Chen Danqing Tibetan Oil Painting Group (Paper Draft) Appreciation

Chen Danqing Work – Paper Draft of Tibetan Group Oil Painting

Painting Title: Paper Draft of Tibetan Group Oil Painting

Artist: Chen Danqing

Media: Sketch on paper

Painting Size: 20*27cm

Creation Time: 1980

Art Value: RMB 50,000 – 60,000 Yuan

Sold for: RMB 110,000 Yuan

Humanism emotions and personality power are main arts background of Chen Danqing art, which is a type of natural manifestation of himself’s emotional character, and was been soaked in his own experience, contains his deep understanding, compassion and respect for people who lived in the bottom of society. This type of humanistic sentiment and personality power have given glorious and noble significance to his oil painting works (praised by Deng Pinxiang).

“Tibetan Group Oil Paintings” were been recognized as a classic realistic landmark oil paining work after the Cultural Revolution, and had caused a large stir in Chinese artistic circles and literary circles, and has gained a wide range of concerns, comments, research and impact.

“Tibetan Group Oil Paintings” had thrown a great impact on the traditional creative model which had taken a prevalence for a long-term and was taken as a doctrine seriously at that time, it was been considered as a turning point of Chinese realistic oil paintings impacted by former Soviet to origin from European tradition. And his skillful realistic ability, as well as his deep grasp at European classical oil painting languages, all make viewers who indulged in traditional oil painting techniques admired much…

Origin: The collector bought this painting on the Jiade Auction.

About Artist Chen Danqing:

Chen Danqing was born in Shanghai in 1953, from 1970 to 1978 he was dispatched to countryside in southern Jiangxi and northern Jiangsu for rural labor exercising, during this term he self-studies painting.

In 1978 he was admitted to enter the oil painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts as the first postgraduate class after the Cultural Revolution in China; In 1980 after graduation he stayed in the school and acted as a teacher at the first studio of the oil painting department.

As early as 1980, Chen Danqing was become famous at home and abroad with his oil painting work “Tibet Group Paintings”, and become top ones in the Chinese oil painting artists. In early 80’s Chen Danqing was been taken for the most talented oil painting artist in China, and even until today, there are still exists a type of “Chen Danqing Complex” in Chinese Artists.

In 1982, Chen Danqing moved to New York as a free artist, and returned China in 2000 and accepted an invitation as a special appointed professor in the Tsinghua University, and acted as an appointed professor and PhD supervisor at the Fine Arts Academy at Tsinghua University, at the same time took charge of “Chen Danqing Studio”. In 2004 Chen Danqing resigned the duty of Professor at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts.

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Jin Shangyi Oil Painting Appreciation – Tajik Bride


Jin Shangyi Portrait Oil Painting Work - Tajik Bride

Painting Title: Tajik Bride

Artist: Jin Shangyi

Painting Media: Oil Painting on Fabric

Painting Size: 60*50cm

Created Year: 1983

About Artist Jin Shangyi:

 Mr.Jin Shangyi, one of representatives of China’s contemporary oil painting artists, who was born in December 1934 in Jiaozuo, Henan province, China. In 1953 graduated from the Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and continued his post-graduate study, In 1955 Jin Shangyi went to Soviet and entered into the oil painting training class held by the former Soviet Union artist Maksimov to learn oil painting.

Now Jin Shangyi is acted as Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, and professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts. Former president of Central Academy of Fine Arts and enjoy special government allowances.

Jin Shangyi had taken charge of the teaching job at the first oil painting studio in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, whose artistic practice and art ideas, has influenced much on a large number of oil painting artists and caused a hot trend of absorbing nutrition from classicism in China since the mid-80’s.

Art Career:

Jin Shangyi oil painting creations was take the historical themes of Chinese revolution as a starting point, during the nearly 20 years of before the reform and opening-up, he has created a large number of historical themed oil paintings, such as “Step on the Muztag Ata”, “December Conference”, “Long March” and so on, these works fully demonstrated the art talent of the artist, and people become familiar with Jin Shangyi. But in terms of Jin Shangyi, the creative practice of history paintings is just one of important links which urged him to begin his creation of portrait painting.

In the process of painting history oil paintings, Jin Shangyi gradually found the most interested things are those figures per se who showed unique vitality and personality, which make his thinking about the history of switched to the explore of the life and the human’s spiritual world. He inclined much and much to use simple compositions, as little as possible figures to reflect the broad social life, gradually this type of natural development sense become clearer and clearer, and ultimately he aimed to portrait painting as his main creative direction.

Publications: “Selected Oil Painting Works of Jin Shangyi” (published by Henan People’s Publishing House), “Selected Portrait Oil Painting Works of Jin Shangyi ” (published by Tianjin People’s Publishing House), “Human Portraits of Jin Shangyi”; Thesis “Steps and Methods of Sketch Practice” (published on magazine “Art Research” on the 2nd issue in 1979).

