Nie Ou
Nie Ou | |
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Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
Nationality | China |
Education | China Central Academy of Fine Arts |
Style | Ink wash |
Nie Ou (Chinese: 聶鷗; born 1948) is a Chinese artist known for her ink wash paintings that depict rural scenes.
Biography
Nie Ou was born in 1948 in Shenyang, Liaoning province.[1] In 1954, her family moved to Beijing.[1]
Nie studied with Xu Beihong, Li Keran, Li Kuchan , and Ye Qianyu at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.[2][3] She completed her postgraduate training there in 1981, and joined the Beijing Painting Academy as a professional painter that year.[1] She married fellow artist Sun Weimin (b. 1946) in 1982.[1][3]
Nie mainly paints in ink and at times in oil.[3] She is known for her works that depict rural life.[3] Observers have noted an evolution in Nie's style since 1985.[3][4] Lucy Lim, curator of the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, wrote that Nie's art became "more Chinese, less Western" at that time, capturing a "distillation of reality" as is typical of traditional Chinese paintings.[4] Art historian Shao Yiyang described her style as "modern" and "typified by freer brushstrokes." She added that Nie's work demonstrates "a feminine sensitivity, meticulous detail, and ordered calm."[3]
Nie's works are held in the public collections of the British Museum,[5] Hong Kong Museum of Art,[6] Asian Art Museum,[7] CAFA Art Museum,[8] Art Gallery of New South Wales,[9] and Williams College Museum of Art.[10]
References
- ^ a b c d Sullivan, Michael (2006). Modern Chinese artists : a biographical dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-520-24449-4. OCLC 65644580.
- ^ "Nie Ou". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2011-10-31. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00130621.
- ^ a b c d e f Shao Yiyang (1998). "Nie Ou". In Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Stefanowska, A. D. (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. Vol. 2. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. pp. 406–407. ISBN 9780765607980.
- ^ a b Lim, Lucy; Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (1991). Six Contemporary Chinese Women Artists. San Francisco: Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco. p. 16. ISBN 0-9609784-1-0. OCLC 25300663.
- ^ Nie Ou (1991). "Peach Blossom Spring (桃花源)". The British Museum. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Chinese Painting and Calligraphy". Hong Kong Museum of Art. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Nie Ou (1989). "Residents in a Mountain Village". Asian Art Museum. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Nie Ou (1980). "Rain Moisten the Dong Family". CAFA Museum. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ^ Nie Ou (1986). "Zhuyue Mountain After Rain". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Nie Ou (1997). "Mushroom". Williams College Museum of Art. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
Further reading
- Lee, Peter, ed. (1995). Memories: Nie Ou. Hong Kong: Plum Blossoms. ISBN 981-04-0158-2. OCLC 1052133294.
- Teo, Phyllis (2016). Rewriting Modernism: Three Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: Pan Yuliang, Nie Ou and Yin Xiuzhen. Leiden: Leiden University Press. ISBN 978-90-8728-229-5. OCLC 922682175.