China Art Museum
ARTIST RESIDENCY CHINA — SHANGHAI, no. 37
The China Art Museum in Shanghai was originally built for the China Pavilion of Expo 2010. It is the largest art museum in Asia. The permanent collection is mainly Chinese modern art with substantial special exhibitions. The building design references several traditional forms of joinery, cap style, and bronze pots. It is enormous and visited by millions of people each year.
detail of two ink murals on left wall are below
Cheng Yuming, ink on paper, 265 cm x 580 cm, 2011
Cheng Yuming
The Great Wall of Blood and Flesh: Defense of Sihang Warehouse, by Cheng Yuming, 315 cm x 510 cm, 2011
Cheng Yuming
paintings from the permanent collection, various artists
paintings from the permanent collection, various artists
green tea latte break
traveling exhibition from Tretyakov State Gallery, 1894-1980, Moscow, Russia, various artists
traveling exhibition from Tretyakov State Gallery, 1894-1980, Moscow, Russia
Portrait of the Artists Kukryniksy, by Pavel Korin, 1957–58, 140 cm x 190 cm. The three caricaturists Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiri Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov, combined their names into the collective name Kukyniksy, using the joint signature beginning in 1924. They received international recognition for their anti-fascist cartoons. They were also known individually as landscape and portrait artists. Traveling exhibition from Tretyakov State Gallery.
Portrait of the Artists Kukryniksy, by Pavel Korin, detail
Portrait of the Artists Kukryniksy, by Pavel Korin, detail
Portrait of M.S. Sarian by Pavel Korin, 1956
The special exhibition of the life of Yu Yunji told a typically tragic story of mid-twentieth century China. Yu was a talented, well trained young artist in the early 1950s. His skills increased in Konstantin Maksimov’s painting class at the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a year of systematic training in the Soviet style of color and shape. The Western painting style transformed his approach to oil painting. However, his life was disastrously interrupted by the political movements of 1957. “Wrongly accused as a Rightest, he went back to Shanghai to ‘reform himself through labor.'” Seriously damaged by ten years of the Cultural Revolution, he continued to paint in secret, eventually emerging to do commissions for the state.
Yu Yunji
Yu Yunji
Mao, portrait by Yu Yunji
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