Representive Works: Jin Shangyi oil painting work “Northland Scenery” was collected by the Revolutionary Museum; “Youth”, “Sculptor”, “Thinking” were on display on the “The 3rd Oil Painting Research Exhibition”, as well as been collected by the National Art Museum of China; Oil painting “Explore” in on display on the “Beijing City Oil Painting Exhibition”, and won a second prize of outstanding works; Oil painting “Violinist” was on display on the “Teacher Works of Central Academy of Fine Arts Teacher Works Exhibition” held in Hong Kong, and collected by a Singapore collector; Oil painting “Artist Huang Yongyu” was on display on a thematic art exhibition that organized by “Guangming Daily”, and won an Outstanding Award, and became a private collection; Oil painting “Memories” was on display on the USA Connecticut Art Exhibition, and turn to a private collection; Oil painting “Nature’s Song”, “Tajik Bride” were collected by Chinese National Art Gallery.

Oil painting “Qu Qiubai” was admitted to participate the 6th National Art Exhibition and won a silver award, and was collected by the Chinese National Art Gallery; In 1986 Creation “Sun Yat-sen” won the first prize for the best best stamp design in the country, and collected by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

* Original address of this oil painting post: Stupendous Art World with Excellent China Oil Paintings

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Hu Renqiao Oil Painting Appreciation – Chairman Mao Came to My Home

Hu Renqiao Figure Oil Painting - Chairman Mao Came to My Home

Painting Title: Chairman Mao Came to My Home

Artist: Hu Renqiao

Painting size: 105*79cm

Media: Oil on fabric

Creation Time: 1977

Mr. Hu RenQiao (1941 -2003), born is Chengdu, Sichuan province. National first-class Artist, member of Chinese Artists Association, specializes in oil paintings, watercolors.

In 1961 Hu Renqiao graduated from the affiliated school of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. In 1965 graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and get a bachelor degree.

In 1965 -1972 Hu Renqiao worked in Xinjiang Mulei County Museum.

In 1972 -1980 worked as a fine arts cadre in the Ministry of Railways of China, Chengdu Railway Branch.

In 1980 -2003 acted as professional full-time artist in Chengdu painting institute, and acted as director of creative research department.

Artistic Creation Career of Hu Renqiao:

Artworks of Mr. Hu Renqiao had been selected to take part in international exhibitions for 9 times, 50 pieces works were been selected to attend National Art Exhibition 15 times, had won National Awards for 2 times, Sichuan Province Awards 14 times. There are more than 40 piece of oil painting works of Hu Renqiao had been published on art publications at home and abroad, and some of them were collected by fine arts lovers at home and abroad.

In 1963, oil painting “Spring Message”, “Hometown Water” were selected “The first painting exhibition in Sichuan Province”, “Spring Inquiry” in the “Gallery of Sichuan” center color pages published.

In 1964, oil painting “Rural Postman” was admitted to attend the South-West Area Artworks Exhibition held by the National Art Association in Beijing.

In 1965 oil painting “Defend the Harvest” (cooperation) was admitted to attend the “20th Anniversary of the Victory of the Anti-Fascist war of Fine Arts Exhibition” held by Chinese Art Association, and was reviewed and published on “Beijing Evening News” specially…

In 1978, oil painting “Chairman Mao Came to My Home” was admitted to attend the “Fine Arts Exhibition to Commemorate the 85th Birth Anniversary of Mao Zhedong” that held by Chinese Association of Fine Arts and China’s Ministry of Culture.

In 1982, oil painting “Cedar”, “Prairie in July”, “Mother Earth” was admitted to participate in the Oil Painting Works from Sichuan Province to Shenzhen Exhibition, among which, oil painting “Mother Earth” was published on the third issue in 1983 of “Guangzhou Pictorial”; “Cedar” was published on “Gallery” in Guangdong, “Prairie in July” was published on the cover of Shenzhen “Special-Zone Literature” (fourth issue, 1982).

In 1983, Watercolor painting “Under the Pearl Beach” was admitted to participate the “Chinese Water Color Exhibition” held in Kuwait.

In 1984 watercolor “Night Rain” was selected to attend “The Sixth National Art Exhibition”, and was full-page published on the third cover of “Gallery” (Sixth issue, 1988 ) .

In 1984, oil painting “Mother Earth”, “Autumn in Mountains”, “Spring” were admitted in “Sichuan Oil Paintings Go to Hong Kong Exhibition”, among which, Oil Painting “Mother Earth” was published in Hong Kong “Artists” (the 34th Issue).

In 1985, oil painting “On the Horizontal Line” won the third prize of “Fine Arts Exhibition of China’s Sports”, and this oil painting work now was collected by Chinese Olympic Committee.

