Contemporary Chinese Artist Yan Peiming Oil Painting Art Appreciation – The Funeral of Mona Lisa

Posted on July 7, 2010 by qianchh


Yan Peiming Portrait Oil Painting Work - The Funeral of Mona Lisa

Painting Title: The Funeral of Mona Lisa

Artist: Yan Peiming

Painting size: 300*300cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2001

Most of Yan Peiming’s oil painting works are huge black and white portrait paintings, you will been shocked and have fear at first sight. These characters faces were been painted out wildly and haphazardly, as if they are mummies, as if they are rubber or leather masks which had been stretched out and distorted in S & M games, they were seemed strange and weird, paradoxical, dark, angry, terrible, full of strength as well as sadly.

Yan Pei Ming is specializes in the creation of huge size oil paintings, he like to create two-color paintings, most of his oil painting works are portraits. His oil painting works have participated in the Venice Biennale and other important international art exhibition.

In the evening of February 11, 2009, Yan Peiming held an art exhibition themed “Mona Lisa’s Funeral” in Louvre, France. In this exhibition, Yan Peiming with gray tone, with projection-like manner, celebrated a funeral for Mona Lisa. He extended the mystical background Mona Lisa lived in, dotted with numerous skull heads. On both sides of the Mona Lisa there is the self-portrait of Yan Peiming, the side face to face is his withered aging father, who is witnessing the death of his son.

Chinese artist Yan Peiming is the first modern artist who is still alive and can held an individual art exhibition in Louvre.

About Artist Yan Peiming:

Mr.Yan Peiming, who was born in Shanghai in 1960; In 1980 moved to Dijon, France;

1981-1986: studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon, France;
1988-1989: Studied at the Paris Advanced Institute of Plastic Arts in Paris, France;
1993-1994: Studied at France College in Rome, Italy;
1995-now: Act as a professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon, France.

Exhibitions:

1988: Studio 88 (Paris Modern Art Museum)
1991: Sports 2 (Pompidou Art Centre)
1993: China Avant-Garde Art (Berlin, Rotterdam, Oxford etc.)
1995: Venice Biennial
1997: Lyons Biennial
2000: Kwangju Biennial (Korea)
2000: Shanghai Biennial (China)
2002: Pusan Biennial (Korea)
2009: Mona Lisa’s Funeral (Louvre, France)

In 2009, Yan Peiming held his individual art shows in China, France and U.S.A. respectively.

During June 19 to October 11, 2009, Yan Pei Ming launched his individual art exhibition themed with “Landscape in Childhood” in Lawrence Contemporary Art Centre in Beijing, with 34 paintings of huge size children portraits, he explained his understanding on poverty, hunger, inequality and war.

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Shi Hu Oil Painting Art Appreciation – No Title, 2

Posted on July 7, 2010 by qianchh

Shi Hu Abstract Oil Painting Work – No Title, 2

Painting Title: No Title (series 2)

Artist: Shi Hu

Painting size: 120*120cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2003

Estimated Value: RMB 120,000 -150,000 Yuan

The oil painting work “No Title, 2″ is obvious draw lessons from Cubist painting techniques. However, the work reveals charms of Chinese paintings entirely. This is a fruit created by the artists consciously, as well as exist unconscious factors. The road of East-meets-West, from the modern Chinese science and technology, to politics, to culture, is a common object pursued uninterrupted for generations.

Shi Hu’s art is mainly lies in two aspects of ink paintings and heavy color paintings, sometimes he also created oil paintings and Chinese calligraphy works, but no matter what kind of materials and what type of artworks, his art are composed by two most important elements, namely lines and colors. It was also based on the most basic two aspects, he built his palace of art.

About Artist Shi Hu:

Mr. Shi Hu, who was born in 1942 in Xushui county, Hebei Province, China;

In 1958, Shu Hu was admitted to enter the Beijing School of Arts and Crafts;

In 1960, to enter Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts;

In 1962, joined the army as a soldier;

In 1968, acted as a teacher in Beijing School of Arts and Crafts;

In 1969, began to engage in ivory carving and other craft;

In 1977, incumbent at People’s Publishing House of Fine Arts;

In 1978, visited 13 countries in Africa, when returned his publication of the Art Collections of African Paintings from Nature shortly, and received much attention.

