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"Visitors will feel that they have hiked along these wilderness paths and listened to the birds in the great trees. " |
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The exhibition “Jianmin Dou: Chinese Master Painter” opens with a public reception on Saturday, October 24, at 2 p.m. The artist will be present at the reception. The Zanesville Museum of Art is the only U.S. venue for the exhibition.
Dou’s paintings will surprise many visitors. All of the paintings are landscapes, many of them so large that visitors will feel that they have hiked along these wilderness paths and listened to the birds in the great trees. This is not China of the great cities, rice fields, factories, and temples.
Jianmin Dou's “The Cliff of Singing Pine Trees”
Jianmin Dou is one of contemporary China’s most highly respected artists and educators. He was born in 1929 in Lintan, Gansu Province, and spent his early childhood there surrounded by forests and mountains. This context of his youth has become the subject of many of his paintings. His oil paintings present great rivers with traditional waterwheels, pristine streams with translucent water, and the traditional Chinese architecture of bridges and villages on the banks. The many varieties of trees in Chinese forests, and the geological features of hills and valleys, are carefully portrayed. The Chinese people seen in these paintings populate the immensity of nature but are not the central subjects.
Jianmin Dou was educated at Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou, with advanced coursework in oil painting at the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing. For more than 50 years he has taught painting in Chinese colleges and universities, retiring from Northwest Normal University in 1990.
Jianmin Dou's “Song of the Deep Forest”
This exhibition was organized by the Zanesville Museum of Art and is accompanied by a full-color, 229 page catalogue, in Chinese and English, published by the Zanesville Museum of Art.
The exhibition continues through December 5.
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:08:00
Susan Talbot-Stanaway
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