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Chen Danqing Oil Painting Appreciation – Tibetan Group Paintings

Chen Danqing People Oil Painting Work — Tibetan Group Paintings
 

Painting Title: Tibetan Group Paintings

Artist: Chen Danqing

Painting size: unkown

Media: Oil on fabric

Creation Time: 1980

Chen Danqing is one of young oil painting artists that have great influence in Chinese painting in 80s. In 1980 he created “Tibetan Group Paintings” oil painting works, which started to cast off impacts of Russian – Soviet Union oil painting on Chinese oil paintings earlier, he going for realistic techniques of traditional Western Europe oil painting to express his real emotions for modern life, especially true feelings of ethnic minorities in border areas.

Chen Danqing is good at figure shaping, his painting style is delicate and subtle, with true emotions, and quick thoughts, his oil paintings were endowed with a type of stable and deep power…

About Artist Chen Danqing:

Mr. Chen Danqing was born in Shanghai in 1953, from 1970 to 1978 he was dispatched to countryside in southern Jiangxi and northern Jiangsu for rural labor exercising, during this term he self-studies painting.

In 1978 he was admitted to enter the oil painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts as the first postgraduate class after the Cultural Revolution in China; In 1980 after graduation he stayed in the school and acted as a teacher at the first studio of the oil painting department.

As early as in 1980, Chen Danqing was become famous at home and abroad with his oil painting work “Tibet Group Paintings”, and become top ones in the Chinese oil painting artists. In early 80’s Chen Danqing was been taken for the most talented oil painting artist in China, and even until today, there are still exists a type of “Chen Danqing Complex” in Chinese Artists.

“Tibetan Group Paintings” were been recognized as a classic realistic landmark oil paining work after the Cultural Revolution, and had caused a large stir in Chinese artistic circles and literary circles, and has gained a wide range of concerns, comments, research and impact.

“Tibetan Group Paintings” had thrown a great impact on the traditional creative model which had taken a prevalence for a long-term and was taken as a doctrine seriously at that time, it was been considered as a turning point of Chinese realistic oil paintings impacted by former Soviet to origin from European tradition. And his skillful realistic ability, as well as his deep grasp at European classical oil painting languages, all make viewers who indulged in traditional oil painting techniques admired much…

In 1982, Chen Danqing moved to New York as a free artist, and returned China in 2000 and accepted an invitation as a special appointed professor in the Tsinghua University, and acted as an appointed professor and PhD supervisor at the Fine Arts Academy at Tsinghua University, at the same time took charge of “Chen Danqing Studio” In 2004 Chen Danqing resigned the duty of Professor at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts.

* Original address of this oil painting art post: Stupendous Art World with Excellent China Oil Paintings

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Contemporary Chinese Artist Ai Xuan Oil Painting Appreciation – It’s Hard to Say the Wind of Tomorrow

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

Painting title: It’s Hard to Say the Wind of Tomorrow

Painting size: 80*60cm

Media:  Oil on fabric

Artist: Ai-Xuan

Creation Time: 1985

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 “it is 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:

Mr. 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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Contemporary Chinese Artist Yan-Ping Oil Painting Appreciation – Mother and Son

Yan-Ping People Oil Painting Work - Mother and Son 
 

Painting title: Mother and Son

Painting size: 100*120cm

Media:  Oil on fabric

Artist: Yan Ping

Creation Time: 1996

Women love flowers, so does many female artists. In the “Mother and Son” and “Small Troupe” series oil painting works created by Yan-ping, flowers are often been seen, in addition, she also has created a number of independent still life flowers, she painted large Gerbera, peony, etc.. From those flowers in full bloom, Yan-ping not only has seen vitality and joy, rich colors, but also has seen declines when the flowers walk from bloom to fade, with flowers come and go she enjoyed bitters and sweets of life, as well as the short life.

Artist Yan-ping emphasis more on emotions expression, with her favorite pink colors, with flexible lines she controlled freely, with the picture structures composed by shapes and colors, she enjoyed the limitless funs of the painting creation and show the beauty she has found, as well as deliver her thoughts and secrets that hidden in the bottom of her heart quietly…

Yan-Ping is an emotional artist, but she also has her own independent thoughts for the life and art.

 Her paintings draw the joy of life, also draw sad and dreariness behind of joy…

 About Artist Yan Ping:

 Yan-Ping, female, was born in June, 1956 in Jinan City, Shandong Province, China. In 1989 he entered the oil painting seminar at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Now she is acted as one of professor taught in College of Xubeihong Art, Renmin University of China.

 Had attended the first due of national oil painting exhibition held by China Fine Art Museum, “93 years of Chinese Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting” and achieved the silver medal, attended “Chinese Oil Painting Biennale” and achieved nominated award, attended the “China Modern Art Exhibition” in the United States and so on.

Oil painting work “Sister-in-Law in Mine” was selected to attend “The Sixth National Art Exhibition” and won an Outstanding Award, and now collected by the National Art Museum of China.

Publications: Individual Oil Paintings Collection “Waiting for Your Flowers Open” (published by Zhejiang Fine Arts Publishing House)

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