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Zhang Xiaotao (born 1970 in Hechuan, Chongqing, China), is a Chinese painter based in Beijing and Chengdu. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts () in 1996. He then became a teacher in the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu and this lasted from 1996 to 2009. In 2010 Xiaotao taught in the New Media Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Now he lives and works in Beijing and Chongqing. Zhang makes paintings with sexual imagery often involving small animals such as frogs and snakes,〔Coleman, S, (Zhang Xiao Tao ), from (AsiaArtNow.com )〕 and incorporating images of putrefaction and pollution.〔Franklin, J, (An Entropic Vision ), (Shine Art Space ), Shanghai〕 His work ''Condom Series: Enlarged Props – Crystal And Fishes 2'' sold for US$64,500 at Sothebys Hong Kong in 2007. 〔(Auction results ) from (AskArt.com )〕 ==Near death experiences== When Xiaotao was 7 he visited the shore of the powerful Yangtze River, where he was playing with his friends. His brother's friend pulled young Xiaotao into the current, just messing around, but soon lost control and had to swim ashore. Xiaotao remained out in the water and almost drown before an adult who could brave the current came to his rescue. That tentative, struggling moment between life and death influences the artist's work expansively. His watery paint-strokes summon additional, related junctures of mortal existence: the point between conception and life, the limbo between death and afterlife, the suspension of time during coital climax. Xiaotao had an additional swimming accident, that too at the age of 7. Xiaotao now has frequently recurring dreams about drowning which, coupled with his accidents, most likely accounts for all the water imagery in his work. 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「Zhang Xiaotao」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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