Contemporary Chinese Artist Chen Junde Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Late Autumn

Posted on January 17, 2012 by qianchh

Artist Chen Junde Landscape Oil Painting Work – Late Autumn

Painting Title: Late Autumn

Artist: Chen Junde (China)

Painting Size: 70*81cm

Media: Canvas

Creation Time: 2003

It is difficult to give an academic definition to artist Chen Junde’s art with any current art genre, although the landscape oil paintings created by artist Chen Junde have influenced the Chinese art circle for more than a decade. But there still one thing is certain, the lyrical landscape oil paintings created by artist Chen Junde is one of the most pure art in China painting circle, his representative works such as “Garden Door”, “Hills of King”, “Ancient Town in Yunnan” , “Waterfront”, “Autumn Morning” etc, all showing his unique and outstanding artistic intuition and consummated skills at oil painting languages.

As bright and loud and brilliant colors just like styles of Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, showing modest and grand elites that inherited in traditional Chinese painting, and as delicate as Cezanne, Matisse, Derain, those perfect color combinations all imbued with casuality and nuttiness as Chinese calligraphy. Artist Chen Junde inherited the fine characters of pure art very successful from his teacher Artist Lin Fengmian, Liu Hai-su, Yan Wenliang and Guan Liang as well as carried forward it deeply, he also transferred the western impressionism and Fauvism art style into the lyrical temperament which full of Chinese literati style.

About Artist Chen Junde:

Mr. Chen Jun-de, who was born in 1937, and come from Zhenhai city Zhejiang province, China. In 1960 he graduated from the Stage Art department at Art Institute of Shanghai Academy of Drama, now his is professor of Art Institute of Shanghai Academy of Drama.

He had held his individual art show in Guilin, Hong Kong, Japan in 1981, 1990 and 1992 respectively, he also took part in those important art exhibitions in home and abroad, he won prizes at the 2nd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition and the 8th National Art Exhibition, many of his oil painting works have been collected by museums and collectors from USA, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Main Exhibitions:

1979: Twelve Persons Painting Exhibition (Shanghai)

1980: Liu Hai-su, Guan Liang, Yan Wenliang & Chen Junde Oil Painting Exhibition (Shanghai)

1986: The 1st Sea Level Exhibition

1987: Art Exhibition in a Open China (U.S.A.)

1988: The 1st Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition (Beijing, Shanghai)　　

1991: Chen Jun-de Oil Painting Exhibition (Hong Kong)　

1992: Chen Jun-de Picture Show (Japan)

1993: Chinese Oil Painting Biennial (Beijing, Hong Kong);
         Shanghai Modern Art Show (Japan)

1994: The 2nd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition (Beijing);
         The 8th National Art Exhibition (Beijing)
　
1995: Chen Jun-de Oil Painting Exhibition (Hong Kong)

1996: The 1st Chinese Oil Painting Institute (Beijing)

1997: Shanghai Contemporary Artworks Exhibition (Shanghai);
         Chinese Art Exhibition – Contemporary Oil Painting Art Exhibition (Shanghai);
         Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition (Russia);
         The 12th Asia International Art Exhibition (Macao)

1998: Modern Chinese Landscape – Oil Painting Landscape Exhibition (Beijing) 　

1999: Chen Jun-de Oil Painting Exhibition (Paris, France);
         The 9th National Art Exhibition (Beijing, Shanghai);
         Shanghai Artworks during Five Decades Review Exhibition (Shanghai)

2000: The 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition (Beijing, Shanghai)
         The 8th Natiional Art Exhibition (Beijing)

2001: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition (Hong Kong);
         Chinese Landscape Oil Painting Art Exhibition (Finland)　

Publications:

“Chinese Modern Art Appreciation Series Books – Chen Junde”;

“Chen Jun-de Paintings Collection”;

etc.

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Li Jikai Oil Painting Art Appreciation – The Child on Mushroom

Posted on November 24, 2011 by qianchh

Artist Li Jikai Cartoon Oil Painting Work – The Child on Mushroom

Painting Title: The Child on Mushroom

Artist: Li Jikai (China)

Painting Size: 150*200cm

Media: Canvas, propylene

Creation Time: unkown

Oil paintings created by artist Li Jikai reflected a fable situation that a generation of the idea era now declined rapidly, and reproduced the self-form that belongs to the true meanings of this generation of paintings. As a representative of post-70s paintings, artist Li Jikai is a main practitioner of cartoon painting.

