Contemporary Chinese Artist Chen Baoyi Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Chrysanthemum

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.

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Pan Dehai Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Honeymoon


Pan Dehai Symbolism Oil Painting Work - Honeymoon

Painting Title: Honeymoon

Artist: Pan Dehai

Painting size: 170*200cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2007

Closing price: RMB1,120,000 Yuan

Needless to say, Pan Dehai is a heavyweight in Chinese contemporary art circle. Fatso he painted in his paintings has deep philosophical meaning, everything in the universe are composed by the group-like particles, same as human bodies even the human society, therefore, mass object is the most suitable one for exploring more essential and more profound things, and fatso images in his paintings are full of relevance and symbolism.

Just like Pan Dehai said: Fat, is the subject I want to express, fat is a common phenomenon in today’s society, which is one of results of the modernization; Fat is the most obvious manifestation of urban syndrome, it is a problem exists in today’s individual life at any time, which is aggressive, possessive, it is the most lifelike and the most visual emblem of too many appetencies in the society.

“When many young people are keen on pursuing creations in the breaking traditions, Pan Dehai showed his strong penetration between the classical and modern, and between East and West” remarked by a critic on artist Pan Dehai. This is an unique artist, with his “Corn” and “Fat” series oil painting works rise in the tide of contemporary Chinese art.

Pan Dehai is just like an iceberg, who hidden his infinite power under the water, only exposed a small part to the outside. In his heart, there are something more intense and more complex. Each series of his works has granular clump elements inside, including the human body, is also an enlarged particle.

Pan Dehai said: “Each substance, including human, society, and even all components of the universe, the smallest unit of which is a molecule, it is particle. When to search something from the most basic composition, you may find something that basic, and the same time I felt there few painting artist had expressed this field successfully, I think this is a type of philosophical exploration, it is not only stay at the surface of things.

About Artist Pan Dehai:

Mr. Pan Dehai, who was born in March 1956 in Siping city, Jinlin province, China, skilled in oil painting and watercolor, graduated from oil painting at the Art Department of Northeast Normal University.

Engaged in art design in the Art Center at Shenzhen University, fine arts teacher at middle school of Yunnan Geology and Mineral Resources Bureau.

Representative Works: “Broken Corn – Coagulated Particles”, “Broken Corn - Back Mountain”, “Broken Corn – August” and so on.

Thesis: “Dialogue Between Imagination and Action”

Solo Exhibitions:

2001: Fat series – Pan Dehai Solo Art Exhibition (Shaoli Gallery, London UK)

1994: Pan Dehai Solo Exhibition (Beijing Goethe Academy)

Group Exhibitions:

2001: Boys and Girls (Simin Art Gallery, Singapore)

2000: Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition (Contemporary Chinese Art Gallery, London UK)

1999: 2000s Art Exhibition (Aker Dill France)

1996: “Now, Today and Tomorrow” Art Exhibition (Beijing International Art Gallery)

1993: “Mao” Walk to “Bope”Art Exhibition (Australian Art Gallery and Melbourne Art Gallery)

1993: “Post-89 New Art Exhibition” (Hong Kong Art Center)

1991: Oil Painting Annual Exhibition (Chinese History Museum)

1991: Contemporary Chinese Literature Exhibition (Beijing Chinese Painting Institute)

1989: The 7th National Art Show (Beijing Chinese Art Gallery)

1989: Chinese Modern Art Exhibition (Beijing Chinese Art Gallery)

1988: 88s Chinese Modern Art Exhibition (Chengdu Art Gallery)

1985: New Images Art Exhibition (Shanghai, Nanjing)

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Zhang Xiaogang Oil Painting Art Appreciation – A Big Family

Zhang Xiaogang Portrait Oil Painting Work - A Big Family

Painting Title: A Big Famuly

Artist: Zhang Xiaogang

Painting size: 100*80cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 1989

Characters in the painting have all specific tokens owned by Chinese people in 60s and 70s: family portrait photograph, Chinese tunic suit and unique physical characteristics owned by Chinese people – single fold, oval face, specific slack expression of a particular era, and there is also graphite brushwork which familiar with Chinese in the flat-drawing style of painting.

Zhang Xiaogang’s oil painting work captured a skeleton of the past era, it seemed that the kind of dull expression and alerted sights has frozen specific Journey of the Heart of Chinese people. For elders, this is a memory; For young people here has some kind of mystery that hard to explain.

