Zhang Xin (artist)

For the businesswoman, see Zhang Xin (businesswoman).

Zhang Xin (Chinese: 张新; pinyin: Zhāng Xīn; born 1953) is a contemporary Chinese romanticism and abstract painter. She has made a Dream of Flight series of paintings, which are often monochromatic, stylized souls of abstract flora, usually with cracked subjects, high contrast colors, to express her understanding of abstract romanticism dream world.

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Life and career

Zhang was born in the city of Jilin in China's Jilin province in 1953. She came of age during the 1960s and 70s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on her early painting. In 1979, she graduated from the [China Academy of Arts[www.chinaacademyofart.com]] in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, then started her career as an art editor of [Shandong Pictural|http://www.sdhbs.com.cn] and a painted traditional Chinese painting. Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang is becoming to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists and is a favorite of European collectors.

He is represented in Beijing and Paris, Boston, New York and Blossom Art Collection in Los Angeles.

Influences

Western painters including Picasso and Dali are influences. Zhang said: "I read in a book once a few words by British experimental artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which were very influential for me: 'a person can very easily have the right idea, but choose the wrong means to express it. Or he can have the right means, but lack a clear idea.'"

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Prizes and awards

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