Ai Xuan (1947- )
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Ai Xuan is one of China’s most significant post-Cultural Revolution painters, and is best known for his realist portraits of Tibetan nomads. Ai is the son of well-known political poet Ai Qing, and the half-brother of China’s most famous dissident artist Ai Weiwei. He was born under the rule of Mao, and as a young man went on to study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. At the end of China’s Cultural Revolution Ai enlisted in the Peoples Liberation Army and was sent Sichuan, where he would spend the next ten years. In Sichuan he first saw Tibetan nomads, who would inspire him and become the primary subject matter of his portraits.
In 1981 Ai won the silver medal at the Second National Exhibition of Young Artists in China. He has held only two solo exhibitions, the first in New York City in 1981, and second, entitled Colors from Ink, in Hong Kong in 2013. Ai serves as a professor at the Beijing Painting Institute, and founded the Beijing Realism School (now the China School of Realism) in 2004. Among some of his more well-known paintings are The Sacred Mountain, Flying South, Girl from Village and Longing.
Ai Xuan is 68 years old and currently resides in Beijing, where he is an active member of the China Artist Association.
In 1981 Ai won the silver medal at the Second National Exhibition of Young Artists in China. He has held only two solo exhibitions, the first in New York City in 1981, and second, entitled Colors from Ink, in Hong Kong in 2013. Ai serves as a professor at the Beijing Painting Institute, and founded the Beijing Realism School (now the China School of Realism) in 2004. Among some of his more well-known paintings are The Sacred Mountain, Flying South, Girl from Village and Longing.
Ai Xuan is 68 years old and currently resides in Beijing, where he is an active member of the China Artist Association.