Yang Fudong

1. Yang Fudong . ..Pafoua Xiong.. .

2. Who is this individual who refers to himself as Yang Fudong?

3. Mr. Fudong Yang Fudong is a Chinese contemporary photographer and video artist from Shanghai. Fudong is considered among the more successful and influential young Chinese artists today.

4. ..Yang Fudong… Born in Beijing, 1971. As the son of an army officer. Wanted to be a soccer star at 8 years old. 1995 - Graduated from China Academy of fine Arts, Hangzhou “All I knew before Hangzhou was realistic painting. In my first year there, a visiting German art critic gave a seminar on modern art, including a lot of photography and film and video art, and it opened my eyes.”

5. Fudong… his style Traditional and modern ways of living in China’s. Identity through myth, personal memory and lived experience. Each film and video is about the human condition.

6. his work Fudong… “Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest” (2007) 5 part film, 30 minutes each Shot on 35mm in black and white The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were a group of Chinese scholars and poets who fled the troubles accompanying the transition between China's Wei and Jin dynasties. They assembled in a bamboo grove, where they forgot all of their worldly troubles, losing themselves in pure thought and discussion. Their ideal consisted of following their impulses and acting spontaneously, and being sensitive to the beauties of nature.

7. Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest Series “People are educated differently, have different backgrounds, different understanding of society. In the process of growing up each will grasp what he or she ought to believe in, and act accordingly.”

8. ..Prada Fudong… “First Spring”

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10. Where I got the 411 on Yang Fudong: The Internet. But to be more specific: http://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_interviews?HnK0EtFGDpajzNbQWehv?lang=en http://www.yangfudong.com.cn/