The Paper's Editorial Board of Art Review
2020 is about to turn over. This year, many people have been killed by the new crown pneumonia, and this year, many artists have left their loved ones and art forever.
Among these fallen art stars are Weng Wange, a 102-year-old grandson of weng Tonggong, a 102-year-old late Qing dynasty heavy minister who called himself a "collector", Chen Peiqiu, a 98-year-old master of maritime painting; Ulay, a well-known performance artist who made people cry without words for his performance art; Land artist Kristo Vladimirov Jawachev; Hara Kou Yoshiyuki, a well-known post-war Japanese post-war "materialist" artist, and Pierre Cardin, a designer who died yesterday, and Liu Shouxiang, a leading figure in Hubei watercolor painting who died in Wuhan as early as February due to the new crown virus.
In the sound of Fu Cong's music, perhaps, an era has really passed.
The Slovaks have passed away, and those real pasts, the remains of art will remain forever.
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Ouray (1943-2020)
Ouray
On 2 March, performance artist and former partner of The "Mother of Performance Art" Marina Abramovich, Ulay, died in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the age of 76 due to complications from cancer treatment.
Born in 1943 in Solingen, Germany, Ouray met Abramovich in Amsterdam in 1976 and for the next 12 years they remained the world's most famous and pioneering art lovers.
In 1976, they became a hit in "Relationships in Space". In 1988, they symbolically ended their relationship with an act of walking across the Great Wall. But in fact, she and Ulay met again less than half a year after "Lover's Great Wall", and the location is still the Great Wall of China. The two once argued and hated each other over the ownership of their joint work, but at Marina's 50-year-old birthday celebration, the two reached a settlement.
In 2010, when Abramovich was holding a performance art exhibition "Artists Are Present" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Ulay appeared and sat across from her. Abramovich broke the rules of the show, clasped hands with his old lover, and burst into tears.
In addition to his collaboration with Abramovich, Ulay is an avid photographer, and in The Aftermath of Berlin (1994-95), his lens focuses on the tragic experiences of marginalized individuals living in cities in a nationalist context.
Gemano Cheran (1940-2020)
Gemano Chelan Ugo Dalla Porta/Fondazione Prada.
On 29 April, Gemano Cheran, founder of the Italian Art Movement in Poverty, an important art critic, curator and art historian, died in Milan at the age of 80 due to COVID-19.
Born in the northern Italian city of Genoa in 1940, Gemano Cheran studied art history at the University of Genoa. In 1967, he coined the term poor art to refer to a group of avant-garde artists who created from everyday materials that challenged artistic traditions and commercial status in postwar Italian culture.
In terms of creative medium, "poor art" does not express poverty, but uses the most simple materials - branches, metal, glass, weaving, stone, animals, including air, as basic expressive materials, to get rid of the "classical" "advanced" artistic shackles. They abandoned painting in favor of collage, cutting, and creating in a variety of mediums.
During his lifetime, he was interviewed by The Paper, an art reviewer, who said that the exhibition "allows people to see that culture lives in different political contexts, and that art can transcend the contingencies that nurture it and prove itself by conveying powerful and creative messages." ”
Kristo Vladimirov Javachev (1935-2020)
Kristo Vladimirov Javachev
On May 31, land artist Kristo Vladimirov Javachev died at his home in New York City at the age of 84.
He and his wife, Jeanne Claude, have been working on land art, best known for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995. They always refused any form of patronage or pursuit of artistic eternity, and their only permanent large-scale work was Mastaba in Hyde Park, London. In 2021, the Centre Pompidou will hold their retrospective, and the "Wrapped Arc de Triomphe", which has been postponed for a year due to the epidemic, will be realized next year – that is Al Cristo's last wish.
Christo was born in Bulgaria in 1935 and went into exile in Eastern Europe in 1957. Two years later, he met the French woman Jeanne Claude in Paris, and the two later became partners in life and art until Jeanne Claude's death in 2009.
Beginning in 1964 they settled in New York, where they partnered up as "wrap artists.". The Christo couple believe that after the object is wrapped, the original form is "defamiliarized", forming a unique visual force, thus highlighting the essence of the object, history and other connotations. Representative works include the "Running Fence" parcel project from the mountains of Marin and Sonoma County in California to the hills on the Pacific coast, "Wrapping the Coast" in Sydney, Australia, the bridge wrapped over the Seine River in Paris, and the project of covering the Reichstag building in Berlin with aluminum fiber.
