196:. All those books and their illustrations influence Liu Ye's art continuously. From early on, Liu Ye demonstrated interest and talent in drawing. At the age of 10, Liu's father introduced him to Tan Quanshu, who became his first official art teacher. Since then, Liu took drawing lessons with Tan once or twice a week for five years, which was a significant period of time when he mastered basic artistic techniques. At 13, Liu Ye paused studying art temporarily because his left eye was found with amblyopia and the doctor believed that would affect his sense of space as an artist. But he did not give up his dream to be an artist and his amblyopia does not seem to destruct his art works.
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China as a little boy, his childhood dream were depicted. Chorus, fleet and sailor boys were repetitive subjects portrayed during the period. His preference for using primary colors can be traced to his childhood days in
Beijing as well. "I grew up in a world of red", he recalls, "the red sun, red flags, red scarves with green pines and sunflowers often supporting the red symbols".
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between him and his contemporaries was that he did not go through the period of rage around 1989 , nor did his works contain elements of 'collective' images." Around the same period of time, Liu Ye was witnessing the change in Europe as the Berlin Wall came down, touring Europe's art museums and studying masters of
Western modernism like
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After 1994, as Liu Ye returned to
Beijing, his style and subject matters changed with the environment. He started to portray himself more as a little boy than a young man as he did before. More female figures appeared. The settings of his painting moved from rooms to theatres where scenes he saw in
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2005 Liu Ye / Kaneda Shoich, Gallery Frank Schlag & Cie. GmbH, Essen, Germany
Vehicle & Mirror, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, China Project room / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo) Mahjong Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Around 2004 and 2005, Liu Ye's fairytale-like fantasy was replaced by a more mild and realistic style. An adolescent girl is featured repetitively. Some paintings depict her engaging in rather simple activities such reading or embarking on a journey while others contain subtle sexual implications.
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2001 Fellini, A Guardsman, Mondrian, The Pope and My
Girlfriend, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, England (solo) The First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China Chinese Mythology, Yidian Gallery, Shanghai, China First impression, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China Transparence / Opacity, De Markten,
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Exhibition, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany RE-collection - A Retrospective Look at 15 years of Art and Vision, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong Time Difference, Initial Access Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK Chinese Window, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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and the works of Piet Mondrian, who became his art hero later on. In 1984, after graduating from the School of Arts & Crafts, Liu Ye worked for the research center at Beijing Gongmei (arts and crafts) Group and prepared for college entry exam at the same time. In 1986, Liu Ye enrolled in the
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2003 Red Yellow Blue, Schoeni Art Gallery, Beijing, China (solo) Images of Women VIII, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Space Art & Culture Co. Ltd., Beijing, China A Bulimic Rhapsody, Tongdao Studio of 798 Factory, Beijing, China ChinArt, Ludwig Museum, Budapest,
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immediately after he first saw her while he was living in Amsterdam because he saw himself in the bunny, who is seemingly simple but actually extremely intelligent. The Mondrian symbol returned to his work, usually portrayed together with a little girl or boy, sometimes with Miffy as well.
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In 1980, Liu Ye applied for the Interior Design department at the School of Arts & Crafts in Beijing but eventually enrolled in the Industrial Design department where he started to learn about western modern art. For the first time, he was introduced to the teachings of the
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is the first painting from a trinity of epic crimson-hued horizontal canvases from 2001-2002, the second of which resides in the esteemed M+ Sigg Collection and the third in an eminent private collection after fetching the artist’s auction record in 2013.
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with an outstanding academic score. It was a time when college students in China grew enthusiasm about psychology and philosophy, especially about works by Freud. Liu was also inspired by The Interpretation of Dream and other books by
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By 2000, Liu ye had gradually developed his own distinguishable style. From 2000, Liu ye moved his attention away from himself and started to portray figures he has interest in such as
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