Wu Shanzhuan
- January 11, 2024
- Photographer
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Wu Shanzhuan Biography
| Birthday | Oct 25 |
| Birth Year | 1960 |
Wu Shanzhuan is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on October 25, 1960 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China. Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Walker Art Center
The Cultural Revolution, identified as being a “great revolution that touches people to their very souls” The use of writing was to communicate visual violence and political messages. The Chinese language is the largest and most deeply rooted aspect of Chinese culture and the revolution encroached on this to ensure success. Due to the power of the visual Chinese character was unavoidable that avant-garde artists would reconsider the possibilities that the writing word had in the latter half of the 1980s. Wu Shanzhuan once said that “The Chinese character is the most significant element, in terms of its ability to shape people’s thinking or to influence the national psychology”.
Similar happenings were taking place in other academies in China, such as in Sichuan, Beijing, and Guangzhou. Works from various academies were brought together in May 1985 in the exhibition “Young Art of Progressive China”, held in the National Art Museum of China. Neorealism and Western surrealism were shown in the most remarkable of the works.
Another influential force came from the open educational environment adopted by the school. In 1985, students became allowed to create a single work in any freely chosen style, although they had to follow their instructor’s favored subject and technique. Though quite controversial, this resulted in experimental works that expressed many different individual conceptions and styles. Under this new policy, the students were also able to choose different conceptual and technical approaches that allowed the creation of multipart series. A sensation was caused in the Chinese art world when the experimental works of the class of 1985 were displayed at the graduation exhibition. These artists, born in the generation of the 1960s, who were trained after the Cultural Revolution, adopted the new avant-garde orientation.
Other graduates from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art who began to assume a major role in China in the late 1980s included Wang Guangyi, Shang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Huang Yongping along with Gu Wenda. While they may not have learned all that much from teachers directly because of the dominance of a style that was realist at academies, they did learn from their teachers and fellow students out of school. The import of Euro-American books also inspired the artists during the early 1980s. In the early 1980s, the director of the academy purchased all the publications of the “Exhibition of International Art Publications” that opened at the National History Museum in Beijing in 1982. These books, printed in different languages, greatly influenced the generation of the ’85 Movement.
Wu Shanzhuan Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Photographer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Wu Shanzhuan is one of the richest Photographer from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wu Shanzhuan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Wu Shanzhuan (born on 25th October 1959) is an artist living in Hamburg.
Famous for his experiments using language and the use of huge characters, Wu is a kind of prelude to the more famous work that were created by Gu Wenda as well as Xu Bing. Wu was a member of the group called the red humor that experimented with the concept of language and its meaning. His art is filled with humor, language symbolism, and a variety of radical games. He has been naked in his art work for a few months with his wife Inga Svala Thorsdottir. Inga is born the year 1966 in Iceland and was a graduate of Iceland’s Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts in the year 1991. In 1995 Inga graduated from Hochschule fur bildende Kunste in Hamburg. She established Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service in 1993 in 1999, and BORG at the end of 1999. “His work is filled with absurd imagery and fantastical language.”
As one of the leaders of the Chinese Conceptual Movement in the 1980s, Wu Shanzhuan was the first Chinese artist to assimilate textual pop references into his work. Wu’s pivotal installation, Red Humour International (1986), laid the foundation for his “highly idiosyncratic and sophisticated approach to painting, which forgoes image in favour of political jingoism, religious scripture, and advertising slogans”.
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The Cultural Revolution caught public attention when the first Marxist- Leninist ‘big character’ poster was put up at Peking University in 1966. These ‘big character’ posters started appearing all over campus in the next few days. Although they were a common medium in the political battle of Mao Zedong’s time, they reached their peak during the Cultural Revolution. Campaigns were declared on these posters, along with criticisms of factions, and the denunciation of individuals. When this ‘mass voice’ became fully supported by Mao, a new visual landscape was created, with slogans, directives, criticisms and moral aphorisms flooding all surfaces.
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Wu Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Wu Shanzhuan celebrates birthday on October 25 of every year.
Please Don’t Move, Bahnwärterhaus, Gallery der Stadt, Esslingen