Onwango (1918-2020)
Ongwango
On December 9, Mr. Weng Wange, a well-known collector and social activist in the United States, passed away in the United States at the age of 102.
Born in 1918, Weng Wange was the fifth grandson of Weng Tonggong, a major minister of the late Qing Dynasty, who was himself a rich collector and connoisseur of Chinese paintings and calligraphy. The core of weng's family collection was laid down by his ancestors in the 19th century, and Weng Wange has been shouldering the mission of guarding the family's sixth collection since his birth, so he calls himself "not a collector, but a 'collector'" and once said that "I live for the family collection, and the family collection has become my life".
Looking back on Mr. Weng Wange's every donation and sale now, he has conveyed his early planning, properly settled the family collection, and made great efforts to return an important part of the Weng family collection to China. Most of weng's family collection eventually turned private into public and returned to public view.
In 1990, Weng Wange donated the ancestral residence of the Weng family to his hometown of Changshu, which has now been opened as the Weng Tonggong Memorial Hall. In 2000, Weng Wange donated 542 volumes of 80 kinds of Weng's collection to the Shanghai Library. In 2010, Weng Wange donated ming dynasty painter Wu Bin's "Spoon Garden" to Peking University. In December 2015, Weng Wange donated the manuscript of weng Tonggong's diary and the manuscript of weng's literature series to the Shanghai Library. In 2016, Weng Wange donated the Southern Song Dynasty painter Liang Kai's "Portrait of Daojun" to the Shanghai Museum. In July 2018, Weng Wange donated Qing Dynasty Wang Yi's "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA. In July 2018, Weng Wange signed a contract with the Shanghai Museum to donate ming dynasty painter Shen Zhou's "Lindai jin Xie Andongshan Map" and Qing Dynasty painter Wang Yuanqi's "Du Fu's Poetic Intention Axis". In December 2018, Weng Wange donated more than 180 pieces of ancient calligraphy and paintings and cultural relics from his family collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
Song engravings of the Weng collection of "Collection rhymes"
Although Mr. Wengwango's final disposition of his family collection has aroused some public controversy, scholars and industry insiders familiar with Mr. Wengwango have great respect for Mr. Weng. The most important major works in his family collection remain in China.
Mr. Ongwango himself is a filmmaker. In his film career of more than 30 years, he has produced at least 30 or 40 documentary films with Chinese themes, and his original intention in filming is to promote Chinese culture overseas.
Whether Mr. Weng Wange used the collection of paintings and calligraphy as the carrier or the film as the carrier, throughout his life, he has been promoting The history and culture of China. As his nephew Mr. Weng Yijun said, "His original intention of loving literature and art and loving Chinese culture has not changed." Being able to publicize Chinese culture in Western society and let Western society understand, understand, and love Chinese culture is a truly patriotic act. ”
Chen Peiqiu (1923-2020)
Chen Peiqiu in middle age
On June 26, Chen Peiqiu, a master of calligraphy and painting, died in Shanghai at three o'clock in the morning at the age of 98.
Chen Peiqiu, female, born in February 1923, From Nanyang, Henan, the character Jianbi, room name Qiulan Room, Gao Hua Ge, Tru Yuxuan, Xie Zhiliu's wife. Adjunct Professor of the School of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, Member of the China Artists Association, Art Consultant of the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting, Art Consultant of the Shanghai Artists Association, Art Consultant of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, Director of the Xiling Printing Society, and winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 6th Shanghai Literature and Art Award.
Chen Peiqiu's work "Songting Na Liang"
Mr. Chen Peiqiu's achievements in flowers and birds, landscapes, brush paintings, calligraphy and other aspects have reached a considerable height, and he is known as the pillow Song yuan and the integration of China and the West. In her early years, she started with landscapes and water, and after the 1950s, she specialized in flowers and birds, with a rich and beautiful painting style and a euphemistic and subtle style. In the 1990s, she explored the fine green landscape and absorbed the expressive techniques of light and color in Western paintings. In her later years, most of the green landscapes were written in color ink, creating a new style of Chinese painting combining color and ink. Her artistic creation has gone in and out between ancient and modern times, achieving "brush and ink with the times", entering the annals of modern Chinese painting, and raising the painting achievements of Chinese female painters to a new height.
