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...Sculptor Lu Pinchang’s work is obscure and his presence is at first unimpressive, but the man is a giant. His life and his sculpture tell the journey that led Lu to his current monumental, eclectic style which merges eastern and western influences...
...came to this obscure location because, on that day, Lu Pinchang had come to give a slide show and lecture. I attempted to do some online research about the man, but was unable to find anything substantial since much of his website is in Chinese. For someone who knows precious little about the universities of contemporary China, his resumé was little more than a laundry list of accomplishments revealing nothing...
Along with Sweet, Nancy Selvage—Director of the Ceramics Studio—and Lena Lee—who speaks Chinese and is affiliated with the ceramics studio—I had an informal discussion with Lu. During the Cultural Revolution, Lu and his family had to move to the countryside because his father was a professor of geography and, like all intellectuals at the time, he was expelled from the city...
...Lu lived here until he was fifteen, at which point, in 1978, the government opened up the universities to all applicants and he entered the Jingdezhen Ceramics College having only a homeschooled education. His reason for choosing ceramics over any other artistic medium or any other lifestyle is remarkable in that—as far as he explained—there really wasn’t one. At that age, he had no great love for or experience in the art of working clay...
However, his father had told him that he needed to learn a craft in order to survive and to prosper in society and, as a child, Lu had shown proficiency in drawing and painting. While these two factors may not logically lead to a life of ceramic art, he nonetheless took the entrance examination and was accepted...