Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun. Huang Zhiling/China Daily Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun, was sold for 1.1 million yuan ($171,880) at the Beijing Hanhai 2015 Autumn Auctions on Friday. Wang, professor of ...
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Luo Erchun. [Photo provided to China Daily] Six months after his first solo exhibition, Luo Erchun, a respected oil painter and professor with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, died in his Beijing home in late October. He was 85. Unlike ...
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The 18th Beijing Art Expo attracted a large turnout of aficionados from around the world, with one thing in common - the pursuit of art and the different approaches to portraying beauty. From their work can be seen a spirit of life and ...
Beijing International Art Biennale opens on Thursday, drawing artists from China and abroad. The exhibition Memory and Dream will highlight the sixth Beijing International Art Biennale that begins on Thursday. Among the country's top ...
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Xue Kaizhong was not surprised when the gold and silver coins he bought on Aug 27 for 6,600 yuan ($1,033) were worth 9,000 yuan in mid-September. The 64-year-old, who lives in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, stood in line for two hours to ...
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Fu Yiqing's life has many facets. She runs a successful interior decoration business, and travels to scores of countries to learn about local handicraft skills. Her installation art works have drawn huge crowds and more than 90,000 saw her ...
Famous folks like Jack Ma attract a lot of cash when their paintings are sold at charity auctions. 'Real' painters sometimes are less than thrilled, Deng Zhangyu reports. E-commerce tycoon Jack Ma shook the nerve of China's art world ...
Kaminski Auctions of Beverly, Massachusetts held a high quality 20th Century Modern Design auction. The sale achieved an approximate sell-through rate of seventy percent, while displaying a steady rhythm of strong hammer prices. ...
Art Show Press Release Artist Beth Ziss celebrates 25 years of glass art with her new show entitled, Glass Fusions—Texture, Color, Light at the Findlay Art League, 117 West Crawford St., Findlay, OH. The show will feature glass ...
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The recently concluded Chinese Silk Culture and Embroidery Art Exhibition in London featured the centuries old heritage and craftsmanship of fine Chinese silk with an extensive display of silk thread woven fabrics, embroidery pieces and ...
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At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a portrait of Jesus stuck the eye of the Westerners. It was not an oil painted portrait familiar to them, but had the space perception presented by oil paintings, and yet the delicacy and ...
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Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow 1961 oil painting was sold for $86,882,500, setting a world auction record for any Contemporary work of art and a world auction record for the artist, at New York, Rockefeller Plaza on 8 May 2012 in the ...
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