ROMANTIC TRIP NO.16
By Feng Zhengjie
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 109.5 by 109.5cm.; 42 3/4 by 42 3/4 in.
Medium: oil on canvas
ROMANTIC TRIP NO.10
By Feng Zhengjie
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 80x100 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Creation Date: 1997
ROMANTIC TRIP NO.13
By Feng Zhengjie
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 150 by 110cm. (alt: 59 by 43 3/8 in.)
Medium: oil on canvas
BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM
By Feng Zhengjie
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 100×80cm
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Creation Date: 1997
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LE PAPILLON AMOUREUX
By Feng Zhengjie
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 73 3/4 by 74 7/8 in. 187 by 190.3 cm.
Medium: oil on canvas
LE PAPILLON AMOUREUX NO.14
By Feng Zhengjie
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 129.5 by 110cm.; 51 by 43 3/8 in.
Medium: oil on canvas
Feng Zhengjie (born 1968, Sichuan Province, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Originally a high-school and college art teacher in Sichuan, he came to Beijing in 1995.
His best-known work is his Portrait of China series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits, in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes (his signature style). Critics view his work as a critique of contemporary consumer society. His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year art, the colours made "more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China".
Zhengjie has exhibited internationally in many shows including Dialogue With Asia at Vika Gallery in Oslo, the 2002 Korea Contemporary Art Festival in Seoul, China Femmes de Chine at Veronique Maxe Gallery in Paris, Primary Colors at the Singapore Art Museum in Singapore and New Perspectives in Chinese Painting at Marella Gallery in Milan.
He is represented by Goedhuis Contemporary in London, New York and Beijing, and by Willem Kerseboom Gallery in Amsterdam.
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/feng_zhengjie.htm
BLOODLINE: BIG FAMILY NO.1
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 150 by 179 cm.; 59 by 70 1/2 in.
Medium: oil on canvas
BLOODLINE SERIES: BIG FAMILY
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Creation Date: 1998
BLOODLINE - BIG FAMILY (TWO PIECES)
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 64×80cm(each)
Medium: Print on Paper
Creation Date: 2006
Edition number: 33 from an edition of 99
BIG FAMILY
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 33½ x 39¼ in. (85.1 x 99.7 cm.)
[MY BIG FAMILY]
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: L. 22½ x 28 1/8 in. (571 x 715 mm.)
A BIG FAMILY SERIES
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 90 x 70 1/8in. (229 x 179cm.)
A BIG FAMILY SERIES NO. 16
By Zhang Xiaogang
Artwork Description
Dimensions: 78¾ x 98½ in. (200 x 250 cm.)
Zhang was born in the city of Kunming in China's Yunnan province in 1958. He came of age during the 1960s and 70s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on his painting. In 1982, he graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in the city of Chongqing in Sichuan province, then joined a young group of young avant-garde painters who came to prominence during the 1980s. Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang belongs to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists and is a favorite of foreign collectors.
Western painters including Richter, Picasso and Dali are influences. Zhang said: "I read in a book once a few words by British experimental artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which were very influential for me: 'a person can very easily have the right idea, but choose the wrong means to express it. Or he can have the right means, but lack a clear idea.'" Zhang also cites his discovery of photos of his mother as a young, attractive woman as a key inspiration for the Bloodline series.
Take a closer look: Introducing Chen Hongzhu
Most people pop outside their place of work to purchase a sandwich or a cup of coffee during their lunch hour, I popped out this afternoon to visit the charming Sesame gallery on Upper Street in Angel, Islington.
The painting in the window caught my attention and I decided to call in to find out more about the Chinese artist Chen Hongzhu.
The owner, James Freeman, certainly has a keen eye for new talent as Chen’s work is already causing a stir with the good people from the Tate also knocking at his door.
Chen was born in Chongqing, China in 1982 and graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, B.A. in Oil Painting in 2009. This is what James had to say about her:
‘Influenced by American painters such as Mark Ryden and John Currin, her zoomorphic self-portraits meld surrealism with self-examination. They depict seemingly perfect porcelain dolls that are nevertheless damaged & fragile, the cuts and dripping blood on the otherwise pristine bunnies hinting at traumas faced and survived. Her paintings suggest a tragedy in beauty, a disappointed innocence, but also a steely determination – disillusionment, yes, but also a persistence to carry on’.
The show is on for another two weeks and is well worth a visit.
