Results tagged “paintings”

The Salvador Dalí sculpture gallery at Creative Shanghai may have just ended, but fear not because on July 31st, the Shanghai Art Museum will open a much more comprehensive showcase of Dalí's works in the exhibition "Salvador Dalí in Shanghai".

                 

Highly controversial (and tit-tilating) art works from 53 year old Beijing-born painter Hu Ming (呼鸣). Hu's parents were military doctors who had always hoped their daughter would some day become a great surgeon. During her days in high school when the Cultural Revolution was in full swing, Hu's time was all spent either drawing the portrait of Chairman Mao (after her teacher found out she loved painting) or studying the Little Red Book. Finding it all very boring, Hu begged her parents to let her join the army. They relented, and at age 15, Hu joined the People's Liberation Army, where she would serve another 20 years in various roles as a hospital broadcaster/announcer, a librarian, a projectionist, recreational club director, cultural secretary and nurse. [h/t to Wang Ning]

The Chinese contemporary art craze is still in full swing and this time it has hit Russia. A show called 'China, Forward!', is currently being staged at TSUM -- a luxury department store (similar to Plaza 66, we reckon) in Moscow, reports Russia Today.