Selasa, 14 Juli 2009

Chen Danqing Tibetan Oil Painting Group (Paper Draft) Appreciation

Tibetan Group Oil Painting Paper Draft (Chen Danqing)

Painting Title: Tibetan Painting Group Draft

Artist: Chen Danqing

Painting type: Painting draft

Category: Sketch on paper

Size: 20*27cm

Created Year: 1980

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.

* Original address of this oil painting article: Stupendous Art World with Chinese Excellent Oil Paintings

Sabtu, 11 Juli 2009

"Tu Ren" Liu Jingshen Oil Painting Art Appreciation — Flower and Girl

Tu Ren Liu Jingsheng Body Oil Painting — Flower and Girl

Artist Liu Jingsheng, began to publish oil painting works via pen name “Earth Man”(pronounced in Chinese is “Tu Ren”) from his young ages, “Art can not depart from earth, as well as depart from people”, this is the tenet pursued from artist Liu Jingsheng, which is the origination of his pen name “earth man”, and generalized summed up his eternal aesthetic creation and spiritual reflection .

Liu Jinsheng dabbled in a wide range of oil paintings, ethnic paintings, portraits, landscapes and still life paintings, as well as prints, comic books, sculpture designs, each could creates new feelings. Here, which we concerned on is Liu Jingsheng’s exploration for the language of oil painting colors and update ideas of oil painting works, charms he found in oil painting, color intensity he transferred from mental messages.

To explore the international art language that used to communicate with the spirit world of modern people, is a forever art class studied by “Tu Ren” Liu Jingsheng. He stood before the original artwork of Cezanne and watching the brushwork conversions based on color tracing structure quietly, the whole pattern of the picture is so majestic, and conveys deep and low sounds just like a organ…

Creative impulse often urged “Tu Ren” Liu Jingsheng daubed on canvas late at night, oil painting “Peace House” he created with the blueprint of a warm and fine family, painted free and lively peoples, and described a twinkling space of joyful ideas, and displayed specific aesthetic thoughts and spiritual pursuits of the artist.

The shining points of Liu Jingsheng art are just based on his free exploration for the freedom of color mental feelings, as well as the grasp for originalities of the body art, based on a Chagall-like style self-creation & self-enjoymenty, thus to infect people, and call natural vitality contained in souls . His oil painting works showed a special personal style that elegant, casual, free, as well as sober, stable and run deep.

"Tu Ren” Liu Jingsheng now is living in Canada, if you is just strolled and lingered before his oil painting works, among which you may see a flower tree in full bloom stacked up, that herald a glorious autumn is approaching…

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