Chinese Art/Updated 7/22/06

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Wan Fung Art Gallery was established in 1986. Up to the present, it has organized over 500 high-quality art exhibitions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and mainland of China and many other countries in South East Asia and also published almost 100 art books. Consistently, the objective of Wan Fung Art Gallery is to discover and promote the artists who possess unique style and a variety of skills. Most of these artists have become influential masters to represent all kinds of contemporary Chinese fine art schools.
Wan Fung stocks over 13,000 pieces of original masterpieces. Actually, Wan Fung has proved to be one of the biggest investors and promoters in contemporary Chinese paintings. The range of promotion covers Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor, print, ceramic, sculpture etc. Wan Fung awards good reputations both at home and abroad by high quality artworks.

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[the_allejo05]

Nice to see another culture in here :).. Im interested in learning some of the eastern language to implement in my future work..which masters do you recomend to study? I have no idea...

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Wan Fung Art Gallery is a fine arts organization, dedicated to the promotion of Chinese culture through the masterpieces of eminent contemporary Chinese artists.

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Liu Keming

Liu Keming was born in 1962 in Beiijng.
1985 Graduated from the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts and obtained his bachelor's degree in Art.
1987 Studied in Bade Art Institute in New York for two years for his master's degree.
1988 Worked in UP STARE gallery in Los Angles. At the end of 1988 he worked in the famous RERAL gallery in New York and was one of its chief painters and in charge of organizing exhibition and sales.
1988 Held art exhibition in RECE gallery at No. 57 Street, Manhattan, New York and some works were purchased by an anchorman of NBC TV Station and Liu was one of the chief artists of the Studio.
1989 First solo show in RERAL gallery, America.
1989 Solo show in Denver, America and some works were published by "Art & Antiques", a well-known art magazine in the States.
Since 1989 Took part in the World Art Exhibition of all sessions.
1992 Solo show in New York.

Liu Keming's work uses inner painting language of art and has absorbed the concepts of modern art based on the traditional Chinese painting language. He has painted a lot of elegant and romantic works, which are popular with viewers worldwide.
He draws his inspiration from the life and adds his own views to it. He longs for the perfection of lines, colors and ink.









Liu Ke-Ming celebrates “The Year of the Horse”---------Martin Parsons



A truly perceptive artist is so in tune with his or her environment that a change of locale can result in a major stylistic breakthrough. In the case of an artist from a countru as distant as China, the stimuli that result from visiting a city as diversified as New York can often be overwhelming: the aesthetic equivalent of culture shock. It takes a truly mature talent to assimilate the flood of new impressions while remaining true to his or her own creative direction.

Maturity of talent, if not of years, is immediately apparent in the work of Liu Ke-Ming, the 27 year old Chinese artist whose latest acrylic paintings on bamboo paper, presently on view at Gallery Revel, 96 Spring Street, benefit immensely from an extended stay in this country, where he is working towards his Master of Fine Arts degree at Bard College. Long recognized as an artistic prodigy in his own country, Ke-Ming was singled out to paint for English Prime Minester Margaret Thatcher when she visited China and toured the China Fine Arts Academy, where he was the head of his class, in 1984. Shortly after graduation. Ke-Ming became an art editor and correspondent for the “Magazine of National Unity,” an organ of the China National Affairs Commission. The position offered him the opportunity to travel widely throughout the small provinces of China, experiencing the cultures, rituals, and traditions unique to each.

Filtered through Ke-Ming’s fertile imagination, these traditional elements figure prominently in his paintings, transformed into private dream symbols. Some of them resemble the demonic masks and figures we see in ancient Chinese sculpture. Others, more benign of demeanor, look like figures from exotic fairy tales. Almost always they appear in the company of lovely female figures of a voluptuousness rarely seen in Chinese painting. Often nude, or only partially clothed in filmy veils, these fair maidens appear in fanciful landscapes, where brilliant suns and moons hover above sinuously twisted tree limbs, amid flowing rivers and streams. The sensual curves of the female figures and the rounded forms of distant moons and mountains overlap in intricate linear patterns, enlivened by luminous areas of color. In recent paintings, such as “Night Music,” “Autumn Flowers,” and “The Dream of Spring,” Ke-Ming’s skillfully organized compositions create powerful visual rhythms, uniting figure, landscape, and dream imagery in splendid harmony.

