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NanHai Art
November 2 - November 15, 2013Info
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Ink as Cultural Identity
with Professor Kuiyi Shen
November 2, 2013: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
The Transformation of Chinese Painting Through Overseas Collecting
with Professor Zaixin Hong
November 9, 2013: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
East Meets West in Brush and Ink
with Professor Arthur Mu-sen Kao
November 16, 2013: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Kuiyi Shen is a Professor of Art History and Director of the Program in Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His lecture “Ink as Cultural Identity” draws on his current research in the area of Modern and Contemporary Chinese art and examines the concept of guohua, a term imbued with cultural nationalism, and an important component to Chinese modernization. “Ink as Cultural Identity” examines how the medium has evolved in response to challenges posed by China’s opening to the world in the early 20th century, the subsequent closing and “re-opening” of the country in the 1980s, and its contemporary use as affirmation of cultural identity amongst artists working today.
Zaixin Hong is a Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of Puget Sound, where he is an authority on Modern Chinese painting and the global market for Chinese art, and currently completing a book on the subject, “Shaking Hands with the Future: The Transformation of Chinese Painting Through Overseas Collecting.” His lecture, by the same title, focuses on the important, but little studied, half-century long dialogue between Master Painter Huang Binhong (1865-1955) and Western art historians, dealers and collectors. “The Transformation of Chinese Painting Through Overseas Collecting” addresses the role of the global art market in establishing a Modernist Chinese aesthetic, while also developing new markets of international Chinese art collectors.
Arthur Mu-sen Kao is an artist and Professor of Art retired from San Jose State University. His lecture “East Meets West in Brush and Ink” marries his own art practice, for which he is well known to blend traditional and modern styles, with his academic research, where he has taught internationally in the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Concentrating on three areas: the impact of Western realism on Chinese painting, Chinese brushwork and rhythm in Western painting, and ink painting in the current globalized era; “East Meets West in Brush and Ink” examines the mutually shaping influences of Eastern and Western painting.