BLOODLINE: BIG FAMILY NO.1
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 150 by 179 cm.; 59 by 70 1/2 in.
Medium: oil on canvas
BLOODLINE SERIES: BIG FAMILY
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Creation Date: 1998
BLOODLINE - BIG FAMILY (TWO PIECES)
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 64×80cm(each)
Medium: Print on Paper
Creation Date: 2006
Edition number: 33 from an edition of 99
BIG FAMILY
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 33½ x 39¼ in. (85.1 x 99.7 cm.)
[MY BIG FAMILY]
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: L. 22½ x 28 1/8 in. (571 x 715 mm.)
A BIG FAMILY SERIES
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 90 x 70 1/8in. (229 x 179cm.)
A BIG FAMILY SERIES NO. 16
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 78¾ x 98½ in. (200 x 250 cm.)
Zhang was born in the city of Kunming in China's Yunnan province in 1958. He came of age during the 1960s and 70s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on his painting. In 1982, he graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in the city of Chongqing in Sichuan province, then joined a young group of young avant-garde painters who came to prominence during the 1980s. Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang belongs to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists and is a favorite of foreign collectors.
Western painters including Richter, Picasso and Dali are influences. Zhang said: "I read in a book once a few words by British experimental artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which were very influential for me: 'a person can very easily have the right idea, but choose the wrong means to express it. Or he can have the right means, but lack a clear idea.'" Zhang also cites his discovery of photos of his mother as a young, attractive woman as a key inspiration for the Bloodline series.
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