Fu baoshi artist statement

  • Fu's portrayal is characterized by a dark mystery, which makes it a powerful statement on modern industrialization, subject to the viewer's interpretation.
  • He translated many books from Japanese and carried out his own research.
  • Fu, as the exhibition makes clear, was a brilliant artist and a genius with brush and ink on paper, the traditional Chinese painting media.

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    Fu Baoshi

    Chinese painter

    Fu Baoshi (Chinese: 傅抱石), or Fu Pao-Shih, (October 5, 1904– September 29, 1965) was a Chinese painter from Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. He went to Japan to study the History of Oriental Art in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1933. He translated many books from Japanese and carried out his own research. In painting itself, he brought Japanese visual elements to the Chinese ink painting tradition.

    He was the director of the Jiangsu Province Chinese Painting School and a vice-chairman of the Federation of Chinese Artists. He also taught in the Art Department of Central University (now Nanjing University).[1] His works of landscape painting employed skillful use of dots and inking methods, creating a new technique encompassing many varieties within traditional rules. He was able to create an old, elegant style through his integration of poetic atmosphere and painting techniques. He held many personal exhibitions in China and won favourable

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    Painter Fu Baoshi had to balance modernist instincts with Chinese art traditions -- and stay in the Communist Party's good graces

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    Cleveland Museum of Art

    What: The exhibition "Fu Baoshi: Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution."

    When: Through Sunday, Jan. 8.

    Where: 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland.

    Admission: $8 general admission. Go to clevelandart.org or call 216-421-7340.

    Leading North American art museums have engaged over the last dozen years in a thorough re-examination of the explosive avant-garde movements of the mid-20th century, especially Abstract Expressionism, which enabled New York to replace Paris as the global capital of art.

    The Cleveland Museum of Art, which collected AbEx with only faint enthusiasm a half-century ago, has been absent from this art-historical conversation and shows no sign of changing course now. Instead, it wants to change the topic entirely.

    Rather than focus on American art from 50 years ago, the CMA's big f

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    Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

    CLEVELAND (June 22, 2011) – The Cleveland Museum of Art will showcase works of art bygd Fu Baoshi, a preeminent figure in twentieth-century kinesisk art, in an exhibition opening this fall. Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) fryst vatten the first retrospective in the Western Hemisphere of the artist who revolutionized the tradition of kinesisk ink painting. The exhibition will reveal the process of the artist's self-discovery and anställda struggle, as well as the complexity of art and politics in Republican and Communist China. Featuring 90 works on loan from the Nanjing Museum, one of the oldest and most comprehensive museums in China, this fryst vatten the first collaboration between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nanjing Museum. The exhibition will be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 16, 2011 through January 8, 2012 and will be the first time this work will be viewed outside China. It will