GUAN WEIXING, MASTER OF WATERCOLOR (CELEBRATING THE ARTIST’S 85TH ANNIVERSARY)
Abstract
The subject of the article is the artistic activity of Guan Weixing – a prominent representative of contemporary Chinese watercolour art. His personality and creative output have not yet been the subject of scholarly attention in Russian art studies, which determines the relevance and novelty of the proposed topic. The author examines the artist’s professional formation and the stages of his creative evolution through the lens of the historical and cultural events of the second half of the 20th century. The paper identifies the artist’s ideological and artistic landmarks, genre and stylistic priorities, as well as the peculiarities of his personal worldview. Special attention is given to his creative method, which incorporates the achievements of traditional Chinese painting, the Soviet academic school, and Western watercolour techniques. The result of the research is a creative portrait of Guan Weixing, reconstructed on the basis of fragmentary information dispersed across Chinese and English-language sources. The conclusions emphasise that, thanks to his realisation of watercolour’s potential as a “major” genre, the artist has earned well-deserved international recognition within artistic circles and has exert packed a significant influence on the development of watercolour painting and pedagogy in China at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries.
About the Author
Chen Rui
Siberian Federal University; Qiqihar University (China)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Chen Rui, PhD Student; Lecturer
660041, Krasnoyarsk
161006, Qiqihar
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Rui Ch. GUAN WEIXING, MASTER OF WATERCOLOR (CELEBRATING THE ARTIST’S 85TH ANNIVERSARY). ARTE. 2025;(4):49–58. (In Russ.)
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