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A different form of chaos, the chaos of color in Plus Sign 91-4, a 1991 painting by Ding Rong (Ding Yi): is this the contemporary version of the Taoist landscape, a landscape which, like the paintings of Ching artists, has no separation between the foreground and the background because the world is closing in, the landscape is a claustrophobic setting?
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Conceptualism is the name of another type of avant-garde art. It is art which questioned the new art forms as well as the older ideological forms in an attempt to destroy any artistic doctrine. That, too, has overtones of something attempted by Ching artists-you recall ShiTao's goal of painting without method. Huang Yongping goes much further. Destruction and cleansing are central to his art; in one work he puts a copy of "The History of Chinese Art" and "A Concise History of Modern At" (translated into Chinese) into a washing machine and then exhibits the paste-like result as the synthesis of east and west:
