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Xuan Ai

Xuan Ai (Born 1947) is active/lives in China.  Xuan Ai is known for Child figure, portrait and landscape painting, teaching.

Ai Xuan is one of China's significant post-Cultural Revolution painters, and is best known for his realist portraits of Tibetan nomads. Ai is the son of well-known political poet Ai Qing, and the half-brother of China's most famous dissident artist Ai Weiwei. He was born under the rule of Mao, and as a young man went on to study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

At the end of China's Cultural Revolution Ai enlisted in the Peoples Liberation Army and was sent Sichuan, where he would spend the next ten years. In Sichuan he first saw Tibetan nomads, who would inspire him and become the primary subject matter of his portraits.

In 1981 Ai won the silver medal at the Second National Exhibition of Young Artists in China. He has held only two solo exhibitions, the first in New York City in 1981, and second, entitled Colors from Ink, in Hong Kong in 2013.

Ai serves as a professor at the Beijing Painting Institute, and founded the Beijing Realism School (no   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2290 characters.]  Artist bio

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