Coloristically, Liu Ke-Ming is still a member in good standing of the Yunnan----or “heavy color”-----school, the vital contemporary Chinese art movement under whose bright banner his work first gained widespread attention. However, he is far too original an artist to be easily categorized, with a highly evolved personal style that sets him apart. This individuality is particularly impressive in the paintings he has executed during his prolonged stay in the U.S., with their growing compositional boldness and even more heightened color.

One stunning example is “Sleeping Spirits,” a masterful acrylic on bamboo paper, combining two characteristically graceful female figures in a complex composition that is particularly remarkable for its spatial contrasts. Here, the figure on the left is curled in slumber, with symbolic dream figures, including American circus clowns, swirling around her in a correspondingly circular manner. By contrast, the figure on the right is standing in a state of wakefulness, as are the less active “dream spirits”, which also inhabit that part of the picture. Along with more traditional folk figures (some resembling the masked characters in Chinese opera), the Western circus clown has been added to Ke-Ming’s rich imagistic vocabulary, becoming in “Sleeping Spirits” a potent symbol of the subconscious world.

Another important new departure for Ke-Ming is “Kuming Herdsman,” a symbolic self-portrait on a magnificent white horse, its mane and tail billowing in the wind, as it rides herd on cattle whose clustered forms and curving horns create especially strong compositional rhythms. The power of this painting is enhanced by the strong tonal contrasts between the dark, earthy cattle, the phosphorescently white horse, and the fiery autumnal hues that appear in many of Ke-Ming’s recent acrylics.

In a show filled with numerous surprises, perhaps the most dynamic departure of all is “Year of the Horse,” Liu Ke-Ming’s most abstract painting to date. Executed in anticipation of the year 1990(The “Year of the Horse” on the Chinese calendar), this large work combines myriad small images and symbols in glowing areas of a color, indicating even greater surprises to come in the bright future of this enormously gifted young Chinese artist. Indeed, judging from the progress he has already made since his last exhibition, in May, Liu Ke-Ming is an artist to watch carefully in 1990, and for many years to come.









The autonomous originality of Liu Ke-Ming -------- Sidney Gilbert



Being perceived as part of an important new school or movement can be initially advantageous for young artists, in terms of placing them in a context that gains greater impact from the combined strengths of its separate members. In order to grow and establish autonomy, however, every artist must eventually strike out in a wholly original direction, as seen in the ground breaking new paintings of Liu Ke-Ming, presently on view at Gallery Revel, 96 Spring Street, which establish their stylistic independence in no uncertain terms.

Widely exhibited as a member of the YunnanSchool, the most vital new tendency in Chinese art today, Liu Ke-Ming has already made a considerable reputation for himself with his fanciful acrylic paintings on bamboo paper. In his most recent work, we see this gifted young painter, (now living in New York City while working towards his Master of Fine Arts degree at Bard College), assimilating various Western influences into his expressive imagery, freely adopted from the rich myths and folklore of his native province.

Liu Ke-Ming is an especially skillful exponent of the “heavy color” tendency in recent Chinese art, combining brilliant hues with a saturated intensity unequalled by any of his YunnanSchool compatriots. Ke-Ming’s heightened –yet-harmonious palette is combined with a graceful linearity gained from his stringent training in traditional Chinese brush painting. Even in a culture where use of the brush is second nature, Ke-Ming is an amazingly dexterous draftsman, capable of casting his line like a fisherman’s net to capture an intricate array of images. Almost always, these include comely females, combined with exotic animals and landscapes, as well as occasional phantoms and figures of myth, All swirl within a labyrinth of color in intricate compositions distinguished for their rhythmic grace, as well as for the disarming peace that they make between delicacy and boldness. Ke-Ming’s infallible rhythms, always inspired by nature, lend his paintings their underlying spirituality, reflecting his connection to tradition, as well as to the larger phenomena of the universe.

In “River Song”, the central figure is a beautiful girl, greenly nude as nature itself. Her blue-black hair blowing in the breeze, she sits by the bank of a flowing river, playing a flute entwined by a small snake. The visual rhythms of distant pink mountains, as well as the vertical curvew of the weeds growing along the riverbank, evoke a haunting melody.

Equally evocative is “The Spirit of the Wind,” in which another lovely nude kneels beside a family of ducks in a picturesque landscape, holding before her a transparent veil, decorated with flowers. Here, the power of the composition derives from the gracefully swelling contours of the female body, combined with a large pink-blossomed tree, its swaying branches surrounded by flowing enerby-lines that indicate the movement of the wind.

