Hung liu is a contemporary chinese painter.
Hung liu art.
I have been painting in america since 1984.
Courtesy of kala art institute.
It would be hard to imagine an art exhibition more relevant to current events or one more.
After graduating high school she went to the countryside to work with peasant workers and eventually her fellow workers became the subject of many of her photographs and drawings.
Bringing a deeply felt sense of the past to her paintings prints and installations hung liu combines ancient and modern motifs from chinese history to demonstrate her experience of history every day as an active affecting presence.
Hung liu s print series seven poses replicates the distinctive layered complexity of her paintings.
33 75 x 26 5 year.
Bio hung liu was born in changchun china in 1948 growing up under the maoist regime.
It remains the most extensive exhibit of her work to date with paintings from more than 40 collections displayed.
Four color lithograph edition.
When she returned to school she majored in mural painting and starred in her own television show titled how to draw and paint liu.
Wusihun river 2007 by hung liu.
She grew up in beijing during the time of mao zedong.
Artwork description hung liu black madonna.
Hung liu was born in changchun china in 1948.
Hung liu was born in changchun china in 1948 during the communist revolution.
Widely recognized for her large painterly depictions of traditional and contemporary chinese women children and refugees in muted earthy hues hung has been producing art since the early 1970s experimenting with painting as a method for social change and critique.
Copyright hung liu 2016.
The art of hung liu was a retrospective collection of liu s work including around 80 paintings and an assortment of photographs studies and sketchbooks.
Hung liu chinese b 1948 is a renowned painter born in changchun china.
Oil on canvas 60 x 240 inches.
Initially trained in the socialist realist style liu studied mural painting as a graduate student at the central academy of fine art in beijing before immigrating to the us in 1984 to attend the university of california san diego where she studied under allan kaprow the american originator of happenings.
