{"product_id":"16283-li-lei","title":"Li Lei","description":"\u003cFONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff\" size=4 face=Arial\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eAbstract painting was unknown in Chinese art, and it was not until the second part of the 1980s that artists in this country—most particularly in Shanghai— started to work in this relatively new discipline. Li Lei (*1965 in Shanghai), one of the pioneers of this movement, has created multifaceted series that explicitly refer to a kaleidoscope of philosophical concepts and role models from the Far East. For instance, in the \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eTao Series\u003c\/I\u003e and the \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eLandscape and Humanist Painting Series,\u003c\/I\u003e he explores the principles of Confucian aesthetics through the means of abstract painting. Just as Chinese landscapes were never exact depictions of actual landscapes, but instead embodied typical aesthetic ideals and were ultimately, therefore, depictions of metaphors, Li Lei also sees his abstract paintings as “landscapes of the heart.”\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44425512452360,"sku":"9783775724975","price":49.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775724975_ebee62f3-031c-4013-97ba-258d54e610b3.jpg?v=1744111039","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16283-li-lei","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}