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Shen Xing-gong Scenery Oil Painting Work – Black Awning Boats

Painting Title: Black Awning Boats

Artist: Shen Xing-gong

Painting size: 74*74cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 1986

Shen Xing-gong has engaged in teaching for a long time, and was committed to the study of the law of art, and accustomed to sinking & diving and accumulation. So his oil painting works always can handle complicated matters with great ease, as well as make improvements by nature on and on.

In his early years, his episodic oil painting were superb for its careful conceive and   strict structure, later when get rid of the stumbling episode, as well as out of the constraints of natural forms, and begin to create his own ideal aesthetic space, and outstand an art world featured with distinctive personal characteristics.

About Artist Shen Xing-gong:

Shen Xing-gong, male, who was born in 1943 and come from Ningbo, Zhejiang. In 1966 was graduated at the Fine Arts Department at Nanjing Art College. In 1981 postgraduated at the Oil Painting Department at Nanjing Art Institute and then stayed at the school to act as a teacher.

Now Mr. Shen Xing-gong is professor and graduate student tutor of Nanjing Art Institute, member of Chinese Artists Association, director of Jiangsu Seminar of Oil Painting, standing director of China Association of Oil Painting. Shen Xing-gong is dept at oil painting and had been to U.S.A. and Japan to give lectures.

Representative Works: Oil painting “Small Town in Deep Spring” was selected to participate the Sixth National Art Exhibition Excellent Works Show, “Ferry Drizzle” was selected to participate the First China Oil Painting Exhibition. Representative oil painting works of Shen Xing-gong there are “The Morning Market in the Yue-Qiao Town” “For The Unity of The Motherland” and so on.

Publications: Painting Techniques of Oil Painting; Shen Xing-gong Oil Painting Collection; Shen Xing-gong Oil Painting Works Collection

Main Exhibitions:

The 6th National Artworks Exhibition (in Beijing in 1984);

After Open the Door – Contemporary Chinese Painting Exhibition (in 1986 in U.S.A.);

The First China Oil Paintings Exhibition (in 1987 in Shanghai);

Contemporary Chinese Realism Painting Art Show (in 1988 in U.S.A.);

China Oil Painting Art Show (in 1992 in Beijing);

Shen Xing-gong Oil Painting Exhibition (in 1994 in Singapore);

The 2nd China Oil Paintings Exhibition (in 1994 in Beijing);

The 8th National Artworks Exhibition (in 1994 in Beijing);

The 1st China Oil Painting Institute Art Show (in 1996 in Beijing).

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Zhan Jianjun Scenery Oil Painting Work — Looking Back

Painting Title: Looking Back

Category: Scenery oil painting

Artist: Zhan Jianjun

Painting Size: 160*137cm

Created Year: 1980

About Artist Zhan Jianjun: 

Mr. Zhan Jianjun, who was born in January, 1931, come from Gai county, Niaoling province, China

In 1953 graduated from the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a BA;

In 1955 graduated from the Color Paints Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a Master Degree. In the same year, Zhan Jianjuan became a teacher in the Central Academy of Fine Arts;

Now Zhan Jianjuan is acted as a professor, doctor intutor, Academic Committee advisor, and chairman of China of Oil Painting, advisor of Chinese Artists Association, visiting fellow of European Academy of Humanity Literature Art Science

Zhan Jianjun even being member of the Eighth and Ninth national committee of CPPCC, director and the fifth vice-chairman of the Oil Painting Committee at Chinese Artists Association;

In 1986 Zhan Jianjun was awarded a “Specialist made Outstanding Contribution” Title by the State Department

Considering the impact and achievements of Zhan Jianjun made in the oil painting art, in 1985 he was elected to act as the director of the Oil Painting Art Committee at the Chinese Artists Association, as well as acted as the chairman of Chinese Artists Association since 1995, when the association founded till now.

