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"Details: Great Craftsmen" Author: Chen Danqing Publisher: Beijing Daily Press
"Details: Great Craftsmen" Author: Chen Danqing Publisher: Beijing Daily Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Revisiting the Renaissance with Chen Danqing
150 million people watched it, Douban's high-scoring art documentary "Local" is fully included
Look up at Italian frescoes, past Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael
This book is the script of the third season of Chen Danqing's video program "Local". The author visits Italian churches and monasteries, focusing on the frescoes solidified on the walls. The "Three Masters of the Renaissance" are often compared to the peak, but the author tells the "minor works" and their creators: the "famous" Giotto and his master "Bullhead" Cimabue, the unruly Masaccio and the noble Masolino, the respectable Uccello and the lovely Lippi the Elder, Francesca of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi and Gozzoli of the Medici-Riccardi Palace, as well as those unknown craftsmen... Thousands of frescoes are both textbooks for kings and subjects and a carnival of images. In the Middle Ages when perspective was not used, these craftsmen showed another dimension of painting, another rationality, fuller, more open, and closer to modernity. Art is not an evolutionary chain. Don't think that the later the art, the better.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Chen Danqing was born in Shanghai in 1953. From 1970 to 1978, he moved to rural areas in southern Jiangxi and northern Jiangsu to work as a farmer, during which he studied painting on his own. In 1978, he entered the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts for further studies. After graduating in 1980, he stayed at the school and settled in New York in 1982 as a freelance painter. He returned to China in 2000 and now lives in Beijing. In his early years, he created the "Tibetan Series", and in recent years he has created the juxtaposition series and book still life series. He is an amateur writer and has published collections of essays including: "New York Notes", "Redundant Materials", "Retrogression Collection", "Retrogression Collection Continuation", "Abandonment Collection", "Foreign Music in Foreign Countries", "Laughing about Great Masters", "Ten Years of Returning to China", "Caocao Collection", "The Quagmire of Conversation", "Ignorant Travels", and the "Partial" series.
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