Tan Guanghui
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Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1961, a native of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. National representative bearer of Guangcai porcelain firing craftsmanship, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1979 he entered the Guangzhou Zhijin Painted Porcelain Craft Factory, where he studied the basic techniques of Guangcai under Ou Zhaoqi, a second-generation bearer of the craft. In 1986 he was recommended for advanced study in the graphic design programme of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, where systematic theoretical study enhanced his artistic cultivation. He has a thorough command of the application and expression of Guangcai techniques. Building on traditional colouring methods, he absorbed Western painting approaches in quantity and integrated them organically with the methods of Chinese painting, establishing a distinctive style through brilliant and resplendent colour, orderly patterns and fine brushwork. He is especially skilled in representing long processions of figures. Representative works include Man Di Jin Xiu Ren Tian Shou (Brocade Everywhere, Longevity Bestowed), Bai Ji Tu (One Hundred Chickens) and Bai Ji Tu (One Hundred Auspicious Symbols). In 1989 he founded the Guangzhou Huayi Painted Porcelain Craft Factory, where he trained more than five hundred skilled Guangcai practitioners.
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