Qiu Deshu (Chinese: 仇德樹), born 1948, is a Chinese contemporary artist. He is best known for founding Caocao (Grass Grass) Group, an artist collective which endeavored to promote artistic originality, in 1979.

Born in Shanghai, Qiu Deshu (1948–2020) was one of China’s earliest professional artists in the 1980s. He received an early education in traditional Chinese painting, seal carving, and scroll mounting, and he began to engage in experimental ink painting in the late 1970s.

2012 Qiu Deshu, Ink Painting from 1980 to 2012, Michael Goedhuis Gallery, London, UK B-Cities: Solo Exhibition of Chinese New Painting by Qiu Deshu and Lin Jiabing , Tian Ren He Yi Art Center, Hangzhou, China

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出生于上海，仇德树（1948–2020）是1980年代中国最早的职业艺术家之一。 他自幼学习中国传统书画、印章篆刻以及卷轴装裱，并在七十年代后期开始进行实验水墨的创作。 一九七九年，他与画友共同创立“草草社”，这是中国最早的实验艺术创作团体之一。 “草草社”由十二位艺术家组成，提倡“独立精神、独特技法、独创风格”。 仇德树在这一时期的作品，虽然明显可见西方现代艺术观念的影响，但仍然取材于中国传统的图像资源。 仇德树是一位有天赋的画家和书法家。 他 …

Qiu Deshu was born in 1948 in Shanghai, China. He founded Grass Grass Group, a group of twelve artists dedicated to promote artistic originality in 1979. In 1982, he discovered the cracks in adversity and henceforth affirmed fissuring as his artistic language and philosophic basis.

2018年6月14日 · 仇德树是1980年后中国现代水墨的代表性 画家之一。 在中国大陆，他不仅因七十年代末就开始现代水墨的实验，并因强调自我意识、人格独立及书法中的抽象意趣发起了新时期最早的美术社团——“草草社”，而且在此后现代水墨的探索中，他是最富有挑战性、创造性和独特性的水墨画家。 相对于1980年代现代水墨运动的其他画家，他最早形成了自己的图式个性和语言个性。 富有意味的是，他的艺术成就首先被认同的，是西方的艺术评论家和西方的艺术市 …

Qiu became one of the earliest professional artists in China in middle 80s, now he lives and works in Shanghai, China. Since 1982, Qiu got inspiration from a crack on an old slate by chance, that’s when he started to create works for Fissuring series, he’s continued to study the techniques and deepened its themes in the past two decades repeatedly.

A dialogue between artist Qiu Deshu and AAA Chair Jane DeBevoise, on the occasion of the exhibition, ‘Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985′, curated by Kuiyi Shen and Julia F Andrews, and presented at the China Institute, New York from September 15 to December 11, 2011.

2022年12月15日 · Qiu Deshu received an early education in traditional Chinese painting, seal carving, and scroll mounting. His engagement with experimental ink painting began in the late 1970s. In 1979, Qiu co-founded the Grass Painting Society (Cao Cao Hua She), one of China’s first experimental art societies in the post-Mao era. The Society was a group of ...