Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victor Wang


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The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 06:32, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Victor Wang

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Although Victor Wang is a professor, he does not pass the notability test as seen here: WP:BIO Wozal (talk) 06:46, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Academics and educators,  and Artists. Wozal (talk) 06:46, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: China and Missouri. Shellwood (talk) 07:41, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The article notes: "Growing up in Heilongjiang Province in mainland China, Wang's earliest interest in art came, ironically, with the beginning of Mao's Cultural Revolution. When Wang was in the third grade, political cartoons were popular on the streets of his city, and he began to collect and copy the cartoons. ... After leaving the farm, Wang studied art education, became an illustrator for the Chinese government and then passed a rigorous examination to enter one of the top three art institutes in China. He graduated as a top student and was hired at the same school, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, as an assistant professor of art. In 1987 Wang was sent to this country for a year as a visiting scholar at Lu Xun Academy's sister school, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Then, unable to return to China for fear of being imprisoned after the Tiananmen Square incident, he enrolled in the graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis. He later transferred to Fontbonne College, where he received his master of fine arts degree and now teaches painting."  The article notes: "The human figure, as Victor Wang and Mark Weber note in the introduction to the show they organized at Fontbonne, has been at the center of art since early man first scratched something into the wall. ... The spaces Victor Wang invents with paint are full of light and life, and in his large Celebration of Life, you feel the breeze that is making the flames of the candles flicker. This celebration is a metaphorical one: It is not the sort of scene we associate with the occasions of joy, but rather is an account of a performance of some sort where two characters wear masks and everyone is clothed in ambiguity."  The article notes: "Victor Wang explores fields of opposites in paintings and drawings on display in the Garret Gallery. In both painterly and metaphorical terms, his art probes harmony and conflict. Wang, an artist from China who teaches at Fontbonne College, possesses a remarkable foundation in European naturalism and realism, learned while studying for his master's degree in Manchuria at the Lu Xun College of Fine Arts. He is fluent in the use of chiaroscuro, in which pigments and layers of transparent varnishes are built up on the canvas, intimating dimension as well as deep and variegated gradients of shadow and light. Pondering his large oil paintings of nudes, it's just about impossible to assign to it any overtly Oriental gestures. Technically, Wang's work brings to mind the European masters." McCloud, Kathleen (1996-05-24). "Wang mixes Western methods with Eastern ideas. From classical to abstract" (pages 1 and 2). The Santa Fe New Mexican. Archived from the original (pages 1 and 2) on 2022-07-25. Retrieved 2022-07-25 – via Newspapers.com. The article notes: "Stuck as a visiting scholar, somewhere between faculty member and student, he transferred to Fontbonne College in St. Louis. He received a master's degree in fine arts and currently teaches painting, drawing and design there. Now, he contends that he could return to China, but with an American wife and a daughter, he prefers to remain in the United States and teach."  The article notes: "His process - Large scale paintings - His dramatic figure subjects present engaging and enigmatic experiences for viewers. The large scale painterly pieces include small, subtle collage references to Wang's Chinese heritage."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Victor Wang to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 07:56, 25 July 2022 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep per Cunard and the page is obviously a Keep on a brief look. Not understanding why this was nommed but at least it gives a chance to do some editing on it. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:58, 25 July 2022 (UTC)


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