Artist Profile
Yang Limin, a native of Quyang, China, is an artist, poet and honorary sir, graduated from Nanjing Academy of the Arts with a doctorate in literature. In 1995, he crossed to Toei and lived and worked in Nagoya and many parts of the world. He is currently the Chairman of the Asia Region of the Eurasian Cultural Organization, a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Arts, a trustee of the Nanjing Academy of arts and the director of the Institute of New Ink Painting, a professor of intercultural studies at the University of Comptons, Spain, a free researcher of the Institute of Contemporary Human Culture of the National Museum of Natural History in France, a visiting researcher at the Saint-Side Art Center in the United States, and the director of the New Chinese Painting Research Center of Hebei University.
His artwork has won a variety of professional awards:
In 2003, he was nominated for the first Columbia World Painting Contribution Award (USA), the 2010 "Wu Zuoren Art Award and Plastic Arts Award", the artist on the 2014 Hurun Art List, the national treasure artist of the Hurun Art List, the top ten artists and poets in the 2017 Chinese Poetry List, the Honorary Jazz Cross medal (France) in 2018, the honorary citizen of Volvik In 2019, the artist on the Hurun Art List in 2020, and the Contribution Award of the Sixth China Contemporary Poetry Award. In 2021, he was nominated for the first "First Place Golden Yi Award";
Yang Has held solo exhibitions in many places in the world, and his works have been collected by important museums and art galleries at home and abroad such as the Vatican Museums, the National Art Museum of China, the Paris Contemporary Art Library, etc., and he has authored albums, academic monographs, poetry collections, etc.;
He currently lives in Beijing and Tokyo.
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The artist's favorite subject matter: from figures to still lifes
In his long-term artistic creation, Yang Limin has penetrated the bits and pieces of the world's walking process, creatively blending Eastern and Western paintings with keen observation and extraordinary expression - his favorite themes are: indoor figures, still lifes (usually objects next to the characters) and landscapes, and the angles he chooses are ordinary and unique, showing human beings' beautiful attachment to nature. Yang's art is both sensual and full of thought. After a long period of unremitting experimentation and exploration, he created a special set of new painting techniques. Rooted in China, he integrated the West and successfully bridged the cultural divide between the East and the West.
figure
Yang's figure paintings absorbed the essence of the Japanese ukiyo-e painter and Western painter Matisse in the 1930s, as well as the Vialle school of Interiorism. He uses innovative and unique techniques to depict the daily life of the characters indoors, blending the characters into the background, while every still life next to the characters, decoration is also a part of the painting that cannot be ignored. For example, in his 2002 work "XiaoFang", the young heroine is dressed in a black dress, which looks like a dark pattern on the wallpaper behind her, which contrasts with the flower basket opposite the character and the blue sky through the window behind it. The Kitchen (120X180.5cm), completed in 1999, draws on the style of the French painter André Braggiere. Braggili himself was deeply influenced by Japanese painters, and was good at depicting poetic scenes with abstract shapes and bright colors. In addition, it is a typical work of his, "Holiday" (57X45cm) completed in 2002, in which the artist uses a large area of yellow tones to create a relaxed and comfortable picture atmosphere.
▲ "Weekend" 30.0cmx52.5cm DA print
Still
Still life, if translated directly from French, the word still life should be translated as "dead thing, inanimate object", Chinese the translation of still life comes from the English "immovable object". And Yang Limin's still life is full of vitality and vitality. He does not intend to describe the interaction of color and the visual combination of space in a specific space, but to help people use imagination to obtain visual beauty by means of perception.
The painting "Blue Sky", the white clouds on the hillside, stands still, and the red and pink flowers and grasses are full of vitality, reflecting the powerful life force of nature. The artist uses rice paper and Chinese painting colors to show the sensory effect that modern painting can bring. "Autumn Leaves", "Pink Memory", "Flower Season" these works are all based on the theme of flowers, with abstract geometric patterns, in a contrasting way to deliberately express the brilliance and brilliance of red. Yang's use of form reminds me of the surrealist work of the British contemporary artist Lucien Freud. Of course, the comparison between the two is not to say that they are similar in style, but their pursuit of freedom, the beauty of life, and their artistic expression that is not constrained by any rules.
▲"Lily" 34.0cm x 22.0cm DA print
Yang Baimin lived in the era of great social change in China. The current confrontation facing China is no less than the changes in Western society when they were in ruins after World War II. After the economic take-off before the 1970s, Western countries have been in a slow stage of development in recent decades, and may have forgotten the great changes at that time, so that there are many places that cannot be understood in China's current society.
It is particularly worth mentioning that in recent years, the international influence of Chinese artists has been greatly enhanced, and the works of Chinese artists have attracted more and more attention from collectors. The artist's sense of mission and the development opportunity of the times have inspired Yang Yumin to create more creative inspiration and his higher and more unique aesthetic pursuit in art. In addition, with the continuous advancement of his artistic creation, the works presented are also more international. His artistic practice can make viewers in France and even the world feel the brilliance and vigorous vitality of his art, as well as the influence of his artistic innovation on our times.
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Author: Christophe Comentale Translation: Du Fang
Christophe Comentale is a French sinologist with a Ph.D. in Chinese art history and archaeology and holds a degree in art history from the Sorbonne University in Paris. He was the Cultural Counsellor at the French Embassy in China. He is currently the Director of Researchers at the National Museum of Anthropology in France. As a curator, he has curated numerous art exhibitions, including a centenary of modern Chinese paintings (Paris, 2009); modern Chinese art (Beijing, 2007); and Artist's Books: From Matisse to Modern Art (Taipei, 2007). Mr. Komond lived in China (Taiwan) for seven years and wrote several books on Chinese art.
Appreciation of works
▲"Spring" 35.0cmx30.0cm DA print
▲"Spring Color" 57.5cm x 30.0cm DA print
▲"Ship" 30.0cmx30.0cm DA print
▲ "To Have Light Series - Morning" 54.0cmx30.0cm DA print
▲"Red Apple" 34.0cm x 30.0cm DA print