Recent Work: Day 5/7 Surrealism
With painters like Max Ernst, the world of painting opened up for me. Now I have painted an homage to Max Ernst. "The Triumph of Surrealism" from 1937.
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New work – with an explanation
Mao Poem on historical security which is designed in the finest Art Nouveau design. Overwritten with a Mao Zedong poem.
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Chinese TV invited me for calligraphy
I was on Chinese TV 3 days ago showing me writing a couplet for Chinese New Year and talking a little about my life and years in China.
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After visting a great Gerhard Richter Exhibition in Wien
A small graphic as hommage to Gerhard Richter and Hideaki Yamanobe after visiting a very impressive exhibition by Gerhard Richter in Vienna.
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analyzing a simple painting by Qi Baishi 齐白石
The Essence of Chinese Painting Part 2.
Analyzing a the painting Chinese cabbage and peppers by Qi Baishi 齐白石
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student prank with Wang Ziwu 王子武
Traditionally, the Academy in Beijing invited well-known painters of classical Chinese painting to demonstrate their painting techniques on Saturday mornings. The purpose of the exercise was to give the students an insight into topics such as the structure of the picture, brush and ink techniques of well-known painters. Twice the academy responded to a suggestion from me and since the […]
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portraits – a new page
A new page has been added: Portraits. It links to 5 series of portraits and a page with previous portrait paintings. My series generally consist of some 20-30 works. The unsold ones are listed. The early works are mostly oil-paintings and more will be listed soon. PORTRAITS
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portraits V
For many years my main focus has been painting portraits. As usual, I prefer to create series with around 20-30 pieces of work. Then I switched to a new technique or style. Here are some of a series from 1985. https://zettl.blog/portraits-v
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