Pan Yuliang
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| Native name | 潘玉良 | ||||||||
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14 June 1895 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China |
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| Died | 22 July 1977 (aged 70) Paris, France |
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| Resting place | Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris | ||||||||
| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||
| Other names | Zhang Yuliang, Chen Xiuqing, Pan Shixiu | ||||||||
| Education | Hong Ye, Zhu Qizhan, Wang Jiyuan | ||||||||
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| Occupation | Painter | ||||||||
| Known for | Being the character in A soul Haunted by Painting 画魂 (1994 movie), Pan Yuliang (1990 TV series) | ||||||||
| Notable work | Female Nude (女人體) | ||||||||
| Television | Is the character in A soul Haunted by Painting 画魂 (1994 movie), Pan Yuliang (1990 TV series) | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 潘玉良 | ||
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Pan Yuliang (Chinese: 潘玉良, 14 June 1895 – 1977), born in Yangzhou as Chen Xiuqing, and was renamed Zhang Yuliang (張玉良) when adopted by her maternal uncle after the early passing of her parents. She was a Chinese painter, renowned as the first woman in the country to paint in the Western style. She had studied in Shanghai and Paris. Because her modernist works caused controversy and drew severe criticism in China during the 1930s, Pan returned to Paris in 1937 to live and work for the next 40 years. She taught at the École des Beaux Arts, won several awards for her work, had exhibits internationally in Europe, the United States and Japan, and was collected by major institutions. In 1985 after her death, much of her work was transported to China, collected by the National Art Museum in the capital of Beijing, and a few are collected by the Anhui Museum in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. Her life as an artist has been portrayed in novels and film in China and the United States. Her art evolved within the flux of transformations where conflicting dichotomies of East and West, tradition and modernity, male chauvinism and emerging feminism co-existed. Pan is also figured as who engaged with labels, such as " contemporary/modern," " Chinese," and " woman" artist, while questioning them.
Zhang Yuliang was born in 1895 in Jiangsu Province. After the death of her parents when she was 14, she was sold by her uncle to a brothel, where she was raised to become a prostitute. She attracted the attention of Pan Zanhua, a wealthy customs official, who bought her freedom. He married her as his second wife and helped with her education; she adopted his name as her surname. In one of her letters to her family members, she stated her will and signed as Panzhangyuliang (Chinese: 潘張玉良). This letter can be taken as a legal document, where she used Panzhangyuliang as a signature. Therefore, Panzhangyuliang is the name that she acknowledged and preferred.
They moved to Shanghai, where she passed the exams to enter the Shanghai Art School in 1920, where she studied painting with Wang Jiyuan. After graduating from there, she went to Lyon and Paris for further study, sponsored by Pan Zanhua. In 1925, she won the prestigious Rome Scholarship to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome in Italy.
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