Zhang Qikai

(b.1950)

Zhang Qikai was born in the Sichuan province in 1950 and moved to Chongqing with his family in 1953. He learned painting form his elder brother and, as a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, he began to paint huge portraits of Mao Zedong. In 1980 he was a founding member, along with his contemporaries Luo Zhongli, He Duoliing, Zhang Xiaogang and Ye Yongqing, of the ‘Weed Society'.

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