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Subject:Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: Stephen Manion Sun, Sep 08, 2019 IP: 2600:1700:f7b0:ae80:

The machines say the artist name is Zhu Wei. Well it's not THAT Zhu Wei, unless he did it way before he adopted his present style. Maybe school days. Then it made its way to an estate sale in San Antonio, TX. Anything is possible. I'm also hearing Zhu Da. Sure, before he was the insane monk. 400 years to San Antonio. Please help. The back is stuck to the plain paper on which it was laid before its most recent, sideways, framing so I cannot photograph it. Thank you for your help





Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: rat Tue, Sep 10, 2019

Totally unrelated to Zhu Da, and am not sure who Zhu Wei is, but to me the signature and seal read Zhu Zhuang 朱彤. There are a couple of artists with this name who pop up on Google, but they are different and paint in a different style from yours, which was made recently as decorative art and is based on Southern Song pictures done by court artists, such as:

https://chineseart.tumblr.com/post/50735687978/heaveninawildflower-loquats-and-mountain-bird

http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-li-di-cotton-roses.php

Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: Rat Wed, Sep 11, 2019

Arg, your artist's given name is Tong, not Zhuang. I wonder why I wrote zhuang in the first place!

Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: Stephen Manion Wed, Sep 11, 2019

Thanks for your help. Zhu Wei is one of China's current top artists. He uses traditional methods and materials including mixing his own inks and washes but his work is anything but traditional.I find it bizarre while not wholly unattractive. Google him. Tell me if you agree.

Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: rat Thu, Sep 12, 2019

Ah, got it. My taste is older school--I can see how he is applying some traditional methods to contemporary imagery in an interesting way but it's just not my thing.

Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: Stephen Manion Sat, Sep 14, 2019

That's pretty much how it strikes me. Interesting. Attractive in an intellectual manner. But I find no beauty in most of it, and where there is any it's not in the main focal point. Like on occasion he shows, obliquely, that he can. I read an interview with him. The feeling is he is doing what he has to do to have a following today, but it isn't what he would like to do and he fears the bird and flower form, which is what he would like to do, will die. He is gratified that one of his two assistants is studying the form. He is apparently about as wealthy as an artist in China can be, so I have to wonder if fame, and money, are not more valuable to him than the art why he doesn't use his position to try to revive the form he loves. But I don't pretend to understand the realities of producing art in mainland China. He may have no choice.

Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: I.Nagy Tue, Sep 10, 2019

朱彤寫於正之軒 
Painted by Zhu Tong at Zheng-zhi-Xuan (Main Study)
Seal,
朱彤 - Zhu Tong

Contemporary artist, was born into a family of Chinese medicine practicioners. He is a native of Shanwei, Guangdong, now lives in Shicheng, Jiangxi. Vice President of the Jiangdu Painting and Calligraphy Institute. Have held many personal painting and calligraphy exhibitions.
(Source: Several Chinese language web sites)

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: Stephen Manion Wed, Sep 11, 2019

Thank y for helping me with this. Do you know of any site where I can see some of Zhu Tong's work?

Subject:Re: Pease help identifiy this traditional Chinese artwork/artist
Posted By: I.Nagy Thu, Sep 12, 2019

life.banbijiang.com/lvyou/news/bjly/shl/2015/0429/185598.html
and
book.kongfz.com/241732/798603562

With regards,
I.Nagy


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