Yanping Yang - Artist Info

About Yanping Yang

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Yang Yan Ping, Yan Ping Yang
  • Biography

    Yang Yanpin
    1934 | Nanjing, China
    Chinese visual artist.

    Based in New York, Yang Yanping is one of the leading modernist ink and oil painter from China. She trained in architectural design at Tsinghua University, Beijing and after graduating in 1958, she taught design for a short time before entering the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts in 1966. She also studied Chinese traditional painting of her own volition.?

    The 1980s were a turning point for Yang and many other artists in China, who began to practice their craft more freely as the country’s stricter policies imposed under Mao’s Cultural Revolution began to lessen. Yang started to create historical paintings for the Museum of Chinese History and the Museum of Chinese Rev...

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