Hurun art list out
Mar 2nd, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...The Hurun art list has been launched.
According to the accompanying analysis:
” While interest in Chinese contemporary art was until recently almost exclusively a preserve of foreigners living and working in China, a January 2008 Hurun Report research report revealed that collecting contemporary art had become the leading hobby among China’s new rich.
In top spot is 89-year old Wu Guangzhong, whose paintings raised a total of US$49.3m, followed by 50-year old Zhang Xiaogang at US$38.4m and 87-year old Zhao Wuji at US$37.85m. Although the age of artists on the list ranges from Bai Xueshi at 93 to Zeng Chuanxing at 34, the preponderance is of painters in oils in the their middle age. Interestingly the only sculptor on the list is the Taiwanese Zhu Ming and the highest-ranked Chinese ink painter is Fan Zeng, at 15. Overall there are only ten painters in Chinese ink in the top 50, although I would suspect that this medium would play a greater role lower down the rankings. ”
You can see the whole thing here.
Personally Shanghai Eye would describe Wu Guangzhong as a traditional Chinese artist- ie. an ‘ink painter.’
