Wang Nian-Dong

I went to col­lege in 1998 at the oil paint­ing depart­ment of Sichuan Acad­emy of Fine Arts. I had more time to con­cen­trate on the his­tory and tech­niques of West­ern oil paint­ing. I learned about art from the Mid­dle Ages and sub­ject mat­ters like reli­gion. I learned about the social back­ground in Europe at that time, the artis­tic trends and the ide­olo­gies. This helped me tremen­dously as I absorbed the infor­ma­tion and was able to look at tra­di­tional art from a whole new angle.

Wang Nian-Dong is a Chongqing-based artist in China.