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Excerpt from a Webast Interview with Tu Zhiwei, June 18, 2007
Summary:
During his youth, decades ago, Tu Zhiwei found that Chinese art technical education generally was superior, but when art schools started up again after the Cultural Revolution they still tended to suffer from a narrower conceptual framework. After mastering painting techniques under the guidance of many excellent art professors in China, Tu Zhiwei still hungered to attain greater creative heights. He found art education in the United States offered a very "open" and "diverse" and "culturally pluralistic" education.
His mentor there [the late Jules Kirschenbaum] urged Mr. Tu to study English and art philosophy, then apply his peerless technical skills to express his own unique artistic vision. As a master painter himself, Prof. Kirschenbaum "set a very good example" in his own life, reserving a large part of every day for his own artistic achievements -- not to make money for himself, but to make art for art's sake, and in fact for the world. Every artist must make money to survive, of course, whether by teaching or by selling drawings in the street, or by some other form of work. But he must always remain true to his talent.
Below, view this short excerpt (in Chinese) from the hour-long interview of Tu Zhiwei webcast by China's Tom.com on June 18, 2007.
href="Tu_TomTV_1.html">Hope and Help for a Chinese-American Artist
Inspiration and Income for a Chinese-American Artist
href="Tu_TomTV_7-10.html">Tu Zhiwei's Artistic Passion:
10 Murals in 10 Years
href="http://stage6.divx.com/user/JohnCB/video/26/Life-of-a-Chinese-American-Artist"
target="_blank">Full Interview (51 minutes)
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A Modern Master
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Tu Art News
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Inspiration and Income in America for a Chinese-American Artist
Excerpt from a Webast Interview with Tu Zhiwei, June 18, 2007
Summary:
During his youth, decades ago, Tu Zhiwei found that Chinese art technical education generally was superior, but when art schools started up again after the Cultural Revolution they still tended to suffer from a narrower conceptual framework. After mastering painting techniques under the guidance of many excellent art professors in China, Tu Zhiwei still hungered to attain greater creative heights. He found art education in the United States offered a very "open" and "diverse" and "culturally pluralistic" education.
His mentor there [the late Jules Kirschenbaum] urged Mr. Tu to study English and art philosophy, then apply his peerless technical skills to express his own unique artistic vision. As a master painter himself, Prof. Kirschenbaum "set a very good example" in his own life, reserving a large part of every day for his own artistic achievements -- not to make money for himself, but to make art for art's sake, and in fact for the world. Every artist must make money to survive, of course, whether by teaching or by selling drawings in the street, or by some other form of work. But he must always remain true to his talent.
Below, view this short excerpt (in Chinese) from the hour-long interview of Tu Zhiwei webcast by China's Tom.com on June 18, 2007.
href="Tu_TomTV_1.html">Hope and Help for a Chinese-American Artist
Inspiration and Income for a Chinese-American Artist
href="Tu_TomTV_7-10.html">Tu Zhiwei's Artistic Passion:
10 Murals in 10 Years
href="http://stage6.divx.com/user/JohnCB/video/26/Life-of-a-Chinese-American-Artist"
target="_blank">Full Interview (51 minutes)
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