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Shen Jing Dong , God of Fortune, Pop Art
£235.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Artist Shen Jing Dong is an acclaimed contemporary artist of the Chinese new wave, known for his paintings and sculptures of Chinese iconography. He creates images of soldiers and icons of life through new forms and expressive colors. Shen’s works can be seen in collections worldwide and one of his most famous collectors is actress Zhang Ziyi from Memoirs of a Geisha & Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Shen Jing Dong , Little Prince and Rose, Pop Art
£940.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
“I wish I was like the Petit Prince. I want to be naive. In the book, he paints a snake that swallows an elephant but the adults have a different interpretation; they think it’s a hat and the Little Prince says the adult world is too complicated. The world is definitely not flawless, you can see famine, war and disaster, but I want to view it in a simplified way”. — Artist Shen Jing Dong interviewed by Fionnuala McHugh
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Shen Jing Dong , Navy and Donald Duck, Pop Art
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The icon that Shen Jingdong’s “hero” series created, is an image of the soldiers without any personal identity. This image is hardly to tell who the specific soldier is. His facial features are vague, and in fact he is a man in common sense. The clothing and attitude in-which he stands, his identity and individuality are replaced by a common ideology.
The image of the soldier which was named hero is out of refinement. They are created into four kinds of people, which are the red, the yellow, the bald and the soldiers with hat. The yellow soldiers possess a hue of humanity, and the red soldiers stand for the solemn atmosphere of revolution. Their bodies are not only dressed in the uniform dress, but also have a fixed correct upright posture. This kind of image comes from his experience in the army. Almost every soldier with an “out of the box”personality will be uniformed in the end after joining the army.
The following painting depicts a marine soldier in his uniform, with a Donald Duck holding his hands on the soldier’s ear. The artist enjoys mixing serious subjects with humour. It is for him, a way for his message to go through more easily.
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Shen Jing Dong , Rabbit
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Jokes and humor are the most distinctive artistic traits in Shen’s work. The formation of his artistic language was related to the confusion brought about by his early dislocation of identity. In his mature period, his early experiences were extended into a consideration of the collective unconscious of several generations of Chinese people since the time of the revolution. On the surface, the works are full of absurd self-ridicule and satire, but behind this comedic absurdity and fiction lies an authentic Chinese emotional experience.
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Shen Jing Dong , Sh!, Pop Art
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In Sh!, a green person is looking straight at the viewer with his index finger over his lips. Red nose, white rounded background, and a bandaid over the neck and head. The figure is smiling, but somehow, it puts the viewer in an uncomfortable position as if we had seen something and now had to keep it secret.
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Wang Xiao Rong, Jade Lake, Mixed Media
£1,200.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Wang Xiao Rong likes adventures which is something that pushes her to experiment a lot. Her work is composed by a multitude of materials and mediums. She will use objects such as leaves and papers in her paintings in addition to ink, Chinese painting, and oil pigment, according to her requirements. Thereafter she will often use those materials to create some forms of collages. Each material and colour has an emotional characteristic.
“From a macroscopic perspective, my works examine states of life existence and mourn about how life is short and time vanishes”.
The following piece is a mixed media composition. The first layer holds shades of green which we could interpret as being in the deep waters of the ocean. Wang added some origami shaped boats on the canvas. Some are covered by green layers, some are above, as if a few boats had drowned in the ocean and a few were still surviving.
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Wang Xiao Rong, Sail, Mixed Media
£1,200.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Wang Xiao Rong likes adventures which is something that pushes her to experiment a lot. Her work is composed by a multitude of materials and mediums. She will use objects such as leaves and papers in her paintings in addition to ink, Chinese painting, and oil pigment, according to her requirements. Thereafter she will often use those materials to create some forms of collages. Each material and colour has an emotional characteristic.
“From a macroscopic perspective, my works examine states of life existence and mourn about how life is short and time vanishes”.
