CUI Zifan
(China 1915– )
- Title
- Ducks and bamboo
- Place of origin
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China
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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60.0 x 60.0cm image; 192.0 x 74.0 x 83.0cm scroll [height x width x rod]
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., in Chinese, inscribed in black ink "… Zifan in 1977". Signed l.l., in Chinese, stamped in red ink "Cui Zifan [artist's seal]".
- Credit
- Gift of Goldie Sternberg 1984
- Accession number
- 328.1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'Born in 1915 in Laiyang County, Shangdong Province, Cui began studying painting at the age of twelve, copying the styles of the great 17th individualist painter Zhu Da and the later masters Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi. The influence of these artists is evident in Cui’s dramatic and expressive brushwork. More recently his style has been characterised by an increasing individuality in the economic use of powerful brushworks and rich colours. For many years Cui was Vice-Director of the Beijing Studio of Chinese Painting and he is currently advisor to the Beijing Society for the Study of Bird and Flower Painting. Cui’s biography includes being placed first for outstanding artwork in Beijing in 1981, and holding various one-man shows in China. In 1981 he participated in an exhibition from the Beijing Painting Academy held in Canada and an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting organised by the Chinese Cultural Foundation of San Francisco in 1984.'
'Contemporary Chinese Painting', AGNSW, 1985, pg.5.
- Bibliography (2)
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'Spirit Resonance. In Memoriam Goldie Sternberg' by Edmund Capon, pg. 18-19., TAASA Review Jun 2003, Jun 2003, 18 (colour illus.), 19.
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), Contemporary Chinese Painting, 1985, 14 (illus.). Cat.no.1
- Exhibition history (4)
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Contemporary Chinese Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 May 1985–30 Jun 1985.
Chinese Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Nov 1991–27 Jan 1992.
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994.
Brushstrokes from Asia (1997), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 25 Jan 1997–20 Apr 1997.
