On the eve of her first museum retrospective, Oakland-based painter Hung Liu ... favored by the Communist regime, at Beijing Teachers College and the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing.

When she was just a baby, the Communist authorities imprisoned ... high-profile UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. With her art, Hung Liu insisted that we see those who might otherwise ...

Artist Hung Liu, whose striking portraits depicted life ... Liu trained in Socialist Realism – an idealized style typical of communist art education and propaganda at the time – before ...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of Hung Liu and Jeff Kelley ... Even as she was compelled to depict Communist propaganda, Liu honed her skills as a painter and mastered the techniques ...

As a teenager in 1960s China, Hung ... them from Communist censors, and a 2006 mural of cranes in flight at the Oakland, Calif., airport, reminiscent of stained glass. But it’s Ms Liu’s ...

The conflict between Mao's Communist and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang ... Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu: Paintings, drawings, photographs and video. Through June 30. Oakland Museum of ...

Hung Liu/Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art. Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation ... was imprisoned for his involvement in anti-Communist politics. During the Cultural Revolution, she ...

(Courtesy of Hung Liu Estate) Graduate student curators worked with ... in Liu’s work are captivating and present a different side of communist China. “Visually the art is very compelling with the ...

Liu employed generous amounts of linseed oil in her paintings to create what she described as a “veil of tears;” her husband, art ... leaders. “Hung Liu initially trusted the communist ...

Hung Liu, a Chinese American ... Jeff Kelley, an art critic and the manager of her studio. Ms. Liu was born the year before communist leader Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People ...

When she was just a baby, the Communist authorities imprisoned ... at the high-profile UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Hung Liu, Plowboy, 2020. Oil on canvas. Collection of Dr ...