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Wanxin Zhang
Wanxin Zhang (born 1961) is a Chinese sculpturer who is based out of San Francisco. Zhang's work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Collections. Zhang was born in Changchun, China in 1961. Zhang attended Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art and was a part of the first generation to get a formal art education after the cultural revolution. Zhang's work is inspired by Chinese culture, such as Chinese opera, and his experience living in the United States. Zhang left China in 1992 and moved to California, where he started working at the Artworks Foundry in Berkeley. The Artworks Foundry's founder Peter Voulkos and artist Robert Arneson have also been cited as influences. Zhang works as an instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2008, Zhang's piece "Pit #5" was on display in the Art Beatus Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2011, the Bellevue Arts Museum held the first in-depth survey of Zhang's work with the exhibit titled "Wanxin Zhang: A Ten Year Survey." Zhang's piece "Panda Warr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
