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Fang Li-jun Cynicism Realism Oil Painting Work – No Tilte

Painting Title: No Title

Artist: Fang Li-jun

Painting size: 120*270cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2004-12

As one of important representatives the new artistic trend of China after 89s, Artist Fang Li-jun has created an unique mode of saying together with other artists in this trend, that is Cynical Realism, among them, the “Bald Popi” image created by Fang Li-jun in his series of oil painting works created since 1988, has become a type of classic language symbols, which marked a type of survived feeling of humdrum mood and Popi humor which were prevailing at  the late 80’s and half of early 90’s in China, more broadly, it marked thehumanistic and psychological feelings of contemporary people broadly.

Perhaps, both the East and West, contemporary intellectuals all have become a bit more Popi, because, as we faced to in the world today, we felt helpless and dismayed more and more, and we are no longer done as people in Franz Kafka and Jiekemeidi time, who can through revealing the absurd existence to give vent to their inner depression when feel the oppression come from the environment, and marked their own independent will. Today we almost can not distinguish the limits between us with the environment, the independence we considered, maybe just a result of a certain type of environment, we laugh at the world, perhaps just laugh at ourselves, then we have no other choice but to become a Popi..

About Artist Fang Li-jun:

Mr. Fang Li-jun, who was born in December 4, 1963 in Handan city, Hebei province, China;

In 1980 graduated from Handan School for Children of Railway Workers;In 1983 graduated at the Ceramic Fine Arts Department at Hebei School ofLight Industry;In 1989 graduated at the Print Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts; In 2004 was employed as a visiting professor by the Fine Arts Institute at Jilin Art Academy

Now Mr. Fang Li-jun is living in Beijing and acted as a professional artist.

Main Participated Exhibitions:

1984: The 6th National Art Show (Guangzhou);

1992: China Avant-Garde Art Show;

1995: Our Century (Ludwig Museum, German)

1996: Talk with China (Ludwig Forum, AACHEN German)

2001: New Image of Modern Painting  

2002: Guangzhou Modern Art Show Triennial (Guangdong Art Gallery, Guangzhou)

2003: Alors, La Chine (Pompidou Center, Paris)

2003: An Open Times (China Art Gallery, Beijing)

2005: New Work/New Acquisitions (MOMA, New York)

2007: China-Facing Reality? Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Modern Museum, Vienna)

2007: Cina XXI secolo. Arte fra identità e trasformazione?the Palazzo delle Esposizionz (Rome)

2007: China Modern Art Literature Show (Beijing)

2007: Athens – Modern Art from China Show (Greece National Modern Art Center, Athens)

2007: Facing China (Akureyri Gallery, Iceland)

2007: Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection (San Francisco Modern Art Gallery, U.S.A.)

2007: Berlin Asian Art Museum Show (Berlin Asian Art Museum, German)

2008: Dreams – 2008 Asian Art Biennial (Guan’du Art Gallery at State Taipei Art University, Taipei)

2008: Avant-Garde China – China Modern Art in Twenty Years (State International Art Gallery, Osaka Japan).

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Yue Minjun Cynicism Realism Oil Painting Work – Us

Painting Title: Us

Artist: Yue Minjun

Painting size: 170*140cm

Media: Paper, Oil painting

Creation Time:2005

In the past 10 years, Yue Minjun with his vivid image and style characteristics has occupied a unique place in contemporary China art circle. This position is not only an enlarged “self-image” location, but also revealed some a character of market-oriented trade mark clearly. In Yue Minjun’s art, the”self-image” enlargement turn into a marketing strategy. Here, the “self-image” is not only a cultural referent, but also the most important fresh element under the conditions of market economy. This is the channel to understand the development of contemporary Chinese art since the 90s, while Yue-jun art is just standing on the mouth of this channel.

About Artist Yue Minjun:

Mr. Yue Minjun, who was born in 1962 in Heilongjiang province, China; In 1989 he graduated from the Fine Arts Department at Hebei Normal University, and then acted as a professional artist; In 1992 he participated in the “Beijing University Modern Art Show”(held in Beijing); In 1996 participated in the “ China! Modern Art Road Show”(held in Bonn and so on); In 1999 participated in “the 48th Venice Biennial” (held in Italy), and artist Yue Minjun was been recognized as one of  “F4”  of contemporary Chinese modern art. 

Individual Exhibitions:

2000: “Red Sea – Yue Minjun Artworks Show” – by London Contemporary Chinese Art Gallery in UK

2002: “Bathing in Horselaughing” – by Simin Art Garden in Singapore

2002: “Yue Minjun Artworks Show – Disposal” – by Shifang Art Center in China

2003: “Yue Minjun Artworks Show” – by Myle Art Garden in Swiss

2003: “Yue Minjun: Irony of Beijing” – by Pruss & Ochs Gallery in Berlin, Germany

2004: “Yue Minjun: Sculpture and Oil Painting Works Show” – by Shaoli Gallery in Hong Kong.

