Ai Xuan

Ai Xuan ( Chinese 艾軒 / 艾轩 , Pinyin Ài Xuān , born November 11, 1947 in Jinhua , Zhejiang Province ) is a Chinese painter. His preferred subjects are nomads and their children in the wintry Tibetan landscape. Art critics attribute it to Chinese neo-realism.

In 1967 he graduated from the Beijing Academy of Arts Preparatory School. In 1969 he had to do agricultural work in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution . From 1973 he was able to work as a painter in Chengdu . He won several awards. From 1984 he was a lecturer at the Beijing Art Academy . In 1987 he came to the University of Oklahoma for an exchange year as a lecturer . That year he had a solo exhibition in New York and met numerous Western colleagues. Today Ai lives in Beijing and is a member of the China Artists Association .

Ai Xuan is the son of the eminent poet Ai Qing and half-brother of the artist Ai Weiwei .

His pictures fetch record prices of up to 407,000 US dollars on the art market; they are among the most expensive pictures by living artists.

literature

Michael Sullivan: Art and artists of twentieth-century China . University of California Press, Berkeley 1996, ISBN 0-520-07556-0 (p. 219)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Sonia Koleshnikov-Jessop: Neo-Realists in China start to earn praise at home. In: New York Times. June 8, 2007, accessed February 20, 2011.
^ Wall Street Journal blog, post by Alexandra A. Seno, October 13, 2010 , accessed February 20, 2011.
^ Page of a well-known auction house , accessed on February 20, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Ai, Xuan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jinhua , Zhejiang Province

[1] Sonia Koleshnikov-Jessop: Neo-Realists in China start to earn praise at home. In: New York Times. June 8, 2007, accessed February 20, 2011.

[2] Wall Street Journal blog, post by Alexandra A. Seno, October 13, 2010 , accessed February 20, 2011.

[3] Page of a well-known auction house , accessed on February 20, 2011.