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Figurative painting has dominated China during the last decades. Its beginning started with the Cynical Realism movement to which Liu Wei (born 1965) belonged. As one of its most important representatives he had already been shown at the Biennale in Venice in 1995. With his paintings, which drew from Chinese ink painting as well as from Expressionistic Colorism, he developed a distinctive style very early on. Today he engages with the possibilities of ink painting and its break from tradition again.
Ji Dachun (born 1968) became popular at the beginning of his career especially because of his …