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the cartoons. ... After leaving the farm, Wang studied art education, became an illustrator for the
Chinese government and then passed a rigorous examination to enter one of the top three art institutes in China. He graduated as a top student and was hired at the same school, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, as an assistant professor of art. In 1987 Wang was sent to this country for a year as a visiting scholar at Lu Xun Academy's sister school, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Then, unable to return to China for fear of being imprisoned after the Tiananmen Square incident, he enrolled in the graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis. He later transferred to Fontbonne College, where he received his master of fine arts degree and now teaches painting."
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Manchuria at the Lu Xun College of Fine Arts. He is fluent in the use of chiaroscuro, in which pigments and layers of transparent varnishes are built up on the canvas, intimating dimension as well as deep and variegated gradients of shadow and light. Pondering his large oil paintings of nudes, it's just about impossible to assign to it any overtly Oriental gestures. Technically, Wang's work brings to mind the European masters."
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Fontbonne College in St. Louis. He received a master's degree in fine arts and currently teaches painting, drawing and design there. Now, he contends that he could return to China, but
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Gallery. In both painterly and metaphorical terms, his art probes harmony and conflict. Wang, an artist from China who teaches at Fontbonne College, possesses a remarkable foundation in
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