Wang Huaiqing Author:Derrick Cartwright, Michael Sullivan, Wang Huaiqing Against his early training in Social Realism, Chinese painter Wang Huaiqing (born 1944) became a leader of "The Contemporaries," a progressive art group active in China during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The artist mines traditional Chinese material culture--furniture and other familiar objects--deconstructing the forms to create near-abstra... more »ctions.« less