Background Information: Yun-Fei Ji was born in Beijing, China in 1963, it is here, during the Chinese Cultural Revolution that he was raised and separated from his parents at the age of two. After being torn from his parents at this young age he was taken to a collective farm outside Hangzhou where he was raised by his grandmothers. This period of his life highly influenced to his art as he recollects memories the oppressed society enforced by the Mao Dynasty and of his grandmother’s telling him ghost stories and folk tales to pass the hours in the absence of television and radios. Experience: Later on in his life Ji started studying at various tertiary institutions, first he was accepted into the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) where he earned his BFA and discovered his unique style: “[finding] his voice as an artist” who created a way of exposing not only the dark side of the tyrannical …show more content…
I admire Ji as he has never shied away from his culture and is continually coming to terms with his identity. Analysis of The Three Gorges Migration (see image on following page): In this image Ji depicts “floating weeds” a name he made for migrants that he adapted from an ancient Chinese phrase as well as displaying bamboo shoots, rocks, a child pulling on their mothers’ shirts, a woman sleeping on the ground, families surrounded by piles of their belongings as well beast standing on the left side of the print. To make this painting into a hand-printed scroll, Ji worked with Rongbaozhai, a traditional printing and publishing studio in Beijing. Using over 500 wooden blocks to make this printed image it is approximately 9, 8 m long and 1 m high when including the silk ends. Historical