Well, first of all, thank you, everyone. And those comes over and says I'm not going to lie to I see lots of familiar faces,
the museum curators and directors say going enthusiasm museum David Elliott invited me in 1983 as a
director of Oxford Modern Art and Modern Art Museum to participating in an exhibition here in Oxford,
Windsor. So that's OK. And like Mr Wayne Burt, who is a major collector of my works in New York and shoots in Canada, quite young then.
But of course, I hope. Do you think every one of the speakers today?
It's, you know, it's my thought. I took all these notes very well with them.
And if fire don't and more that you hold me tight, I will regard all your papers and insights as the medium of my future artworks.
So you there is a boy who uses it to say what it means.
So today I hope to talk a little bit about how I have been using art,
museums and art history as my medium to your voice, and it's almost out of my question.
And due to the limited time, I hope to focus more on my maximal project, the SHEIKHA.
Two quick hands on, say, some walk or you can dance.
You can see the engineers hands over the tiny and you so that also the Young Sheldon back in my childhood,
might you see my hometown change or I was already influenced by the Soviet Union painting?
You come down the Europeans, are you watch? Depending on the same time, we spy on a pond portrayed by Levitan.
Now go back inside and I see got home from a city that controls the town zone.
As you can see, I framed to properly a poorly reproduced image of the painting, and you have only my studio and my child in my hometown.
Now you say what the Georgian system Typekit gherkins and swung in chapati.
Is as young as you want time. I also looked around in my hometown trying to identify a similar pond and try to portray the pond in my own style.
There is also the only woman I saw you had since Gwangju and Soviet Union's paintings on me and my peers, Tessa.
What constitutes a direct relationship with our paintings? Also, the silly answer.
And so, quite so. You see, one point in the sand stopped in Soviet paintings, in Russian paintings,
where the earliest were our earliest exposure to the so-called Western paintings.
So you can down to a model, then the uncertainty of that, as you can see, here are the posters in the back of the classroom.
Everyone carries the beard, except for Chairman Mao, who say to the shaman, you can.
No, he it the median Stanko. Some guidance on you.
Your thought that you thought, Oh, you Ticino. So many times that you have been so on for for all of us and in our childhood in China,
every day we go to school to see lots of Western faces in the back of the classrooms.
Thank you to you. Yes, thank you. So as we've been said, yes, you don't have all the time.
And in the sense, socialism itself is too often sort of the western world.
So Hollywood, you don't go down the hall. Your daughter, Shiva and Dora, since you always must be opposed so we can keep on when we share with you.
So adults. So in 2011 and later, I moved from China to Japan and then to settle in New York.
Along the way, many people were surprised and telling me that tai, you were even compared to the Japanese artist.
Japanese people, you are more westernised, and I guess the answer would be compared to the Japanese peers.
I had earlier exposure to such kind of sort of Western style impact since
childhood and showing what it also uses a dream and says it has have to be me.
And so that's. As mentioned before, my teacher job at a Shanghai Theatre Academy.
He studied abroad in his house at a in this case, at a rock academy in St. Petersburg.
My question went up and since as a historian, you guys leave big audience starting young son.
He was sleeping with that. And then that's what he tells us with these songs.
What was in the beginning? So this painter Konstantin Maximoff, he won the styling award,
which is one of the most distinguished price of painting in Soviet Union, but politically, he was not a very active character.
This was also the time what I did in the summer, and these are some of his works on my collection, which portrays the funeral of Lenin.
So that is Tom Watson, Ken Burns, your wife. These are some of his other paintings before he came to China to teach in China.
Does it have high payoff here he portrayed. My wife and his grandparents.
Who was it? Answer yes or no. Then that would end up with 10000 more items, so it evens out with, you know, I was born in December 1957,
while Maxim of taught in China between three, fifty five and fifty seven, which meant we never really we didn't get to meet them.
Now some young B and I don't know. So he taught at a cafe the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
But I don't eat the northern city, and that's why I'm going to sell me all you want.
But what will you watch young know? Hold on to my body.
She's young. She is and whole top of suicide. 2014-2020 Autumn.
He brought in to China the whole system of painting and sketch, and the related teaching system from Soviet Union,
and even including how a painter can create his own paint box.
Now that some solutions are going to go off on, he always try to demonstrate to his students how he paint from life.
So it depends on how that a. Here we go again. Don't tell me this is what you got to what you saw in the sense.
At that time, he was already sort of a performance artist, action artist in front of his students.
So it's a way of teaching in some ways, by turns on board.
So you could, on your hubris, go why you want the chimney and then it's on the boss show boss, right?
I was is on top of this. Yeah, you don't go to Kenya.
You're entitled to be shot at all at the time.
