Bu Hua Explained

Birth Name:Bu Hua
Birth Place:Beijing, China
Occupation:Artist
Known For:Digital Animation
Notable Works:Cat

Bu Hua (; born 1973) is a digital artist based in Beijing, China, best known for her flash animation works.[1] [2] [3]

Early life and education

Bu was born in 1973.[4] The daughter of a well-known printblock artist, Bu had an early introduction to art and in 1983, when only 10 years old, her painting Sun Bird Flower and I was selected by the China Post and issued as a stamp as part of a "children's paintings election" (special stamp T86). Following just a few years later in 1985, the Hong Kong Arts Centre hosted a small exhibition wall of Bu's work.

Career

Although Bu majored in painting while at university, she discovered her passion for animation through her interest in film, and found that "Flash can help people realize their dream of being a filmmaker."[5] An early adopter and pioneer of using Flash Animation,[6] Bu's Cat animation[7] went viral upon its release in 2002.

Influenced by seeing the work of William Kentridge while in Germany, she hoped to similarly combine drawing, painting and animation. In recent years she has developed a central character to a number of her video and illustrative works, based on Bu as a child. Through the perspective of this alter ego figure, her work explores the tulmultuous social landscape. “In modern China, how could you not be influenced by this fusion of West and East, this cultural invasion and ‘soft power’? I am just reflecting this reality."[8]

Works

References

  1. Web site: 10 Contemporary Chinese Women Artists You Should Know. Luise. Guest. 13 January 2015 .
  2. Web site: Digital Artist Finds Herself Through Animation (Artists). Lynne Wang. 16 January 2015. BEIJING TODAY. 20 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170518084451/https://beijingtoday.com.cn/2015/01/digital-artist-finds-animation/. 18 May 2017. dead.
  3. Book: Kunal Sinha. China's Creative Imperative: How Creativity is Transforming Society and Business in China. 29 August 2008. Wiley. 978-0-470-82385-9.
  4. Web site: Motion Pictures . MIT Technology Review.
  5. Web site: Bu Hua, Flash Animator. www.china.org.cn. 2016-03-13.
  6. Web site: Visual art: Paradi$e Bitch, best yet at White Rabbit Gallery. John. McDonald. 24 October 2015. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  7. Web site: Chinese at play defined in White Rabbit Gallery exhibition. John. McDonald. 19 June 2015. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. Web site: Material Girls, Super Starlets and Girls with Swagger The Art Life. theartlife.com.au. 2016-03-13.
  9. Book: Larissa Hjorth. Sarah Pink. Kristen Sharp. Linda Williams. Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region. 13 May 2016. MIT Press. 978-0-262-03456-2. 118–.
  10. Book: Matthew D. Johnson. Keith B. Wagner. Kiki Tianqi Yu. Luke Vulpiani. China's iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century. 29 May 2014. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-62356-847-4. 61–.

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