Let’s view at the oil painting work “The Child on Mushroom” created by artist Li Jikai, “A child at high place in meditation who is standing on a mushroom which is just the at height of this fable’s imagination. These kinds of pillars with fairy tale imagery all shown a picture of mechanical instability to empty, the image that a child standing on mushroom show a sub-balance feelings and the illusion status of daydreaming, at the high place with his foot vacant, but the child seemed t be no awareness of the danger of falling, he was in meditation just like a Zen master or a old person, aside from paying attention to his own inner meditation, he did not mind the ideal of the outside world. This ignorance of the child to the sense of falling to the ground, and the self-meditation status almost in an absolute state, that make the painting created by Li Jikai full of a type of surging visual power.

The inner world of artist Li Jikai is certainly not a happy world. Most of us, when think of childhood, the image appeared in the mind usually is children playing with teddy bears and plush lamb and faces covered with smile, or it comes to Chinese children, we would expecting a small sun who enjoyed all the love of his/her family members, but in paintings of artist Li Jikai, the leading actor is always a single child, who lived in a dysfunctional space full of rubble and gravel, or a moonlike environment filled with sadness and depression.

A disintegrating world besieged him, the only eternity is his aloneness: to walk or sit on piles of rubble, almost submerged by a flood, or take a rest at a desert full of rocks. His life was always full of danger, flooding, burning or thunder. Every detail of these images reveals a sense of desolation and alienation, and dissolved in a dripping monochrome surface.

The world of artist Li Jikai are beige, black and gray mostly, and the children under his brush were lost in a fuzzy state which make people thought of nightmare.

About Artisit Li Jikai:

Mr Li Jikai was born in 1975 and comes from Chengdu，Sichuan.　In　2004，he graduated　from　the　Oil　Painting　Department　of　Sichuan　Fine　Art　Institute，and　earned　a　postgraduate　degree.　

Main Exhibitions:　

2004:

Ideal of New Generation（Passage, Paris, France, Chongqing Art Museum）

He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen;　

2005:

Next　station: Cartoon?，

He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, Star Gallery，

Beijing; Post　1970s　-　The generation after market changes China，

Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai，Today Art Museum,Beijing;　

2006：

Naughty Kids:　the Chinese New Generation Born After 1970, Beijing Star Gallery.（Lot 1522）

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Wang Guangle Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Back Home(Series 2)

Posted on October 24, 2011 by qianchh

Artist Wang Guangle Realism Oil Painting Work — Back Home (Series 2)

Painting Title: Back Home (Series 2)
Artist: Wang Guangle (China)
Painting Size: 180*130cm
Media: Oil on Paper
Creation Time: June, 2001
Bargain Value: RMB 121,000 Yuan

Following the oil painting work “Terrazzo”, this is another oil painting work created by artist Wang Guangle in recent years, with white short lines distributed evenly on the dark background of the canvas, with subtle textile symbols to form the tension of artistic languages, and to build the “Sliced experiments” of contemporary art.

In the center of the painting, the creativity just like a floor plan, open a room, inside the room it filled with contemporary living fittings, and the half-naked woman lying in bed, become the most eye-catching part of the painting, perhaps it is a “sample” similar to the living condition currently; perhaps it put the amplified living fragments of the microscopic world into the world, regardless of whether it is true, a type of “Life White Paper” maybe exists, be placed into a paradox space that can not say it is absurdly, at this moment, the concept of time and space no longer is the point people take care, while status, dislocation, space constitutes a visual game that only contemporary people can take part in.

About Artist Wang Guangle:

Mr. Wang Guangle, who was born in 1976 in Songxi, Fujian province, China, and graduated from the oil painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, and now he is living in Beijing.

Personal Chronology of Wang Guangle:

2009:

“Wang Guangle” Beijing Commune
“Prague Biennale 4” Prague Czech Republic

2008：

AAC2007 Art China -Year Influence Artist

“Soliloquy: The Reconstruction of Art” Shui Mu Contemporary Art Space Beijing
“Thinghood: Object-related Thesis in Contemporary Art” Magee Art Gallery Beijing
“China’s Revision – Focusing Beijing” Museum Ludwig Koblenz Germany
“MoCA Envisage II: Butterfly Dream” Zendai Moma Shanghai
“Looking for Me” Minsheng Center for Contemporary Art shanghai
“Notes of Conception: A Local Narrative of Chinese Contemporary Painting” Iberia Center for Contemporary Art Beijing
“Toward the Post-abstract” PIFO New Art Studio Beijing
“The third A+A” PIFO New Art Studio Beijing
“Acdemic and Un-acdemic Ⅱ” Yibo Gallery Shanghai
“Blank2: Begin with the Beginning” Medium Art Center Beijing
“Post ’70s Art Archives” Beyond Art Space Beijing
“New interface IV” H&H Space Shanghai
“New Vista -The Post-Tradition Phenomenon in Contemporary Art” White space Beijing