In June 2017, The Paper's reporter interviewed Mr. Chen Peiqiu, who said: "Painting is a hard job, not the painter's own wishful thinking, before there must be a sketching job." I had two large drawers, and the large and small books I used to sketch, first with a pencil or pen, and later with a brush, because the brush can draw dots and lines. For young Chinese painting learners, the 'Six Laws' of Chinese painting should be done, and if they want their paintings to become works of art, they should follow such standards. In addition, you should also learn more ancient paintings, because there are good things in the past, and after understanding, you can raise yourself. ”
Norino Haraguchi (1946-2020)
Hara Kou Noriyuki
On September 17, Fergus McCaffrey, the acting gallery of the famous post-war Japanese "Monogatari" artist Haraguchi Noriyuki, announced the artist's death at the age of 74.
In 1946, Hara Kou no Nobuyuki was born. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Nihon University. Haraguchi's hometown of Yokosuka is a U.S. Air Force base, and the roaring military aircraft and the compelling smell of engine oil have left a deep imprint on the course of his life, thus becoming the inspiration for his work.
The 1960s were at the height of the student movement against the Vietnam War and the U.S.-Japan security treaty. Noryuki Haraguchi was interested in the A-4E Skyhawk, the main attack aircraft of the Vietnam War. Inspired by the attack aircraft, he made a full-scale replica of the same name. The A-4E Aquila was originally a destructive weapon on the battlefield, but through the reinterpretation of the original Kou noriyuki, it seems to have become a symbol of peace. In this work, Hara Kou Nobunaga shows a vague irony, and at the same time, it also makes him reflect on the triangular relationship between "people-things-society".
Since the early 1970s, Noriki Hara has established his own styling principles, with simple metal plates coated with engine oil forming his unique form. Those reflected surroundings also become part of the work, and the hardness of the metal and the brilliance of the oil make the viewer feel the imminent presence of reality.
After World War II, the "Mono-ha" art was born in the Japanese New Culture Movement, a contemporary art practice based on Eastern philosophy. Representative artists include Nobuo Sekine, Lee Woo-hwan, Komizu, Sugagi Shimo, Hara Kou Noriyuki and others.
Pierre Cardin (1922-2020)
Pierre Cardin
On December 29, the family of Italian-French costume designer Pierre Cardin told AFP that Pierre Cardin had died at the age of 98 in a hospital in Neuilly, west of Paris, France.
Born in 1922 on the outskirts of Venice, the Italian water city, Pierre Cardin moved to France at a young age. Pierre Cardin developed an early interest in costume design. In 1945, he participated in the costume design of the film "Beauty and the Beast" in Paris, which was well received. After that, his design talent was gradually appreciated, and in 1950 he independently opened a fashion design company.
After 1954, he began to enter the fashion field. In 1973, Pierre Cardin's career had matured, he established pierre Cardin in his own name, and since then the company's business has become increasingly global, and it is an internationally renowned brand in the fields of men's wear, women's wear, and clothing accessories. In 1991, he was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and in 2009, he was appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Pierre Cardin first came to China in 1978 and has worked in china for more than 30 years on economic and cultural exchanges, which has filled him with affection for China and Chinese people.
Liu Shouxiang (1958-2020)
Liu Shouxiang
On February 13, Liu Shouxiang, a professor at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts and a leading figure in watercolor painting in Hubei, died of covid-19 at the age of 62 in Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan due to new coronavirus pneumonia.
Liu Shouxiang, born in April 1958, is a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province. In 1981, he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Hubei Academy of Arts, majoring in teacher training, and stayed on to teach, engaged in the teaching and creation of watercolor painting. Professor of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, deputy director of the Watercolor Art Committee of China Artists Association, many works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Shenzhen Art Museum, Jiangsu Art Museum, etc., and his works have won awards in the "Sixth, Seventh and Eighth National Fine Arts Exhibition".
Liu Shouxiang was the first professor in the National Academy of Fine Arts to establish a watercolor painting department. In 1987, the reason why the Watercolor Painting Department was founded under the presidency of the Normal Department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts was that by 2009, the Watercolor Painting Department was the first to be established in the Eight Academies of Fine Arts. It is to promote it through the school's education system, which is an important way for the development of watercolor painting in Hubei. To promote this genre, there must first be a team, and then there must be role models and exemplary works. Hubei watercolor has always been incubated in the normal department, and it just so happens that there are some watercolor teachers in the normal department who want to do something other than the basic course professor, so we began to prepare for the watercolor major. Of course, there is also a premise for opening a major, that is, among some of the students brought out, the results of watercolor painting are impressive. In 1987, we established a watercolor painting major, and in 1989, in the seventh national art exhibition, a total of 7 works of our watercolor painting major were selected, which was not in the history of the Academy of Fine Arts, which strengthened the determination of the college to run a watercolor major. Liu Shouxiang said before his death.
