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Li Cao

Li Cao (Born 1954) is active/lives in China.  Li Cao is known for Painting.

Cao Li is a contemporary Chinese artist whose paintings, like poetry, are combinations of the imaginary and reality. Sometimes he feels as if he lives in a dream world, his paintings being a reflection of this world.  The recurrent themes in Cao Li's paintings are the horse, the birds, the musicians and the naked figure; the horse because he is born the Year of the Horse, the birds because they represent the absolute freedom, the musicians because he has not been one since childhood, and the naked character because for him he represents the dream state.  He focuses on the angularity of horse bodies while drawing inspiration from a unique Chinese device practiced in traditional brush painting that allows the viewer to see the subject from a multi-level perspective.  The fluidity of the shots Brush adds yet another reference to the traditional painting "guohua" (brush).

Cao Li was born in 1954 in Guizhou, Guiyang Province, where he attended primary and secondary   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2207 characters.]  Artist bio

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