In 80′s, 20th century, artist Shi Hu became one of representatives in Chinese artists, he held a number of art exhibitions successfully. From the 90s in the 20th century, Shi Hu began to achieve great success in overseas art world, and become one of the world’s most influential Chinese artists, whose artworks record breaking high prices in the international market for many times.

His representative work “Yuen Teng Map” (350 × 899cm) with unique heavy colors create a performance of the modern history of Chinese people save the nation from extinction and struggle for survival, the picture is unparalleled resplendent, this work was collected by a overseas Chinese with 8,000,000 HKD in 1995.

In 1996, with the support of Mr. Zhu Dequn, abstract master, Lifetime Art of Academician of French Institute, as well as a number of famous artists in domestic and abroad, Mr. Shi Hu was selected as the President of World Chinese Artists Association.

In 2004, the People’s Fine Arts Publishing House named 20 Chinese painters in 20th century, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Li Keran and other art masters were selected, and the same time artist Shi Hu is also ranked.

Individual Art Exhibitions: 1982, Nanjing Museum; 1997, Hong Kong; 1988, Canada

Group Exhibitions: China Modern Painting Exhibitions (U.S.A.)

Publications: “Art Collection of African Paintings from Nature” (1979); “Shi Hu Paintings Collection” (1985); “Shi Hu Paintings Collection” (1988); “Shi Hu Paintings Collection” (1998, Publisher: People’s Fine Arts Publication House);

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Zhou Chun-ya Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Six-Nine Style Peach Blossom

Posted on July 7, 2010 by qianchh

Zhou Chun-ya Expressionism Oil Painting Work - Six-Nine Style Peach Blossom

Painting Title: Six-Nine Style Peach Blossom

Artist: Zhou Chun-ya

Painting size: 120*150cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2006

Any themes presented in oil painting works by Zhou Chun-ya have unique style, rich expressions as well as left deep and memorable impressions to viewers. Through his brush strokes, lines and strong color sense, Zhou Chun-ya endowed his artworks with vivid life and vitality.

The unique style of Zhou Chun-ya’s oil painting works is closely related to his career of abroad study at the Art Institute in Germany from 1986 to 1989. During the studying term in Germany, he accepted the baptism of new expressionism which was prominent at the time, which had impacted him deeply. After returning home, with high power of understanding, Zhou Chun-ya combined the new expressionism with traditional Chinese culture, and the same time involved in the traditional countryside style insisted by artists of the Yuan dynasty and part of modern artists, then Zhou Chun-ya established his unique concept of painting.

Zhou Chun-ya believes the connotation of his artworks can be expressed independently, and do not need explains of external factors, he also believes that the connotations of artworks are lied in visual images, rather than the description of things. Zhou Chun-ya had told me that when he was inclined to the development of images, which includes structure processing, colors, lines and painting strokes and so on, he focused on physical beauty caused by visual sensitivity, he believes his sensitivity is same as other sensitive things. He also described the beauty evocated by visual senses is same as the feelings when listen to swings in the nature and dulcet music.

About Artist Zhou Chun-ya:

Mr. Zhou Chun-ya, who was born in 1955 in Chongqing, Sichuan; In 1982 graduated from the Painting Department of print professionals at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts; In 1988 graduated from the Free Arts departments at Germany Kassel University.

Now Zhou Chun-ya is living in Chengdu city(Sichuan, China), and acted as director of China Institute of Oil Painting, vice-chairman of Sichuan Artists Association, director of Oil Painting Art Committee, Vice-Chairman of Chengdu Artists Association, and vice president Chengdu Art Institute.

