Aug 12, 2009

the Art of Hu Ming

Hu Ming was a member of the People’s Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution. Hu’s sensual work featuring Chinese women is very surreal and provocative, it reminds me of Robert Williams’ work. Learn more about her and her work here in a great interview with the artist.

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  • description: hu Ming is a renowned Chinese artist who joined the People’s Liberation Army during the time of the Cultural Revolution. She was instructed to paint heroic portraits of Mao Zedong repeatedly, but one day she was fascinated and petrified to encounter a book by Michelangelo. It featured male nudes and, while reprimanded for this, Hu went on to paint sensuous Chinese women with physical vigour.

2 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Choco

    Too bad Chinese girls are really skinny and look nothing like this…I really like the style tho’. It’s different.

    Aug 12th, 2009

  2. djglenn

    Not sure where you’re living Choco, but the women here in Taiwan certainly look like many of the women in Hu Ming’s art. Sure, there’s plenty of thin women, but equally as many full figured. Unfortunately, they love to keep it all hidden – at least in the south.

    Sep 1st, 2009

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