by Daix
ISBN: 9782825800522
Zao Wou-Ki, L’oeuvre peint, 1935-1993 – Editions Ides Et Calendes (book)
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Zao Wou-Ki : L’Œuvre peint 1935-1993 – Book by Pierre Daix
Hardcover Edition – As New – Limited Edition of only 2000 copies
Publisher: Éditions Ides et Calendes
ISBN: 9782825800522
Language: French
Pierre Daix, French journalist, writer, and art historian, presents a major monograph on Zao Wou-Ki, one of the greatest painters of the 20th century.
A Unique Signature Between East and West
However different they may be, Zao Wou-Ki’s canvases all bear a signature instantly recognizable since he forged his personal style in the early part of the second half of the 20th century.
His art unfolds in a unique space where the following merge:
– the vast cosmological spaces and ancestral symbols of ancient China,
– with the modern freedom born in the West, from Cézanne to the lyrical abstraction that flourished after the Second World War.
Zao Wou-Ki: Heir to Chinese Tradition and Child of Western Modernity
Zao Wou-Ki’s painting is rooted in the immemorial lineage of Chinese art. Yet, far from copying it, he infuses it with the profound questions about the meaning of painting that arose from Western modernity.
It embodies the pictorial revolutions that liberated French art from the models considered unsurpassable during the Renaissance.
This unique encounter between the Chinese spirit and the adventure of lyrical abstraction makes Zao Wou-Ki one of the most fascinating and widely collected artists of the 20th century.
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