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Master printer to teach DIY finger painting
By Vanessa Xu |
December 6, 2011, Tuesday
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MASTER print maker Zhao Zongzao, now 81 years of age, is also skilled in traditional Chinese finger painting.
A show of Zhao's prints is underway at the Zhejiang Art Museum. Multi-talented Zhao is also accomplished in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. He is also an arts educator.
Zhao studied at the Print Making Department of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He spearheaded the movement to revive the art of printing in China.
Artists such as Zhao were sent to Beijing to study traditional printing techniques at the famous Rongbaozai Studio where artists made advances in color printing and incorporated elements of Chinese folk painting, stone rubbing and Western printing.
Zhao's works feature vivid folk scene and ethnic characteristics. Michael Sullivan, an expert in Chinese contemporary art, called Zhao's works "the first truly modern prints produced in the People's Republic of China."
Many novels were illustrated by Zhao, including the stories of Lu Xun (1881-1936), who supported the New Woodcut Movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Works from that movement were strongly influenced by the German Expressionists.
The exhibition features more than 200 works, including printing, calligraphy and finger-ink paintings, which use rice paper and Chinese ink applied by fingers instead of brushes.
This Saturday at 2pm, Zhao himself will instruct visitors in DIY a finger painting at Zhejiang Art Museum.
Date: through December 23, 9am-5pm (closed on Mondays)
Address: 138 Nanshan Rd
Tel: (0571) 8707-8700
A show of Zhao's prints is underway at the Zhejiang Art Museum. Multi-talented Zhao is also accomplished in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. He is also an arts educator.
Zhao studied at the Print Making Department of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He spearheaded the movement to revive the art of printing in China.
Artists such as Zhao were sent to Beijing to study traditional printing techniques at the famous Rongbaozai Studio where artists made advances in color printing and incorporated elements of Chinese folk painting, stone rubbing and Western printing.
Zhao's works feature vivid folk scene and ethnic characteristics. Michael Sullivan, an expert in Chinese contemporary art, called Zhao's works "the first truly modern prints produced in the People's Republic of China."
Many novels were illustrated by Zhao, including the stories of Lu Xun (1881-1936), who supported the New Woodcut Movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Works from that movement were strongly influenced by the German Expressionists.
The exhibition features more than 200 works, including printing, calligraphy and finger-ink paintings, which use rice paper and Chinese ink applied by fingers instead of brushes.
This Saturday at 2pm, Zhao himself will instruct visitors in DIY a finger painting at Zhejiang Art Museum.
Date: through December 23, 9am-5pm (closed on Mondays)
Address: 138 Nanshan Rd
Tel: (0571) 8707-8700
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