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Fabienne Verdier (born 1962, Paris, France)〔(Biography ), FabienneVerdier.com〕 is a French painter, known for her expertise with Chinese ink techniques. ==Biography== Fabienne Verdier spent 10 years in China in 1980s learning Chinese painting when she was 20 years old. Verdier graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Toulouse in 1983 while studying Chinese at the Institut des Langues et Civilisation Orientales in Paris when she received a scholarship, but turned it down and requested to be placed in an art school in China to learn traditional Chinese painting. And by chance, Toulouse and Chongqing signed an agreement that linked them together and Verdier became the first exchange student between the two cities. In China, the Chinese influence she came looking for was not immediately accessible under the Chinese socialist rule and the recent Cultural Revolution. Chinese art schools' curriculum were developed around socialist realism and scholars versed in traditional Chinese arts, painters, calligraphers, sculptors seals, no longer meet the standards of socialist realism and were considered subversive. In order to discourage the practice of Calligraphy, it wasn't uncommon for a calligrapher to have a hand amputated. When Fabienne Verdier first arrived in China, the Cultural Revolution had ended, but artists continued to stay in hiding. In 1984 Verdier enrolled at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing. She met Huang Yuan, a Sichuanese calligraphy master and landscape painter, who reluctantly became a mentor. He believed women should not practise calligraphy. There were also language problems, Huang only speaking the Sichuan dialect. However, Verdier was eventually apprenticed to Huang for 10 years, before returning to France.〔 On her return, Verdier wrote the story of her years in China and was published in 2005 under the title "Passenger silence: ten years of initiation in China" published by Albin Michel. Back in France, Verdier revisited western art by going to the museums and rediscovered European painters. She draws her inspirations from Flemish painters such as Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck. Based on her studies of their works, in 2013 she had an exhibition at Brugge’s Groeningemuseum, where she was the first contemporary artist to be housed in the permanent collection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://visitbruges.be/event/fabienne-verdier-hulde-aan-de-vlaamse-meesters )〕 Fabienne Verdier lives and works at Vexin near Paris.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fabienne Verdier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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