Yang Jiechang: 100 Layers of Ink + Selected Works From Good Morning Hong Kong
Visual Arts
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For many artists the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and the subsequent purges signaled the end of inquiry into and exchange with the West. However, Yang Jiecheng (b. 1956, Guangdong, China) thrived during the Cultural Revolution; as leader of his Red Guard troop he had access to decide which books were kept, censored, burned or distributed to the manufacturers. He was fortunate enough to spend his time learning classical Chinese, and while at the People’s Art Institute in Foshan began studying Chinese ink painting and calligraphy. During the late 1970s and early 1980s he began attending the Guangzhou Art Academy where he was exposed to Western Art through a lecture series given by Joan Lebold Cohen (the noted Chinese art historian and curator) and Taiwanese art magazines.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2015" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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