Main Art Exhibitions:

1981: The 2nd National Youth Art Exhibition (won Second Prize)

1985: Marching China Youth Art Exhibition (China Art Gallery)

1992: The first nineties Art Biennial Exhibition in Guangzhou (Guangzhou)

1993-1997: Post-89s China New Art (International Touring Exhibition)

1993: China Experience Exhibition (Sichuan Provincial Art Museum)

1994: Chinese Critics Annual nomination Exhibition (China Art Gallery)

1996-1997: “China!” Exhibition (Bonn Art Gallery, Germany) (road show in Austria, Denmark and other countries)

1996: The First Shanghai Biennale Exhibition (Shanghai Art Museum)

1997: Red and Gray - Eight Avant-garde Artists from China (Singapore Simin Art Center)

1997: Quotation Mark - Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition (Singapore National Art Gallery)

1998: The East Meeting the West (San Francisco LIMN Gallery, U.S.A.)

2000: 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition (China Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum)

2001: New Image of Contemporary Painting Exhibition (China Art Gallery, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Sichuan Art Museum)

2001: Five Avant-garde Chinese Artists Exhibition (Seoul ARTSIDE Gallery, South Korea)

2001: The First Chengdu Biennial Exhibition (Chengdu Modern Art Museum)

2002: Zhou Chunya Personal Artworks Exhibition (Norway 314 International Art Center)

2002: Zhou Chunya Artworks Exhibition (Italy IRENTO Contemporary Art Museum)

2002: The First Guangzhou Contemporary Art Triennial Exhibition (Guangdong Art Museum)

2002: Images of Concept, 2002 – Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition (Shenzhen Art Museum)

2002: The First Chinese Art Triennial (Guangzhou Municipal Museum)

2003: ALORS, LA CHINE? (Paris Pompidou Center, France)

2003: 6 Faces - Chinese Contemporary Art Tour Exhibition (Poland)

2004: Dragon Dream of Dragon Family - Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition (Ireland of Contemporary Art Museum)

2004: Won a “Literature Award” at 2004 the First Wuhan Art Literature Nomination Exhibition

2004: Liu Wei, Zheng Zai-dong, Zhou Chun-ya Group Exhibition (Shanghai Bund No.3 HuSheng Art Gallery)

2005: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition (WBK Vrije Academie Hague, Netherlands)

2005: The 2nd Chengdu Biennale (Chengdu Modern Art Museum)

2005: Contemporary Chinese Art Biennial (Montpelier, France)

2006: “Flower or Not” (Beijing Song Garden Art Gallery)

2006: “Fictions & Truth - Contemporary Asian Art Re-Discovery” (South Korea Heyri Arts Foundation Cultural Space)

2006: “Expanding Realism” (Taipei Fine Arts Museum)

2006: Zhou Chun-ya & Zeng Fan-Zhi & Ji Da-chun Group Exhibition (Dragon People Gallery, Beijing)

2006: 12345 Exhibition (Yibo Gallery, Shanghai)

2006: Zhou Chun-ya & Liu Wei Group Exhibition (ARTSIDE Gallery, Seoul, South Korea)

2006: Naked Truth – Chengdu, Contemporary Chinese 6 Artists Group Exhibition (Tangren Contemporary Art Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand)

2006: Zhou Chun-ya New Artworks Exhibition (Shanghai Bund No.3 Hu-Sheng Art Gallery)

2007: Hua Kee – Zhou Chunya New Paintings & Sculptures Exhibition (Today Art Museum, Beijing)

2007: Starting from the Southwest - Southwest Contemporary Art Exhibition 1985-2007(Guangdong Art Museum of Art, Guangzhou)

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Ying Chaoyang Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Radiation

Posted on July 7, 2010 by qianchh

Ying Chaoyang Symbolism Oil Painting Work - Radiation

Painting Title: Radiation

Artist: Ying Chaoyang

Painting size: 200*200cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2007

Feeling, is a very abstract and very subjective word. We feel that the world exists, feel prosperous lives, and feel the blue sky, everything can be felt by touching. When you feel new things ecstatically, you could not wait to share it with others, someone perform it with music, sculptures, paintings, performance art and so on, while Yin Chaoyang like to express his feelings in the heart with painting, and describe the feeling out, to express inner perception in the heart, is the practice way of Yin Chaoyang since a long time.

