Son of Famous Father Finds Artistic Freedom

Artist and photographer Li Xiaoke grew up looking to his father as a role model. But ,growing up in the shadow of the great modem master of traditional Chinese landscape ink and water painting, brought its own particular burden. Now in his sixties, the son has established his own place in the Chinese world of fine arts and photography, and created his own artistic vision.[第一段]     

Rong Tie and His Paintings

Rong Tie was educated in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in calligraphy, in 1996, he began his postgraduate study in calligraphy at Capital Normal University. He studied in the “elite class” at China Institution of Arts Studies in 2002 and became a visiting scholar at Peking University in 2003. His titles include: National First-Class Artist, academician of the China Artists Association, deputy secretarygeneral of the Traveling and Friendship Center of the China Artist Association,     

Xu Bochu：An Artist Who Links Arts with Sciences

As far as the public was concerned,arts and sciences belong to totally different worlds.Yet,to his own determination,Xu Bochu,a gifted artist,devoted himself to the challenge of exploring the mysterious territory of sciences.     

Nei Liansheng： A One-hundred-year Brand Name

Nei Liansheng is a well-known shoe brand name. In the reign of Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty (1851-1862), a poor farmer‘s child named Zhao Ting went to the capital to apprentice in a shoe shop. In three years, Zhao mastered skills to make shoes and managed the shop well. A general appreciated Zhao‘s skills and integrity so much that he gave a thousand liang of silver to help Zhao open his own shoe shop. In 1853, Zhao set up his shoe shop and named it Nei Liansheng.     

D＆Z Home Furnishings：Between Romance and Function

A home furnishing shop named D＆Z opened recently in Wangjing, a new residential area in the suburb of Beijing. The three-storied shop, with a total area of some 800 square meters, has attracted many customers soon after it opened. The shop owner told me that every single piece of furniture, decoration, clothing artwork or painting was designed by professional designers and hand-made by his own workshop. The unique, customer-friendly style caters to the romantic pursuit of young urban dwellers and their desire to avoid the fast tempo of metropolis.     

Boy voyage, the Young Artist： Calligraphy of Chen Jianxin

The slight breeze of early spring in Beijing deepens my reminiscence over a younger friend of mine. When his name came to my mind I was just dazed on acomplex fragrance of flowers and tree leaves that replete his residential garden as 1 dropped in his own family.     

Archaeologist Zou Heng： Life Savings Spent on Books

Zou Heng＇s house is nothing but a library. Most of his rooms, even the space beneath the bed, are filled with books. He began to buy books in his college years in the end of the 1940s and has kept doing so until now. The walls of his study are all furnished with bookcases reaching to the ceiling and even the desk and the floor are piled with books. Though in his eighties, he spends most of his time in reading and writing. His wife told me that he got up early at 5 am and work at the desk until late at night.     

Zhou Enlai and Chinese Fine Arts

March 5, 2008 marked the 110th anniversary of late Premier Zhou Enlai＇s 110th birth anniversary. Zhou Enlai was a great Marxist and outstanding revolutionary. As a major member of the first generation of the leadership of Chinese Communist Party and the People＇s Republic of China, he devoted all his life to his beloved motherland and people. He enjoyed widespread respect among Chinese people of all ethnic groups and his lofty spirit and personality have been considered valuable assets in the history of Chinese nation. On the occasion of his 110th birth anniversary commemorative events were launched nationwide.     

The Gilt-Roofed Hall for the Tenth Panchen Lama Inaugurated

ERDENI Choji Gylitsan.the tenth Panchen Lama,oneof the two highest-ranking Living Buddhas(the otherbeing the Dalai Lama)of Tibetan Lamaism,was bornin 1938 and died on January 28,1989.Before his death heserved as vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of theNational People‘s Congress He was a great patriot,a famousstatesman and an outstanding leader of Tibetan Lamaism.After his death,the central government allocated a large sumof money to build a magnificent gold-plated stupa at the ZhaxiLhunbo Monastery,in Xigaze, to accord with the wishes ofthe Tibetan people and to commemorate his great achieve-ments,his love for his religion nd his service to his country.The total investment for the gold-plated stupa was over64 million yuan and the construction took three years andeight months to complete The stupa,11.52 meters high andcovered in gold.leaf,used 614 kilograms of gold,275 kilo-grams of silver and 1,018 gemstones of various kinds.It has     

Porcelain Witnesses the History of Cultural Exchange

<正>The inventlon of ceramlcs marks an important progrss in the history of human civilization,It was the first time that man used natural materials to create a completely new thing according to his own mind.     

