Jiawei shen biography of barack

Jiawei Shen was born in Shanghai in Largely self-taught, he became a well- known artist in China in the mids during the Cultural Revolution.!

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Renowned Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen is completing an extraordinary and monumental artwork that he says gives meaning to his whole life.

Years of Living Dangerously: Brothers and Sisters Making History in the narrative painting of Shen Jiawei.

Shuyu Kong looks at the extensive career of Shen Jiawei, who is among the few contemporary artists committed to engaging with the legacy of history painting.

Jiawei Shen was born in Shanghai in Largely self-taught, he became a well- known artist in China in the mids during the Cultural Revolution.

Shen Jiawei became an artist during the Cultural Revolution, making his first major works in the service of the state, embodied in the.

The artist, Jiawei Shen is a Chinese Australian artist considered to be one of Australia's leading portrait artists.

This former Red Guard, still famous in China for painting one of the most famous images of the Cultural Revolution, “Standing Guard For The Great Motherland”, is creating a fantastic parable of the history of Communism in the style that has established him as one of the world’s great history painters.

Epic in concept and scale and painted over 7 years, his ‘Tower of Babel’ masterpiece is an enormous 4 panel work of 130 square meters and 7.5 meters in height.

It depicts over 400 famous and infamous characters including politicians, soldiers, scientists, artists, writers and filmmakers who were won over by the utopian vision of the Communist movement, as well as many forgotten people who tragically lost their lives to Revolution.

It also includes remixes of over 100 iconic artworks by left wing artists