Tag: Vol.1, No.2 Apr.-Jun.2023
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Hard and White Cannot Coexist: Recombining Concepts in a Semantic Fallacy
This exchange is recorded in “On Hard and White”, a well-known philosophical discourse from important Warring States School of Names philosopher Gongsun Long. He held that only the whiteness, and not the hardness, of a piece of hard white stone could be perceived with the naked eye. The sense of touch could determine that the…
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Analysis of Su Yu’s Contemporary Oil Painting Style
In the early 1980s numerous Chinese artists began to reflect on China’s cultural and social situation and express their feelings about life through their work. Thus, contemporary art in China took root. China’s contemporary art initially imitated modern art in Europe and the United States, merged it with Chinese culture, and then gradually explored its…
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Tai Xiangzhou’s Parallel Universes
Tai Xiangzhou’s ink paintings have long visualized parallel worlds—both the historical realities of famous scholar’s rocks, depicted to scale with meticulous recreations of their metamorphic shapes, and imaginary realms with explosive visions of cosmogenic scenes in his extended Celestial Chaos series. Both modes are represented in the present exhibition, sometimes further divided in their evocations.…
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Shiqing Deng’s Artistic Characteristics and Value in Figurative Painting
Shiqing Deng is a post-90s generation Chinese artist who has studied and lives in the United States. She graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and the New York Academy of Art. Over the past decade, Shiqing Deng has received rigorous and comprehensive training in painting, which has allowed her to achieve…
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Analysis of the Conception and Appearance of the Group Portraits of the Twenty-nine Patriarchs in Kanjingsi Cave of Longmen Grottoes
The portraits of the twenty-nine patriarchs in Kanjingsi Cave of Longmen Grottoes are the largest existing statues of the patriarchs in the Chinese grottoes. Kanjingsi Cave belongs to the design of Zen grottoes influenced by square worship grottoes and has the dual nature of meditation and worship, and the group of twenty-nine patriarchs was first…
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Social Thought and Bronze Art in the Western Zhou Dynasty
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, based on the Yin rituals, the Zhou people made moderate adjustments to social ideology by introducing the idea of honoring virtues, reorganizing the ritual orders, and adjusting the sacrificial rites, thereby formulating the social thought of “revering the ancestors and respecting virtue” and “respecting heaven and protecting the people”. This…
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Conversations on Michael Zheng’s Exhibition “A Tree is a Tree” at 500 Capp Street, 2022
In this article, curator and critic Hou Hanru engages in a conversation with artist Michael Zheng about his exhibition titled “A Tree Is a Tree”. The discussion revolves around topics such as perception, conceptual art, and the influence of Buddhism on Zheng’s practice of contemporary art, particularly site-specific installations. Zheng describes his residency at The…
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Behind the “Abstract Transformation”:The Appearance and the Truth in the Works of Chinese-American Artist George Chann, from the 1950s to 1960s
As one of the essential Chinese American abstract painters in modern America, George Chann’s transformation from figurative to abstract art is closely related to an influential creative group: modern Chinese American artists in the United States. Their artistic pursuits, characterized by dispersion, migration, and cultural exchange, are indispensable subjects of global art history. During the…