Flesh in Oil: dawei zhang on art in chengdu – Arts & Entertainment
www.gochengdoo.com — Chengdunese painter Dawei Zhang was born in 1968 to painters in the People's Liberation Army. He studied Chinese painting at the Sichuan Art Institute in Chongqing, and then spent a decade living the laid-back lifestyle of a painter in Chengdu in the 1990s ("In Chengdu there were a lot of painters who lived this way," he explained. "Every day I just painted, watched movies, read, drank tea. I was single, so I didn't need that much money, but when I did, I would teach painting at Sichuan University or the Music Conservatory as a freelancer. Life was pretty good.")
