THE ARTIST CHEN YIFEI
REALISM
Artist born April 12, 1946, Zhenhai, Zhejiang province, died on 10 April 2005, Shanghai) — Chinese artist and filmmaker. Graduated from the Art Institute of Shanghai (1965). In the era of the Cultural revolution was a well-known large-scale portraits of Mao Zedong and large paintings on the revolutionary theme. Then became to synthesize the tradition of socialist realism with European romanticism. In 1980—1990, he lived and worked in the USA, enjoyed the patronage of Armand hammer, who bought the painting Ifaa" Воспоминание about home" ("Двойной bridge") and gave her Deng Xiaoping during visit to China in 1984 After returning to China, Chen Yifei was one of the most commercially successful artists of the country, and also appealed to the film, removing two feature films and documentary picture" Бегство in Shanghai" about the fate of the Jews-беженцев who escaped to Shanghai from Nazi persecution. Died during the filming of his third feature film," Парикмахер", completed Sayanam.
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