Yu Chengsong and His Composite Oil Print

Yu Chengsong and his composite oil print works were I first known to the art circle in 1993 when he published a 35-volum painting album on Chinese landscape. The album, printed in six languages including Chinese, English, Japanese and French, was distributed worldwide. In order to create this album, Yu traveled across the country on his own expenses. He painted the most marvelous and beautiful landscapes in China, from     

Sports Agent Industry Emerges in China

The agent profession is not new to Chinese. First appearing in the Western Zhou Dynasty, agents were called "Zhi Ren" then and "Ya Ren" from the Tang Dynasty onwards. In the Ming Dynasty, a certain amount of property and a license were required if one wanted to become an agent. In the late Qing Dynasty, Mai Ban (Chinese executives working in foreign firms), also a sort of agents, began to emerge in major cities of China.     

Shu Junhuan and His Portrait Oils of Leaders

S hu was born of a peasant family. Supported by the state scholarship, he nished his academic art training in the Central Academy of Fine Arts and became the third-generation oil painter of modern China. Talented and diligent, Shu has steadfastly pursued his artistic ideals and perfected his skills. While versed in such a wide range of subjects as portrait, body, landscape and still life, he has gained reputation as an accomplished artist thanks to his virtuosity in portraits of leaders. Sh…     

Gao Xiaohua： Painting the Truth of Life

As an initiator of ＂Wounded Art＂, a representative of ＂Rural Realism＂ and one of the founders of the ＂Sichuan School of Painting＂, Gao Xiaohua has unarguably been recognized as one of the leading artists in contemporary Chinese art history. In 1978 his oil painting entitled ＂Why＂ daringly broke the political taboo and boldly raised the touchiest social question with awesome guts. Therefore his name and his painting become everlasting in Chinese art history. In 1982 he had another great success of completing his oil painting entitled ＂Rush to the Train＂, which is highly praised as the contemporary version of ＂Riverside Scenery on Pure Brightness Festival＂, one of the greatest Chinese classical painting. He focuses on everyday life of general public with stunning realness and sensation. It becomes an epitome Red Crag＂ and ＂Chongqing on a Bomb-site＂. He demonstrates his open mind, lofty ideal and strong sense of historical and social responsibility nowadays when the domestic art market is booming up in an unprecedented manner.     

Master Artists of Suzhou Embroidery

My curiosity about three master artists of Suzhou embroidery, Shen Shou, Yang Shouyu and Ren Huixian, were satisfied in the library of Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute. Publications and references reviewed these master artists＇ remarkable accomplishments in the art of Suzhou embroidery.     

Yin Xiaofeng： Wonder of Behavior

Behavior art is an artistic genre of post-modernism flourishing in the 1960s and 70s in the West, and it has been imitated, explored and developed by avant-garde Chinese contemporary artists ever since the late 1980s. Some of them devote themselves so wholeheartedly to pursue and experiment it tnat graoually they have out their unique style and attracted attention home and abroad. Yin Xiaofeng, a gifted young artist from Chengdu, dramatically demonstrates the wonder and power of behavior art by harmoniously contrasting the ancient and the contemporary, the traditional and the modern, the Chinese and the Western, with his wit, his thought, his body and those rubbles buried in ruins for thousands of years...[第一段]     

Master Embroiderer Ren Huixian

Ren Huixian is a respectable name in the embroidery circle of Suzhou. She was a master embroiderer with both moral and artistic perfection and was granted with such titles of honor as Handicraft Master of China and Expert of Outstanding Contribution by the State Council. From the remaining pictures of her, we can see an elegant and beautiful lady with peaceful and confident appearance, which betrays her 70 years of successful artistic career.     

Ethnic Artist Hazi Aimaite Shares Homeland with the World

In October 2002, at the age of 67, Hazi Aimaite retired from the position as chairman of the Literature Association of Xinjiang. He pledged to devote his time and energy to his painting, so that more people in the world could better understand the scenery and culture of the autonomous region, and also see for themselves how fine art is flowering among the Uygur people of China's far west.     

He Duoling： Spring Wind Comes Again

He established his status in the arena of contemporary Chinese oil art with his landmark works “Spring Wind Comes Again” in the late 1970s. His creation later encountered popular artistic trends in the 1980s such as “nostalgia style”, “scared art” and “neo-realism”. Many of his artworks, including “On the Harvested Land”, “We Sang This Song Before”, “The Land with Prickles” and “The Body Under the Sky”, explored common feelings and formatic elements of his contemporarie…