Excellent Chinese Oil Painting Artist Yan Peiming Art Appreciation ? The Funeral Of Mona Lisa

Yan Peiming Portrait Oil Painting Work – The Funeral of Mona Lisa

Painting Title: The Funeral of Mona Lisa

Artist: Yan Peiming

Painting size: 300*300cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 2001

Most of Yan Peiming’s oil painting works are huge black and white portrait paintings, you will been shocked and have fear at first sight. These characters faces were been painted out wildly and haphazardly, as if they are mummies, as if they are rubber or leather masks which had been stretched out and distorted in S & M games, they were seemed strange and weird, paradoxical, dark, angry, terrible, full of strength as well as sadly.

Yan Pei Ming is specializes in the creation of huge size oil paintings, he like to create two-color paintings, most of his oil painting works are portraits. His oil painting works have participated in the Venice Biennale and other important international art exhibition.

In the evening of February 11, 2009, Yan Peiming held an art exhibition themed “Mona Lisa’s Funeral” in Louvre, France. In this exhibition, Yan Peiming with gray tone, with projection-like manner, celebrated a funeral for Mona Lisa. He extended the mystical background Mona Lisa lived in, dotted with numerous skull heads. On both sides of the Mona Lisa there is the self-portrait of Yan Peiming, the side face to face is his withered aging father, who is witnessing the death of his son.

Chinese artist Yan Peiming is the first modern artist who is still alive and can held an individual art exhibition in Louvre.

About Artist Yan Peiming:

Mr.Yan Peiming, who was born in Shanghai in 1960; In 1980 moved to Dijon, France;

1981-1986: studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon, France;
1988-1989: Studied at the Paris Advanced Institute of Plastic Arts in Paris, France;
1993-1994: Studied at France College in Rome, Italy;
1995-now: Act as a professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon, France.

Exhibitions:

1988: Studio 88 (Paris Modern Art Museum)
1991: Sports 2 (Pompidou Art Centre)
1993: China Avant-Garde Art (Berlin, Rotterdam, Oxford etc.)
1995: Venice Biennial
1997: Lyons Biennial
2000: Kwangju Biennial (Korea)
2000: Shanghai Biennial (China)
2002: Pusan Biennial (Korea)
2009: Mona Lisa’s Funeral (Louvre, France)

In 2009, Yan Peiming held his individual art shows in China, France and U.S.A. respectively.

During June 19 to October 11, 2009, Yan Pei Ming launched his individual art exhibition themed with “Landscape in Childhood” in Lawrence Contemporary Art Centre in Beijing, with 34 paintings of huge size children portraits, he explained his understanding on poverty, hunger, inequality and war.

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Appreciation On Contemporary Chinese Artist He Kongde Landscape Oil Painting Work ? Tree

Painting Title: Tree

 Artist: He Kongde

Painting size: 82*122cm

Media: Fabric, Oil painting

Creation Time: 1984

Close price: RMB 27,500 Yuan

Artist He Kongde adhered to the creative method of realism, stick by the object while remaining personal style. He consider only use art techniques and artistic language people easy to understand can bring out communications between thoughts and emotions, and make people share the beauty feelings comes from the object, and attain to the purpose of the beautification and purification of minds.

During 40 years, He Kongde created and published artworks themed with major events China has experienced, and has caused great attention of Government and people. In addition to social themes and large-scale painting projects, He Kongde has painted a large number of portraits, landscapes, still life oil paintings and other original oil painting works which were not taken seriously. And the artist has devoted much more efforts in this area and also has gain more creative freedom, as well as more real enjoyment of art, and therefore he is like them more.

About Artist He Kongde:

He Kunde (1925.4-2003), came from Xicong city, Sichuan province, China.

In 1943, entered into National Chongqing Institute and study at the Fine Arts department;
In 1946, transferred to Sichuan Academy of Arts and study at the printing and dyeing department;
In 1946, joined the People’s Liberation Army and worked in the Cultural Troupe of the No. 12 army crops.
In 1951 joined the Voluntary army, and went to North Korea to engaged in fine arts advocacy efforts.
In 1955 was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts and studied in the training course of Soviet expert Maksimov’s painting;
In 1957, acted as a fine art staff at the creation studio of the General Political Ministry of Culture.
In 1962, was transferred to the Chinese People’s Revolution Military Museum to engaged in creating of Fine Arts.
In1980, He Kongde assumed the office of the deputy director of creation studio of the Military Museum and retired in 1987

Mr. He Kongde died in 2003, before death he was one of members and managing directors of Chinese Artists Association, as well as vice chairman of the Oil Painting Art Committee and national first grade artist.

Artist He Kongde is good at oil painting and watercolor painting. Oil Painting “Before the Attack” is collected by the China Art Gallery, oil painting “Military Commission Plenary Meeting” created with the cooperation of Gao Hong was awarded by the second prize on the 5th National Art Exhibition, and He Kongde had taken participated in the creation of half-landscape oil painting “Lukouchiao Fight”

Publications: “He Kongde Oil Paintings Selection”, ” He Kongde Paintings Selection”

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