Asian Artists

Featured work by Asian artists, both historical and contemporary.

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Joung Young-Ju (b. 1970) 

Disappearing Landscape (Blue) 718

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Chen Yanning (b. 1945)

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庞均 Pang Jun

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Gao Xingjian

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“Waves" by Uehara Konen 上原古年 (1877–1940).

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Wang Yi Guang

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Character and Landscape

Jia Youfu  (Chinese | 1942)   HERE     

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Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Rooms

The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013

Love Forever, 1994 

Soul under the Moon, 2002

Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009

Love Forever, 1996 

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Clairelynn Uy (Filipino, b. 1974), Pixiu & Flowers, 2014. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 151.5 x 181.5 cm.

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A Sculpture that Fuses Western Gods and Heroes with Buddhist Iconography by Xu Zhen  

European Thousand-Armed Classical Sculpture (2013–2014) by Xu Zhen fuses Western gods and heroes with Buddhist iconography. Nineteen statues in a variety of poses are lined up so that, viewed from the front, they resemble a “thousand-armed”Guanyin, a Buddhist symbol of compassion. The sculptures are radically simplified, all-white versions of 11 originals, including Athena Parthenos, Zeus, Hercules, Odysseus, the crucified Christ and the Statue of Liberty—chosen on the basis of their arm positions, copied in mirror image, and rescaled to the same 3-metre height.

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Daehyun Kim aka Moonassi aka 김대현 (Korean, b. 1980, Seoul, Korea) - Stacks Of You, 2013  Drawings:Pigment Liners, Markers on Paper (+ details)

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Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew

Each piece from Thai artist Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew starts from a canvas backdrop that is set inside a deep casement, and that is then lightly veiled by multiple layers of thread and netting. The artist paints not only on the canvas but also on the thread and netting in order to create shimmering portraits and figurative scenes. He creates a depth of field that goes beyond three-dimensional space; rather, his work captures a time-space dimension in a way that has few parallels in the history of art. Yet, to put it that way is still an understatement, for Nimmalaikaew’s genius lies in the way he imagines, and is able to execute with astonishing virtuosity, what might be called a ‘meta-dimension’ that fuses time, space and spirit.

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Nguyen Thanh Binh, Young girls in blue, Young girls in red

Elegant and deceptively simple, Nguyen’s paintings find beauty in minimal colors and reduced forms.

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Beili Liu, The Mending Project (2011)

Instilling fear in her audience and exploring the duality of creation and destruction, Liu sews as she sits beneath a cloud of scissors. The fabric that she mends sprawls out from underneath her, covering the floor.

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You Si, Transforming (2012), Evolving Garden (2009), The Starting Point (2009)

Meticulously created with an eyedropper, the psychedelic ink forms in You Si’s paintings evoke images of mitochondria and teeming microscopic organisms.

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Hu Yongkai, Tea House, Watch Into Birds, Lotus Fantasy, Inside Curtain Outside Curtain

Hu Yongkai paints women relaxing within the interior spaces of their homes , imbuing them with a playful modern quality despite their traditional attire.

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Zhang Daqian (張大千), Landscape in splashed colors (1967), Waterfall, Snow storm Switzerland

One of the most gifted artists of the 20th century, Zhang was a master of both traditional guohua and avant-garde Expressionist styles. Splashed washes of deep blue ink saturate his work, elevating his paintings from mere landscapes to visions of the divine.