125:; a series of paintings created for each year of her life. Each painting is a one-meter square canvas with an image of herself based on the photograph taken at the time. She does not pay special attention to keeping a similar image; instead, some of the paintings seemed posed while others are spontaneous. Hong uses compositions and colors to capture important ideas or experiences/moods to commemorate that time. For her 29th year/painting, she painted two portraits; in one, she is pregnant and in the next she has given birth. From there, Hong began to paint her young daughter in attempts to chronicle her life as well. Upon exhibiting
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honors the female (and by extension, the individual) in all phases of life, from childhood to maturity. She does not swathe her images with extreme symbolism or sentimentality. Her subjects usually consist of herself, her friends, family and her daughter, Liu Wa. Her method of painting is immensely personal and has been criticized as seemingly mundane, but she highlights the beauty in the intricacies of daily life, friendship, love and the impact of the environment on people.
37:; born 1966) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Her works characteristically portray the female perspectives in all stages of life and the relationship between the individual and the rapid social changes taking place in China. She works primarily in oil paint but also in pastels, fabric dye on canvas, silk and resin. Yu Hong is "routinely named amongst Chinaâs leading female artists". Her work is celebrated for its intimacy, honesty and tactility.
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garden. Hong used her tool of the trade, to connect the stories and does so by including news from recent years, to integrate (and juxtapose) the ancient against the contemporary. This results in the creation of a âParallel Worldâ â there are strange things in a derelict but oddly vivid colored garden and is a space that contradicts itself by design.
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was a solo exhibition by the artist in 2016 and one of her largest to date, featuring 19 works in a series of the same name. Shown at the CAFA Art Museum in
Beijing, these were large-scale works that incorporated characters, events and landscapes from ancient Chinese fables into a traditional Chinese
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is a ubiquitous series of works because it is a self-examination of the artist and her surroundings. By linking herself to events that happened around her or around the world, Hong puts herself and her life on critical display. The juxtaposition of social and political events against personal moments
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are often compared as having similar approaches to their work and as Liuâs work has grown more famous, Hongâs work took a slight backseat to his. However, in recent years she has begun to explore different approaches to her work, distinguishing herself from the work of her husband without abandoning
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in Boston in 2010 to 2011 that featured the work of ten contemporary
Chinese ink painters engaging in dialogue with classical artworks from Chinaâs past. Leading Chinese artists came to Boston to study the Museum of Fine Arts vast collection of Chinese Art and were prompted to create new works in
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2009, features four works exhibited on the ceiling of the gallery so one must look up as if in a cathedral or a palace. This was done to maintain a certain distance from the audience to the paintings. This method was chosen to reproduce the atmosphere around traditional religious paintings as the
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Hongâs subjects are predominately women. In the history of
Chinese art, women were often depicted engaged in everyday activities created by men who overlaid that subject with symbolic ramifications â the female point of view was not a viable mode of creation. Hongâs work is different because she
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Hong places contemporary renderings of people against golden backdrops with the intention of making the viewer look more closely at those around them. âThe gold series is about the relationship ancient and modern relationships in
Western and in China." Placing them on the ceiling almost
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The paintings included: âShe: Beautiful Writer Zhao Boâ, âShe: Art School
Studentâ and âShe: Tibetan Woman Zhou Maâ among others. These paintings make clear the possibilities to be mined within the subject and highlight the role of the contemporary woman in Chinese society.
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is a response to the messy un-relatedness of daily life and how they can influence the person who is experiencing them. âI want to put these diverse, disordered, chaotic elements together, which is my response or feeling of this real society,â said Hong.
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monumentalizes them and forces the viewer to contemplate the meaning of the piece. âI think gold leaf is very special, very powerful. It perfectly suits Chinaâs wealthy dream,â said Hong in an interview conducted by
Perfect Crossovers.
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In particular, âShe: Beautiful Writer Zhao Boâ captured the attitude and lifestyle of successful young women in the new China. The splashes of bold color exhibit Hongâs âedgy color senseâ and signature painterly manner.
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piece works in tandem with the environment to create an overall feeling in those who view it. Each work is a spin on a preexisting and already famous work of art; two with
Western ties and two with Chinese ties.
241:. She stepped outside her usual comfort zone â oil on canvas â and worked with thinly mixed acrylics on silk instead. The result yielded the same look and feel of traditional brush and ink. â
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response to those they saw. The works they created were juxtaposed against the works they studied. It was a way to add modern commentary to a long-standing
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