Chen Hongbiao | wen
When Liu Meilin was a teenager, she worked as his mannequin, and one painting sold for 3.36 million, accumulating tens of millions!
▲Liu Meilin graduation photo.
Liu Meilin is a post-90s actor, born in Jilin City, Jilin Province, and was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy at the age of 17 to study film and television performance. At the age of 18, he participated in the period drama "Old Dream" starring Chen Kun and Li Xiaoran, testing the waters of the showbiz circle. At the age of 20, Liu Meilin was admitted to the undergraduate class of the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy, and after graduation, she pursued a master's degree in management.
▲ Liu Meilin's "Three Lives three worlds and ten miles of peach blossoms" stills.
During her studies, she has cooperated with Yao Di, Ming Dao, Wu Fan, Nie Yuan, Qin Lan, Feng Grain and other stars, participated in "Jianghu Absolute Love", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Chang'e", "Fragrant Sword Rain", "Wait until the smoke is warm and rainy", "Former Bureau Central Bureau", etc., participated in the audition of the film "The King's Feast" directed by Lu Chuan, and was shortlisted for the national top 18. He became famous as the little fairy Origami in "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms".
▲Part of the oil painting "True Love" modeled by Liu Meilin.
Liu Meilin, who has a beautiful appearance, a soft face and a petite figure, is even more beautiful in ancient costumes, and is a typical classical beauty. Although she has played many roles and worked hard to break through the shackles of roles and actively shape different role images, Liu Meilin has not been popular, and as an actor, she has more or less left a tepid "vase" impression.
▲Oil painting modeled by Liu Meilin.
However, she is a "big star" in the oil painting industry and is currently the most expensive oil painting model. And being a model was four years before she starred in her first film. This is related to the oil painter Li Guijun.
▲ Li Guijun.
Born in a peasant family in Beijing, Li Guijun has loved painting since the age of 12, and was admitted to the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 20 with excellent results, where he studied under the famous oil painters Jin Shangyi and Yang Feiyun. In his freshman year, he became famous for painting an oil painting "104 Studio", won the grand prize of the "Advancing Chinese Youth Art Exhibition", and once became an influential young artist in the new wave art movement. Later, he studied as a graduate student in the Oil Painting Department, and stayed on to teach after graduation.
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "Dragonfly".
▲ Part of "Dragonfly".
The age of 40 was the most critical year in Li Guijun's painting career. This year, he took a fancy to Liu Meilin, a 14-year-old girl who studied musical theater at the Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated High School, who was as pure as a little fairy, and invited her to be his special oil painting model.
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "When Luck Comes".
Also in this year, Li Guijun resigned as a teacher at the school and came to the China Academy of Arts to become a professional painter.
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "Confusion".
Also in this year, Li Guijun began to change his painting style, from technique and composition to a great breakthrough, but also more and more mature. Li Guijun is one year younger than The Chinese realist Leng Jun, who is very much pursuing the extreme portrayal of details in painting, and their superb and delicate realism skills combine a sense of modernity and integrate into their own ideas, which is their strength. However, Li Guijun's picture is more passionate than Leng Jun's, especially good at creating scenes and atmospheres, and is extremely spiritual and poetic, forming his own neoclassical painting style, so Li Guijun is also known as the representative of the third generation of Classical Painting in China.
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "Gospel".
Liu Meilin also brought a lot of creative inspiration to Li Guijun, and this period became a high-yield period for Li Guijun's creation, and the masterpieces continued, so it was widely recognized by the industry.
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "If Everything Is Perfect" part.
Li Guijun's Liu Meilin is always so young and full of vitality, showing the unique youth, freshness, nature and innocence of young girls. These "fresh girl" oil painting masterpieces are very popular in the auction market, and one painting is often millions of yuan. For example, "If Everything Is Perfect" sold 1.495 million yuan at the Spring Auction of Guangzhou Huayi International Auction, "Sincere Heart" sold 2.3575 million yuan, and "How Much Hanging in Mid-Air" sold 3.36 million yuan at the Beijing Poly Autumn Auction.
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "Pious Heart".
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "How Much Hanging in Mid-Air".
So far, the series of works modeled by Liu Meilin have accumulated tens of millions. Liu Meilin has thus become the most expensive beauty model in the oil painting industry.
▲ Li Guijun's Liu Meilin's "Close at Hand".
In the years that Li Guijun has been a model, he has naturally worked as a mannequin in his pen, and at least three or four works currently appear in the auction market. It also adopts the aesthetic style of neoclassicism, where realistic techniques and mood creation go hand in hand, especially through the precise expression of body language, creating a poetic feeling. One of the most representative works, "Red Paper", shows a young girl holding a piece of crimson red paper in both hands, which is naturally placed in front of the lower abdomen, her lips are slightly open, the surprised expression on her face, and the childish look, so that the whole picture is full of youth and purity.
▲Part of Li Guijun's oil painting "Red Paper".
▲Part of Li Guijun's oil painting "Self-Awareness".
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This article is the original of [Chen Hongbiao's Writing and Painting], written by Chen Hongbiao, a member of the China Writers Association, a biographer, and a critic of calligraphy and painting, and the pictures are from the Internet.