Fu Baoshi: Visualizing Modern China

The Cleveland Museum of Art hosts a lecture with Anita Chung about Fu Baoshi.

Anita Chung, curator of Chinese art and curator of the exhibition, offers a look at the changing world around this Chinese artist for a fuller understanding of his art. This lecture also explores the artist's process of self discovery and struggle in an age of crisis.

Chung is the curator of Chinese Art and responsbile for the planning of the new Chinese galleries, exhibitions, and art acquisitions. She specializes in Chinese painting history, and much of her work concentrates on the Qing period (1644–1911). She joined the museum in 2001 as an Andrew W. Mellon fellow in Chinese Art.

Chung’s current project is a major exhibition devoted to the modern Chinese master Fu Baoshi (1904–1965), scheduled to open in October 2011. Drawing from the Nanjing Museum collection of Fu Baoshi’s painting, this exhibition will present extraordinary works by one of the most important Chinese artists of the last century.

While the Asian galleries were closed for the museum’s expansion and renovation project, Chung was actively involved with the planning and negotiation for the Asian tour of the exhibition Impressionist and Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art through Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul (2006–2007). She recently co-curated the exhibition Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2009).

Chung began her museum profession in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she held the joint position of curator of Chinese art at the National Museums of Scotland and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. There, she organized two exhibitions of Chinese art, including the acclaimed exhibition Chinese Paintings from the Shanghai Museum, 1851–1911 (2000) as well as Chinese Lacquer from the Royal Museum Collection (1998).
           
She is the author of Drawing Boundaries: Architectural Images in Qing China (2004) and the co-author of Chinese Paintings from the Shanghai Museum, 1851–1911 (2000). Her research interests also include modern art, ceramics, lacquer, and architecture.

She holds a M.Phil degree in art history and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. 

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