early life and education chen yifei, a renowned chinese painter, art director, and film director, was born on april 12, 1946, in ningbo, china. he began his artistic journey at the high school for art in shanghai, graduating in 1964, followed by the shanghai training school of art (also known as the shanghai college of art) in 1965. this marked the beginning of his focus on oil painting. rise to prominence chen's talent and mastery of oil painting techniques won him recognition by the authorities, despite being denounced for "capitalist behavior." he became a central figure in the development…
A chart of chen yifei's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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