Chinese Abstract Painting

Chinese Abstract Painting

Li Qing Paintings, Exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery

Li Qing is one of China’s current young talents. Li Qing has a very distinctive style of his own, and is part of a new Chinese generation of painters.Li Qing (born in 1981 in Zhejiang province) is a graduate student at China Academy of Art and one of the representatives of this new generation. Over the last few years his art has been included many important exhibitions and rewarded several grants and awards, due to his excellence of performance - the mastery of refined and personal technique, the wide social concerns, and the appropriate representation. Executed in the very traditional medium of oil on canvas, the generally mid-size paintings are usually paired pictures. On his canvas an impression between the figurations and an abstract-gestural style is obvious.Li Qing is a great practitioner of oil painter. With his bold brush stroke, exact impasto, and, he smartly turns the visual games and subject matter into his own painterly game, a pictorial world that reflects changing reality. The blurring of the images not only suggests the digital visual world that surrounding us, but also the uncertainty of the changing world. Thus his creation oversteps the stylistic boundaries to sabotage clichés about Chinese contemporary art.

Li Qing is making a simple and easily accessible visual world where audience may exchange idea and share a common feeling. Many of the prototypes of contemporary Chinese art were heavy in their subject matter in order to express artists’ negative attitude towards the current corruptive system. Even though his work present some views of public and political life but hard to tell his comment, like a pair of mirrors exactly reflecting two moments (or from slightly different angle) of an event or a scene. On the other hand the strong stroke of the brush and bold impasto as well as pigment texture are integrated to suggest a reality that is filtered by mass media or computerization, using Boudrillard's a simulation of the real. In this sense Li Qing does not tell what a concrete scene or story is, but indicating a visual experience to the contemporary world, or put it simply, his impression of the shifting life. Each of his painting deserves a close look and the serious comparassion of the pair of the paintings would find a strong sense of time, the consecutive moments of life. The distinguish painterly quality of the works empowers the unique fascination of pictures. Using the traditional medium Li Qing successfully presents a magic pictorial series of contemporary Chinese art. Simultaneously, psychological complexity toward the remarkable social transitions of China is easily understood. His art is a visual game but entwined with social information that reflects the vicissitudes of the society.

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How should i incorporate red into a painting of the moon and a howling wolf?

I am painting a picture of a moon,
it is going on a bright red wall,
how do you suggest i incorporate the red into the picture

its fairly abstract.. i have done a bulky, jagged layer of plaster on the canvas first, so i am not working with a flat surface
its black, with a large white, grey moon taking up most of the canvas, and a howling wolfs silhouette in the bottom left part of the moon,

i was thinking of having red paint seem as if it was dripping down the side of the moon,

and i have three small canvases to go along that have some chinese word symbols which will be in red,
any ideas?

I was taught a long time ago that sky does not always have to be blue, grass does not have to be green so consequently moons do not always have to be yellow. You can use only one color plus black and white and make a picture consisting of only tints and shades of one color, such a ultra marine blue. This is known as a monotone, or monochromatic painiting.

This is especially good for the beginning painter as he or she does not have to choose colors which sometimes proves to be a difficult task.

Personally, I have done several monotones and have always been pleased with the outcome. GIve it a try, the red moon could work out good for you and someday, there just might be a RED moon....God bless and happy painting....Nomadic