2007:

Solo Exhibition “Coffin Paint” Aye gallery Beijing
“Refresh –Emerging Chinese Artist” Zendai Moma Shanghai / ARARIO Beijing “New Interface 3” Liu haisu ArtMuseum Shanghai
“Abstract and Narratability” Y.Q.K Art Space Beijing
“Blank” Ke Art Center Shanghai

2006:

“Visibleinvisible” Abstract Art of China Onemoon Art Gallery Beijing
“N12” No.4 C5 Art gallery Beijing
“Size Decide Manner” The First Biennale of 5×7″ Photography (Pingyao) TS1 Art center Beijing / PingyaoShanxi
“New Interface – Landing of Up Generation” Liu Haisu Art Museum Shanghai
“Unclear and Clearness” HEYRI Art Foundation Seoul Korea
“Cold Energy” PYO Gallery Beijing
2005:

Solo Exhibition “Waterstone” Onemoon Art Gallery Beijing
“Naughty Kids – the Chinese New Generation Born after 1970” Star Gallery Beijing
“Sleight of Mind” TS1 Art center Beijing
“N12” No.3 Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing

2004:

“N12” No.2 Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing
Won the silver medal at the “Ideal of New Generation – Chinese New Generation Artists Award Exhibition“ Shenzhen

2003:

“N12”No.1 Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing
“The Third Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings” National Art Museum Beijing
“Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes” Beijing Tokyo Art Projects Beijing

2000:

Graduated from Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
Thesis piece “3 to 5 P.M.” (2000) earned him the Dean Award and the first prize of “Wang Jialian Scholarshi
“The Second Factory Time” YunFeng Gallery Beijing

1996: Graduated from the High School Affiliated to Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Song Dong Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Song Dong’s Paper Wall

Posted on September 19, 2011 by qianchh

Artist Song Dong Modern Oil Painting Work — Song Dong’s Paper Wall

Painting Title: Song Dong’s Paper Wall

Artist: Song Dong (China)

Painting Size: 140*120cm

Media: Oil on Paper

Creation Time: Unkown

Artist Song Dong all along use a type of trivial, obscure way to re-show the Chinese family life and emotional status, and take a moderate, equal attitude to observe and show the “poor intelligence” around him.

Words From the Artist： 　　

With no color,smell and shape,water is the source of life,yet adestructive power as well.Water can be solid,liquid and gas.The three states of its existence have destined its poetic nature in away.When it comes to my diary,water becomes the important carrier of my spiritual life. 　　
　　
WaterDiary is a part of my life.I began to do diary on the surface of stones by using a brush and water in 1995, and the experience lasted for 12 years by now.Borrowed from the Nature,the stone is a part of me out of my body,on which I can write anything.I will return the stone back to Nature by the hand of my offspring,after I leave this world.

A piece of flat stone,a bowl of water,and a brush compose an easy set of fundamental elements for Song Dong.The only decision that the audience needs to make is simply to write or draw,or not. Telepathic communication functions between the author and them,and contemporary art becomes a unique way of introspection.This lifestyle sources both from the author’sperception of Nature,and the acknowledgment of the essence of Chinese traditional culture,and its though this work that he spreads his experience out.We assume in this way he seeks identification,because the acquisition of such a feedback equals to the obtaining of a purer peace and tranquility.To write or draw with water demonstrates the repeated circle of life,as from nothing to something,and from something to nothing again.Shall someone dare to discard all the elements to write and draw merely in mind with no trace,he maybe able to get ultimate pleasure of mentality.

About Artist Song Dong：

Mr. Song Dong, one of important contemporary behavior artists in China, who was born in Beijing in 1966, and graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in 1989, now he lives and works in Beijing and acted as a fine arts teacher at Beijing 41th High School.

Representative Works:

“Holy • Three Shadows” was Selected First China Oil Painting Exhibition;

Work “Hair Salon” was selected 7th National Art Exhibition;

Work “Participation” was selected Second National Sports Art Exhibition;

Work “Quiet Music” selected ’91 Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition;

Work “The Old Game “was selected Chinese Oil Painting Art Exhibition.

Personal Chronology:

2006:

Solo Exhibitions:
“Eat the city” (Selfrigdes, London)

Group Exhibitions:
“News”(Beijing Commune, Beijing)
“Only a Wall”(Art Space, Sydney).

