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Details
- Other Title
- Pencil drawing No. 1
- Alternative title
- 铅笔画 2号 [Qianbihua 2hao]
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Date
- 1988
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil
- Dimensions
- 54.7 x 79.0 cm image; 78.7 x 94.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 327.1993
- Copyright
- © Fang Lijun
- Artist information
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Fang Lijun
Works in the collection
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About
Academic realism has been taught at Chinese art academies since the 1940s and continues to be a main technique influenced by classical European art and individual artists such as the American painter Andrew Wyeth. While some of the artists of the first two post-revolution generations depicted the harsh realities of rural poverty and misery with a humane concern, there emerged a third, more despairing generation of artists. Fang Lijun epitomises the generation that adopted a kind of 'rogue cynicism' which reflected their acute feeling of the meaninglessness and hopelessness of their own lives and society. These drawings were among those the artist prepared for his graduation assignment at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.178.,
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
New Art from China, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Sep 1992–25 Oct 1992
New Art from China, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 07 Dec 1992–31 Jan 1993
New Art from China, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 26 Feb 1993–18 Apr 1993
New Art from China, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, 06 May 1993–05 Jun 1993
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Yuting Chou, China Information - The Body in Contemporary China, 'The Floating Body in the Art of Fang Lijun: An Artist's Comment on the Human Condition in Post-Cultural Revolution China', pg. 85-114, Leiden, 1998-1999, 86, 98, 102 (illus.). plate no. 3
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Shanghai School and Modern Painting', Sydney, 2003, 178 (colour illus.).
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Claire Roberts, New Art From China - Post-Mao Product, Sydney, 1992, illus.. cat.no. 29
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Provenance
Fang Lijun, 1988-1993, Beijing/China, purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 1993.