| Zhang Xiaotao was born on 1970 in
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| | energy. In the hands of a skillful
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| Hechuan, Chongqing, China, he lives and
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| | painter like Zhang, it reflects the
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| works in Beijing and Chengdu, China. He
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| | character of an ancient culture while
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| is an artist full of enthusiasm and good
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| | embracing modern themes and colors. Fish,
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| at argument. He is so talkatively
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| | snakes, human faces, beer mugs,
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| repelling that no one could plunge
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| | condoms-these repeating elements appear
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| himself into the conversation you could
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| | in intricate layers of paint that defy
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| also be able to read his articles about
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| | opacity. The creatures' hues are often
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| the paintings. Walking into Zhang
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| | the blues and greens of the traditional
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| Xiaotao's "A Joyful Time," where huge oil
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| | Chinese pottery and carvings that abound
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| and watercolor paintings invite viewers
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| | in jade markets, but placed in front of
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| into a bright underwater world of
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| | or behind the animals' outlines are
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| copulating frogs and intertwined human
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| | shapes and symbols that would challenge,
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| forms, the reaction "elated and free"
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| | if not startle, any unsuspecting market
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| comes back to mind. Amphibious creatures
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| | habitué. Zhang's frequently recurring
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| float unencumbered in washes of blue,
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| | dreams about drowning presumably account
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| green, and orange paint, their outlines
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| | for all the water imagery in his work;
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| making whimsical, eye-pleasing shapes. So
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| | his preoccupation stems from two swimming
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| it is with great surprise that one learns
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| | accidents when he was seven years old:
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| of the artist's background-that he nearly
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| | one happened at the shore of the powerful
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| drowned as a child and is afraid of
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| | Yangtze River, where he was playing with
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| water, and that he comes from a country
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| | his companions. His brother's friend had
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| whose reproductive policies are
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| | pulled him into the current, teasingly,
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| heavy-handed and punitive.
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| | but soon lost control and had to swim
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| This is Zhang's first exhibit in the
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| | ashore. Zhang remained out in the water
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| United States, accompanying a month-long
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| | and was almost dead before an adult who
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| residency at the Pacific Bridge Gallery,
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| | could brave the current came to his
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| which last spring garnered attention for
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| | rescue. That tentative, struggling moment
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| its controversial exhibition of Ho Chi
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| | between life and death informs the
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| Minh portraits. Zhang, who is 29, has a
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| | artist's work expansively.
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| degree in oil painting and teaches it at
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| | View Zhang Xiaotao paintings, biography,
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| Southwest Jiaotong University in
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| | solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and
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| Chengdu.Among Chinese artists, oil
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| | resource of Zhang Xiaotao artist. View
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| painting has caught on as a fashionable
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| | art online at The Saatchi Gallery -
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| and innovative expression of Western
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| | London contemporary art gallery.
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