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Liu Xiaodong Realism Oil Painting Work  — Traffic Accident

Painting Title: Traffic Accident

Painting category: Realism oil painting

Artist: Liu Xiaodong

Painting size: 200*200cm

Painting media: Oil on fabric

Creation Year: /

About Artist Liu Xiaodong: 

Mr.Liu Xiaodong, was born in 1963 in Liaoning province, and began to study painting in Central Academy of Fine Arts since 1980, In 1988 Liu Xiaodong graduated in the oil painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, then stayed in the affiliate school and acted as a teacher till now.

Liu Xiaodong had ever taken part in “1988 Mou Su Exhibition”, “1989 Chinese Modern Art Show”, “Memorize the centenary of Van Gogh’s Death Art Show  (1990)” and so on.

In May 1995, Liu Xiaodong held his first individual art show, and his oil painting work “Yawning Man Model” finished in his school days won the first prize of students works in 1987.

Liu Xiaodong is one of representatives of the”new generation”, who is a powerful character that prominent in the early 90s of the 20th century, and is a representative of groups featured with unique style in Beijing area…With his realistic techniques of expression, Liu Xiaodong has become a representative man who on behalf of a new generation of artists.

Compared with artists who favorite with concept, behaviors and installation, Liu Xiaodong is indeed belongs to a realistic group, he loved to express things and people that existed in the real-life. With these familiar things and people, Liu Xiaodong expressed his feelings and experience on the life.

Liu Xiaodong is a very easy-going man, he likes “family trees of human” and things like this, when he depicted people who are sitting, standing, holding or alienating and taken in embarrassment, under his paint brush it showing  his  vague awareness of the world. Indeed, human are always pass down and take the evolution based on a clear family tree, while the life exist in a relation that not so clear.

Liu Xiaodong observed the world with such a mentality: his oil painting is a reflection of his inner world, as well as an important window to understand him, through the expressions of his own experience of life, Liu Xiaodong has formed his unique “realism” style, that is, characteristics of the so-called “new generation”.

The overall features of artworks of the new generation of artists refer to use realistic or photo-realism techniques to express scenes or occasions happed in the real life, these scenes and occasions are not contained the artist’s own attitude of negative or positive exactly, and what’s more is an expression reveal of a sort of “stand aside” mind.

Liu Xiaodong’s painting composition is optional, figure motions and expressions are naturally formed inadvertently. He oil painting works somewhere are not been managed particularly, but people did not feel uncomfortable, instead they felt “it’s ok too”, or “in fact it should be this way actually”, and gave recognitions to Liu Xiaodong. This is also an outstanding point of the “New Genertion”, artists are always try to capture new things in the real life, and this type of casual expression reflects the mind of people who living in cities, as well as meet the people’s culture tastes.  

In the 20th century, the old creation system of realism oil paintings have been withdraw from the stage of history gradually, and the more positions being occupied by a group of subsequent young artists prominent later, these artists are basically rooted in traditions deeply, such as Liu Xiaodong and other “new generation” artists, all has been diving into the study of the expression languages of oil painting, and choose familiar people and objects as their themes. The rise of this generation of artists is a result of the integration p of the times’ aesthetic value and social cultural psychology.

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Luo Zhongli Superrealism Portrait Oil Painting — Father

Art Title: Father

Size: 165*220cm

Painting category: Portrait Oil Painting / Super-Realism Oil Painting

Creation Year: 1980

About Artist Luo Zhongli:

Luo Zhongli, originally comes from Bishan County, Sichuan province, China, who was born in Chongqing suburb in 1948, under the influence of his father, Luo Zhongli began to study painting in his early age.

In 1968 Luo Zhongli graduated from the middle school affiliated to Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, after then he went to the rural villages in Ta-pa Mountains initiatively and lived there for ten years.

In 1978 Luo Zhongli was admitted to enter the oil painting department at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts to study oil painting art, and graduated in 1982 and acted as a teacher in the college.

During 1983 to 1986 Luo Zhongli went to Belgium to take a study, he entered in Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts to study oil painting and get a master degree.

In 1984 and 1985 Luo Zhongli held his individual oil painting exhibition in Brusssels(Belgium) and Boston(U.S.A.) successively.

Now Luo Zhongli is a vice-professor at SiChun Academy of Fine Arts, director of China Artists Association, President of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1980 Luo Zhongli was been known by the world for his super realism oil painting work “Father”, this oil painting work with a grand cenotaph style layout, described a typical figure of Chinese farmer in a affectionate manner, and has moved numerous Chinese people’s hearts, as well as been reputed as a flag of Chinese Artists in twenty century 80s.  

Main Honors of Luo Zhongli:

Oil painting work ”Father” won the golden prize of the 2nd the Chinese Youth Exhibition of Fine Arts and now be collected by Chinese Art Museum, Sichuan Excellent Works prize;

Oil painting work ”Spring Silkworms” is collected by Harvard Na Gallery;

Two piece of oil painting works of ”Pa Mountain Oil Paintings in Series” were collected by Chinese Art Museum.

In 1992 Taiwan ”Shan Art Culture and Education Foundation” set up the “Luo Zhongli Oil Painting Scholarship”

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