Liu Shouxiang "The Majesty of the Yellow Crane Tower"
On June 21, the Wuhan Art Museum, which reopened after the epidemic, held the "Wuhan Impression - Wuhan Art Museum Collection Works Exhibition", exhibiting Liu Shouxiang's watercolor painting "The Majesty of the Yellow Crane Tower".
Liao Jiongmo (1932-2020)
Liao Jiongmo
On February 16, Professor Liao Jiongmo, a well-known oil painter, art educator and head of the first oil painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University (now Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts), died at 4:30 a.m. in Shanghai Huashan Hospital at the age of 89 due to illness.
Liao Jiongmo was born in 1932 in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, Fujian Province, and his ancestral home is Taipei, China. He graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1955. He has successively served as the head of the oil painting teaching and research team of the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Theater Academy, and the head of the first oil painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University. His representative works include "The Road Traveled by Childhood", "Yanbian Autumn Colors", "Xin", "Meng", "The Voice of the Motherland", etc., and has published "Personal Collection of Gouache Painting Models", "Selected Landscape Paintings of Liao Jiongmo", "Shangmei Footprints - Liao Jiongmo" and so on.
In addition to oil paintings, Liao Jiongmo created a large number of movie posters in the 1950s and 1960s, such as "Jia Wu Fengyun", "Five Golden Flowers", "Liu Sanjie", etc., which had a wide influence.
"The title of sir has been missing for a long time, it seems to have long since faded away, this era is an era of excess teachers, but the only lack of mr. The gentleman has turned his back on his face, and even the back shadow is blurred in that era... Mr. Liao's life is far from utilitarianism and officialdom, strictly abides by traditional etiquette and cultural norms, and in peace there is contempt for moral degenerates, concerns about the times, criticism of artistic nihilism, persistent pursuit of art, and care for the world. Jiang Jianzhong, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Oil Painting Department of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University and head of the Department of Crude Oil Painting, wrote in his article recalling the acquaintance and gratitude with Mr. Liao Jiongmo.
Zhang Pusheng (1934-2020)
Zhang Pusheng
On February 21, Zhang Pusheng, former adjunct professor of the College of Culture and Museum of Fudan University, member of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, honorary president of the Chinese Ancient Ceramics Society, and researcher of the Nanjing Museum, died of bile duct disease at the age of 87.
Zhang Pusheng, born in Shanghai in 1934, was admitted to the History Department of Fudan University in Shanghai in 1953 with the first place. In 1957, Zhang Pusheng graduated from the History Department of Fudan University and was assigned to the Cultural Relics Management Committee of Jiangsu Province. Subsequently, the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Management Commission merged with the Nanjing Museum, and Zhang Pusheng was transferred to the Nanjing Museum.
Zhang Pusheng seems to have been dealing with porcelain pieces all his life, doing the work of collecting and researching ceramics in his early years, and still disseminating porcelain knowledge in his twilight years. Its unique porcelain pedagogy has trained many experts in the study of ancient ceramics.
Zhang Pusheng said in an exclusive interview with the surging news before his life: Without "porcelain", people are like losing their souls. He has been engaged in cultural and bono work for more than 40 years, and is good at the identification, research and teaching of ancient ceramics. Since 1980, he has served as a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai University, Fudan University, Jiangxi Normal University, Hunan Normal University, Northwest University, Nanjing Institute of the Arts and Yangzhou Training Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, teaching the knowledge of identification and preservation of ancient Chinese ceramics, and cultivating thousands of students.
Yu Bingnan (1933-2020)
Yu Bingnan
On September 24, Yu Bingnan, an art and design educator and designer and professor of the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, died in Beijing at the age of 87 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Born in Shanghai in 1933, Yu Bingnan graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1956, and was later selected to study in the GDR after being assessed by the Chinese Ministry of Culture.
Yu Bingnan is the first generation of international students selected by New China. After returning to China, he created many excellent works, published a number of design books, and became a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Central Academy of Fine Arts and other universities, influencing generations of designers.
