Tag: oil painting appreciation
Contemporary Chinese Artist Zeng Fan-zhi Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Portrait
by Administrator on Dec.22, 2009, under Expressionism Oil Painting
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.
* Original address of this oil painting post: Stupendous Art World with Chinese Excellent Oil Paintings
Contemporary Chinese Artist Wang Yidong Oil Painting Appreciation — Lady from South River
by Administrator on Apr.09, 2009, under Portrait Oil Paintings
Wang Yidong Portrait Oil Painting Work - Lady from South River
Wang Yidong is one of representatives that behalf of neo-classical style in China contemporary oil painting artists. His portrait oil paintings that began from his oil painting work “College Student at History Department” have shown a rather purely classical style, at the same time his oil painting works featured with a common basic object, that is: to find the characteristics of the nation.
In background of Wang Yidong’s figure oil paintings, images as “flying to the sky” and “gentle ladies” had created an unique Chinese situations; In his oil painting works with simple and pure backgrounds, his realistic painting skill and concerted style sometimes will make viewers ignored another fact in Wang Yidong art, that is: To exceed the 19th century realism style.
From that time, Wang Yidong began to admire masters in earlier times. His oil painting works themed with “Sewing”, “Uncle Liu”, “Tiedan”, whose figures and light dealing should thanks to art of Raphael and Rembrandt, this throwback style drawing make the drawing with a spirit existence which was beyond skills.
With high skills of painting classical oil paintings, Wang Yidong returned to countryside and native themes, his initial attempts are cautious, and at this stage, Wang Yidong preferred to choose people with rather odd lookings, and background sceneries in his paintings will still make the objected people keep their portraits, while their figures become more rich and lively based on the formation of real space.
In Wang Yidong paintings he reclined more on concrete shape contrasts to say the themes”, such a sort of inclination to figures, caused the artist emphasis more on the whole color layout and processing…At the same time, Wang Yidong had tried to find feelings very abstract in a quite realistic picture, such a type of abstract are not a simple abstract in generally meanings, as well as not to excite people’s sense organs purely, but to serve a certain emotion or moods that the whole picture aimed to deliver, upon that, in his oil painting works, simple black and white color and neutral brown formed an art purity, while a layer of bitter moods added in too.
About Artist Wang Yidong:
Wang Yi Dong, who was born in 1955 and come from Shandong province, China. In 1972 he entered in the Shandong School of Fine Arts for art study, and had been acted as Fine Arts teacher in Fine Arts Department at Shandong School of Fine Arts; In 1978 he was admitted to enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts to study oil painting, and acted as a teacher after graduation, now he is a member of Chinese Artists Association.
Wang Yidong loved his hometown Yimeng Mountain much, and the village people and sceneries of Yimeng Mountain are main themes in his oil painting works. His works of oil painting had been invited to Singapore, France, Italy, Japan and the United States for exhibition.
In 1987, he hold his personal exhibition of oil paintings in the Hafner Gallery (New York). His oil painting work “The Old Village” is collected by the Chinese Art Museum.
* Original address of this oil painting post: Stupendous Art World with Chinese Excellent Oil Paintings
Excellent Chinese Artist Lin Fengmian Oil Painting Appreciation — Drama Character
by Administrator on Feb.23, 2009, under Figure Oil Painting
Creation Year: Unkown
* About Artist LinFengmian:
