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Michael
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Painted as a direct, front-facing self-portrait, a young Chinese woman with straight, dark hair cut short looks slightly past us, her expression calm and unsmiling. Her skin appears light to medium in tone, modeled with soft planes rather than sharp outlines. She wears a pale yellow, collared blouse or coat that catches cool light at the shoulder and neckline. Behind her, a muted gray-beige background stays nearly empty, so her face and garment hold the composition. Brushwork is restrained and matte, with subtle shifts of pink, olive, and lavender shaping the cheeks and lips. The cropped framing of her head and upper torso feels intimate, like a private study held close. Chinese artist Liu Ziming lost her hearing as a child and later simply used the name Ziming (meaning “self-sounding”), turning identity into a kind of quiet manifesto. Born in Kunming, Liu Ziming’s name (刘自鸣 / 劉自鳴) is and the meaning of Ziming is a poignant echo of her early childhood hearing loss and her commitment to painting as a voice. After training in Beijing and studying in Paris (Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École des Beaux-Arts), she returned to China in the mid-1950s. This 1961 self-portrait can be interpreted as a blending of Paris technique, Chinese modern life, and a woman artist insisting on her own gaze. CAFA is the Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美术学院), and this work’s presence at the CAFA Art Museum (中央美术学院美术馆) places her within the academy’s larger story of modern Chinese art. CAFA curators note that this self-portrait hung in her living room through out her life, suggesting it was not only a public depiction of herself, but a daily companion … and likely proof that, as a saying in her biographies puts it, “when one door closes, another opens” … here, through paint.

Painted as a direct, front-facing self-portrait, a young Chinese woman with straight, dark hair cut short looks slightly past us, her expression calm and unsmiling. Her skin appears light to medium in tone, modeled with soft planes rather than sharp outlines. She wears a pale yellow, collared blouse or coat that catches cool light at the shoulder and neckline. Behind her, a muted gray-beige background stays nearly empty, so her face and garment hold the composition. Brushwork is restrained and matte, with subtle shifts of pink, olive, and lavender shaping the cheeks and lips. The cropped framing of her head and upper torso feels intimate, like a private study held close. Chinese artist Liu Ziming lost her hearing as a child and later simply used the name Ziming (meaning “self-sounding”), turning identity into a kind of quiet manifesto. Born in Kunming, Liu Ziming’s name (刘自鸣 / 劉自鳴) is and the meaning of Ziming is a poignant echo of her early childhood hearing loss and her commitment to painting as a voice. After training in Beijing and studying in Paris (Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École des Beaux-Arts), she returned to China in the mid-1950s. This 1961 self-portrait can be interpreted as a blending of Paris technique, Chinese modern life, and a woman artist insisting on her own gaze. CAFA is the Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美术学院), and this work’s presence at the CAFA Art Museum (中央美术学院美术馆) places her within the academy’s larger story of modern Chinese art. CAFA curators note that this self-portrait hung in her living room through out her life, suggesting it was not only a public depiction of herself, but a daily companion … and likely proof that, as a saying in her biographies puts it, “when one door closes, another opens” … here, through paint.

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