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Opera (for Zhao Shou)

from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets) by Nas Hedron

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Zhao Shou (China, 1912-2003).

Zhao Shou is widely considered to have been the first surrealist painter in China. He attended the Guangzhou Municipal Art School and Shanghai Arts Academy, then studied at Nihon University in Japan in 1933, where he first encountered surrealism. In 1935, Zhao was one of the founders of the Chinese Independent Art Association, which was inspired by both surrealism and fauvism. He embraced surrealism, even translating selections from Breton’s Surrealist Manifestos, but also adapted it, insisting that it was not defined solely by Western artists. In the words of critic Mu Tianfan, he “believed that to paint surrealistically meant using Western techniques to express the Eastern spirit.”

Zhao has no Wikipedia page, but details of his life and work can be found in an excellent paper by Chinghsin Wu, “Reality Within and Without: Surrealism in Japan and China in the Early 1930s,” which can be found on Academia.com.

This track is named for several of Zhao’s paintings, at least two of which are titled “Opera,” while still others incorporate visual elements of Beijing opera.

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from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets), released September 28, 2018

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