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Chang Jin
(b. 1951), well known as a Neo-Traditionalist landscape artist
from People's Republic of China, first exhibited in The Guggenheim
Museum in New York as part of the modern section of the "China:
5,000 Years" Exhibit in 1998.
"Chang
Jin has been engaged over the past fifteen years in absorbing
the artistic traditions of his adopted home of Nanjing in order
to develop beautifully controlled, pale brushwork and tranquil
imagery," (according to editors, Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi
Shen at The Ohio State University, as quoted in the 1998 book
of The Guggenheim Museum, A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition
in the Art of Twentieth-Century China.)
In the past
ten years, Mr. Chang Jin's style evolved into the creation of
misty hued and barely visible outline of nude women among poetic,
landscape backgrounds or beautifully detailed flowers. "His
slender lined women remind one of the Matisse strokes.
However, his works centered on the clever use of pastel
colors, complemented by the soft lines of the women..." as
stated by respected Mr. Lang Shaojun, a Chinese Art Critic in
1992.
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