Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese: 赵无极; pinyin: Zhào Wújí; Wade–Giles: Chao Wu-chi; 1 February 1920 – 9 April 2013 [1]) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. [ 2 ]

The Zao Wou-Ki Foundation works to promote the life and art of the painter Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013). Through its work, the Foundation honors the artist, safeguards his art and provides education to ensure the transmission of his creative vision to a younger generation.

Zao Wou-Ki drew and painted from the age of ten with the encouragement of his family, intellectuals who held painting in great respect. His grandfather taught him to draw the characters of the Chinese alphabet, essential groundwork for the art of calligraphy.

Apr 9, 2013 · Wou-Ki was the first ethnic Chinese member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of France, and together with Chu Teh-Chun and Wu Guanzhong, was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" - the modern Chinese artists who trained in China and France.

Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French artist known for his non-representational paintings that blended Eastern and Western modes of art making. View Zao Wou-Ki’s 9,463 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for …

May 12, 2023 · Zao’s first US museum retrospective, No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki, opened at the Asia Society in New York in September 2016. Bringing together key works from public and private collections in America, Europe and Asia, the exhibition underlined Zao’s status as a true ‘transnational’ artist.

Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese: 赵无极; pinyin: Zhào Wújí; Wade–Giles: Chao Wu-chi; 1 February 1920 – 9 April 2013) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under French-trained Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.

Mar 31, 2020 · At auctions last year, Zao Wou-Ki’s work outsold that of every artist in the world, aside from Picasso and Monet. Now, a Hong Kong exhibition is exploring how the late painter reconciled...

Zao Wou-Ki (pinyin: Zhào Wújí; Wade–Giles: Chao Wu-chi; 1 February 1920 – 9 April 2013) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wu-ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he …

No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki is the first American retrospective of this pioneering Chinese-French artist. Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) immigrated to Paris in 1948 and soon took the international art world by storm.