Zhang xiaogang biography of mahatma gandhi

Paintings in his Bloodline series are predominantly monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes , posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the s and s. Recently, he also created sculptures, translating for the first time into three dimensions many characters of the sort seen in his "Bloodlines—Big Family" portrait series.

Zhang xiaogang biography of mahatma gandhi: Having grown up during the

Zhang was born to parents Qi Ailan and Zhang Jing both government officials in the city of Kunming in China's Yunnan province in , and was the third of four brothers. They gave us paper and crayons so we could draw at home. I gained more and more interest in art. I had a lot of time, because I didn't have to go to school. My interest increased.

After I became an adult, I never gave up art. So that's how I started to draw. His parents were taken away for 3 years by the Chinese government for re-education. In early , Xiaogang was sent to work on a farm as part of the " Down to the Countryside Movement ".