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[PAST EVENT] Lecture - DIFFERENCE MEANS ART: by ink painter Q. X. Wang
September 19, 2013
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Department of Art and Art History & W&M Confucius Institute presents: "Difference Means Art"
Speaker: Q. X. Wang
What does ''modern & contemporary'' ink painting mean from the perspective of the long history of Chinese painting? Generations of artists have wrestled with the task of modernization of ink painting since the second-half of the 19th-century to the present. Q. X. Wang, a Chinese ink painter and calligrapher, confronts the challenge. Already a college professor of English literature in the U.S., he became a full-time artist in his 50s and spent decades shuttling between Eastern and Western traditions, in the quest for a new visual language based on the belief that ''DIFFERENCE MEANS ART; RADICAL DIFFERENCE MEANS GREAT ART''. He will present his unconventional works and share insights into the process of artistic creation.
Co-sponsored by WM Confucius Institute and Department of Art & Art History.
Speaker: Q. X. Wang
What does ''modern & contemporary'' ink painting mean from the perspective of the long history of Chinese painting? Generations of artists have wrestled with the task of modernization of ink painting since the second-half of the 19th-century to the present. Q. X. Wang, a Chinese ink painter and calligrapher, confronts the challenge. Already a college professor of English literature in the U.S., he became a full-time artist in his 50s and spent decades shuttling between Eastern and Western traditions, in the quest for a new visual language based on the belief that ''DIFFERENCE MEANS ART; RADICAL DIFFERENCE MEANS GREAT ART''. He will present his unconventional works and share insights into the process of artistic creation.
Co-sponsored by WM Confucius Institute and Department of Art & Art History.
Contact
Xin Wu, Art & Art History, 757-221-2530