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Shang Qian
Biography
I
was born on the 17th of November 1946 in Henan Province, China. My father was
a journalist and a well-known calligrapher and my mother was chairman of the
workers union of a local government enterprise. My father's news reports and
photos aroused my interest in painting and exerted a subtle and unconscious
influence on the rest of my life. I have devoted myself to the self-study of
painting and have achieved a good mastery of painting. My two brothers, Shang
Jin and Shang Ding
are both accomplished artists and I have also benefited from their mutual influence
and professional exchanges. My paintings have been highly regarded by my teachers
and others around me since I was a boy. I greatly esteem nature and I have always
believed in the rule that only the spontaneous outpouring and reproduction of
nature is the soul of my paining, and that the natural world is wonderful and
eternal and is the major creative source of my painting. In recent years my
paintings have been successful shown in various galleries, i.e. The
New Masters Gallery in California, 2000,
the Kunming Museum Exhibition, 2001 and the
Lanning Gallery in
Arizona, 2002
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