Vintage Oil Painting Signed China Modern Artist
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Imagine size: 15"/30" (37.5cm/75cm) Framed:19"/34" Signed right down Provenace: Long Island, New YorkTo accept to this status, please look at all pictures before you make a bids, it was remind to
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Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, English pronunciation (help·info); born 28 August 1957 in Beijing...) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist.Exile in the United States[edit]From 1981 to 1993, he lived in the United States. He was among the first generation of students to study abroad following China's reform in 1980, being one of the 161 students to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) in 1981.[13] For the first few years, Ai lived in Philadelphia and San Francisco. He studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.[14] Later, he moved to New York City.[11] He studied briefly at Parsons School of Design.[15] Ai attended the Art Students League of New York from 1983 to 1986, where he studied with Bruce Dorfman, Knox Martin and Richard Pousette-Dart.[16]He later dropped out of school and made a living out of drawing street portraits and working odd jobs. During this period, he gained exposure to the works of Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns, and began creating conceptual art by altering readymade objects His father's (Ai Qing) original surname was written Jiang (蔣).[1][2][3] Ai collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron as consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[4] As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[5] In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, he was held for 81 days without charge.Since being allowed to leave China in 2015, he has lived in Berlin, Germany, with his family, working and traveling internationally.Size: 43cm/41cm/41cm Sold：9, 6000, 00 Sotheby Auction HongKong 10/06/2013
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, English pronunciation (help·info); born 28 August 1957 in Beijing...) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist.Exile in the United States[edit]From 1981 to 1993, he lived in the United States. He was among the first generation of students to study abroad following China's reform in 1980, being one of the 161 students to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) in 1981.[13] For the first few years, Ai lived in Philadelphia and San Francisco. He studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.[14] Later, he moved to New York City.[11] He studied briefly at Parsons School of Design.[15] Ai attended the Art Students League of New York from 1983 to 1986, where he studied with Bruce Dorfman, Knox Martin and Richard Pousette-Dart.[16]He later dropped out of school and made a living out of drawing street portraits and working odd jobs. During this period, he gained exposure to the works of Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns, and began creating conceptual art by altering readymade objects His father's (Ai Qing) original surname was written Jiang (蔣).[1][2][3] Ai collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron as consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[4] As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[5] In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, he was held for 81 days without charge.Since being allowed to leave China in 2015, he has lived in Berlin, Germany, with his family, working and traveling internationally.Size: 43cm/41cm/41cm Sold：9, 6000, 00 Sotheby Auction HongKong 10/06/2013
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