For two decades Zhan Jianjun served himself to the work of national oil painting art academic leadership, and acted as a organizer and leader in the field of Chinese oil painting art, he had leaded and presided a number of national exhibitions, exchanges and research activities of oil paintings art, and served as a major principal and jury against oil painting works on significant art exhibitions for many times; Zhan Jianjun had assumed committee member of Judge Panel, moderator of oil painting works, committee of general judge committee of the 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th National Fine Arts Works Exhibition which was been held every 5 years and the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd Chinese Oil Painting Art Show, Zhan Jianjun has made outstanding contributions for the development of Chinese oil painting in the new period.

Representative Oil Painting Works: “Five Heroes On Langya Mountain”, “Looking Back”, “Highland Songs”.

Publications: Zhan Jianjun Artbooks

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Ai-Xuan Scenery Oil Painting Appreciation — It’s Hard to Say the Wind of Tomorrow

The most outstanding feature of Ai-Xuan’s art style is expressing emotions via drawing sceneries…He painted sceneries and lonely figures on the Tibetan Plateau, whose mainly purpose is to express her feelings in her inner world. Therefore, Ai-Xuan’s oil painting works are not so much as Tibetan scenery oil paintings, but rather as his inner monologue.

In these oil paintings, there are silhouettes of Ai-Xuan. Silent silence and quiet thinking, nameless loneliness infiltrated in figures and whole picture moods of his oil paintings. Looked at the grassland, snow field and wasteland lonely, they lived in a world which integrated with the nature.

Another art feature of Ai-Xuan’s art style is he combined the lyric loneliness with a little mystery skillfully and wonderful. Originally, the loneliness itself is provided with some mystery, as the loneliness exists in a vast wasteland, whose mysterious flavor is even thicker. But the artist always had not ignored the beauty of peoples and natural sceneries, even if he used an unusual composition of picture (such as his oil painting work “hard to say tomorrow wind”) to enhance extraordinary effects of images, the artist had not forgotten to meet the aesthetic demand of viewers.

Therefore, Ai-Xuan is with his special beauty charms to lead her viewers into a art world full of religious moods and mystical atmosphere… His oil paintings have symbolic motifs, such as ” maybe the sky is still blue as past,” “it’s hard to say tomorrow wind”, “singing is flying away from me”), he applied with an implicit technique of painting art and not described it fully, just as an arrow just on the string, the bow was drawn out but not shooting out, its conquest power and affection charms are more strongly.

About Artist Ai-Xuan:

Ai-Xuan, was born in November 1947, and come from Jinhua city Zhejiang province China. Artist member of Chinese Artists Association, and a first grade national artist in China. In 1969 he graduated from the affiliated school to the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1969 he was been dispatched to Zhangjiakou for a four-year farm labor.

Exhibited Oil Painting Works and Awards:

1981: Oil painting “A man with a will” won the second prize in the National Youth Art Exhibition

1985: Oil painting “Snow” was admitted to attend the Second Asian Art Exhibition, and collected by Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan)

1985: Oil Painting “Ruoergai Frozen Zone” was collected by China Art Gallery

1986: Attended French Riviera — Kanie International Art Exhibition and win a Honor award.

1987: Went to the United States as a visiting scholar, in the same year he held his individual painting exhibition in Manhattan, New York

1987: Made art critics writings and accepted interview for “New York Times,” “The Wall Street Journal”, “Art News”, “American Art” (USA)…

1991: Oil Painting “The Singing is Fling Away” was admitted the first auction of Chinese oil paintings held by the Christie (United Kingdom)

1994: Oil painting “Kids” was invited to take participate in the Monte Carlo International Art Exhibition in France

1998: Ai Xian gained an entry for “The Complete Collection of Chinese Artists”

1999: Entry for “China Modern Art History” (teaching book) printed by the United States Yale University.

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Wu Guanzhong Scenery Oil Painting Work  — Hometown of Lu Xun

During the period of 50s to 70s, Wu Guanzhong was committed to scenery oil painting creation, and explored the nationalization of oil painting. He attempted to combined the of direct vitality of nature describing,  rich details of oil painting colors of European oil paintings with traditional Chinese art spirit and aesthetic ideal.

