Chinese Painting Character Works

Chinese Figure Painting:

Feng Yuan is a famous Chinese painter, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, and honorary dean of the Academy of Fine Arts at Tsinghua University. Many of his paintings have been purchased by art museums and collectors both at home and abroad, and he is one of the most deserving masters of Chinese painting in the field of large-capitalist figure painting today. Feng Yuan, originally from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was born in Shanghai in 1952 and loved painting from his childhood.

In 1980, he graduated from the postgraduate course of Chinese painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1987 onwards, he served as the head of the Academic Affairs Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts and the vice-president of the Academy, and was awarded the honorary title of Outstanding Teacher and Expert with Outstanding Contributions to the State, and was entitled to the Special Government Allowance. He went on to become the director of the Department of Art Education and Science and Technology of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, the director of the Department of Art, and the director of the National Art Museum of China.

Feng Yuan's Chinese paintings are created in a realist figurative and realistic style, as well as other styles. The figures in his works are carefully modeled, and his painting style pursues simplicity and richness, and his brushwork and ink are pale and astringent. He prefers to create historical themes and is good at organizing grand scenes. Focusing on the ideological connotation of the works, he strives to convey a portrayal of the grand spirit, and at the same time, he is also concerned about the novelty and delicacy of the artistic form and language.

He also paints simple and abstract paintings, with the intention of being eclectic.

Li Shinan, originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, was born in Shanghai in 1940. He studied under He Haixia and Shi Lu. He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a national artist, and a representative painter of contemporary large-scale figure painting. He used to be known as: Half-bi Zhai, One Leaf Lodge, Pottery Lodge, Wushu Zhai, Yangshan Hall, Deer Pond Mountain House, Double Persimmon Cao Tang, etc. In 1962, he studied landscape painting under Mr. He Haixia, and then studied under Shi Lu in 1971. He is the most representative painter of contemporary large-case figure painting.