Zhu jinshi biography sample

Zhu Jinshi was born in Beijing in 1954.

He began to draw and paint after 1970 when, along with thousands of his urban high-school student peers, he was sent to do factory work; Mao’s ‘rustification’ program – sending urban youth ‘up to the mountains and down to the countryside’ – was being adjusted to accommodate the needs of industry.

Zhu worked at the Beijing Heavy Industrial Boiler Plant, where he often painted in front of his machine during his rest breaks.

Zhu jinshi biography sample pdf

From 1973-77 he worked as an assistant to the modernist artist and teacher Li Zongjin, who had been a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts until falling victim to the Anti-Rightist Campaigns of the late 1950s. Li taught the aspiring artist modernist techniques of landscape and portrait painting.

Zhu then became associated with the Stars (‘Xing Xing’), an avant-garde group based in Beijing, and with the Apartment Art m