Mr. Wu Guanzhong specializes in the performance of the sceneries of south of Yangtze River, such as new greens in early spring, thin mists, cottage at waterfront, white walls and black tiles, harmonious and fresh colors, quiet and pale beauty ambit, all these make his painting art created evocation of feeling just as lyrical poems.

As an art educationist, Wu Guanzhong put a high premium on the cultivation of students’ art personality. As an artist to be well contemplating, he diligent in publishing books, his unique and original theory, as well as vivid and fluent words always give readers deep impressions, in which, his viewpoints of the content relating to abstract beauty, form beauty, form decide content, life and art should acted like a kite, between which the line can not break have aroused arguments in artistic circles.

About Artist Wu Guanzhong:

Wu Guanzhong, alias Tu, born in 1919, and come from Yixing city, Jiangsu province, China.

In 1942, Wu Guanzhong graduated from the Hangzhou National College of Art, during this period, Wu very fond of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and prefer to use strong colors such as red and purple in his oil painting works, and he entitled a  pen name for himself as ”Wu Tucha”, later changed as “Tu”.

In 1947, Wu went to France to study abroad on state scholarship, and studied in the Paris National Higher School of Fine Arts.

In 1950, Wu returned home and acted as a teacher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1953, he was appointed as an associate professor of architecture at Tsinghua University.

In 1956, he acted as teacher at the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1964, he taught at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts.

In 1970, Wu was been sent to villages in Hebei province for labor practice in the famous Chinese “Cultural Revolution” term.

In 1973, he was been transferred back to Beijing and to attend the hotel drawing creation.

In 1978, The Central Institute of Arts and Crafts held an individual exhibition of Wu Guanzhong Works”.

In 1979, Wu was elected as an executive director of the Chinese Artists Association

In 1987, the Hong Kong Arts Center hosted “Wu Guanzhong Art Retrospection Exhibition”

In 1991, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Wu Guanzhong ”The Highest Order of French Literature and Art”

In 1992, The British Museum broke its routine practice that only antique relics can be shown, and held it first art exhibition for living artist Wu Guanzhong, which named as “Wu Guanzhong – Chinese Artist in The Twentieth Century”, and collected a huge size color painted oil painting work titled “Birds Paradise” finished by Wu Guanzhong lately seriously.

In 1993, France Paris Sayniuche Museum held an art show titled “Walk to The World – Wu Guanzhong Sketch of Ink Painting Show”, and presented him a “Gold Medal of Paris.”

In 1994, Wu Guanzhong was selected one Standing Committee Members of the Chinese People & Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

In 1999, the National Cultural Ministry held “Wu Guanzhong Paintings Exhibition

In 2000, Wu Guanzhong was elected as a communication academician at The Art Academy at the French Institute, and he is the first Chinese artist who obtained this laurel, and he is also the first Asian who obtained this occupation in nearly two hundred years since the set up of the French Institute.

Representative Works of Wu Guanzhong:

Representative oil painting works of Wu Guanzhong there are: “The Three Gorges”, “Hometown of Lu Xun” and so on.

Representative Chinese painting works of Wu Guanzhong there are: “Spring Snow”, ” Lion Grove” and “The Great Wall” and so on.

Representative publications of Wu Guanzhong there are: “Wu Guanzhong Painting Collection” “Wu Guanzhong Painting Selection” “Wu Guanzhong Sketch Oil Paintings”, “Wu Guanzhong Chinese Painting Selection” (1 ~ 4) and “Looking Around Collection” “Kite Line not broke” “Far Apart”, ” Wu Guanzhong Sketch Paintings and Color Paintings Selection”, ” Wu Guanzhong Chinese Painting Selected Collection “, ” Wu Guanzhong’s Prose Election”, etc.

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