Modern Chinese ArtistsInteractive Timeline

Phase 02 / Comparative chronology

Postwar in motion

Move through the dates when art, migration, war, institutions, and memory changed one another.

1919-2014historical range6artist lives60artworks23context events
Selected year1953

1950-1959 / 5 visible events

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Current period

1950-1959

Select an event to place it in the focus panel.

Reading the field

A timeline is a comparison tool, not a claim that history moves in one line.

Dates make simultaneity visible. In 1966, Sanyu's Paris career ended while the Cultural Revolution placed Lin Fengmian and Wu Guanzhong under violent pressure in China. The same year did not mean the same history everywhere.

Approximate artwork dates remain approximate here. Historical entries identify nearby works as points of comparison, never as documentary illustrations of political events.