Zao Wou Ki (Zhao Wuji)

Zao Wou Ki (Zhao Wuji)

Zao Wou-Ki (zh-tsp|t=趙無極|s=赵无极|p=Zhào Wú Jí; born 13 February 1921 in Beijing) is a Chinese-French painter.

Biography

He was born in a cultivated family and studied calligraphy in his childhood. Later, he studied painting in the school of Fine Arts in Hangzhou from 1935 to 1941. He went to the block of Montparnasse in Paris, where he followed Émile Othon Friesz's classes. His earliest exhibition in France were met with praise from Miró and Picasso.

Career

His works, influenced by Paul Klee, are orientated to abstraction. He names them with the date in which he finishes them, and in them, masses of colours appear to materialise a creating world, like a big bang, where light structures the canvas. He works often big formats in triptychs and diptychs.While the style of his works is stylistically similar to the Abstract Expressionists whom he met while travelling in New York, he's also influenced by Impressionism. Zao Wou-ki himself has stated that he is particularly enamored with the works of Cézanne and Matisse.fact|date=May 2007

His meeting with Henri Michaux pushed him to review his Indian ink techniques, always based in Chinese traditional drawings.

Zao Wou-ki is a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, and is considered one of the most successful Chinese painters alive. One of his paintings recently sold for a record price equivalent to 2 million USD at the Sotheby's in Hong Kong. Former French President Jacques Chirac was offered a painting by Zao Wu Ki by his ministers during their last meeting. [ [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-907637@51-843695,0.html LeMonde.fr : La "Fondation Jacques Chirac" se mettra en place à l'automne avec Michel Camdessus ] ]

As of now Zao Wou-ki has stopped producing new paintings.

elected biographies

*Zao Wou-Ki, "Autoportrait", Fayard, Paris, 1988.
*Claude Roy, "Zao Wou-Ki", Le Musée de Poche, Editions Georges Fall, Paris, 1957.

References

External links

* [http://www.parisbeijing-gallery.com/en/gallery Graphic works (lithographs and etchings) by Zao Wou-ki (Zhao Wuji) at the ParisBeijing Gallery]
* [http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/zao/index.html Works at the Marlborough Gallery, NYC]
* [http://denisbloch.com/object.php?id=31&title=Montagnes_et_Soleil Mountains and Sun at the Denis Bloch Fine Art Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA]
* [http://home3.inet.tele.dk/mheede/zaowouki.htm Zhao Wuji at Gallery Heede & Moestrup - Copenhagen]
* [http://news.sina.com.cn/cl/2004-04-28/15543174156.shtml 赵无极：在巴黎重新发现中国]


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