Tu Hongtao
Seeking Lost Thing (2001)
Height 180cm x Width 130cm
media :
- Oil on canvas
Details :
Oil on canvas: 180 x 130 cm
Signed and dated, lower middle: Tutau.05.1
Titled and dated on the reverse
Starting Bid : SGD 20,000
Estimate:
SGD 22,000 - 33,000
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Tu Hongtao
Tu Hongtao is a Chinese painter known for blending elements of classical Chinese painting with contemporary visual language. He studied at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and later graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 1999.
After years of experimentation, including an early Neo-Pop phase, Tu returned to Chengdu in 2008, where the rural environment near his hometown reshaped his artistic direction. Drawing from literati traditions, calligraphy, and Western abstraction, he developed a style that bridges historical Chinese aesthetics with post-war modernist influences.