The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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Ming Wang PUBLICATIONS
1921 - 2016. Known for: Painting.
The Space Art of Wang Ming. By Joseph Caputo . smithsonianmag.com . April 15, 2009 . Artist Wang Ming's journey began in the 1940s. As he worked as an air traffic controller in Taiwan, he became... Read full biography
The Space Art of Wang Ming. By Joseph Caputo . smithsonianmag.com . April 15, 2009 . Artist Wang Ming's journey began in the 1940s. As he worked as an air traffic controller in Taiwan, he became interested in the beauty of the sky. He was a young man then, having fled from Japanese-occupied China... Read full biography
The Space Art of Wang Ming. By Joseph Caputo . smithsonianmag.com . April 15, 2009 . Artist Wang Ming's journey began in the 1940s. As he worked as an air traffic controller in Taiwan, he became interested in the beauty of the sky. He was a young man then, having fled from Japanese-occupied China in 1939 at age 18. Discouraged from practicing art in the East, he emigrated to the United States in 1951. There he set up a frame shop and began experimenting with celestial images using his signature... Read full biography
The Space Art of Wang Ming. By Joseph Caputo . smithsonianmag.com . April 15, 2009 . Artist Wang Ming's journey began in the 1940s. As he worked as an air traffic controller in Taiwan, he became interested in the beauty of the sky. He was a young man then, having fled from Japanese-occupied China in 1939 at age 18. Discouraged from practicing art in the East, he emigrated to the United States in 1951. There he set up a frame shop and began experimenting with celestial images using his signature style of combining untraditional materials, like acrylic paints, with traditional Chinese forms and calligraphy. Years before the Hubble Telescope began broadcasting images of rainbow clouds and blood red stars, Ming used art to convey what he... Read full biography
The Space Art of Wang Ming. By Joseph Caputo . smithsonianmag.com . April 15, 2009 . Artist Wang Ming's journey began in the 1940s. As he worked as an air traffic controller in Taiwan, he became interested in the beauty of the sky. He was a young man then, having fled from Japanese-occupied China in 1939 at age 18. Discouraged from practicing art in the East, he emigrated to the United States in 1951. There he set up a frame shop and began experimenting with celestial images using his signature style of combining untraditional materials, like acrylic paints, with traditional Chinese forms and calligraphy. Years before the Hubble Telescope began broadcasting images of rainbow clouds and blood red stars, Ming used art to convey what he imagined space to be. His work captured the attention of James Dean, the National Air and Space Museum's first... Read full biography
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