Nature and imagination mingle even more thoroughly in “Jungle Woman,” where another breathtakingly beautiful female nude communes with an ornate bird and tiny hunters in ancient dress. While the young woman presents a fleshy presence that is very much of this earth, her companions are figures of myth, symbolizing the hearty spirit of the rural Chinese, who live simple lives in harmony with nature.

More modestly attired, yet no less seductive, in their bright peasant blouses, the “Flower Girls of Kuming” strike ornate Mannerist poses in a lushly blooming landscape. One girl cradles a peacock in her arms; another holds a basket of flowers; both are living, breathing arabesques, enriching the world with their innocent, unpretentious beauty.

With these new acrylic paintings on bamboo paper, vibrant with color and romantic in their imagery, Liu Ke-Ming firmly establishes himself as an important, independent young voice at the forefront of the lively aesthetic dialogue between East and West.


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Zou Chuan'an

Zou Chuan'an male, born in 1941, is a native of Xinhua county, Hunan province. He is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and a visiting professor of the Art Department of Hunan Normal University. He was also an honorary president of the Loudi Literary Association of Hunan, president of the Loudi Artists Association and director of the Loudi Painting Institute. In addition, he is rated as a national first class artist.Zou was fond of painting when he was young. Throughout the last few decades, he has dedicated his time to the study and creation of Gongbi paintings. He is solidly cultivated in traditional painting theory and brushwork in chorus assimilating the essence from the modern masters. Thus his works are marked by virtuosity and elegance with powerful vitality. He has captured the charm of expressionistic brushwork and meticulous details. Zou's paintings are highly appreciated by home and abroad. He is the prominent representative of the Gong-bi style in flower-and-bird.His publications include "Techniques of Meticulous Flower-and-Bird Painting" and "Paintings by Zou Chuanan".


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Zhao Mu

Zhao Mu Born in 1959 in Shanghai city. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Normal University where He teaches now. Currently he is the associate professor of Shanghai Normal University, a member of Chinese Artists' Association and Shanghai Artists' Association.


Major works:
Oil painting <Fencing> was exhibited in the Second China Fine Arts Exhibition and collected by International Olympic Museum. Oil painting <Strange Circle>won the third prize at the 3rd China Sporting Fine Arts Exhibition .
Oil painting <Yo-Yo Ma> was exhibited in Shanghai 100 Years Pportrait Art of Oil painting Exhibition.
Oil painting <Origin of Shanghai> was collected by Shanghai Historical Museum.
Oil painting <Red Background> was exhibited in <Step to the new Century- Oil paintings by Young Artists >.
Oil painting <99 Red Report-Back Performance> won the first prize and the Audience's favorable Work Prize at1999 Shanghai Youth oil painting Exhibition.
Oil painting <Times of Gold Coin> was exhibited in the 2nd National Fine Arts Exhibition.


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Address: No.136 Nan Chi Zi Street,
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Love the last one even more. That artist, who did't's awesome!

Thanks for sharing

[AdamDillabo]

those are some of the best water colors i have ever seen.

[senbdoij]

nice horse up there, and i love that last one too..

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Zhao Mu

Zhao Mu Born in 1959 in Shanghai city. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Normal University where He teaches now. Currently he is the associate professor of Shanghai Normal University, a member of Chinese Artists' Association and Shanghai Artists' Association.


Major works:
Oil painting <Fencing> was exhibited in the Second China Fine Arts Exhibition and collected by International Olympic Museum. Oil painting <Strange Circle>won the third prize at the 3rd China Sporting Fine Arts Exhibition .
Oil painting <Yo-Yo Ma> was exhibited in Shanghai 100 Years Pportrait Art of Oil painting Exhibition.
Oil painting <Origin of Shanghai> was collected by Shanghai Historical Museum.
Oil painting <Red Background> was exhibited in <Step to the new Century- Oil paintings by Young Artists >.
Oil painting <99 Red Report-Back Performance> won the first prize and the Audience's favorable Work Prize at1999 Shanghai Youth oil painting Exhibition.
Oil painting <Times of Gold Coin> was exhibited in the 2nd National Fine Arts Exhibition.


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Dong Cheng District, Beijing, China 100006
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Dong Lu

He was born in 1973 in Beijing. He graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts.



