Guan Ze Ju

Art Brokerage: Guan Ze Ju Chinese Artist: b. 1941. Guan Ze Ju was born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China in 1941. Guan began at a very young age with graphite and watercolor as well as traditional Chinese ink. At the age of fifteen, he was recognized as a prodigy and awarded by his junior high school with an exhibition of more than two hundred works of art in at least three media. He later graduated first in his class from the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts. His teachers at the Institute passed on to him knowledge of techniques and trends both within and outside of China. One of his two primary instructors spent a number of years studying in Russia. The other spent time in America, at the Art Institute of Chicago. With the entire history of art, with an emphasis on academic and Symbolist painting, as his inheritance, Guan possesses the skills to realize any flight of his own imagination. The subtle influences of Surrealism are also evident, particularly in earlier paintings, and clearly still inform aspects of perspective. He can paint like the most expressive of the Impressionists, or render people's features with a crispness similar to America's "hyper-realists." Technical virtuosity, however, is clearly not an end in itself. Rather, technique is the beginning from which the artist creates the imagery he desires. Listings wanted.