Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1995
Format
Slide
Dimensions
No.5: 170x210 cm; No.6: 180x140 cm; No.7: 180x140 cm; No.8: 150x190 cm
Description
In the “Bloodline: Big Family” series, faces and upper torsos of some figures are depicted in a gray background. The figures, although having stiff expressions or no emotions on their faces, are connected by red bloodlines. These bloodlines are thin and long, appearing on each painting of this series. Zhang uses “introspective soliloquy,” ziwo dubai xing, to define his art and himself. As Dr. Zhou Yan suggests, the artist recollected the inspiration of old family photos in making the ”Bloodline Series”, because a tradition of taking "standard" family photos has started since the 1950s in China, family members would wear uniforms by that time and pose stiffly with little facial expression (Yan Zhou, “A History of Contemporary Chinese Art”, Springer, 2020, pp. 297-299). (Yifan Shang ‘25)
Zhang Xiaogang_Big Family No.8.tif (22716 kB)
ZHANG Xiao-Gang_ No.7_1995.tif (27197 kB)
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