Exhibitions

1998 Tianfang Gallery Beijing.

“Floating” series showed and collected by MAKI MASARU FINE ARTS.Tokyo. Japan

“Floating” series showed in WATER MOON GALLERY.New York.

1999“99 Nanjing-Contemporary Oil Painting Art Academy Exchange Exhibition”.NanjingNormalUniversity.

“Floating-Six Men Show”.Beijing Design Museum.

1999/12,“Fixed & Beyond-Joint Exhibition By 70’s Age Artists”.Wan FungArtGallery, Beijing.


Statement
My work is my experience about the state of being as the men at present age. It comes from my own daily life. Every time when I am alone, I’m immersed in the vast of confusion. I feel that I’m living in a cruel and strange circumstance, without edge, without any sound even my own voice. Naked, I float in the air, without support, like a freak. With the only reason and strength left; waving the four limbs; I try to escape from this absurd awkward situation, and rush to more capacious world.


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Zhao Chenxiang

Zhao Chenxiang is a member of the Chinese Artists Association and a member of Guangdong Writers Association. Currently she is the vice-president of the Shantou Artists Association and a professional painter of Shantou Art Academy. She took advanced courses at the famous Wang Mingming Studio of Beijing Art Academy. She graduated from the first advanced creation class of Chinese Painting of the Beijing Art Academy.

Exhibitions：
1994 " Xiang Qing", " Yu Pan" shown at the eighth national art exhibition.
1995 " An Yi", " Hua Di" shown at the national female artists' painting exhibition.
1997 "Qing Yun Tu" shown at the world Chinese calligraphy and painting exhibition.
1998 " Jiu Wu Qing Si" shown at the Century Star - China Art Biennia.
1999 " Qing Ju Xian Qing Tu", " Wu Hou De Shi Guang" shown at the ninth national art exhibition.
1999 " Ya She Cha Xiang Tu" shown at the selected Chinese paintings exhibition
2000 " Wu Hou Shi Guang Qing Lai He Cha" shown at 2000 national Chinese painting exhibition.
2001 " Yi Ri Qing Xian Yi Ri Fu" shown at the selected famous contemporary Chinese painting exhibition.
2002 " Ya She He Feng", " Qing Feng Ming Yue" shown at the Chinese ink and wash painting exhibition.
2003 " Hao Ri Zi" shown at the second national Chinese painting exhibition.
2004 " Xian Qing Yi Yun Tu" shown at the Sino- France Cultural Exchange , contemporary Chinese Painting Exhibition.
2004 "Shu Xiang Tao Yun Tu" shown at the first selected paintings exhibition organized by the Chinese Artists Association.
2004 "Shi Guang De Sheng Yin" shown at the tenth national art exhibition.
2004 " Ge Chuang Wang Xiang Qing" shown at the Fu Baoshi Cup - Nanjing ink and wash painting exhibition.

Many of her Chinese ink and color paintings, paper cut works and other creations have been widely exhibited and awarded prizes many times at home and abroad. She has held her solo show in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Wuhan, Guangzhou. Her works have been widely collected and hang in the China National Museum of Fine Arts, China Art Research Institute, Zhejiang Fine Arts Museum, Hubei Fine Arts Museum, Tianren Fine Arts Museum and other art organizations and individual collectors from U.S.A, Japan, France, England, Thailand, Australia, Chinese Hong Kong, Macao. To date seven catalogues of her have been published.

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Huang Youwei

Huang Youwei was born in 1965 in Yueyang, Hunan Province. Since graduating from the fine arts department of the Hunan Binzhou Normal School in 1989, Huang has devoted himself to water color paintings. Although he does not believe life is all roses and sunshine, he has the ability to find beauty in things and in people - to derive hope from the trivialities and vicissitudes of lives. He says, "Many aspects of our lives can touch and stir those who love life. The beautiful details I incorporate into my works are expressions of my inner feelings. The strong moods that I created in my paintings represent my desire and hope for beautiful lives."

Huang says his watercolors are never accurate records of what he has seen. They are emotional recreations of the natural environment in which he lives in. "If it is possible, I like to put into my works all the beautiful things that I love."

"The warm sunshine on the old gate, the shabby walls and gate boards are enlightened in the golden rays, all of which is so attractive. Even the birds shut in the cages seeming to be affected by this atmosphere begin to sing sweet songs." This is what Huang yearns for the Hutong and the life in it.

