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Place of Birth: Huangshi, Hubei, China
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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