"Friendship Body" is Yu Bingnan's famous work, and it is also a set of fonts of great historical significance to China. As the first set of Latin letters designed by Chinese, Friendship has won many awards such as the Gutenberg Lifetime Achievement Award (Yu Bingnan is the first Asian winner), the "Best Contemporary Printed Font" award, the German Minister of Culture Award, and the Tokyo Art Direction Club Award.
In 1962, Yu Bingnan graduated from Leipzig with honors. After returning to China, Yu Bingnan joined the Shanghai Institute of Printing Technology and participated in the "Song Yi" and "Hei Yi" designed for "Ci Hai" and the "Song II" and "Hei II" designed for "Mao Xuan". In 1963, Yu Bingnan specially designed a Latin script for Cihai, called "Cihai Fine Body", which was the first set of Latin alphabet printed movable characters produced in New China. In 1987, in order to get rid of the "horns" of the previous Song body and get rid of the mechanical sense, Yu Bingnan finally created a printing font called "Yuan Song" through the repeated writing experiment of the marker pen.
The font of "Ci Hai" is Song Yi, Black Yi, Song Er, Black Di
In 1992, Yu Bingnan became the first Chinese designer to enter the International Graphic Design Alliance.
Li Mingjue (1930-2020)
Lee Ming Jue
On October 24, AMERICAN TIME, Li Mingjue, known as the "titan of contemporary stage design in the world" and "the grandmaster of the American stage design industry", passed away at the age of 90.
Li Mingjue, a native of Beilun, Ningbo, Zhejiang, was born in Shanghai, moved to Hong Kong with his family at the age of 18, and went to the United States to study at the age of 19. Li Mingjue's mother was Tang Ying, a famous Shanghainese woman with the title of "Southern Tang and Beilu", and Beilu referred to Lu Xiaoman in Beijing.
Since he was a child, Li Mingjue watched plays, operas and concerts with his mother, thus entering the palace of theatrical art. He studied under Joe Melkina, a leading American stage designer, and lived in New York. After graduation, he became the head of the Stage Design Department at Yale University.
Li Mingjue's stage design masterpieces include "Boris Guodenov", "Puritan", "Princess Turandot" and so on. As a "titan" figure in the field of stage design in the world today, Li Mingjue's stage design art is known as "marking a turning point in the history of American stage design", which has influenced the theater industry in the United States and the whole world since the 1960s, and is a symbol of stage art of the times, and has won the "National Arts and Humanities Award", "The Outstanding Contribution Award of the President of the United States" and the "Tony Award" on Broadway.
Li Mingjue's contribution lies in his success in creating a new stage design style, and under his influence, American stage design developed from the initial two-dimensional plane to a sculptural three-dimensional form.
Li Tianxiang (1928-2020)
Li Tianxiang
On February 5, Li Tianxiang, a Chinese oil painting artist and educator and the first dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, died in Beijing at the age of 92. His representative works include the famous oil paintings "When the Mountain Flowers Are Long" and "The Road is Long", which he co-created with his wife Zhao Youping, and has published monographs such as "Sketching ColorOlogy", "Color Science", "Li Tianxiang, Zhao Youping Oil Painting Portrait Sketch", "Li Tianxiang, Zhao Youping Oil Painting Landscape Sketch", "Russian Classical Sketch Collection" and other monographs.
Li Tianxiang, born in Shanghai in 1928, originally from Jingxian County, Hebei Province, was admitted to the National Peking Art College with Mr. Xu Beihong as the principal in 1946 with the excellent results of the first place in the Oil Painting Department, and studied under Xu Beihong, Wu Zuoren and other famous teachers. During his graduation in 1950, he created "Lin Xiangqian on Righteousness" and won the first prize, which was recommended by Xu Beihong to the collection of the Museum of the Chinese Revolution. In 1953, he was recommended by Xu Beihong and admitted to the first batch of students to study in the Soviet Union, and entered the Oil Painting Department of the Leningrad Repin Academy of Fine Arts.
Li Tianxiang is an important member of several generations of artists who have explored the "sinicization" of oil painting. During his study abroad in the Soviet Union, he realized that the fundamental problem of Chinese oil painting was that "color" was not well painted, and the Chinese concept of color was different from the concept of color of oil painting. For example, the Chinese concept of color believes that the walls are white, the ground is gray, and all the colors seen are inherent. The "color view" in oil painting is completely different, and often has different color representations of the same kind of object. This is due to various situations such as the transfer of light and reflection, and the color of the painted object is not an inherent color. Therefore, Li Tianxiang's views on the color of oil painting have a deep impact on the Chinese oil painting community. In painting, he also attaches great importance to color expression, color lyrical writing.
