Asia, China. Born 1961
Symbol and calligraphy painting
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Born 1953 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Known for: Chinese landscape scrolls, florals, rocks.
Chinese painter Liu Dan was born in 1953 into a scholarly family that educated its children in philosophy, poetry, painting and calligraphy. "My grandfather taught me calligraphy because he believed... Read full biography
Chinese painter Liu Dan was born in 1953 into a scholarly family that educated its children in philosophy, poetry, painting and calligraphy. "My grandfather taught me calligraphy because he believed that writing was the mark of a gentleman, just as in the Western world, it is his speech," he says.... Read full biography
Chinese painter Liu Dan was born in 1953 into a scholarly family that educated its children in philosophy, poetry, painting and calligraphy. "My grandfather taught me calligraphy because he believed that writing was the mark of a gentleman, just as in the Western world, it is his speech," he says. Thanks to him, Liu's calligraphically-trained hand marked him as an exceptional artist in later life. Liu's formal education, however, was short-lived. In 1966, Mao's Cultural Revolution tore the... Read full biography
Chinese painter Liu Dan was born in 1953 into a scholarly family that educated its children in philosophy, poetry, painting and calligraphy. "My grandfather taught me calligraphy because he believed that writing was the mark of a gentleman, just as in the Western world, it is his speech," he says. Thanks to him, Liu's calligraphically-trained hand marked him as an exceptional artist in later life. Liu's formal education, however, was short-lived. In 1966, Mao's Cultural Revolution tore the family apart. Liu, with other young intellectuals, was sent to the countryside, where he spent years farming rice. The purpose of the Revolution, according to the artist, was to erase the four "olds"old thinking, old culture, old customs and old habits.... Read full biography
Chinese painter Liu Dan was born in 1953 into a scholarly family that educated its children in philosophy, poetry, painting and calligraphy. "My grandfather taught me calligraphy because he believed that writing was the mark of a gentleman, just as in the Western world, it is his speech," he says. Thanks to him, Liu's calligraphically-trained hand marked him as an exceptional artist in later life. Liu's formal education, however, was short-lived. In 1966, Mao's Cultural Revolution tore the family apart. Liu, with other young intellectuals, was sent to the countryside, where he spent years farming rice. The purpose of the Revolution, according to the artist, was to erase the four "olds"old thinking, old culture, old customs and old habits. Despite the physical hardships and suffering he witnessed, Liu practiced drawing and writing whenever he could, to counteract the forces aimed a... Read full biography
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China, Hong Kong, Asia. 1905 - 1998
Painting
China, Taiwan, Province of China. Born 1963
Sculpture, oil painting
China. 1896 - 1963
Painting
New York / China, Taiwan, Province of China, France. 1901 - 1966
Floral still life and figure painting, abstract nude drawing
China, Singapore. 1895 - 1953
Oil and ink Chinese motif painting, teaching
China. Born 1948
Landscape painting
China, France. 1919 - 2010
Impressionist landscape, figure, animal and architecture painting
China. Born 1963
Painting
China, Germany, United Kingdom. 1900 - 1991
Modernist figure, landscape and genre paintings, drawings, teaching
China, Taiwan, Province of China. Born 1932
Painting
Japan. 1924 - 2008
Avant-garde painting
New York / South Korea, France, Korea, Republic of. 1929 - 2021
Non objective and symbolic painting, water drop series, glittering and surreal
New York, California / Japan, Germany. Born 1959
Mod child figurative, animal
Hong Kong, Canada. Born 1940
Landscape painting
China, Hong Kong. Born 1936
Abstract painting
China, France. 1920 - 2014
Abstract landscape painting, ceramics, calligraphy and graphics
China. Born 1966
Painting, sculpture
China. Born 1938
Painting
China. 1924 - 2023
Painting, woodblock prints, poems, essays, novels
Japan. 1912 - 1999
Painting
Asia, China. Born 1954
Landscape painting
China. 1924 - 2011
Painting
China. Born 1968
Contemporary ink painting, cosmological landscape art, and the revival of traditional Chinese aesthetics
China. Born 1974
Painting
China. Born 1960
Painting
China. Born 1945
Calligraphy and painting
China. Born 1937
Painting
China. Born 1946
Landscape painting
China. Born 1948
Painting
China, Hong Kong. Born 1945
Landscape painting
Ontario / Hong Kong, Canada. 1957 - 2012
Splash ink landscape and mountainscape painting, calligraphy