Wei Guangqing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Wei Guangqing

painter

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1963

Place of Birth: Huangshi, Hubei, China

Profession: painter

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Wei Guangqing

  • Wei Guangqing (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???) (born 1963 in Huangshi City, Hubei Province) is a contemporary Chinese painter.
  • He is known most of all for his Red Wall and Made in China Series.
  • Wei Guangqing was one of the main members of the “85’s New Wave Art Movement”.
  • In the 1990s he became one of the most well-known "political Pop artists".
  • His work adopts a flat and symbolic composition, linking traditional ethics and modern culture.
  • “Red Wall” is a symbolic work of pop art, using the traditional woodcarving-illustration prints and stories, through the process of Pop, to imply the various meanings of contemporary private and secular life.
  • Wei Guangqing includes the contradictions of tradition and modernity by using a language related to cartoons and comic strips.
  • His color palette consists of strong, often complementary colors.
  • The artist creates a historical-ethical Pop with regional significance and uses the age-old tradition as a metaphor about today’s world.

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