A Ge

阿鸽; Hanyu Pinyin: Ā Gē
Born 1948 (age 69–70)
Liangshan, Sichuan
Nationality Chinese
Education China Artists Association
Known for art
Spouse(s) Xu Kuang
Website http://age.artron.net/

A Ge (Simplified Chinese: 阿鸽; Hanyu Pinyin: Ā Gē) (born 1948) is a Chinese print artist from Liangshan in Sichuan Province and is a member of the Yi people ethnic minority.

Life

Per government policy towards ethnic minorities, A Ge was recruited at age twelve to attend the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and was encouraged to create art to publicize Yi minority culture and help development.[1]

In 1964 she graduated from the national minority class at the Sichuan branch of the China Artists Association.[2] She is married to Xu Kuang.

Career

A Ge is a Grade 1 National Artist, a member of the China Artists Association and the Chinese Engravers Association, and is chairman of the Sichuan Artists Association.[3][4] Her works have been collected by the British Museum in London.[5]

Works

Selected works:

  • 《阿鸽版画》 (Prints of A Ge)
  • 《四川少数民族画家画库·阿鸽》 (Sichuan Minority Artists Gallery - A Ge, 1995)
  • 《阿鸽作品集》(Collection of A Ge's Artwork - A Ge, 2010 Sichuan Art Publishers)

References

  1. ↑ "阿鸽艺术家介绍-阿鸽官方网站-雅昌艺术家网". age.artron.net. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  2. ↑ Shi, Ling (1998). Contemporary Chinese Women Painters. Foreign Languages Press. pp. 199–201. ISBN 978-7-119-00724-3.
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Michael (2006). Modern Chinese Artists. University of California Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-520-24449-8.
  4. ↑ "Baidu".
  5. ↑ von Spee, Clarissa (2010). The Printed Image in China. British Museum Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-7141-2460-5.

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