The shining sun rays spread a piece of golden on the paths through the trees, the pretty roses are wavering with the breeze, the paths are hiding under the crowds of flowers and the lovely morning glories lie on the path beside quietly, the grass is growing silently outside the windows covered with lichen, the waving stream reflects the busy and colorful life on the banks; the rays of the setting sun genteelly touch the old red gate and the ice-box full of family letters with the bird singing happily in the golden cage.



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A Loving Brush With Fame - photo courtesy of Huang Youwei

Daragh Moller provides an astute insight to the motivation and skills of one of China's most eminent artists, Huang Youwei.

Huang's day starts late. Usually he surfaces around midday at the home. He shares with wife Binbin and two children in the sleepy hamlet of Baimiao, Tongzhou District, just outside central Beijing. It's a peaceful abode, meticulously maintained.

Huang, a water-colorist whose work enjoys high demand in China and overseas- one work was recently bought by a British royal for the priceless Royal Art Collection - was born in Yueyang,Hunan Province in 1965.His painting are now so in demand that whatever comes off his easel is usually already sold. Also known by the alias "Fisherman of Dong Ting Lake,"he is not fussed by the heavy demand. Huang is very much a painter who sets his own agenda without being blasé about his fame.

His work is considered largely decorative and, simply, beautiful-appreciations that would not always guarantee sales in some art markets. But his creations strike a definite chord in Europe and the US as well as China. Buyers appreciate his aesthetic, seeing it as insightful, honest, raw, heartfelt and strong on meaning. Soft on the eye, and somehow even gentle on the heart, his photorealistic renditions are a sustained meditation on the infinite beauties offered by the natural world.

It is past midday. In the artist's studio, a clock ticks and goldfish shimmer. A bowl of roses, left to dry on a mantelpiece, sheds petals. A natural still life. A whiff of jasmine blends with wood smoke as the fireplace crackles. A skylight cut into the sloping roof drops a diagonal beam of sunshine on the flagstone floor.

A dog barks. The eye takes in an easel and artist's chair, a bowl of water and three cleaned brushes. A palette. Chinese window screens, ceiling beams, books on architecture, magazines and photographs. An unfinished painting.

On the softened roughness of the watercolor, a wet paintbrush touches on the surface but once. With confidence, not just a steady hand, assertive marks translate immediately into life: a bird, a pear, a berry, a leaf, and a ray of light.

Magical dabs of instant beauty.

The work is meditative as much as spiritual, and benefits from the natural world as its primary subject. The artist, in so doing, takes the narrative of the passage of time and places it at the heart of all he creates.

This is work that tells that life decays but is reborn and lives again. Time -honored Beijing courtyards cast in dawn light, roofs overrun with enthusiastic summer weeds, bright and irrepressible. Half-open siheyuan doorways reveal rich and fertile life in concert with the worried lintel stones and scarred brickwork.

In a world devoid of people, the natural world is tamed. Urban flowers festoon with life and grow, uncluttered, clipped and weeded. Idealised. Hutongs are deserted but for the bright, stead gaze of a city cat-----space free of the clutter of human habitation left to tell its own story. Idealized, and rearranged like personal memory, the image argues how space is occupied in life without us.

A bowl of water floats blossom leaves across its surface as warm light falls around it. Past a thick and fecund rope of pink and lilac roses, the eye wanders through a doorway, down a passage, to a space dark and forbidding at its side.
Much as Buddhist doctrine enshrines life with the responsibilities of death, the work of Huang Youwei places death into the hands of life. The work expresses that life is beautiful precisely because it is fleeting, one moment piled on another moment passing, an end always drawn as a new beginning.

Central isthe artist's useof light .As it falls, it captures and illustrates, the movement of time across the painting's uninterrupted narrative and says: that no matter what happens, nature remains unbroken. This light moves across the surface of the paintings, somehow literally, just as it moves convincingly in the mind's eye.

While the work is often photorealistic, it is so with artistic license. Edges blur with emotional rendering, colors over-tinted with the zeal of a lover's eye. The feel and sense of the subject, like a single rose amidst a white and purple rush of water, elevated to the stature of the divine. A lover working with a steady brush.

One can easily imagine the artist at work, the hours of his day spent walking the laneways of this emotional engagement. Resting before a half-open door, he waits for the light to move as the world turns, for life to shed a tear, a leaf, or still a cat's paw on a broken roof tile.

He waits for change.

