Category: Vol.2, No.3 July.-Sep.2024
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The Origin, Connotation and Contemporary Educational Value of Liu Haisu’s Artistic Expression Thought
Liu Haisu’s artistic core concept is the “create-authenticity expression” theory which integrates traditional Chinese painting aesthetics and Western modern art and extracts the connotation of “expression is the overall presentation of life.” This idea still has extremely important value in contemporary art education.
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Deconstructed Structure: Xu Guohua’s Welded Metal Sculptures
In mid-April 2006, during a trip to London for The 5 International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, I met Beijing sculptor Xu Guohua. My first impression of him was that he was genuine and unpretentious.
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Resonance and Dissonance: The Artistic Significance of Qi Zhilong in the Context of Globalization
After everyone has gained the right to narrate and reconstruct, the worldview is no longer a unified image shaped by dominant powers. Instead, it is a fragmented and dynamically evolving picture, pieced together through the intersubjective interactions of individuals and their mutual reconstructions with existing discourses. This new form of worldview not only serves as…
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The History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art: Being a History of Nature and a History of Society
After having discussed other forming factors of the world-picture logic as histories – the history of language, the history of time, the history of self, this article points out the fourth and fifth ways of exploring the history of ideas in pioneering contemporary Chinese art are as a history of nature and a history of…