Yin Zhaoyang is one of typical representative of artists who were born in the seventies in China, whose oil painting works has taken an important position in symbolism paintings in the late nineties in China, and the image concept, narrative and kernel of spirit in paintings by Yin Chaoyang are all worth our high attention.

About Artist Yin Chaoyang:

Mr. Yin Chaoyang, who was born in 1970 in Henan province in China, in 1992 was admitted to enter the the Central Academy of Fine Arts and study at the Print Department. since 1996 Yin Chaoyang as a professional painter, currently residing in Beijing. In 2008, Artist Yin Chaoyao was listed on the 21th on “Hurun Contemporary Art List”.

Main Exhibitions:

1999-2000: “Sights of New Prominents - The Generation before 1970s” Art Exhibition

1999: Sights of New Prominent (Beijing International Art Garden Gallery)

2001: 1st Chengdu Biennial Exhibition (Chengdu Museum of Modern Art)

2001: ‘Myth’ Oil Painting Exhibition (Beijing Art Musem)

2002: Youth Cruelty Painting Exhibition (Shanghai East Daming Art Creation)

2004: Utopia Artworks Exhibition (Art Gallery at Beijing Central Institute of Fine Arts)

2005: “Public Relations” (U.S.A.)

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Wang Huai-qing Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Chairs and Chairs

Posted on July 7, 2010 by qianchh

Wang Huai-qing Abstract Oil Painting Work – Chairs and Chairs

Painting Title: Chairs and Chairs

Artist: Wang Huai-qing

Painting size: 130*145cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 1999

The art temperament of Wang Huai-qing oil painting is just same as himself, which is delicate, of super fine qualities and tastes, and the same time bold and creative.

Critics said that Wang Huai-qing art has taken an “extremely sophisticated and yet moderate” way. In oil painting works created by artisit Wang Huaiqing works, structural factors concerned much in Chinese art traditions has achieved a modern transformation, and concrete paintings did not covered up the spirit of abstract, in his works the East cultural connotations is mingling well with Western skills of performance.

In general the relationship between style and imagery based on aesthetic sense, that is motions produce style, and style produces imagery, and emotion is the foundation, while the art imagery is a type of sublimation of emotions achieved by the trend of art sentiment and emotions, or that the imagery is the fruit of emotions. These theories are mainly referred a type of artistic conception, or a type of space, which is the pursuit to the artist conception pursued by ancient and modern artists, whole artist Wang Huai-qing has found his unique artist conception between “loose” and “dense”, which belongs to him only.

About Artist Wang Huai-qing:

Mr. Wang Huai-qing, who was born in 1944 in Beijing, former name Wang Huai. Studied in the Central Academy of Fine Arts and received a bachelor’s degree in 1969, and received a master’s degree in 1981. In 1987-1988 was as a visiting scholar at the United States OCU University. Now Wang Huai-qing is a first-grade artist in Beijing Academy of Painting, member of Chinese Artists Association, director of China Oil Painting Institute.

Representative Works: “Portrait of Bole” (Collection by China Art Gallery), “Demeanor of The Big Ming Dynasty” and “Evening Banquet Picture” and so on.

Publications: “Wang Huai-qing Illustrations Election”, “Wang Huai-qing Collection of Wash Human Bodies”, “Wang Huaiqing Collection of Oil Paintings” etc.

Main Awards:

Gold Prize awarded by China Oil Painting Annual Exhibition in 1991;

Bronze Prize awarded by “The 7th National Art Exhibition” in 1989;

The First Prize awarded by “Beijing Municipal Art Exhibition” in 1984.