Zhang Xiaogang’s oil painting works full of humanistic care is the best embodiment of sophisticated China situation reflected by contemporary art. Historical factors contained in his artworks are not only the mood of sadness and nostalgia. From the mid-nineties, he began to apply with the late modern China pop art style to perform stereotype portraits of the revolutionary era, conveyed a sense of collective mental memory and moods that carried meanings and significance of the times. This kind of typical presentation and simulation of society, collectivity and family, blood ties is a type of re-interpretation, which is departed from art, emotions and life, and hence have a strong contemporary significance.

About Artist Zhang Xiaogang:

Mr. Zhang Xiaogang, who was born in 1958 in Yunnan, graduated from the Oil Painting Department at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, ever acted as associate professor at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.

Now Zhang Xiaogang lives in Beijing, China and acted as a professional painter.

Zhang Xiaogang had participated in art exhibitions at home and abroad many times, his works have been collected by many domestic and foreign art museums, galleries and private collections. His oil painting works are the best embodiment of sophisticated China situation contained in contemporary art. In 1997 Mr. Zhang Xiaogang was won the title of “Contemporary Asian Artist” awarded by the British Coutts International Arts Foundation.

Representative Works:

“Family Portrait” series, “Tian-An-Men”, “Consanguinity: No. 120 Comrade”, “Large Family” and so on.

Main Exhibitions:

1985: Participated in, the New Realism Oil Painting Art Exhibition held in Shanghai and Nanjing, China.

1989: Oil painting work “Left Dreams Collection” shown at the Exhibition Hall at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.

1989: Participated the “China Modern Art Exhibition” held in the China Art Museum in Beijing, China;

1991: Participated in the’s “Do not Play Cards with Cézanne - Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibiton” held at Asia-Pacific Art Museum in California, U.S.A.;

1992: Participated in the “Guangzhou, The First 90s Art Biennial” held in the Guangzhou Central Hotel Exhibition Center in China;

1992: Participated works in the “Contemporary Chinese Art Research Documentary Exhibition” held in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shenyang, Shanghai, and Nanjing;

1993: Participated in the international traveling exhibition “Post-89 Chinese New Art Exhibition”;

1993: Participated in the “‘Mao’ Walk to Bop” art exhibition held by Sydney Contemporary Art Museum in Australia.

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Quan Shanshi Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Moutain Girl

Quan Shanshi Portrait Oil Painting Work - Mountain Girl

Painting Title: Mountain Girl

Artist: Quan Shanshi

Painting size: 100*10cm

Media: Oil on canvas

Creation Time: Unknown

Close price: RMB 586,960 Yuan

Mr. Quan Shanshi is one of typical oil painting artists with great influence in contemporary Chinese oil painting circle. He received a strict and systematic art education, has profound art foundation, as well as comprehensive culture training.

Oil painting works created by Quan Shanshi featured with concise art language, colorful, precise shape, unchained and ebullient brushstroke, and rich expression of updated feelings.

Oil painting works created by Quan Shanshi focus on the expression of verves and description of personality. He believes that realism paintings should pay much attention to realistic sketching, faced to daily life, and represent and create beauty from daily life, only in this way artworks can endowed with strong vitality and artistic charms.

About Artist Quan Shanshi:

Mr. Quan Shanshi, who was born in in October 1930 and come from Ningbo city, Zhejiang province, China. Artist Quan Shanshi is a descendant of Quan Zhuwang, well-known historian of Chinese history.

In 1950, Quan Shanshi was admitted to enter the State Art School (now the China Academy of Fine Arts).

In 1954, went to the Soviet Union and study at Repin Academy of Fine Arts of oil painting department;

In 1960, Quan Shanshi was awarded with the “Artist” title, and return home, appointed as the director and professor at China Academy of Fine Arts of Oil Painting Department.

In 90s, had been to Europe and the United States and East Asian to make observations and study, gave lectures and conducted art practice. His artworks had been invited to attend art shows held at home and abroad regularly and been collected by art galleries and museums.

Now Quan Shanshi is a member of the Chinese Artists Association; Committee of China State Commission of Education Art; Chairman of Zhejiang Oil Painting Artists Association; Professor of China Academy of Arts.

Representative Artworks: “Dauntless”, “On Jinggang Mountain”, “Loushanguan”, “Back on Jinggang Mountain”, “Tide of History” and so on. (Collections in the National Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History)

Publications: “Quan Shanshi Oil Paintings Selection”, “Quan Shanshi Sketches Election”, “Quan Shanshi Election of Sketch Paintings of Xinjiang”, “Quan Shanshi Selection of Portrait Oil Paintings”, “Quan Shanshi Collection of Paintings” and so on.

