Connoisseurship and the Market: Chinese Paintings

Item	Price	Quantity	Total	Remove
The Art Business Certificate Module 2 – The art Market	£1,000.00		£2,000.00
The Art Business Certificate Module 2 – The art Market	£1,000.00		£2,000.00

Overview

In this half day course, an art historian will speak on the historical context and aesthetic concepts that are key to understanding and appreciating Chinese paintings.

This course concludes with a guided tour, where a specialist will offer insights into the market and the latest collecting trends.

The Robert Chang Art Education Charitable Foundation Presents

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Schedule

27 May 14:30-17:45 (GMT+8)

Lecture by Dr. Elaine Kwok | How to Appreciate Chinese Traditional Ink Paintings from Artistic-Aesthetic Perspective
Lecture by Dr. Elaine Kwok | The Social-Historical Framework for Understanding the Evolution of Chinese Paintings Before 1900
Guided Tour with Sophia Zhou | Christie’s Specialist Guided Tour: Chinese Paintings Highlights at Christie’s Spring Auctions

*Schedule and topics are subject to change.

Speakers

Dr. Elaine Kwok
Part-time Lecturer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Kwok, Yin Ning (Elaine) obtained her PhD, MPhil degree, and BA degree (double majors) from the University of Hong Kong. Currently, she teaches three MA courses on Western and Chinese art history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The two MA courses on Chinese art history (before and after 1900) have been taught by her since 2014. She also taught four survey and thematic courses on contemporary Western art history for a BA program at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (offshore campus in Hong Kong) during 2014-2017. For Christie’s Education (Asia) she has taught Western art history on various topics since 2014. Her research interests embrace art history and aesthetics (Western and Chinese), and cross-cultural interaction history between Europe and China. On these subjects, her publications appear in academic journals and publishing institutes including Grove Dictionary of Art, Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press.

Sophia Zhou
Specialist, Chinese Paintings
Christie's New York

Sophia Zhou is a Specialist in the Chinese Paintings Department based in New York. Since joining Christie’s in 2014, she has researched, catalogued, appraised and consigned Chinese paintings across the classical, modern and contemporary ink categories, contributing to the sales of important private collections. Sophia graduated from University College London with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History of Art and holds a Master of Arts from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.