陈丹青(1953-,中国北京)是中国当代艺术界的领军人物之一。二十世纪八十年代起,中国的油画创作打破了长期以来的宣教模式,渐渐回归其内在的艺术本质,焕发出新的生命力,而陈丹青的油画作品正是这次艺术革新的中坚力量,1980年他以《西藏组画》轰动艺术界,至今余韵不绝。他当下的肖像画创作也体现了这种传统与当代的二元性特征。
Chen Danqing (born 1953, Beijing/China) is one of the leading figures in China’s contemporary art scene. The 1980s saw Chinese oil painting breaking off from the long-established mindset of propaganda and ideological education and regaining gradually the essential artistic values. Chen Danqing was one of the central figures that boosted this reform in art. Chen’s Tibet Se