Talk: On the Theories of the 21st Century Ink Painting
2014.07.27 14:00 - 16:00 | Talks
In this lecture, the speaker intends to classify the three stages in the “ink painting debates” since the Cultural Revolution. In the 1980s, Li Xiaoshan’s idea that Chinese ink painting was at a dead end was in fact an extension of the May 4th (New Culture) framework of criticism. Then in the mid-1990s, the experimental and eclectic theories (by Pi Daojian and Lang Shaojun respectively) established from an essentialist perspective in fact served as answers to the issue raised by Li Xiaoshan, thr