The world of the artist's imagination does not remove people from the subject but instead imagines a still moment in time's arrow. It is as if this moment, launched from the artist's imagination to the crafted beauty of his page, is somehow positioned between the many other moments of human confluence and departure. The scene involves human disappearance. And it is the absence of these people that makes the beauty rare that in turn exposes the absent presence in all of nature.

At night, watching for the dawn, the artist paints. He conjures.

The story of a door concerns him. Browned with age, it is overgrown with new life. The swept clean steps and greenery gradually overrun the artist's empty page. Light creeps beneath the door and imagines the secret garden within.

Light of day fully breaks across the sky and the artist lays down his brushes. He gazes intently at the scene he has created. He is satisfied, filled up, still in love with beautiful life, He sheep.

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[mambo]

There are hundreds of really amazing Chinese artists that never get exposure in the west. Where I live in Hong Kong all one has to do is walk into a bookstore and browse... the Chinese language bookstores are the best as they tend to carry a lot of books published in the mainland.

The amount of guys there with talent is unreal.

There are some stunnning styles of brushwork that you rarely if ever see in the west. As well there are probably a dozen or more schools of oil painting that do some impressive work.

Much of the oil work bears a strong similarity with the Russian school of Socialist Realist painting.

I'll have to go through my bookshelf and post some scans... much of the stuff is astonishingly good.

[GriNGo]

nice link, thanks wanfung!

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If everybody would like to see more, i will post more links.

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Dong Lu

He was born in 1973 in Beijing. He graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts.



Exhibitions

1998 Tianfang Gallery Beijing.

“Floating” series showed and collected by MAKI MASARU FINE ARTS.Tokyo. Japan

“Floating” series showed in WATER MOON GALLERY.New York.

1999“99 Nanjing-Contemporary Oil Painting Art Academy Exchange Exhibition”.NanjingNormalUniversity.

“Floating-Six Men Show”.Beijing Design Museum.

1999/12,“Fixed & Beyond-Joint Exhibition By 70’s Age Artists”.Wan FungArtGallery, Beijing.


Statement
My work is my experience about the state of being as the men at present age. It comes from my own daily life. Every time when I am alone, I’m immersed in the vast of confusion. I feel that I’m living in a cruel and strange circumstance, without edge, without any sound even my own voice. Naked, I float in the air, without support, like a freak. With the only reason and strength left; waving the four limbs; I try to escape from this absurd awkward situation, and rush to more capacious world.


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Zhang Shijun

He was born in October 1996 and a native of Liangshan, Sichuan province. He graduated from the Shijiazhuang Academy of Industrial Arts. In 2000, he began to live in Beijing.

In 1992 “Moon Night” was on show in Panxi area of Sichuan province and collected

In 1993 He held his solo exhibition in Huili of Sichuan province

In 1995 “Tree of UFO” awarded the second prize of the best science fantasy works in Taiwan.

In 2003 his works was on show in the Exhibition of A Hundred Talents in Contemporary Art of China.

In 2004 his works was enrolled in the book “A Hundred Talents in Contemporary Art”. A lot of his works were collected by the art lovers both at home and abroad.


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[Egets]

I really love chinese ancient paintings styles, who doesnt anyways, but I wished that the artists in china will continue to immerse into their own cultural ways of expressions they are so old are distinctive, instead of trying to become radicalists or modernists, I quess you cant really shut down somebody's desire for something new and different but its such a shame to abandon an art style that has been created in such a long time span and how everybody around the world can recognise instantly that this is chinese style of painting and then ppl would just stop painting like that wanting to become Andy Warhools or something, I mean that ppl should remain as what they are born not trying to become something else just because its exotic and different with some breath of new fresh air or something you know what I mean ?

What could be so cool if the chinese artists would take that chinese painting style to next level continue to perfect it to the extreme ... Im not like judging here those kind of people who finds the traditional means of paintings are not their cup of tea and they feel something else is for them but the traditional paintings should be encouraged too and let those artists know how much their art really is appreciated throughout the whole world you know !!!

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Thanks Egets, here some traditional ones.

