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China Art Museum (Shanghai Meishu Guan) Videos
Modern Chinese Painter - 宋文治 Song Wenzhi (part 2)
Song Wenzhi (1919-1999, Taicang, Jiangsu Province) studied advertising art in Shanghai when he was young. Later he became a student of Wu Hufan ( 吳湖帆 ), a master of Chinese calligraphy and painting and a renowned connoisseur and collector.
After having studied at the Suzhou Art Training Institute, he taught at secondary schools and normal universities. He joined the Jiangsu Province Traditional Chinese Painting Studio in 1957. Song Wenzhi studied classical Chinese painting techniques of the Four Wangs ( 四王 王時敏、王鑒、王原祁、王翬 ), Western perspectives and color theories, and paintings of Picasso, Monet, Van Gogh, and etc.
Song was a director of the Chinese Artists Association, and a vice-chairman of its Jiangsu Branch. Many of his works have been included in international collections.
Sources:
Important Art of New China 1949-1979 (China Guardian Auction Catalogue 1997, Beijing)
Chen Lusheng, Xin Zhongguo meishu tushi - 1949-1966 [The Art History of the People's Republic of China - 1949-1966] (Beijing: Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe, 2000) [in Chinese]
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists -- A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2006)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
Jane DeBevoise and Uli Sigg: Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art, a Conversation
March 16, 2012, Jane DeBevoise, Chair, Asia Art Archive, New York and Hong Kong, with Uli Sigg, collector of contemporary Chinese art, Lucerne present Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art, a Conversation for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.