Who is Zhang Xiaogang?
Who is Zhang Xiaogang?
Zhang Xiaogang is a Chinese surrealist and symbolist painter. He is most famous for his Bloodline series, a body of work characterized by predominantly monochromatic portraits of Chinese people.
What kind of art does Zhang Xianzhi do?
His wide-eyed subjects featured in his stylized portraits of Chinese people are posed stiff and upright, deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s and 1960s. Zhang was born in Kunming in China’s Yunnan province in 1958 and was the third of four brothers.
What is the size of Zhang Xiaogang’s ghost between black and white?
Zhang Xiaogang – The Ghost Between Black and White No. 13：A Ghost Who Suffers from Insomnia – White Bed, What’s the Fate of Your Beginning and Ending? (黑白之間的幽靈十三號: 一個失眠的幽靈 – 白色的床，你的開始結尾是什麼樣呢？), 1984, sketch on paper, 21cm x 29cm
What happened to the artist Zhang Zhi?
Born in 1958 in Kunming, China, Zhang went on study painting at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chongqing. Forced to work construction and other odd jobs instead of teaching painting as he had intended, Zhang fell into a deep depression fueled by alcoholism, eventually leading to his hospitalization in 1984.
