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Zhang Xiaogang. Zhang Xiaogang ( simplified Chinese: 张晓刚; traditional Chinese: 張曉剛; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎogāng; born in 1958) is a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. Paintings in his Bloodline series are predominantly monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed ...
May 15, 2020 · By Sotheby's | May 15, 2020. Lot Details. C reated in 1993, Zhang Xiaogang’s Bloodline – Big Family: No. 2 is the second of the two earliest and most important works from the artist’s seminal and era-defining Bloodline – Big Family series. With the first work residing in the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan, the present painting is ...
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Jul 27, 2023 · Zhang Xiaogang – Bloodline Series – Big Family No. 1, 150 x 179 cm. Zhang Xiaogang – Bloodline Series – Big Family No. 2, 1996, oil on canvas. Zhang Xiaogang – Bloodline Series – Big Family No. 10, 2000, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm. Zhang Xiaogang – Bloodline Series – Big Family, 1995, oil on canvas, 179 x 229 cm.
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The initial inspiration for Zhang Xiaogang’s ‘Bloodline’ series was the artist’s discovery of a photograph of his mother as a young woman. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), family photographs were often lost or destroyed in the fervour of denouncing the past, making those that survived rare.
Zhang Xiaogang. In 1993, Zhang Xiaogang began the Bloodline series, which comprises some of the most iconic images in Chinese contemporary art. In this video, he explains how his discovery of family photographs—thought to have been destroyed during the Cultural Revolution—inspired these paintings.
The 'Bloodline' series represents one of the most important periods and turning points of my artistic career. — Zhang Xiaogang. P: In the 1990s you were part of several seminal Biennales, including the 1994 São Paulo Biennale and the 1995 Biennale. We would like to hear how these academically-important exhibitions affected your work in the 90s.
Zhang Xiaogang is a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. Paintings in his Bloodline series are predominantly monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s and 1960s.
