Thoughts on a Chinese Artist Studying a Western Old Master [Jin Shangyi at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing]

Jin Shangyi, a major Socialist Realist artist of the People’s Republic of China, explores the Classical realist tradition in three paintings based on masterpieces by Vermeer that are the centerpiece of his retrospective at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing in 2011.

The Timeless Realism of Antonio López García

The World and I, Dec. 1991, pp. 234-39.

The Art of Francis Bacon

The World and I, Aug. 1990, pp. 208-13.