A selection of the best of the best painters in China selected from multiple universities were College of Fine Arts across China.
They were selected to be his students. Roughly 20 or twenty four students were lucky enough to be his students died in jihadi competitions.
So Maximoff brought these students to sketch and paint from life across China.
So that's all the law constituting the picture on the left is what Maximoff painted from the
apartment he was living to come down here and tell you how to know why it's not working.
So it's rejected the notion of that title.
So this is the these were painted after Maxim Maximum of his students did a study trip to a construction site and try to
portray the very enthusiastic and lively saying of construction happen of development happening at a time in China back then.
Now that this is done, so that's on women's rights, we should tell them the men portrayed here is Mr. Olds Organ,
the president of the UN, the Chinese, the Chinese Artists Association.
I think Santorum is on your watch and this is maxim of painting from life.
Mr. Zordon carrying a paint box. No tie.
You wanted the door to visit the wall. He also did lots of portraits of cheap Asian since I knew how to some cheese.
She thought he boasted that I have on my collection roughly seven to eight of his portraits on sebaceous, so his a sizeable hoop and yen home.
So the Museum of Taipei, she was very jealous of me, but not the Yankee fans in Szechuan.
He also learnt from Tobiason to create traditional Chinese paintings that uses the language its own way to see that when you go,
go from the highs of the objects and pencil pushing so hard in the end, he indeed believes that China has its own unique culture.
So besides learning from the West, the Chinese painters painters should just explore deeper into the Chinese painting tradition.
So the Thai art opposition says he doesn't have a he doesn't want to be talking. These are the works by his students.
It doesn't have a bond with this sort of demonstrate the achievements of his painting class at Casa.
Some watering down in general and the vice chairman in the higher military officials,
very top leader in China back there, then received him give him a very enthusiastic reception.
Now that's all good. We also hosted a solo exhibition of his to reveal his achievements.
Now that with you, vote how you wanted to do the halving and so to see more of a new museum.
So you had a sweetheart, you and you together. So as soon as you think of humans, you suddenly Sudan across the seas.
I watch you wait until once back to the Soviet Union.
These are the works you created after. If you went back to Soviet Union, you can sense a a change in his painterly style,
which was influenced by Chinese watercolours and the landscape paintings.
So you and has he made them the chairman of the president of the Association of Water Colours and Landscape Paintings in Russia?
So it's using which you talked about that have some more works out he created after going back to Soviet Union.
The what he's going to say, his answers come to me as a white man going either the Thunder is the one you put out and when you die,
that's all you've got to answer. I actually purchased this work from a museum of his art.
To be honest, the museum didn't think this work really carried out.
His work carries that much high value.
That's since it has a swing by the courts, and this is a solo exhibition of his in Russia so that our Lord Jesus younger on his works,
if when that were created when he was old, it's about Typekit before he passed away and this is his wife on the right.
So that so so that you don't like someone who is mounting this one on one of his last paintings depicts a lonesome cat walking out of the window.
That's just a shame, you know? Michael, themoment that's a new concept is the Indian my on what in the night the man died?
It's almost the musicians. Attention to maximal achievements can still be seen today, evidently in the sense that his students and the students,
half the students are very active painters, sort of one of the best of the painters in China today.
So the father isn't just through the pandemic. This is one of the students in his class horizon.
Some mornings with Joshua, which he has its own sign,
which later become became the former the president of the kofar and also the current chairman of the Chinese Artists Association.
Of course, you move the buttons on this old time father ends up without home at a time when when Mr Ding
was maximal student and Maximoff did benefit things that he didn't handle his colour well.
And now it's just a thought that he wishes.
And this is a measure of student achievement and something which smacks of unspoken sort of highly of, yeah, he is Mr. Jones Yang.
He's now the vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, also chairman of the China Oil Painting Society.
So it's on some nice, honestly, Michael, that we get to be the one on top with stand for his graduation from.
Now, this is a shake-up, so news them and they always are gone is a student of Mr.
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I tell your story and then I thought she thought your young daughter took a chance on what you can see.
He was influenced by the socialist realism that kind of style.
But additionally, he started to create his own system of painting, which is to paint and oil painting on clean air.
So it wasn't all that. Also what sorts of loneliness the question then?
Or just do you have the only one? And that was whatever. I think things are so easy.
Yeah. So when I was a curate and work as a curator for sort of an exhibition,
I wouldn't have really include works of the Los Altos teacher while I indeed include try to include works by you without doing it as you've done,
because he is truly a contemporary artist.
So those are of one of his sheets, and for all these works, he carried a huge canvas on the side and to create a plumber on site.
Now do you have the most recent studio in good? And then Mr. toTELL Phase two student talks, Neil is out.
