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Birth
1921 (Beijing, China)
Death
2013 (Switzerland)
Lived/Active
New York / China/France
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non objective and abstract landscape painting
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| Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French
influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the
age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He learned
from his grandfather that calligraphy is an art when it transmits an
emotion to the person looking at it. At age fourteen he enrolled
at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he remained for six
years. He studied and then taught at the Hongchow National
Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942, (showing 500 of 11191 characters). |
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