Artists & Inspiration
The Artistic Ambition of Shanghai Advertising
When Commercial Art Became Fine Art ~ Article 6 Beyond Selling the Product Having explored origins, fashion, modern life and artists, we…
Every Artist Leaves a Fingerprint
Learning to Recognize the Hands That Painted Shanghai ~ Article 5Behind Every Beautiful Woman Was an Artist Shanghai calendar posters can easily…
Shanghai Advertising Art: Posters that Sold a Dream
Posters Sold more than Products — They Sold the Dream of Modern Living ~ Article 4 SKU: MI-2121 – Hu Boxiang From…
How Advertising Created the Face of a New China
Painting the Modern Woman ~ Article 3More Than Beautiful Faces In our previous article we explored how Shanghai became China's great center…
Shanghai Transformed Advertising
"How one city transformed advertising into art." ~ Article 2From Experiment to IdentityThe first article explored the early artistic language that emerged…
Before Shanghai: Early Chinese Advertising Posters
Ask most collectors where Chinese advertising posters began, and the answer is almost always Shanghai. It is an understandable assumption. By the…
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