(me) is not exactly certain of the scene he has witnessed in the painting. In fact, I question the relation and balance between female and male in my psychological perspective.
Pia: What do you think is the single most important factor in Chinese development? What has changed since Maoist times?
Gao: Today, I think that culture is the single most important factor in Chinese development. Compared with Maoist times, China is much more open and economically developed, but education and culture have not developed so well. China has emphasized the economy and ignored cultural factors and values in last thirty years. Now, this is the cause of many of China's problems.
Pia: Your work contains a curtain. Does the curtain signify that life is representation? That "all the world's a stage?"
Gao: Because I participated in three performance projects in Southeast Asia, I used to express my feelings on stage in my paintings. The curtain also provides a lot of meaning and feeling related to the sensitive psychological changes in different paintings. Pia: How did you come to be an artist? Where did you go to school? Where were you born? What part of China most LQÀXHQFHG\RXUZRUN" Gao: I was born in Kunming, Yunnan Province. As my father, two uncles, and an aunt are all painters, I studied paintings with my father when I was 10 years old. From age 3 to 7, I liked drawing on the walls, as high as I could reach, when my parents went to work at the factory. When they came home, they spanked me and cleaned the wall, but the next time they left, I couldn't help but start drawing again. From 1997 to 2000 and 2003 to 2008, I studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and received my Ph.D. there. The landscapes of Yunnan, Chinese literati paintings, and the traditional wall paintings of 'XQKXDQJDQG úúᓁԻ˧НὋ࣊᭦ෳႆὋ ԐዚY ԐዚὋ ࣱ 5IF%SFBNTὙ5IF4UBHF
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