Art Movements And Its Discovery

Art movements and its discovery

Introduction

Chinese contemporary art also lives a moment of expansion and successful development. It seems that everything that has to do with the Asian giant live a spectacular shine and fame phase. It is logical if we think about the immensity of that country, its culture wealth, its period of economic growth and the years that it has remained almost hidden for the West. Today we are going to try to discover a little more about him, especially in relation to his current art.

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The discovery of Chinese contemporary art

With Chinese contemporary art, a process similar to that experienced by tourism in China has been lived. For a few years everyone wants to travel to this country of the Far East and see in first person wonders as old as the great Chinese wall or as modern as the skidos of the Skyline of the coastal city of Shanghai.

Well, with Chinese contemporary art the same thing happens, all gallery owners and collectors want to expose it and possess it. After all, as everything surrounding China’s current economy, right now those artistic works can be a safe value in the market. So for you to have some reference about the most quoted, here are we going to give you some key names.

The beginnings

But before mentioning the most relevant artists of Chinese contemporary art, we also want to contextualize it a little more, to make the phenomenon more understandable. So let’s make a little history.

We must place ourselves in the China of Mao Tse Tung. The politician who ruled the country with an iron hand and who sought to isolate him from the world. For that he cemented his power among other things in a propaganda art and in a zero freedom of expression. 

The objective was for artists. However, after Mao’s death in 1976, that was going to change. A growing cultural opening was going to be lived, and since the 80s Chinese contemporary art was going to live new trends, increasingly close to the creations of Western artists.

The most outstanding artists today

We could give a very long list of Chinese creators, but maybe excess excess would only be of interest to specialists in the subject. So we want to provide a few reference names. One of them must be the painter Zeng Fanzhi, possibly the great star of Chinese contemporary art. Among other things for the scandalous prices that some of his work have achieved in recent times.

Another outstanding name is the Beijing Ai Weiwei, who develops his work as well as an artist and being a cultural agitator of the creative panorama of the Chinese capital. A character with a vast culture, whose works usually have links with the western art of the past, even with great geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci.

Also in arts such as photography there are very relevant names such as Wang Quigsong or Song Dong, which also makes acclaimed video facilities. These and other creators such as the painter Yue Minjun, all born in the 60s of the last twentieth century, or a little earlier, represent the foundations of Chinese art.

conclusion

They are the most venerated, and although there are other younger artists increasing. They and the new open museums, such as Shanghai or the important galleries and auctions that are programmed in cities such as Hong Kong or Macao, are the struts of the artistic explosion that China lives in our day in our day.

Without a doubt, those three cities, next to the capital itself, Beijing, are the epicenters where to discover in the first person the Chinese art. An activity that can be the great surprise of a trip to China. An opportunity to see that together with the millenary customs, current trends are developed that do not renounce their roots, but that are evidentized. The sample more of the globalization that prevails in any corner of our planet.