2005

Solo Exhibitions:
“Best Use: Zhao XiangYuan and Song Dong”(Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing 798 Factory);
“The 59th Minute” (Times Square, New York).

Group Exhibitions:
“Only a Wall” (Beijing Commune, Beijing)
“Montpellier Contemporary Chinese Art Biennial”(Montpellier, France);
“Quiet Elegance” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo).

2004

Solo Exhibitions:
“Song Dong Solo Exhibition: Water” (Manchester Chinese Arts Centre, UK).

Group Exhibitions:
“Faces in the Crowd: Art from Manet to Today” (Whitechapel Gallery, London);
“The 26th Sao Paulo International Biennale of Contemporary Art”(Sao Paulo, Brazil);
“Insides and Outs: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition” (Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, France).

2003

“We are Together”(Beijing Today Art Museum);
“The 8th Istanbul Biennial” (Istanbul);
“Time: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition”(Pompidou Art Centre, Paris);
“How Latitudes become Forms: The art of the Globalization Era”(Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the United States).

2002

“2002 Taipei Biennial”(Taipei Fine Arts Museum);
“The 1st Guangzhou Triennial” (Guangdong Art Museum);
“2002 the 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial” (Queensland Art Gallery, Australia);
“2002 Gwangju Biennale” (Gwangju, South Korea).

2001

“Living at This Time: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition” (Berlin Hamburger Railway Station Contemporary Art Museum).

2000

“Song Dong in London” (Tablet Museum of Art, London).

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Gao Yu Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Dream of Jiajia’s Green Hair

Posted on August 10, 2011 by qianchh

Artist Gao Yu Cartoon Oil Painting Work — Dream of Jiajia’s Green Hair

Painting Title: Dream of Jiajia’s Green Hair

Artist: Gao Yu (China)

Painting Size: 140*120cm

Media: Oil on Propylene Canvas

Creation Time: 2004

Artist Gao Yu, who was graduated from the oil painting department at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. And all “Pandas” “feeded” by Gao Yu now are “pets” craved for by collectors. The panda images created by Gao Yu were expressed types of surreal, cartoon forms and acted ad the main image of his oil painting works.

This is “The Struggle of Contemporary Art” described by artist Gao Yu, in his works, “good” and “false”, “fine” and “ugly” have been confused with. And Gao Yu is the prominent in the group artists of similar ages, although Gao Yu done his creations only in the form of cartoon, but he get rid of all kinds of constraints that current artists are facing, and has opened a vast field in the contemporary art.

Oil painting works created by artist Gao Yu in the past two years have achieved a great success in the market. In 2004, the group oil painting “Growing Under Red Flags” created by Gao Yu stoke a bargain of nearly 20 million HKD at Hong Kong’s Christie auction house, since then, artist Gao Yu Asian becoming a well-deserved “child star” at the Asian art market gradually.” In 2006, at the Hong Kong Sotheby’s autumn auction, oil painting work “Read also Guess” created by Gao Yu bargained on nearly 30 million HKD, which also created a new transaction record among Asian artists of similar ages.

Artist Gao Yu, who was born in 1981, accompanied with and a group of artists of similar ages and themed with “cartoon”, are now forming the latest wave in the art circle.

From the Exhibition “The Young’s Spirit – Chinese New Prominent Painting Award” held last year at He Xiang Ning Art Museum to the recent series exhibitions titiled “ The next stop, is Cartoon?” held at 798, as well as the exhibition ”Low and Shallow Games – The Rise of Comic Generation”, both of the two exhibitions all pointed out clearly that “Cartoon” has become is a very important direction for the new generation of artists in China.

As Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara with their cartoon style oil paintings attracted great attention in the world, while China’s cartoon generation has risen later than in Japan almost 20 years, will there be someone can become an international art star in the future? Although now is not the conclusion time, we although can look through the auction lists this year at Hong Kong Sotheby and Christie and can see China’s cartoon type paintings have caused great concern in the Asian context.
　
About Artist Gao Yu：

Mr. Gao Yu is an outstanding artist in artists of similar ages, who was born in 1981 and graduated from the oil painting department at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. Although he only engage in the form of cartoon styles, but he get rid of all kinds of constraints that current artists are facing, and has opened a vast field in the contemporary art.

Claimed himself a “Crazy Stone” as Gao Yu, recently began to prepare his first solo exhibition “Specimen” in Beijing. As born in 1981 and has personal independence of conducts, Gao Yu soon be regarded as one of “styler” among the artist group of the generation after 80s.

