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A Delegation Led by French Ambassador to China Bertrand Lortholary Visits NACAA
On the morning of September 20, French Ambassador to China Bertrand Lortholary, Consul General of France in Shanghai Joan Valadou, Minister Counselor for Culture, Education and Scientific Affairs of the French Embassy in China & Director of the French Cultural Center Nicolas Pillerel, Political News Consul of Consulate General of France in Shanghai Louis Belmont, Educational Consul Séverine Boué visited EDNA Joint Institute, China Academy of Art (NACAA). Jin Yibin, Chairman of the Committee
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Xu Jiang: The Infinite Style
It has been ten years since Zao Wou-Ki passed away. Looking up at his smiling face, I always feel a tinge of warmth in my heart. In the early summer of 1985, I studied with him at his workshop for a full month. I drew two human bodies and one portrait. The subject of the portrait was Lalan, Madame Zao herself. The works remain with me and serve as a reminder of that period. My memories are as vivid as ever. Three decades have since passed and I cannot help wondering how quickly time has passed.
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Gao Shiming: Two Traditions and Two Centuries ----Zao Wou-ki’s Artistic Path and Its Cultural Value
Zao Wou-ki is not just a towering figure in the academic lineage of the China Academy of Art but also a shining star in modern art history. His works bridge the gap between Eastern and Western cultural traditions, creating a modernist oriental style that allows the underlying spirit of Chinese culture to flourish in the fertile ground of modern painting.The works of Zao combine two traditions. He deftly navigated the waters of “ancient,” “modern,” “eastern,” and “western” art traditions, serving
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The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki Opened at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art
On September 19, “The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki” saw its grand opening at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art (CAA). As a significant cultural program under the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou, a program of the 2024 China-France Year of Culture and Tourism, a key project sponsored by Zhejiang Culture and Art Development Fund, the exhibition was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, the China Federation of Li
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The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki
Zao Wou-Ki was a world-famous Chinese-French painter. Born in Beijing in 1920, Zao was admitted to the Hangzhou National College of Art (now the CAA) in 1935 and worked as an instructor at the school after graduating in 1941. He traveled to France for further studies in 1948 and was invited by the Ministry of Culture to give lectures in his alma mater in 1985. He was elected a lifelong member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2003, and died in Switzerland in 2013. Zao blended Chinese and Western
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China Daily: Outstanding in his field
With an oeuvre inspired by sunflowers, exhibition shows the best of renowned Chinese artist, Ma Zhenhuan reports.Renowned Chinese artist Xu Jiang may be recognized as primarily a landscape painter, but it is his painting and sculpting of sunflowers that has become his signature in the last two decades — at least as far as the public and some of his fellow artists are concerned.For the past 20 years, Xu has been devoted to creating artwork on the theme of sunflowers.He has traveled far and wide l
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China Daily: Designing a beautiful China
When the nomadic people in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region set up a yurt, it takes much time and effort. However, designers have turned to new materials and technologies to create inflatable yurts that come in various shapes and sizes, but more importantly, take only 20 minutes to put up, says Gao Shiming, president of the China Academy of Art. He points to pictures that present the fruits of the project to develop a new model of contemporary grassland dwelling that explores the modernizati
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Excellent Graduation Works: School of Painting
A Dream in the NightArtist: Wu Guangye (School of Painting)Instructors: Min Han, Wu Junyong Inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, this graduation work explores the absurd tone of the play that is often overlooked and attempts to unveil the hidden side of the forest and build a world that blends reality with fantasy.ShoreArtist: Zhang Yining (School of Painting)Instructors: Kong Guoqiao, Yu Hong, Zhou Chongzhang The world is caught in a storm and all of us are floundering in the tu
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Prof. Zeng Ying and His Team from the School of Architecture Won World-Class Landscape Design Award!
Recently, Zeng Ying from the School of Architecture at the China Academy of Art, with his team project titled "Waxberry Hyperlink: Revitalization of DW Industry, Community & Culture" won the 2023 WLA Honor Award in the Concept of the Analysis & Planning Category. The project was featured on WLA's official website homepage on July 26, 2023.Waxberry Hyperlink, located in the Huangyan District of Taizhou, China, covers an area of 57,800 hectares. The project envisions a new la
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Excellent Graduation Works: School of Foundation Studies
ALPHA: Parallel/Bisecting TimeArtist: Xu Sijie (School of Foundation Studies)Instructor: Cao XiaoyangALPHA stands for primordiality and, at the same time, represents the parameter value of transparency. ALPHA is a system that has grown out of the hidden corners of the world. Placed within a set of polarizing filters that visible light cannot pass through, the half pair of butterfly wings reveals a reality inaccessible to the naked eye. Let a beam of 940 nm invisible light penetrates a polarized
