J.D Art Studio ~ Introduction

Introduction

Prof. Jia Duan is an artist and filmmaker (animation and documentar) painter, writer. she grew up in a family of artists and scholars. she learned the art of painting since childhood. After China’s Cultural Revolution, as the first University students she graduated from Art Department of prestigious Beijing Film Academy 1982. Then, she went to China Central Music Academy to study music. From 1986, she started her own artistic film creation and gradually became one of the influential Chinese filmmakers of the fifth generation. And professor of Beijing Film Academy, dean of Animation Art Department. Since 2018, after retired, she settling in Vancouver, Canada as an independent artist filmmaker and painter.

This website are Jia's artwork including paintings, photography and short art films.

The painting are divided into three parts：

1, Paintings from my University period until afterward

Here are Jia's class assignments for my painting class during school. Includes portraits of oil paintings; and landscape gouache.

A girl of Yi nationality

Wooden boat on the Huang-Pu river/黄浦江上

Zhou village on the river/河流上的周庄

2, Paintings in China, before I came to Canada

来到加拿大之前

After graduation she worked as a animation director on CCTV. Then returned to Beijing Film Academy to do animation teaching and theoretical research. During that time, she continued to paint in her rare free time. Some changes in painting styles during this period of mine.