Sail, is one of the few pieces from Wang where figurative and abstract meet. She created a lovely smokey and abstract sea, behind a body of origami-like shaped boats. Some of the boats are clearer than others depending on the colour and placement in the work. We can’t quite figure if all the boats are supposedly in the the see or the shore which adds another abstract and mysterious layer to the narration of the painting.
Wang allows a space in her works for the audience’s own interpretations and emotions. She has a very loving and peaceful nature, yearning for good and looking towards the future which is depicted into her art. The works very much talk about romance, sincerity, amiability and nature.
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Wang Xiao Rong, Time Series 1, Mixed Media
£1,000.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Wang Xiao Rong likes adventures which is something that pushes her to experiment a lot. Her work is composed by a multitude of materials and mediums. She will use objects such as leaves and papers in her paintings in addition to ink, Chinese painting, and oil pigment, according to her requirements. Thereafter she will often use those materials to create some forms of collages. Each material and colour has an emotional characteristic.
“From a macroscopic perspective, my works examine states of life existence and mourn about how life is short and time vanishes”.
Time Series 1 is a mixed media painting with a very bright and dominant red colour. There is a contrast between the dense red & black area of the piece and the diluted, lighter colours on the left of the painting. There is a definite pattern we can perceive either through the paint brush strokes or the superposition of collage layers.
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Wang Xiao Rong, Time Series 2, Mixed Media
£1,000.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Wang Xiao Rong likes adventures which is something that pushes her to experiment a lot. Her work is composed by a multitude of materials and mediums. She will use objects such as leaves and papers in her paintings in addition to ink, Chinese painting, and oil pigment, according to her requirements. Thereafter she will often use those materials to create some forms of collages. Each material and colour has an emotional characteristic.
“From a macroscopic perspective, my works examine states of life existence and mourn about how life is short and time vanishes”.
The following piece is considerably dense. First of all in terms of colours and how filled the canvas is, but also, in the variety of painting mediums. The lower half of the piece is opaque and diluted whereas the upper half is saturated in pigments.
Even though the painting appears to be abstract, we can distinguish shapes that reminds us of waves from the sea, maybe clouds at the top and a horizon in the middle. In the middle of the work, we can catch a glimpse of a simple dark touch resembling a boat vanishing in the intensity of a disturbed sea.
Wang allows a space in her works for the audience’s own interpretations and emotions. She has a very loving and peaceful nature, yearning for good and looking towards the future which is depicted into her art. The works very much talk about romance, sincerity, amiability and nature.
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Wang Xiao Rong, Time series 4, Mixed media, Abstract painting
£700.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Wang Xiao Rong likes adventures which is something that pushes her to experiment a lot. Her work is composed by a multitude of materials and mediums. She will create with objects in her paintings such as leaves and papers, in addition to ink, oil pigment and the Chinese painting technique according to her requirements. Thereafter, Wang will often use those materials to create some forms of collages. Each material and colour has an emotional characteristic.
“From a macroscopic perspective, my works examine states of life existence and mourn about how life is short and time vanishes”.
Time Series 4 is an abstract mixed media piece. The painting looks like a mixture of dripping technique and collage. The artwork holds a creamy background and uneven black lines. The composition looks like lost fragments of a puzzle connected together to create its own free-form, leaving slight spaces between them.
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Zhouzhou Zhou, Escapism 1
£800.00 – £860.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Zhou Zhouzhou, China’s renowned contemporary artist was born in Hebei Province and graduated from China Central Academy of Arts and Design. During his years of work in Beijing, Zhou focused on the academic study of the contemporary Chinese ink and wash painting and became one of the leading figures in this field because of his bold attempts to innovate traditional painting techniques and his creative efforts to combine Chinese painting theories with western art theories. With his works collected by many arts organisations both at home and abroad, Zhou is one of the most sought-after artists in China. In 2014, his work “China’s Lover” was selected and exhibited at that year’s National Fine Arts Exhibition.
