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Qiu Jie (Chinese: 邱节; born 1961) is a Chinese artist working in Switzerland, France and China. He was born in Shanghai, China.
ARTIST: Qiu Jie. Portrait of Mao. Qiu Jie, Portrait of Mao, 2007 Lead on paper 250 x 168 cm. Qiu’s Portrait of Mao is a humorous play on words: "mao" means "cat" in Chinese. In traditional Chinese painting, an image of a cat holds special significance.
Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, is also called the Mooncake Festival or the Moon Festival. As the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year , Mid-Autumn is an official public holiday.
Qiu Jie, the solitary artist, who calls himself “the man who comes from other mountains”, grew up in China before moving to Switzerland in 1989. As a child during the Cultural Revolution, he produced propaganda drawings for the local newspaper in a province near Shanghai.
Masterfully blending a diverse range of cultural influences and artistic styles, Qiu Jie produces paintings and drawings filled with images from his own autobiography as well as Chinese and Western history and contemporary culture.
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Qiu Jie, the solitary artist who calls himself 'the man who comes from other mountains' grew up in China before moving to Switzerland in 1989. As a child during the Cultural Revolution, he produced propaganda drawings for the local newspaper in a province near Shanghai.
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Infusing the decorative intricacy associated with age-old artisanship with a narrative surrealism, Qiu’s modern day mother and child are woven into the fabric of Eastern consciousness – pictured heading to their exile from an uncustomary direction, and sat astride a bull, the Chinese symbol of life.