Zhang Gongyu (1924-2020)
Zhang Gongyu
On August 27, Zhang Gongyu, a famous painter and alumnus of the Class of 1948 of the China Academy of Art, died in Shanghai at the age of 96.
Zhang Gongyu was born in Shanghai in 1924. He studied at the Shanghai Branch of Suzhou Art College, and under the guidance of Teachers such as Yan Wenliang, he received oil painting training with the style of Parisian Art College. In 1945, he was admitted to the National Art College (now the China Academy of Art) in Panxi, Chongqing, and was demobilized to Hangzhou in 1946, serving as the head of the Fang Ganmin classroom, and transferred to the Wu Dayu classroom in 1947. He graduated in 1948. After graduation, Zhang Gongyu returned to Shanghai and lived and studied with Mr. Wu Dayu for more than 40 years until the death of his mentor. Zhang Gongyu is simple, self-disciplined, and not good at words, painting is the only carrier for expressing his heart.
Zhang Gongyu "Flowers" oil on canvas
In the 1950s, Zhang Gongyu began to create individual art, and his works have always been full of free-spirited and unrestrained modern artistic temperament.
Pan He (1925-2020)
Pan He
On November 22, Pan He, a well-known sculpture artist in the art world who was famous for his classic works such as sculptures "Hard Years" and "Pioneering Cattle", died in Guangzhou at the age of 95.
Pan He's dignified and thick works have been closely wedged into the process of contemporary Chinese society, and are closely related to a series of grand propositions such as "liberation", "revolution", "hero" and "reform".
Born in 1925 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Pan He began to engage in artistic activities in 1940, becoming a tenured professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and one of the first academicians of the National Academy of Painting of China. In more than 70 years of artistic career, hundreds of works have been created in dozens of cities at home and abroad, and many sculptures have become local urban landmarks. His representative works include "Hard Years", "Pioneering Cattle", "Zhuhai Fisher Girl", of which "Hard Times" is particularly well-known.
Henry Cowper (1926-2020)
Henry Cooper and John Hancock Center Model (left)
On March 2, American architect henry coper, founding partner of I.M. Pei Architects, died at the age of 93 at his home in Manhattan.
Born in 1926, Henry Cooper graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree and went on to study at the Harvard Design Institute. In 1950, he moved to New York and started his career. His architectural career spanned 70 years, including nearly 40 years with I.M. Pei. Cooper has won the President's Award, the new York Architecture League's top award, and his most famous works include the John Hancock Center in Boston, 200 West Street in New York, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. His personal work focuses on office buildings such as the Federal Bank of Los Angeles Building and the Madrid Space Tower.
Juan Jimenez (1943-2020)
Juan Jimenez
On April 2, the famous Argentine cartoonist and illustrator Juan Jimenez died of the new crown virus at the age of 76. Jimenez was infected in Sitges, Spain, the city where he lived at the time.
One of Jimenez's most iconic works, Baron alloy, is a heavyweight in the history of European comics, a science fiction manga that combines Japanese Bushido, European chivalry, ancient Greek tragedies, and heavy metal cores.
Born on 16 November 1943 in Mendoza, Argentina, Juan Jimenez completed high school as an industrial designer and later entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Spain.
Originally written for Argentine editors such as Columba and Record, Jimenez returned to Spain to work for Spanish and Italian magazines, and his work from this period was primarily about war and science fiction.
The cover of the Chinese edition of Baron Of Alloy
Baron alloy has previously been introduced to China, and this work brings together the creative talents of the three masters. Readers can also enjoy the skillful screenwriting abilities of Alessandro Zodlowski (Chilean and French bi-national playwright, film director, actor), the gorgeous jiménese-style picture and the bizarre visual elements of Mebius (Euroman master).
Adam Hennne (1929-2020)
Adam Hennen and his works, 2014.
On May 22, Egyptian sculpture pioneer Adam Hennen died in Cairo at the age of 91. The cause of death was "age-related complications".
Hennne was an influential Arab artist of his generation, focusing on the Egyptian general public and their daily lives, often made of traditional Egyptian materials such as copper, granite, papyrus, wood, clay and more. Birds are the subjects that constantly appear in sculpture, and the geometric shape of birds ranges from their actual size to monumental scale.