Main Exhibitions:

1980: Contemporaries Oil Paintings Exhibition (China Art Museum)

1982: French Spring Salon Exhibition

1987: Contemporary China Oil Painting Exhibition (New York)

1989: The 7th National Art Exhibition (China Art Museum)

1991: China Oil Painting Group Exhibition (China National Museum)

1993: China Art Museum Fine Paintings Collection Exhibition (China Art Museum)

1996: The First China Art Exhibition by China Oil Painting Institute (China Art Museum)

1998: China Art 5000 Exhibition (Guggenheim Museum, New York)

1998: Tradition and Review – Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition (Germany Embassy at Beijing)

1999: Wang Huai-qing Oil Painting Exhibition (Taipei Big Future Art Gallery)

1999: China Art Museum Collection Exhibition (China Art Museum)

1999: Gate of the Century (Chengdu Art Museum)

2000: Shanghai Biennial Exhibition (Shanghai Art Museum)

2000: 20 Century China Oil Painting Exhibition (China Art Museum)

2001: Science and Art (China Art Museum)

2003: Developing Times - China Art Museum 40 Anniversary Exhibition (China Art Museum)

2003: The First Beijing International Art Biennial Exhibition (China Art Museum)

2003: The 2nd National Art Gallery Biennial Exhibition (Guangdong Art Museum)

2004: Marianne & Heinrich Lenhardt - Stiftung Couple Paper Collection Exhibition (German Kaiserslautern Pfalzgalerie Art Gallery)

2005: Wang Huai-qing Works Solo Exhibition (Hong Kong);

2005: The 2nd Beijing International Art Biennial Exhibition

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Zeng Fan-zhi Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Portrait

Posted on July 7, 2010 by qianchh

Zeng Fan-zhi Expressionism Oil Painting Work - Portrait

Painting Title: Portrait

Artist: Zeng Fan-zhi

Painting size: 235*160cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2002

In the classification of expressionist artists, artworks by Zeng Fan-zhi with its rigorous and unique figures, mask symbols, under the pure and quiet background, interprets the spirit status of nowadays people, just as fidget, anxious. Although taken with some cartoon flavor and ridicule taste , they still give people a type of heavy and oppressive sense. Oil painting works by Zeng Fan-zhi use expressionism techniques of metaphor and symbolic, giving vivid impression to viewers.

Zeng Fanzhi’s oil painting works are very attractive, both smart and full of energy. His paintings giving viewers a sense in a scene with constant evolution and changes, but the change is very subtle, endless, elusive.

This varied visual atmosphere make the viewer feel excited, and to stimulate viewers to imagine the infinite tricky hidden in it, and it seemed that there contains endless stories in that world, and extending out to all sides. Just for this, the picture is just like an exploration area, an exploration-oriented map to guide viewers to enter a mysterious and uncharted territory.

The exploration area here is referred the humor revealed by the picture sketch, which is so vivid and intrinsic natural. In other words, with the emotional sketch, the artist showed rich visual effects, while this visual effect was contained in various imaginative, personal appealing space.

About Artist Zeng Fan-zhi:

Mr, Zeng Fan-zhi, who was born in 1964 in Wuhan city Hubei province; In 1991 graduated from the oil painting department at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Now Zeng Fan-zhi is acted as a professional artist.

In 1990, “Zeng Fan-zhi Oil Painting Solo Exhibition” (by Hubei Art Museum)

In 1993, organized by Han,”Mask – Zeng Fan-zhi Oil Painting Solo Exhibition” (by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong);

In 1993 , oil painting work “Concord Triptych” won an excellent award on “90s Guangzhou Biennale”;

In 1994, participated in the “First Critic Nomination Exhibition” (by China Art Gallery).

In 1995, participated in “Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibition Since 1979″ (Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona).

In 1996, participated in the “China Exhibition” (Bonn Art Museum).

In 1997, participated in “The First Contemporary Art & Science Invitation Exhibition” (by China Art Gallery).

In 1998, “Zeng Fanzhi Solo Exhibition (1993-1998)” (Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, ShanghART Gallery).

Most of artworks by Zeng Fan-zhi have been collected by cSwitzerland, Germany, Hong Kong and domestic collectors.

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