A three-quarter length, life-size portrait of Shakespeare by Liu Bingliang, 2004. On scroll-rolls. Produced for the final show, on October 28th 2004, in a series of events in Liaoning Province, China which celebrated the 440th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
STRST : SBT 2005-4
2004
William Shakespeare (1564-1616). An English playwright and poet of the Renaissance period. Born to a merchant family and once worked as a stagehand, actor and producer. His existing works are 37 plays, 2 long poems and 154 sonnets. The principal plays are comedies (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice), histories (Richard III, Henry IV) and tragedies (Romeo Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Timon of Athens). / Most of his plays are based on historical legends and already existing plays. He created a lot of characters with well-defined personalities. The plays describe the collapse of the English feudal system, the conflict among different social forces during the rise of capitalism, the advocacy of the liberation of the individual, the opposition to feudal bondage and religious oppression, and the reflection of humanism at the budding stage of capitalism. The plots of his plays are lively and rich, and the language is beautiful and concise. They have had a great influence on the development of European literature and drama. / This painting commissioned for the 440th Birthday Anniversary of Shakespeare, the great English dramatist and poet, is painted by Liu Bingliang of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China in September 2004.,
China - Liaoning Province
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