Chen Yuping      Vivid Colors

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Chen Yuping, born 1947, had started a careeer as a hydraulic engineer, before he began as a professional artist and printmaker in the 1980s. He depicts the landscape of the "Great Northern Waste Land" in strong and vivid colors. His printworks have earned many awards at national collections and are in the posessions of China National Art Gallery. Two book compilations have been published with his artworks in Hong Kong and in Taiwan. Chen Yuping has had 4 solo exhibitions in Japan.
Catalog Chen Yuping

Pan Xialoing      One of a kind

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Pan Xiaoling, born 1956, is one of the best known of the Huxian farmers painters. She is exceptional both as an artist, but also in her drive to promote and sell her art. She was the first in the village to install a telephone, the first to publish an album with her paintings in 1993, and the first to buy a computer to sell her paintings via the internet. Xiaoling's art paintings have been shown widely in and outside of China.
Catalog Pan Xialoing

Huxian Farmers' Paintings      Gouache on Paper

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Chinese farmers' paintings have their origins in the 1950s, when the communist party encouraged rural communities to engage in art. The best known painters commune is the one in Huxian county in Shaanxi province. Today Chinese farmers' paintings are an accepted form of art. They have been shown in international exhibitions around the world.
Catalog Huxian Farmers' Paintings

People's Liberation Army      The Red Army

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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) was founded in 1927. In the long march of 1934/1935 90,000 men and women could narrowly escape the troops of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. By and by the PLA remained the upper hand against the troops led by Chiang Kai-shek as well as against the Japanese occupiers. The Red Army, as it also called, paved the way for the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Catalog People's Liberation Army

Mao Zedong      From Propaganda to Collectors Item

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Chinese propaganda posters, once produced in billions, have become a serious subject for collectors. Originals are rare and achieve high prices. Posters with images of Chairman Mao Zedong are among the most popular and most expensive ones.
Catalog Mao Zedong

Yuji Hiratsuka      Modern Ukiyo-e

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Yuji Hiratsuka was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1954. In 1985 he moved to the United States. Since 1992 he has been teaching printmaking at Oregon State University. His graphic work has been exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia and has received numerous awards in national and international competitions. His works are in The British Museum, Tokyo Central Museum, Moma (Museum of Modern Art) and Public Library in New York and many others.
Catalog Yuji Hiratsuka

Shan Dan      From Inner Mongolia

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Shan Dan, born 1954, lives in the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia. After a thorough art training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, she has worked as art teacher and printmaker in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia. Her breakthrough as an artist came in in the late 1990s, when she was honored with a solo exhibition at the China National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1998. And one year later, she had received the Luxun Print Prize.
Catalog Shan Dan

Wu Enqi      From Inner Mongolia

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Wu Enqi, born 1953, traces the line of his ancestors back to a brother of Genghis Khan, who was famous for his braveness. The artist Wu Enqi acquires fame of a different kind - as an outstanding printmaker in China and Mongolia. The subjects of Wu Enqi's prints are rooted in the history and the way of life of the Mongol nomads.
Catalog Wu Enqi

Lü Min      Represented in the Collection of the Muban Foundation

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Lü Min was born in 1962 in Kunming, the capital of Yunan province in China and graduated from Yunan Art College. The artist creates woodblock prints with oil-based ink colors and uses rather large flat areas with soft and appealing colors. Lü Min's art prints look as if they were made by a woman - and that's what they are. The female artist has won many awards in China and has an impressive international exhibition record, which is still rare for contemporary Chinese artists. Lü Min exhibited in Japan, Austria, Germany, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Catalog Lü Min

Fang Limin      Mostly Abstract Works

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Fang Limin, born 1964, is vice-director of the printmaking department at China National Academy of Fine Arts (CNAFA) in Hangzhou. In spite of his youth he has gained wide recognition and can show a long list of awards at Chinese art exhibitions. He is one of the 60 artists whose works were selected for the collection of the London based Muban Foundation.
Catalog Fang Limin