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Guan Daosheng. Bamboo and Stone (竹石图), Guan Daosheng, ink on paper, National Palace Museum, Taipei. Guan Daosheng, also known as Guan Zhongji or Lady Zhongji (her courtesy name) (Chinese: 管道昇; Wade–Giles: Kuan Tao-sheng; 字仲姬；1262–1319), was a Chinese painter and poet who was active during the early Yuan dynasty.
Nationality. New Zealand. Chen Weiming (Chinese: 陳維明, born c. 1970) [1][2][3] is a Chinese-born New Zealand artist and sculptor. [4] Chen was commissioned by the New Zealand government to create a 3-metre bronze statue of Edmund Hillary in 1991. In 2008, he created a 6.4 metres high replica of the Goddess of Democracy that stood in the ...
Tu Weiming [a] (born 1940) is a Chinese-born American philosopher. He is Chair Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University . He is also Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University .
Brandon was born in Michigan in 1955 [2] and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and New York University School of Law. [3] She received an honor award for her work in hand-drawn animated films as part of her undergraduate studies. Brandon later worked as a radio news reporter for WUOM-FM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and as a television ...
Dimensions. 78 cm × 65.3 cm (30 + 3⁄4 in × 25 + 3⁄4 in) Location. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the ...
However, in 2019 Dutch scholar Lennert Gesterkamp argued that the colophon attached to the painting and mentioning Xie Youyu is a forgery, and that in fact Zhao Mengfu's intention was to honor his own spiritual master, Daoist scholar Du Daojian (1237–1318), who also celebrated nature. [3] Zhao Mengfu had several sons with his wife Guan Daosheng.
The focus of Sharon’s recent endeavors has been equine art, a particular challenge for the painter who prizes precise dimensions in her work. She notes that many equine artists also own and work ...
Wen Zhengming was born Wen Bi near present-day Suzhou on 28 November 1470. He would later be known by his courtesy name, Zhengming. He had an elder brother, Wen Gui, who was born in 1469. When Zhengming was two years old, his father, Wen Lin, passed the imperial examination with the highest possible rank, jinshi.