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Chen Gang

He was born in Tianjin in 1958. He furthered his study in Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. In recent years, he focuses on the creation of Chinese paintings, Oil paintings, industrial arts and pottery arts.
In May of 1988, his works displayed in the session of the circle of paintings and calligraphy in Tianjin and was awarded as one of the “The Hundred Painters and Calligrapher in Tianjin”.
In May of 1989, he gained the second awards in The First Art Exhibition of Workers.
In June of 1997, his works were on show in the Group Exhibition For Welcoming the Regression of Hongkong in Tianjin Harbor Area & Action of Paintings and Calligraphy.
He is a member of Asia Culture Exchange Association, Chinese Paintings Researching Committee and Tianjin Middle and Young Aged painters Association, director of Tianjin Jingu Paintings and Calligraphy Society, advanced painter of Zhongyuan Paintings and Calligraphy Academe.
He is a professional painter.


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Print:

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Zhang Fan
Zhang Fan was born in 1975 in Qingdao City, Shandong Province. In 1998 he graduated from the print department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2002 he received the master's degree of print from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His works show changes between line and color.

1996 International Print Biennial Exhibition Spain

1997 Solo Etching Exhibition Beijing

1997 NEW ART FROM CHINA U.S.A.

1998 14th National Print Exhibition

1999 Excellent Works Exhibition from the Central Academy of Fine Arts Queensland Australia

2000 International Print Biennial Exhibition Qingdao city China

2001 Excellent Works Exhibition from the Central Academy of Fine Arts South Korea

2002 GRIDS, LEWALLEN CONTEMPORARY U.S.A

2003 Grand Chinese Art Exhibition China Millennium Monument Art Museum Beijing


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Yu Jiantao

was born in 1968 in Dalian city. Currently he is a professional painter, a member of Dalian Artists’ Association. In 1969 he went to countryside with his family and stayed there until 1979. Ten years countryside life like a beautiful fairy tale to keep Yu remember until now or even more. Maybe dream of creating arts began at that time.

He devoted all his life to understanding the nature, the course of painting creation like a course of exploring life. A building, a tree, a damaged boat or a corroded rock, they are a life to artist, when he touchs them, he was deeply moved by them, it is a kind of communion even though without words. These things are the ever-lasting inspirations for the art creation of him.


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Zhou Zhongyao
Zhou Zhongyao male, born in 1945, is a native of Changsha, Hunan province. He is a member of Chinese Artists Association, Hunan Branch and committee member of the Hunan Flower-and-bird Painting Research Institute.

In his early years, Zhou devoted to the study of the elaborate style (Gongbi) flower-and-bird paintings from the Song masters. Then he carried on exploring the art of contemporary Gongbi flower-and-bird. After years of study and practical endeavour in the creation of Gongbi flower-and-bird painting, Zhou has a firm grasp of its traditional skills. As advancing in his art, he found nourishment in diverse forms of expressions of the Western painting masters and from inspiration found from daily life. Zhou thus has gradually developed a unique style of his own.

Zhou has a mild character. He has a warm heart for people and yet maintain to lead a quiet life. Other than making trips to paint from nature, he seldom involves himself in worldly affairs. His works are natural in style, in proper perspective with good lighting effects and a sense of mystery. Zhou stresses the integration of the subject with background and thus to extend the depth and dimensions of the picture. In general, Zhou's works are highly regarded by the art collectors both foreign and Chinese, for their compact composition, elegant setting and the power to provoke one's thoughts.

Zhou has won many prizes, while his paintings have been shown in France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong.


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Zhang Guang
Zhang Guang male, born in 1941, is a native of Leting, Hebei Province. He is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, committee member of the Oriental Art Exchange Association and a professional painter at the People's Art Press. He is rated as a national first-class artist.

In 1965, Zhang graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts where he studied at the painting studio of Professor Jiang Zhaohe and focused on the portraying skills of human figure in a realistic manner. During that period, he had also learnt from the tuition of professor Ye Qianyu and thus formed a firm base on portraying skills.

Zhang excels in drawing human figures, animals, landscapes, and is especially known for painting horses and oxen. His paintings of oxen are characterized by their proper prospective, compact composition and vivid expressions while the horses under his brush which are more drawn on the Impressionist School are marked by their balance setting and harmonious union of lines and colours in capturing the unbounded spirit and great animation. Overall speech, Zhang's works are bold, simple, carefully constructed and full of dynamic.

In last 20 years, Zhang's paintings have been shown in numerous art exhibitions, both home and abroad. They have reached a large audience and have gained a high regard in the art circle. Zhang's publications include "Selected Paintings by Zhang Guang", "Hand Scroll of a Hundred Oxen" and "The Paintings of Zhang Guang".

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