#chinese painter

[the-cricket-chirps]

Huang Yongyu

Rat

Ink and colour on paper

[fabiansarthall]

Self-portrait for 'Merci Paris' (2022) — Fei Wang a.k.a. Mr. Slowboy (1980–)

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Artist: Circle of Guan Qiaochang Lam Qua (Chinese, 1801–1860)

Date: ca. 1850

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Although her identity is unknown, based on her attire, the woman in this striking portrait was a prominent member of society. The collar and cuffs of her robe are embroidered with chrysanthemums, a flower motif commonly worn in autumn. While the artist is also unidentified, this portrait’s style connects it with the eminent Chinese painter Guan Qiaochang, also known as Lam Qua, who was active in Guangzhou (formerly Canton) and Macau. Although he never visited Britain, Lam Qua exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1835 and 1845, just before and after the First Anglo-Chinese War. Paintings by Lam Qua’s workshop, and those by his followers, reflect substantial crosscultural exchanges in early-nineteenth-century Guangzhou and were popular among Chinese, American, and European merchants. The British painter George Chinnery (1774–1852), under whom Lam Qua claimed he studied, settled in southern China in 1825 and found success among a similar clientele.

[thecreativecatalogue]

Zhu Xiaohe is a contemporary Chinese artist and leading figure in Chinese Maximalism. He is famous for his ascetic approach, using dense layers of short, repetitive strokes to turn canvases into script-like, time-meditating abstract surfaces. 

Maximalist Layering: Dense, repetitive short strokes build up deep surfaces.

Monosemic Art: Creates a single-minded, scriptural visual language that hides distinct layer boundaries.

Time and Perception: Lines intertwine endlessly to slow down how viewers see and think about time.

East Meets West: Combines Eastern calligraphic habits with a direct reply to Western Minimalism.

[frogmuse]

[enchantedbook]

'Mountain Ghost ' by Hwa San-Chiuen    

[abwwia]

Fang Zhaoling (Chinese: 方召麐, 17 January 1914 – 20 February 2006), also known as Lydia Fong, was a Chinese painter and calligrapher. via Wikipedia

FANG ZHAOLING (1914-2006) Three Gorges Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper 96 x 113.8 cm. (37 3⁄4 x 44 3⁄4 in.) Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist Dated winter, tenth month, dingchou year (1997)

Read also: Fang Zhaoling--Paintings of the Heart

[From an essay series by Daisaku Ikeda in which he reflects on his encounters with various world figures.]

https://www.daisakuikeda.org/main/culture/essays-on-culture/fang-zhaoling.html

[4eternal-life]

WALASSE TING (DING XIONGQUAN, 1929 -2010)

I Think of You,  1986 oil on canvas 40.9 x 51 cm. (16 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.)

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