1. Li Songsong is a Chinese artist working in Beijing.
10 Facts About Li Songsong
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Li Songsong's paintings recreate public resource images of modern Chinese history, such as the National People's Congress.
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Li Songsong is renowned for his thickly layered paintings that animate the fragmentary nature of images and memory, paying particular attention to the people, events, and themes of modern and contemporary Chinese history.
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Li Songsong was one of the first Chinese artists to establish a studio in the 798 Arts District of Beijing in 2002.
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Li Songsong uses images primarily from newspapers, magazines, the internet, book, and film stills.
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Li Songsong has been called a member of China's "in-between" generation: he was too young to have experienced life under Mao Zedong but old enough to remember the Tiananmen Square uprising, which occurred while he was attending China's CAFA-affiliated high school.
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Li Songsong's painting style is unique in that he warps and reconstructs his images with layers of paint often section by section in an array of colors, giving the final work an abstract and ambiguous message that is left up to the interpretation of the viewer.
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Li Songsong's medium is oil paint applied to canvas and aluminum panels.
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Li Songsong often listens to music while working in his studio, claiming that it is indispensable to him.
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Li Songsong starts with a simple idea and his goal is to bring different people and ideas together.