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Xingjian Gao

Xingjian Gao (Born 1940) is active/lives in China, France.  Xingjian Gao is known for Painting.

Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, in 1940, Gao Xingjian is best known for being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. Gao is a reminder of the close connection between painting and writing in Chinese culture and encapsulates the ideal of the well-rounded literati scholar. Indeed, his style can be characterised as 'writing/sketching the idea' (literally, xieyi ??), which allows him to create subtle, intuitive works that move between figurative and abstract art. Interested in literature and for a time a student of painting while young, in 1962 he received a degree in French from the Beijing Language Institute. During the 1960s and the 1970s, Gao worked in the capital as a translator while writing novels and painting, and during the Cultural Revolution he was sent to the countryside for re-education, at which time he burned some of his manuscripts. In the 1980s, he published experimental literary works as well as nonfiction, but after one of his plays was banned in 1986, Gao   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2848 characters.]  Artist bio

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