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[[File:Portrait de Zao Wou Ki.png|thumb|Portrait of Zao Wou-Ki.]]
'''Zao Wou-Ki''' (1920 – 2013) was a Chinese-French abstract [[painter]]. In his mid-thirties, he lived in Paris for a decade. Zao's works, were influenced by [[Paul Klee]], [[Henri Matisse]], [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[Paul Cézanne]] and the New York [[Abstract Expressionism|Abstract Expressionists]].
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Zao's artworks are "an exemplary reconciliation of Chinese and European aesthetics, in which the language of modern Western abstraction is enriched by a Chinese sensibility rooted in the past." [http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/zao/index.html]
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Zao was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in [[Paris]], France.
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File:Zao Wou-Ki, 连理, 1956.jpg|连理, 1956.
File:Zao Wou Ki, Untitled, 1957.jpg|Untitled, 1957.
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== External links ==
*[http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/zao/index.html Recent works.] The Marlborough Gallery on Asianart.
[[Category:Painters]]
'''Zao Wou-Ki''' (1920 – 2013) was a Chinese-French abstract [[painter]]. In his mid-thirties, he lived in Paris for a decade. Zao's works, were influenced by [[Paul Klee]], [[Henri Matisse]], [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[Paul Cézanne]] and the New York [[Abstract Expressionism|Abstract Expressionists]].
<blockquote>
Zao's artworks are "an exemplary reconciliation of Chinese and European aesthetics, in which the language of modern Western abstraction is enriched by a Chinese sensibility rooted in the past." [http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/zao/index.html]
</blockquote>
Zao was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in [[Paris]], France.
<center>
<gallery widths="250px" heights="250px">
File:Zao Wou-Ki, 连理, 1956.jpg|连理, 1956.
File:Zao Wou Ki, Untitled, 1957.jpg|Untitled, 1957.
</gallery>
</center>
== External links ==
*[http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/zao/index.html Recent works.] The Marlborough Gallery on Asianart.
[[Category:Painters]]