Adam Hennne was born in 1929 to a family of metalworkers in Yasiut, a city in central-eastern Egypt, on the Banks of the Nile. In his recollections, a childhood trip to Cairo to visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiques opened his horizons. In the 1950s, Hennen graduated from the Cairo Academy of Arts and the Munich Academy of Arts, and in 1960 he became famous in the Egyptian Sculpture Circle. In 1972, he and his wife, anthropologist Afaf el-Deeb, left Egypt for further studies in Paris, and 25 years later they returned to Cairo, when Hennne completed one of his most prestigious commissions, such as the restoration of the Sphinx of the Pyramids of Giza in 1988.
In the 1990s, Hennne launched the Aswan International Symposium on Sculpture, which brought together a large number of sculpture artists over the next three decades. In addition to sculpture, Hennen also worked on abstract painting.
In 2017, the Adam Hennnn Foundation established the "Adam Hennen Sculpture of the Year" to select a young and outstanding Egyptian sculptor every year.
Mayton Gorasser (1929-2020)
In 2014, Meton Goraser was in his New York office. Image source: Christina Horsten/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
On June 26, The designer Meton Goraser, who designed the famous visual identity "I ♥ NY" and is known as the "father of world design", died on his 91st birthday, caused by a stroke.
Meton Goraser, I Love New York Concept Draft, 1976, now in the Collection of MoMA New York.
Meton Goraser was born in New York on June 26, 1929. From 1954 to 1974, he founded the PushPin Studio in New York. A former president of the New York School of Visual Arts, Goraser has been named the most important designer in fifty years.
Goraser once said that he germinated the "I ♥ NY" design in the back seat of a taxi, drawing it on an envelope with a red crayon, and the draft is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1977, after "I ♥ NY" was used to promote New York tourism, it appeared on countless goods, almost becoming a slogan for New York, and also expressed the strong feelings of the citizens for the city. After 9/11, Mr. Glaser designed "I ♥ NY More Than Ever" to mourn and ♥ cast a black smoke over the corner. Gorasser sold the blueprints to raise money for the charity.
Frank Popper (1918-2020)
Frank Popper
On 12 July, frank Popper, the world-renowned French art historian, art theorist and curator, the first person to study the relationship between modern art and technology, died in Switzerland at the age of 102.
Popper has an important place in the field of international art theory, not only laying the foundation for the discussion of new media and ethics, but also publishing an early analysis of light and movement in contemporary art published in the 1960s that has influenced countless historians, artists and scholars.
Born in 1918 in Prague, Czech Republic, Popper's early career was not related to the arts, and he was only a textile technician and wireless telegrapher in the Royal Air Force. The turning point in the art path came after he moved to Paris with his wife, Hella Guth, a painter. Popper received his Ph.D. from the Sorbonne University, where he translated his focus on Marcel Proust into a dissertation on dynamic art.
In 1968, Popper published The Origin and Development of Dynamic Art, which, together with Jack Bonham's Systematic Aesthetics, played an important role in the history of art, especially tracing the 1860-year inquiry into the connection between Impressionism and Dynamic Art. Popper's 1975 book Artistic Activity and Engagement explores "audience engagement" as a central element of modernism.
In his 1993 book Art in the Electronic Age, Popper argues that in the early 1980s, "technical" art had given way to what he called "virtual" art, a set of practices that humanized technology through interaction. In his view, the system clarifies that "we are not only in reality itself, but also in simulating the existence of reality"
Keith Sony (1941-2020)
Keith Sonnell
On July 18, American lighting artist and post-minimalist Keith Sonel passed away at the age of 79. Keith Sonell is known for his sculpture of light and for his innovative installations of "painting in space" using neon tubes.
Sonyle was born in 1941 in Mamu, Louisiana. His father's hardware store and his mother's florist exposed him to the vast universe of materials at an early age, and he had no prejudice against all everyday, decorative or industrial materials. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sonyer made his mark on the booming New York art scene. He experimented with unconventional poor art styles such as plant hair, satin and bamboo, and became a well-known post-minimalist sculptor. In 1968, Sonyer's work appeared in a major exhibition at the Castries Gallery, which also included Boyce, Bruce Naumann and others.
Sonyer's use of neon is particularly sophisticated. "The art we create is a contempt for traditional notions of art," Sonier once said, "and the materials we use were not previously considered artistic materials." I deliberately choose them to evoke certain psychological feelings. ”
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