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ZAO WOUKI (ZHAO WUJI, FRANCE/CHINA, 1920 2013) , 29.09.64 Christie's

Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese: 赵无极; pinyin: Zhào Wújí; Wade-Giles: Chao Wu-chi; 1 February 1920 - 9 April 2013) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu..

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Zao Wou-Ki French, born in China, 1920-2013. Zao Wou-Ki (Zhào Wújí 赵无极 / 趙無極, 1920-2013) was born in Beijing to a family that traced its lineage to the Song dynasty (961-1279) imperial house. He grew up in Dantu, Jiangsu Province, in an area of southern China regarded as the heartland of traditional Chinese literary culture.

'A visual shock to the senses' Zao WouKi’s lifelong exploration of abstraction Christie's

No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki is the first museum retrospective of the artist's work in the United States. Drawing together key works from public and private collections in America, Europe, and Asia, this exhibition of Zao's works illustrates the encounter between Asian aesthetics and international art movements that came to define postwar abstract.

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Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French artist known for his non-representational paintings that blended Eastern and Western modes of art making. View Zao Wou-Ki's 9,115 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, paintings, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.

'A visual shock to the senses' Zao WouKi’s lifelong exploration of abstraction Christie's

Zao Wou-Ki was an abstract painter and émigré to France from Beijing, China. He worked during the post-war period in Europe to create a synthesis of artistic aesthetics from both West and East in his art. He made a home in Paris in 1948 and became a French citizen in 1962. « I believe that all painters are realists for themselves. They are abstract for other people » - Zao Wou-Ki

ZAO WOUKI (19202013), Untitled Christie’s

Zao Wou-Ki ( Chinese: 赵无极; pinyin: Zhào Wújí; Wade-Giles: Chao Wu-chi; 1 February 1920 - 9 April 2013 [1]) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. [2] Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.

Zao WouKi (19202013) , 18.3.68 Christie's

Zao Wou-Ki was made an Officier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur by the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang. Zao Wou-Ki and his wife Françoise were invited to teach painting and charcoal drawing, and museology respectively, at Hangzhou School of Fine Arts in 1985. Then, had an exhibition at Artcurial marking the 40th anniversary of his.

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Zao Wou-ki (1920-2013) —. Zao eventually committed himself fully to abstract painting, rarely using even figurative titles after 1959. Instead, he titled his works with their date of completion.

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Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French master of abstract painting known for his unique employment of both Eastern and Western artistic traditions. From 1935 he studied at the Hangzhou National College of Art (now known as China Academy of Art) for six years, where he mastered both Chinese ink drawings and Western paintings.

Zao WouKi (19202013) , 09.06.67 Christie's

ON APRIL 1st, 1948, Zao Wou-Ki arrived in France after a journey from Shanghai lasting thirty-three days. Zao could not have known then that the two years he planned to spend in France would stretch into a lifetime, or that he would emerge as a modern master of abstraction, heralded for his inventive and nuanced explorations in oil painting, Chinese ink, watercolour and printmaking.

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Current Exhibition 17.06 - 30.12.2023. « Zao Wou-Ki - Plage de papier. L'œuvre gravé et imprimé (1949-2008). Donation Françoise Marquet-Zao » (Zao Wou-Ki - Paper Beach. The engraved and printed work (1949-2008). Donation Françoise Marquet-Zao) at the Hospice Saint-Roch Museum, Issoudun (France) Past Exhibition April 30 to July 16.

Zao WouKi (19202013) , 17.06.61 Christie's

Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Vincent van Gogh - in 2019, Zao Wou-Ki outsold them all. In fact, the $238 million generated by the late painter's art at auctions last year was surpassed only by.

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Summary of Zao Wou-Ki. Having swapped Shanghai for Paris, Zao Wou-Ki's rose to become one of the most important artists on the world stage. A trailblazer in the overlapping of Eastern Asian and Western artistic traditions, he was a restless individual who, over a seventy-year career, established an artistic vocabulary that passed through figuration to full abstraction.

Zao WouKi

Born Zhao Wou-Ki (assuming the name Zao after 1947) in 1920 in Peking (now Beijing), Wou-Ki attending the National School of Arts, Hangchow, for six years before becoming a drawing instructor there. In 1947, the artist moved to Paris where he would become friends with the artists Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró.

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Zao Wou-Ki stated that he had been influenced by the works of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne. His meetings with Henri Michaux pushed him to review his Indian ink techniques, always based in Chinese traditional drawings. Zao was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, and was considered to have been one of the most successful Chinese painters.