Chen Baoyi Still Life Oil Painting Work – Chrysanthemum
Painting Title: Chrysanthemum
Artist: Chen Baoyi
Painting size: 73*61cm
Media: Fabric, Oil painting, framed
Creation Time: 1989
Closing price: RMB 1,485,000 Yuan
The oil painting “Chrysanthemum” is an artwork created by Chen Baoyi in his prime time, not only for its size is the biggest one in his still life oil painting works, but also for its extraordinary manner, move people heart to heart, just as the remarks published on the Shanghai famous publication “Good Friend” on his painting style: “Fauvism style, who controlled his brush glibly and surely, applied colors simply, but full of rich and beautiful colors, whose skillful techniques always impressed and satisfied us greatly”.
Artist Chen Baoyi described chrysanthemum not only with its natural reproduction, but also take the of purification of spirits, which can not be grasped by those painters with weak sense of viewing and less ability.
The picture is full of a flow of sound and solid spirit that exceeds images. As ancient people has dreaming of “picking chrysanthemum under the hedges” , as well as plaints of “chrysanthemum in the film and seemed very sadly”, Chen Baoyi painted chrysanthemum was bound to having spiritual sustenance of emotions, seventy years of hardships or uncertainties had drowned so many celebrities and talents, the past is far away from us.
About Artist Chen Baoyi:
Mr. Chen Baoyi, who was born in 1893 in Shanghai and died in 1945, and origins from Guangdong province in China. In his early year, he has been to Japan to study western painting specially, firstly he entered into the Foreign Painting Institute of White Horse Chamber, then studied in the Tokyo Chuanrui Painting School.
In 1921, Chen Baoyi graduated from the Tokyo Ueno Fine Arts School. When returned home country later in 1925, together with Cai Yunpei and Ding Yanyong, Chen Baoyi established the Chinese University of Art, Art Academy, and charged with the Western Painting Subject with Ding Yanyong, and the same time acted as a Western Painting professor in Shanghai Picture Arts Institute, Rieter Campus Fine Arts Division, Fine Arts section at the Divine Land Ladies School, Xinhua College of Art, and acted as director and professor of Western Painting Department at Shanghai Art College. He also established a painting institute at “Chen’s Garden” in riverside residency and teach the students studying body sketch.
At that time, Chen Baoyi also together with Wu Shiguang, Wang Yachen built the “Oriental Art Association”, “Morning Art Club”, established “Mo Community” with Xu Beihong, Pan Yuliang and other artists.
Artist Chen Baoyi is adept at oil painting, whose painting style was tinged with post-impressionism style, it’s vigorous and sophisticated.
Representative Works: Oil painting “Dream of a Small Kid”, “Portrait of Master Hong-Yi”, “Self-Portrait of Chen Baoyi” and so on.
Chen Baoyi also had paid much attention to academic research, and has writings of “Study of Oil Painting Techniques,” “Study of Still Life Oil Painting,” “Figures Study” and so on.
In July 1945, artist Chen Baoyi died in Shanghai, China.
* Original address of this oil painting post: Stupendous Art World with Excellent Chinese Oil Painting Artists