Don't say you is that it usually turns out it's also the time which isn't.
So you can see this is a story of generations and there is the the the master teacher and then the student and the student students and the students,
students, students. And so is the job and our thing.
So there you go. I will briefly. So these are the words I will give you more so than what you wow.
So that's why it's important day is that every time I did an exhibition of my collection of maxim of I would place intentionally
a flower in the very beginning of the exhibition and praising that he is really a master in Chinese art history of unions.
On the whole. He didn't have a very splendid destiny.
Its own. So always we your songs of what you want.
Because then the Sino-Soviet relationship deteriorated drastically after he went back to Soviet Sunni and those pants on with a hands on with it,
a 14 year old has his own smoke on the any.
So at the time, Soviet Union started to criticise China as very against it.
So once he, after teaching in China for a couple of years and once he went back to Soviet and he wasn't very,
very well received back to his home country,
someone I don't know what other and thought anxiety also has been because it's almost why people hope that it will also come the loss in Sicilian.
And so, on the other hand,
his students in China who already became the chairperson or to the president of certain high top tier of painting associations,
while they very much admired their teacher Maximoff. But since then Sino Soviet relationship deteriorated deteriorated.
They didn't dare to admire openly. Their teacher in China thought Yugo beating the cycle Vietnam.
There is another tragedy anti-Palestinian vitezslav there.
But again, that's some work. I the UK on some of these which are both women people, they are part of this fog war make war, as you call it.
Ha. But there are those in me and I'm think they'll go on to the also common condolence you on the east, which is the and the high you.
When you cut down my throat. And then the other tragedy is in the late 70s and early 80s,
when China experienced the opening up and more and more students painting students in China.
I got your sense to other Western countries like them in the Europe in particular,
and they got exposed, exposed to more so-called master western paintings.
And they didn't think that the socialist realism, which the maximum of taught were not as good.
So I don't know, of course, you know the humour that I don't like, but I never saw Tom Antiguo violent use whatsoever.
I came to the use of that one show to show us what sorts of young talent and why you don't you it open.
I see Google Shen. That is so one. It's a boy, sometimes in violence.
Why are you so much? And so so when I had an exhibition held exhibitions of maximalist paintings in China,
quite some of those painters in China, they were suspicious of my intention and suspecting that I was.
Making fun of his maximalist paintings, because while there are their immediate reaction is wild tire,
you are a contemporary artist and then you are you probably are not very fond of the painting as a traditional medium.
No, you both. That's all going to form, though. It's only on me yet. Todd Youkai this time came about as it was.
Yeah, and that's what I want somebody, etc. for one of the exhibitions of his paintings that I did.
I intentionally place it at a Central Academy of Fine Arts where he once taught,
and to place his maximalist paintings inside of galleries, which once held other painters.
The paintings no by utility on three continents, which it's in some yards.
When you can kind of do things that don't do what those are done terms with you exactly the loss and one.
And Mr. Jingsheng and Tenzing, who were as you remembered them, there were two immediate students half maximal.
They sneaked into the galleries of this exhibition to see his and the works of their teacher,
and it was very touched to see all of them because he immediately recognised lots of paintings were created by his,
his team, their teacher right next to them. Oh, I thought, Oh my God, don't be willing to hear what you yelchin come.
And so he put you in that way. And seeing that they were touched and happy to see the Earth, the paintings of Maximoff,
I invited them to to participate in a symposium surrounding the exhibition.
And since you got into it all, I'd say you see them in March.
But your design?
So a bit over 20 of these master painters in China, including Mr Gen-Z and Jean and Tim Shelley, they gathered together from cities across China.
This is also the first time the first the first one,
the first time for them together together after the master class taught by maximalist 19th sensitive Daniel,
which happened 30 or so years after the master class.
Your discipline. So now I will show you a short time ago at the time that now these are all on show after why
you are showing want maximal paint boxes and how many if we are to some key or painting.
US because lots of these world and his family and the museum were not keen to keep them, so they just give them to me.
I don't know where your cousins came at the moment. Of course, even though in the beginning I collected these at a very cheap price,
but very soon they got expensive and beholden to home sold in China was at some point you once or it could suddenly nurse society to the ocean.
And that's on the nice of a party. Although the ocean circulation Panopto you shared with you, right?
So here in the jungle, I thought, Well, could you had uterine lesions was a disease in the census and some woman suggested.
The one thing I thought you. Within the UK as a whole, it's again without it, we don't think we would models the party, George Yeah.
Put down your peaceful I, your your sister.
Those are the you we could win the game,
you had to play for the greater good hunger and fear to assume because it's so easy to regulate the mail until you are now with almost the I even.
