Bu Hua
Bu Hua | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bu Hua 1973 (age 50–51) Beijing, China |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Known for | Digital Animation |
| Notable work | Cat |
| Chinese name | |
| Simplified Chinese | 卜桦 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Bǔ Huà |
| Wade–Giles | Pu3 Hua4 |
| IPA | [pùxwâ] |
Bu Hua (卜桦; born 1973) is a digital artist based in Beijing, China, best known for her flash animation works.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Bu was born in 1973.[4] The daughter of a well-known printblock artist, Bu had an early introduction to art and in 1983, when only 10 years old, her painting Sun Bird Flower and I was selected by the China Post and issued as a stamp as part of a "children's paintings election" (special stamp T86). Following just a few years later in 1985, the Hong Kong Arts Centre hosted a small exhibition wall of Bu's work.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Although Bu majored in painting while at university, she discovered her passion for animation through her interest in film, and found that "Flash can help people realize their dream of being a filmmaker."[5] An early adopter and pioneer of using Flash Animation,[6] Bu's Cat animation[7] went viral upon its release in 2002.
Influenced by seeing the work of William Kentridge while in Germany, she hoped to similarly combine drawing, painting and animation. In recent years she has developed a central character to a number of her video and illustrative works, based on Bu as a child. Through the perspective of this alter ego figure, her work explores the tulmultuous social landscape. “In modern China, how could you not be influenced by this fusion of West and East, this cultural invasion and ‘soft power’? I am just reflecting this reality."[8]
Works
[edit]- Cat (2002), Flash[4]
- Savage Growth (2008), Flash[9]
- Maomao's Summer[10]
- Wisdom, Picture book,
- The Best Has Already Come (2017)
References
[edit]- ^ Guest, Luise (13 January 2015). "10 Contemporary Chinese Women Artists You Should Know".
- ^ Lynne Wang (16 January 2015). "Digital Artist Finds Herself Through Animation (Artists)". BEIJING TODAY. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ Kunal Sinha (29 August 2008). China's Creative Imperative: How Creativity is Transforming Society and Business in China. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-82385-9.
- ^ a b "Motion Pictures". MIT Technology Review.
- ^ "Bu Hua, Flash Animator". www.china.org.cn. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
- ^ McDonald, John (24 October 2015). "Visual art: Paradi$e Bitch, best yet at White Rabbit Gallery" – via The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ McDonald, John (19 June 2015). "Chinese at play defined in White Rabbit Gallery exhibition" – via The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ "Material Girls, Super Starlets and Girls with Swagger | The Art Life". theartlife.com.au. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
- ^ Larissa Hjorth; Sarah Pink; Kristen Sharp; Linda Williams (13 May 2016). Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region. MIT Press. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-0-262-03456-2.
- ^ Matthew D. Johnson; Keith B. Wagner; Kiki Tianqi Yu; Luke Vulpiani (29 May 2014). China's iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-1-62356-847-4.
