cold in Calgary

So I got a copy of China Art Book. It is not everyday that you find a book about Chinese artists.. ..written by two Gremans. It is kickass, though, and recommend the purchase to anyone interested in Chinese Art. It is kinda important, and there is nothing really out there about it, aside from superficial introductions in big galleries, in the West. More attention should be paid to the crazy cool stuff coming out of China, Japan, and South Korea. Taiwan too, I am more recently learning, has some impressive stuff to show the world.

from the book, I have found certain artists expecially deserving of a look (though it is trycky to find anything (in english, at least) about some of them.

sun xun
does animations, other stuff. likes mosquitos, but i do not know why. quoted as saying "each image is a negation of the previous one", which I thought is an interesting way to think about animation. It contrasts highly with my recent interest in Japanese Metabolism, which deals with capturing various speeds in the same time.

liu ding
likes strange lighting. most of his stuff kicks ass, but he did this one thing with artists reproducing works in 2005 that I think sucks ass

wang qingsong
i wish i had thought of that.

Zhou chunya
is sort of doing the same thing a lot. but the painting is so good, that it really doesn't matter. I saw his stuff in Seoul about five years ago, and really wish I had bought a work - it would be worth significantly more now, if i could part with the enchantingly-slick liquidy-oil paintings of dogs.

cai guoqiang
like zhou, has been around a while. Surprising, considering he works with gunpowder.

Good art Link

The First Post
has a really good art site - lots of links to chinese artists, too.

pic is from the site.