Auction Statistics:

Total Lot: 21 works
Preview the auction: 1;
Traded Quantity: 18 pieces;
Open order: 2 pieces
Total turnover: 2,526,325 Yuan
Turnover ratio: 90%

Exhibition Records:

2002:

“Dreamland in Floating” (China Gangshu Community);
“Different Flower Reality”(China);
Chongqing Art Museum Opening Exhibition (Chongqing city, China);
“Attention” (Chongqing, China) 　　

2003:

“Young is Power” (Shanghai, China);
“The 2nd Guizhou Biennial” (Guiyang, China)

2004:

“The Young’s Spirit – Chinese New Prominent Painting Exhibition”(He Xiangning Art Gallery, Shenzhen)

2005:

“Next Station, is Cartoon” (He Xiangning Art Gallery & Star Space Art Center, Shenzhen);　
“One Cartoon”(Top Layer Space & Star Space Art Center, Beijing);　
“Self Building Trap” Contemporary Chinese Painting Exhibition (Shanghai ZhengDa Modern Art Gallery)

2006:

Gao Yu Solo-Exhibition (E8 Space, Beijing);
“The Sky of Bad Kids” (Star Space Art Center, Beijing　

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Chang Qing Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Still Life

Posted on July 11, 2011 by qianchh

Artist Chang Qing Still Life Oil Painting Work — Still Life

Painting Title: Still Life (Wine Pot and Rattan Fan)

Artist: Chang Qing (China)

Painting Size: 64*62cm

Media: Oil on Canvas

Creation Time: 1990

Signature: Chang Qing 1990.8 at Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy

During in the mid-nineties, oil painting works created by artist Chang Qing were well known in China art circle, at that time his painting style was undergoing subtle changes, now, a few years past, it seemed that we could be pleased to see that the change taken place on the artistic style of Chang Qing has been completed successfully, a batch of new oil painting works created by Chang Qing have get rid of the nostalgia moods which was very prominent in his old works, and filled with a very strong flavor of the times.

Artist Chang Qing, now no doubt has become one of important representatives of academy realism artist in contemporary Chinese young artists.

Before the first Oil Painting Biennale in 1996, artist Chang Qing began to focus on the people around him. He seemed to be waken up from tips of those thrown-away that has been look back at the real life level from that well, out from the “Still Life” space he created deliberately and back to the surrounding life.

He painted a groups of different people, and let these characters fade quietly in the traces of washing, but show unwilling to frustration. Just like his still life oil painting works are full of traces of “absentee” , these portraits always gives a strange sense of the story. As if the figures in the painting was at the moment has just been lit, and has not enough time to wake off from the confusion and callous status.

Artist Chang Qing applied the new realism technique with still life oil painting to the extreme, just as his personal exhibition titled “Returning Flee” held in Shanghai, it is a real style of “return” type creation of oil paintings, with a super-realism attitude, Chang Qing performed the high-purity of oil painting to the best, so that those boxes, teapots and fruits in the painting have been provided with all features of “photograph realism” .

Chang Qing, as one of famous oil painting artists at China Academy of Fine Arts, whose still life oil paintings and portrait oil paintings all have gained great appreciation in the China painting circle, who was enamored of artist Chen Yifei, as well as artist Xu Mangyao, Leng Jun with their special subtle and aesthetic classical art style, who is indeed one of representatives of “Photograpg Realism” artists in the Chinese oil painting circle.

About Artist Chang Qing:

Mr Chang Qing, who was born in 1965 in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, China, who was graduated from the oil painting department at China Fine Arts Institute, then left in the school and acted as a teacher.

Art Careers:

1987：Participated in the 1st Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition

1988: Participated in “China Oil Painting Exhibition” held in New York, U.S.A.

1989：Participated in “The 7th National Fine Arts Works Exhibition” and won a “Excellent Works Prize for the 50th Anniversary of the Foundation of the PRC”

1990: Participated in “The 1st China Selected Oil Painting Works Exhibition” and won a silver prize.

1993: Visit European accompanied with Chinese Artists Delegate and participated the Helm Mach International Art Festival and “ China Oil Painting Exhibition”;

Participated in “The 1st China Art Expo”

1994: Participated in “the 5th Exotic Paper Art Biennial” and “Duren International Art Festival Artworks Show” held in Duren, German;

Participated in “The 2nd China Oil Painting Exhibition”

1995: Visit America along with Chinese Oil Painting Artists Delegate, and Participated in “Oil Painting Works created by 12 Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Artists Show”

1996: Participated in “Shanghai Fine Arts Biennial”

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