Why do you ponder the maximum potential to ensure that your love becomes all you are to you?
Well, I thought had gone through vanish a woman at the time doppelganger, did you?
Well, mean you should continue to actually get what Charania make on.
We don't make you that party amongst you. Called out for punters to eat you up.
I walk since I and you're going to P-value.
My signal and I have an upcoming ministry.
What have how do you don't want to move in top position, which is, you know, if you're going.
Now, military. In fact, in see there not.
What is your look towards where you feel like you were?
Now, mind you, if so, why New York, there was a new excuse for.
But with the exhaustion, with the plea.
That's the end of the new Nimoy's culture and attitudes are not because, you know,
any kind of anti-business then than to the past and because that's what you do against that you can go to school.
Oh gosh, I sure wish I want to put it all out there in the negative of the other guy in Mikado.
How you do today, Gudrun.
Gender means a dignified Yiddish converted hockey way took a shortcut to pop a whole new kind of water against and especially Bushra.
So I know so to say I'm sorry, Sakuma you and hurt you.
You know, I never ask you to pick up on if I need your help.
You can move back on famously.
No, no. We are so stuck up over this to. So hold, I thought she found two go home, so mission should be shot.
So later I helped me realise renovation of this grave.
Monumentality coming the night, a suggestion you wear.
So I'm in the pool. Why not two minutes at all time Sunday morning?
Yeah, we thought of humans and Indians wouldn't wait for a long time for them.
Russian painting artist association than even then the local museums.
None of them were sure where Maximoff was buried.
Now you can double what we zoom. You know my question?
Marvel, since I'm a Christian, so I have been asking myself why.
I hope to find Maximoff, don't Congo.
My mission will know who it is with the outside. Since the so whether it's a census of whether it's billions, it's a mark.
Engines are the inside. You know you go wrinkly. Yangjiang in the courtyard is adopting gender easel.
Then of the Yellow Hall in May 2007 and she walked you, I guess.
And the answer might be that through Maximoff,
we get to see how an artist destiny and politics were interwoven closely related to each other and how the political change may
drastically affect the destiny of an artist and how he got maybe quickly forgotten due to specific political reason and context.
You can show that you can take some watch out, while on the other hand,
he might have had a profound influence on the whole generation and generations of painters in China.
But just due to the special political change, he got easily forgotten in his own country.
Which is unquestionable. Yes, is that she's a woman so easily to be in Iowa.
What it's so in the sense looking for maximum faces,
increasing the sense in pursuit of an artist destiny and ultimately to try to explore myself as an artist.
Now I'm young, so you go and you it, you can dance.
Yeah, I imagine so. Yeah, well, you young. By the way, you had both had this deal.
Could you just take it for you?
I know that's your business. I have a collection of roughly 270 seventy pieces of maximalist works of my collection that I truly hope.
The study and research related to Maximoff and his works can be continued through
various collaborations with colleges and universities in the world right now.
To hope get that out to him. So, yeah, so we can get so much hung the buttons on the way.
And lastly, I have a small surprise for you something new and also as hopefully an ending to such a whole afternoon of speeches.
Okay. Hopefully, this time the video will work.
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And you remember that in terms of, you know.
You know, were you in a ball, I would say I'm quite shocked you would I never turn down in the Queensland?
That's what reason you're not there once. So what do you mean?
Well, I'm sorry, Genesis, you come down on Mars. Thank you. Without being woken up by.
I saw it. I did order all that while then the security guards were always when no one from the museum really knew.
Years later, I met the museum director and to share this fascinating anecdote by the director said, Well, it's how you know.
I knew it immediately because my my, my staff side from the surveillance.
So we talk about partiality.
Oh, then it went on for a long time. We have no findings on this, and then we'll go to you about something.
So the guard asked a director, So what? What do we do? And the director said, Well, I'll probably just let him swim.
And then the guard said, Well, yeah, OK, sings them. The Eric A-C was very strong, so the what the ordering the pack must be called.
I doubt he will stay long and say, Well, that's only I can change ideas.
So I thought that means someone who sits on how you and you with your,
how you handle tensions on the higher and what sort of a job is it just who was without income?
It's I don't know, I mean, sort of ethos and it's done tidy up at one go.
So I hear a hope to express my gratitude all these years.
It's because of these, all of those museums and there are the directors, the curators,
and there are whole staff and all the supporters and then the donors who make those projects possible.
It was it's only because of their support that allowed me to go this far.
They still operate on me. So so what went down in allowing me to be able to make art history and art museums as my medium sedan me gotten higher?
So today here, of course. Thank you again. Thank the Ashmolean museum and the whole team and the curator, Sheila in particular.
This is your backyard and thank everyone.