Editing Chinese art (section)

===Redevelopment (mid-1980s – 1990s)===

====Contemporary art====
{{See also|The Stars Art Group}}
Contemporary Chinese art ({{lang-zh|c=中國當代藝術|p=Zhongguo Dangdai Yishu}}) often referred to as Chinese avant-garde art, continued to develop since the 1980s as an outgrowth of modern art developments post-Cultural Revolution.
[[File:Chinese-han-yajuan-FashionEnsemble.jpg|450px|thumb|left|[[Han Yajuan]]: Fashion Ensemble. Oil on canvas, 2010 (180 cm × 360 cm).]]
Contemporary Chinese art fully incorporates painting, film, video, photography, and performance. Until recently, art exhibitions deemed controversial have been routinely shut down by police, and performance artists in particular faced the threat of arrest in the early 1990s. More recently there has been greater tolerance by the [[Government of the People's Republic of China|Chinese government]], though many internationally acclaimed artists are still restricted from media exposure at home or have exhibitions ordered closed. Leading contemporary visual artists include [[Ai Weiwei]], [[Cai Guoqiang]], [[Cai Jin]], [[Chan Shengyao]], [[Concept 21]], [[Ding Yi (artist)|Ding Yi]], [[Fang Lijun]], [[Fu Wenjun]], [[He Xiangyu]], [[Huang Yan (artist)|Huang Yan]], [[Huang Yong Ping]], [[Han Yajuan]], [[Kong Bai Ji]], [[Li Hongbo]], [[Li Hui (artist)|Li Hui]], [[Liu Bolin]], [[Lu Shengzhong]], [[Ma Liuming]], [[Qiu Deshu]], [[Qiu Shihua]], [[Shen Fan]], [[Shen Shaomin]], [[Shi Jinsong]], [[Song Dong]], [[Li Wei (artist)|Li Wei]], [[Wang Guangyi]], [[Wenda Gu]], [[Xu Bing]], [[Yang Zhichao]], [[Zhan Wang]], [[Zheng Lianjie]], [[Zhang Dali]], [[Zhang Xiaogang]], [[Zhang Huan]], [[Zhu Yu (artist)|Zhu Yu]], [[Wu Shaoxiang]], [[Ma Kelu]], [[Ding Fang]], [[Shang Yang (artist)|Shang Yang]], [[Gao Minglu]] and [[Guo Jian]].

====Visual art====
Beginning in the late 1980s, there was unprecedented exposure for younger Chinese visual artists in the west to some degree through the agency of curators based outside the country such as [[Hou Hanru]]. Local curators within the country such as [[Gao Minglu]] and critics such as [[Li Xianting]] reinforced this promotion of particular brands of painting that had recently emerged, while also spreading the idea of art as a strong social force within Chinese culture. There was some controversy as critics identified these imprecise representations of contemporary Chinese art as having been constructed out of personal preferences, a kind of programmatized{{clarify|date=May 2023|reason=what does "programmatized" mean?}} artist-curator relationship that only further alienated the majority of the avant-garde from Chinese officialdom and western art market patronage.