Hundred Bridge Picture Show (Suzhou Museum Suzhou)
Collections
· Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution
· Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum
· China Art Gallery
· Central Academy of Fine Arts
· Harvard University
· Wally Findlay Galleries International, Inc.
· Europe, the Americas, Asia dozens of agencies, collectors
Paintings
· Chen Danqing Sketch
· Chen Danqing Sketch Collection (Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House)
· Chen Danqing Paintings (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
· Chen Danqing Album · Still Life (Hong Kong University of Science and Arts Centre)
· Chen Danqing Sketch Collection (Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House)
· Chen Danqing 1968-1999 Sketch Painting Collection (Hebei Education Press)
· Chen Danqing Contemporary Artists Series (Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House)
· Chen Danqing Returned a Decade Painting Sketch (Guangxi Normal University Press)
· Chen Danqing Sketch Painting (Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House)
References
- ↑ "Biography of Chen Danqing". Artnet Worldwide Corporation.
- ↑ "《中国文化报•美术周刊》- 陈丹青：我的画路变迁". Artron.
- ↑ "陈丹青作品欣賞". SINA.
- ↑ "《中国人民網》- 陈丹青："我不想再玩下去了，这是一种奢侈"".
- ↑ "《鳳凰網》- 凤凰网·非常道专访陈丹青".
- ↑ "Past auction". Worldwide Corporation.
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