Kong Bai Ji
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Kong Bai Ji
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This article relies on references to primary sources. (August 2007) |
Kong Bai Ji is a contemporary Chinese artist born in Shanghai, in the People's Republic of China, in 1932. His works are included in the permanent collections of many of the world's top museums and cultural institutions, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Lincoln Center in New York, The National Art Museum of China, in Beijing, The Shanghai Art Museum, Harvard University, The Soyanzi Art Museum in Tokyo, The Peace Museum in Hokkaido, Japan, and the sacred Kimpusen-ji temple in Nara, Japan—a designated Japanese national treasure. Kong's paintings were also on display in a special exhibit in the China Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
The National Art Museum of China, one of Asia’s leading art museums, held a one-man exhibition in April 2012 to showcase 100 of Kong's paintings. Twenty paintings from the show have become part of the museum’s permanent collection.[1] The event served as a retrospective of the work that Kong, who turned eighty in March of 2012, has produced over the last sixty years of his life.
On November 16, 2009, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Shanghai's mayor Han Zheng in front of Kong Bai Ji's large mural at the Xijiao State Guest House, China's equivalent of Camp David, in Shanghai.[2]
Kong Bai Ji began painting at age five. His first one-man show took place in 1964 at the Shanghai Arts Hall.[3] In 1976, Kong was appointed head of the Department of Fine Arts at the Shanghai Academy. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1986.
In 2007, the Art Institute of Chicago acquired an oil-on-rice-paper painting by Kong entitled "It's Spring Again".[4][5]
External links [edit]
- artspy.cn
- The National Art Museum of China
- CCTV news video of Obama & Clinton meeting in front of Kong mural
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- kongbaiji.com
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References [edit]
- The National Art Museum of China. [1]
- Cohen, Joan Lebold. "The New Chinese Painting 1949-1986", New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.
- Heins, Barbara. "Greenwich painter Bai Ji Kong's work acquired by Art Institute of Chicago", "Greenwich Time", March 26, 2007.
- The Art Institute of Chicago. [2]
- Weinberg, Lauren. "Infinite Shades: Contemporary Chinese Ink", "Art News", December 2007.
- CCTV news video of Obama & Clinton meeting in front of Kong mural. [3]
