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Zhu XuanXian / China |
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Born in 1927, in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, Zhu was brought up in a poor farming family, where he developed an interest in traditional Chinese & Western painting. During his years as an art student, he became involved in the progressive student movement and was consequently expelled in 1946. He then returned to his home village and became a village school teacher. In the same year he started his creative career in woodcutting and began working for the magazine "Observe" in Shanghai City, where he created many woodcuts reflecting the miseries and sufferings of the people in those days. Later, he joined and worked hard for the joint office of National Artists' Association, All National Woodcutting Association and the National Caricature Association.He also joined the Southwest Culture and Art Team of the PLA and went to Chongqing City. Since then he has successively been the head of the artists' group of Chongqing Daily; the deputy chief of Chonqing Art Gallery; Director of the artistic Editing room of Chongqing Publishing House; Vice Principal of Chongqing Social University; the Principal of Chongqing Special Institute of Art. At the same time he founded and became standing director of Sichuan Artists' Association; Commisioner of Chongqing Literature & Art Union; Vice Chairman and General Secretary & Advisor of Chongqing Artists' Association. His main published collections include: Collection of Woodcuts by Zhu Xuanxian, Chinese paintings of Flower & Bird (selected collection), and Selected Collection of Landscape Woodcuts.
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