Edition: “Sketch Portraits of Russian Artists Sailov and Furubel”

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Liu Wei Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Scenery in a Dream

Liu Wei Expressionism Oil Painting Work - Scenery in a Dream

Painting Title: Scenery in a Dream

Artist: Liu Wei

Painting size: 49*49cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 1989

Close price: RMB 462,000 Yuan

A number of small paintings created by artist Liu Wei are seemed rather arbitrary, no matter dogs or children, or flowers and stools, landscape and people figure, all mixed up together by Liu Wei with a pen, who transferred them all into rotten garbage, as Liu Wei often said, he is painting ‘junk art’.

Here the painting shown is not to show the beauty of scenery, but to through his special painting strokes, flowing paint, and/or blank space left suddenly on half of the picture, as if it want to telling the viewers, this is not a painting for perfect scenery, It is just a small piece of scenery caught arbitrary with fingertips.

Artist Liu Wei’s ‘writing nature’ is to maintain a unique painting style all the way, which is ulcer-like and sticky complicated, trivial, it is a brush can produce decay and junk from any objects in the reality, it is just this type of painting style, formed the typical art style of Liu Wei, which featured with creating corruption from mystery and rather rotten.

About Artist Liu Wei:

Mr. Liu Wei, who was born in 1965 in Beijing China, and graduated from the Graphic Art department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, now is living in Beijing.

1994: participated in the 45th Venice Biennale, the 22nd St. Paul Biennale, Mao walking to Bop Art Show held in Australia;

1995: participated in the ‘China New Art Exhibition’ held in Germany;

1996: participated in the ‘China!’ Art Exhibition held in Germany;

1998: participated in the ’Made in China - Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition” held in Berlin, Germany

1999: participated in the ‘New Modernism in the New Millennium’ Art Exhibition held in San Francisco;

2000: participated in the “Chinese New Faces Exhibition” held in Sydney;

2001: Held a Solo Exhibition at the LOFT Art Gallery in Paris.

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Contemporary Chinese Artist He Kongde Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Tree


He Kongde Landscape Oil Painting Work - Tree

Painting Title: Tree

Artist: He Kongde

Painting size: 82*122cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 1984

Close price: RMB 27,500 Yuan

Artist He Kongde adhered to the creative method of realism, stick by the object while remaining personal style. He consider only use art techniques and artistic language people easy to understand can bring out communications between thoughts and emotions, and make people share the beauty feelings comes from the object, and attain to the purpose of the beautification and purification of minds.

During 40 years, He Kongde created and published artworks themed with major events China has experienced, and has caused great attention of Government and people. In addition to social themes and large-scale painting projects, He Kongde has painted a large number of portraits, landscapes, still life oil paintings and other original oil painting works which were not taken seriously. And the artist has devoted much more efforts in this area and also has gain more creative freedom, as well as more real enjoyment of art, and therefore he is like them more.

About Artist He Kongde:

He Kunde (1925.4-2003), came from Xicong city, Sichuan province, China.

In 1943, entered into National Chongqing Institute and study at the Fine Arts department;
In 1946, transferred to Sichuan Academy of Arts and study at the printing and dyeing department;
In 1946, joined the People’s Liberation Army and worked in the Cultural Troupe of the No. 12 army crops.
In 1951 joined the Voluntary army, and went to North Korea to engaged in fine arts advocacy efforts.
In 1955 was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts and studied in the training course of Soviet expert Maksimov’s painting;
In 1957, acted as a fine art staff at the creation studio of the General Political Ministry of Culture.
In 1962, was transferred to the Chinese People’s Revolution Military Museum to engaged in creating of Fine Arts.
In1980, He Kongde assumed the office of the deputy director of creation studio of the Military Museum and retired in 1987

Mr. He Kongde died in 2003, before death he was one of members and managing directors of Chinese Artists Association, as well as vice chairman of the Oil Painting Art Committee and national first grade artist.

Artist He Kongde is good at oil painting and watercolor painting. Oil Painting “Before the Attack” is collected by the China Art Gallery, oil painting “Military Commission Plenary Meeting” created with the cooperation of Gao Hong was awarded by the second prize on the 5th National Art Exhibition, and He Kongde had taken participated in the creation of half-landscape oil painting “Lukouchiao Fight”

Publications: “He Kongde Oil Paintings Selection”, “He Kongde Paintings Selection”

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