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Born 1947 Ninghai, Zhejiang Province. Known for: Lotus painting.
Pan Gongkai was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province in 1947. He entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese painting in 1978, and since the 1990s he served as the President of the China... Read full biography
Pan Gongkai was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province in 1947. He entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese painting in 1978, and since the 1990s he served as the President of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Pan is known in China... Read full biography
Pan Gongkai was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province in 1947. He entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese painting in 1978, and since the 1990s he served as the President of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Pan is known in China and abroad as an influential artist as well as an art educator. With the influence of his father, renowned painter Pan Tianshou, Pan was well-learned in traditional Chinese culture as a child but only... Read full biography
Pan Gongkai was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province in 1947. He entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese painting in 1978, and since the 1990s he served as the President of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Pan is known in China and abroad as an influential artist as well as an art educator. With the influence of his father, renowned painter Pan Tianshou, Pan was well-learned in traditional Chinese culture as a child but only began his formal training in painting in high school. Lotus is Pan's favorite motif. His works are expressive and large in format, conveying a presence in image and scale. Pan merges the innate abstractness of the ink and brush genre and his... Read full biography
Pan Gongkai was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province in 1947. He entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese painting in 1978, and since the 1990s he served as the President of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Pan is known in China and abroad as an influential artist as well as an art educator. With the influence of his father, renowned painter Pan Tianshou, Pan was well-learned in traditional Chinese culture as a child but only began his formal training in painting in high school. Lotus is Pan's favorite motif. His works are expressive and large in format, conveying a presence in image and scale. Pan merges the innate abstractness of the ink and brush genre and his inheritance of the literati tradition to create elegant and contemporary compositions tha... Read full biography
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Pan Gongkai was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province in 1947. He entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese painting in 1978, and since the 1990s he served as the President of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Pan is known in China and abroad as an influential artist as well as an art educator. With the influence of his father, renowned painter Pan Tianshou, Pan was well-learned in traditional Chinese culture as a child but only began his formal training in painting in high school.
Lotus is Pan's favorite motif. His works are expressive and large in format, conveying a presence in image and scale. Pan merges th...But wait, there's more...
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