{"id":3710,"date":"2015-06-09T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/artist\/liu-wei-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:28:01","slug":"liu-wei","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/liu-wei\/","title":{"rendered":"Liu Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liu Wei<\/strong> was born in 1965 in Beijing, he was graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and in 1989, he became part of the Cynical Realism movement. Liu Wei is best known for his semi-abstract depictions of flowers and landscapes. That year marked the Tiananmen Square Incident and the cancellation of an official avant-garde exhibition, and Liu Wei, like many other Chinese artists, felt disenchanted with the authorities. In one of Liu Wei\u2019s well-known paintings titled New Generation (1990), the childhood figures of the artist and his brother are sitting in front of a large image of Mao. Liu Wei suggests that Mao has become a historical icon, not a significant influence on everyday life in China, and the resurgence of political control and conservatism cannot take the same form. Over time, Liu Wei\u2019s work has become more abstract and less political, dealing instead with universal themes of decay, death, and the manipulation of expression. The loose brushwork of his more recent work shows strong influences of Chinese calligraphy, ink-brush painting, and Abstract Expressionism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Wei was born in 1965 in Beijing, he was graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and in 1989, he became part of the Cynical Realism movement. Liu Wei is best known for his semi-abstract depictions of flowers and landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3539,"template":"","artist_cat":[24],"class_list":["post-3710","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-painter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}