A master of postwar art and the highest-selling Chinese painter of his generation, Zao Wou-ki applied Modernist art-making techniques to traditional Chinese literati painting. Zao moved to Paris in 1948, rejected his Chinese heritage, and …
WANG HUAI-QING
Wang Huaiqing (Chinese, b.1944) is a painter best known for his Abstract paintings of disassembled furniture. Born in Bejing, he studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, which was sponsored by the government and …
SU XIAOBAI
Su Xiaobai was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in 1949. He attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Wuhun in 1965, and from 1985 to 1987 studied oil painting at the Central Academy …
KAZUO SHIRAGA
Kazuo Shiraga was a Japanese artist best known for his performative painting practice. Shiraga’s gestural style was influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and indicative of his participation in the Gutai avant-garde movement. The object of …
VLADIMIR NEMUKHIN
Vladimir Nikolaevich Nemukhin (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Немухин; February 12, 1925 in village Priluki, Kaluga Oblast, RSFSR, USSR – April 18, 2016 Moscow, Russia) was a Russian artist. Nemukhin was associated with the ‘Lianozovo Group’ along …
RICHARD DIEBENKORN
Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he began his extensive …