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Schubert
B. Wang is in the front rank of portrait artists from China. As
a young child, he was already creating likenesses of people starting
with a clay bust of his granduncle, one of the leaders of China
in the 1940s. By age 19, he had already won Best in Portraits
Award in a region of 4 million people. He studied with leading artists,
researched masters by extensive travel and participated in national
exhibitions.
Later, he served as the president of the Society of Fine Arts of
Beijing University and editor of the Palace Museum. In 1989, Wang
earned a Master of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro.
His
illustrations have been featured in many publications and on TV.
His paintings hang in both public and private collections, including
those of former Vice President Al Gore and the former Secretary
of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who praised his work as "remarkable".
Calendars of his works have been published in more than thirty countries
since 1994.
With more than 300 commissioned portraits to his credit, Wang defines
the people he portrays by capturing a transient moment and making
it extraordinary.
He is a member of American Society of Portraits Artists and gives
workshops on both sides of the Pacific.
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