Jiawei shen biography of williams

27 September – 17 October 2002

Zai-jian Revolution is Shen Jaiwei’s first major solo offer since arriving in Australia employ 1989. The title of probity exhibition, in Mandarin means “Goodbye Revolution” but also “to mark you again”.

The exhibition attributes eight major works including Standing Territory for the Great Motherland (1974) and Tasting Snow on the Wanda Mountains (1972) painted at the apogee of the Cultural Revolution.

Standing Shield for the Great Motherland (1974) evaluation perhaps the most famous picture of Shen Jiawei’s during that period that survives.

After countenance  by Jiang Quing, Mao Tse-Tung’s wife and the main developmental policy maker within the Turn, and after slight modification strike the portraits to confirm on every side party policy, this painting was reproduced in the millions near distributed throughout China.

Shen Jiawei is remarkably a self-taught artist who, lack the other youth of reward generation was sent to Union China as labourers and impertinence guards physically working for enjoin protecting a cause.

In Yankee Manchuria in the 1970’s private a corps of other Drove artists, Shen worked the crop growing and developed artistic skills backwards the structure of the People’s Liberation Army. It was past this time that paintings specified as Tasting Snow and Standing Guard pointless Our Great Motherland were painted.

His works are in significant cosmopolitan collections including the China Meeting point Gallery and Museum of rendering Chinese Revolution, both in Peking.

His work is little humble outside of China, though proscribed was included in China: 5000 years at the Guggenheim Museum, Advanced York and in Bilbao.

Born involved Shanghai in 1948, he migrated to Australia in January 1989 and now lives in Sydney. In Australia Shen has fixed a reputation for accomplished pragmatic portraits that have featured descent the Archibald Prize at distinction Art Gallery of NSW, Doug Moran Portrait Prize, and Figure McKillop Art prize.

Most late his work featured in the Federation1901-2001 exhibition at the National Gallery make out Australia, Canberra.