Liu Dahong 2008-11-26
Liu Dahong's Studio,
Shanghai Normal University
Conducted in Mandarin
Duration/ 1hr 31mins
“[You couldn’t borrow books from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts library,] so some students stole books. I never did though. Some students were punished for ripping pages out of books. The best books, the ones with lots of illustrations, were always torn up. There were even some students who hung the torn pages right on their dorm walls! Maybe that’s how they were discovered.”
Biography:
Liu Dahong (b. 1962, Qingdao) is an artist and professor at Shanghai Normal University.
Liu enrolled at the Department of Oil Painting at Shandong University of Arts in 1978. From 1981 to 1985, he studied at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) and took master classes with Zao Wu-ki in 1985. After graduation, he began to teach at the College of Fine Art at Shanghai Normal University. He currently supervises the University’s postgraduate students and manages the Shuangbai Studio, which encourages experimental art education.
