Wang Dongling
b. 1945, ChinaBorn in 1945 in Jiangsu, China. He graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in Hangzhou in 1981 and received his Master degree. Wang Dongling is now professor of Calligraphy Department of China Academy of Art, and Director of Contemporary Calligraphy Research Centre of China Academy of Art, at present he lives and works in Hangzhou, China.
Wang Dongling is one of the most successful and gifted of the modernist calligraphers in China and one of the few who has for many years enjoyed an international reputation. His works were influenced by his experience in the United States from 1989 to 1992, when he served as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Wang began developing a new form of composition that synthesises traditional Chinese aesthetics with modernist art. Usually there are no decipherable Chinese characters in his works, which have become closer to abstract painting than to calligraphy. Wang Dongling has been enormously influential on the whole development of contemporary calligraphy and ink painting.
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