Duan Jianyu
Duan Jianyu (born 1970, Henan Province. Based in Guangzhou) is a visual artist. She graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1995. She currently teaches at the Fine Arts Department of South China Normal University. Duan works and lives in Guangzhou. The style of Duan Jianyu’s paintings tend to start out with everyday reality, and then midway through fade out and slip slowly into the world of the mind. This kind of narrative technique appears consistently in the artist’s creations. Duan Jianyu’s large-scale paintings present incongruous scenarios drawing on a wide range of sources from European art history, classical Chinese painting, and imagery of traditional rural life. She has also created multi-media installations, artist’s books, photographs, and ink paintings on cardboard. In her work, European nudes, Chinese landscapes, chickens, watermelons and air hostesses come together to explore with wry humor the clashes between urban and rural, tradition and modernity in a society undergoing enormous change.
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Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
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South China Normal University
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Guangzhou
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