Chinese Artist Jin Shangyi Oil Painting Appreciation — Tajik Bride

Jin Shangyi Portrait Oil Painting — Tajik Bride

Painting Title: Tajik Bride

Artist: Jin Shangyi

Painting Media: Oil Painting on Fabric

Size: 60*50cm

Created Year: 1983

About Artist Jin Shangyi:

Jin Shangyi, one of representatives of China's contemporary oil painting artists, who was born in December 1934 in Jiaozuo, Henan province, China. In 1953 graduated from the Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and continued his post-graduate study, In 1955 Jin Shangyi went to Soviet and entered into the oil painting training class held by the former Soviet Union artist Maksimov to learn oil painting.

Now Jin Shangyi is acted as Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, and professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts. Former president of Central Academy of Fine Arts and enjoy special government allowances.

Jin Shangyi had taken charge of the teaching job at the first oil painting studio in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, whose artistic practice and art ideas, has influenced much on a large number of oil painting artists and caused a hot trend of absorbing nutrition from classicism in China since the mid-80's.

Art Career: Jin Shangyi oil painting creations was take the historical themes of Chinese revolution as a starting point, during the nearly 20 years of before the reform and opening-up, he has created a large number of historical themed oil paintings, such as "Step on the Muztag Ata", "December Conference ", "Long March" and so on, these works fully demonstrated the art talent of the artist, and people become familiar with Jin Shangyi. But in terms of Jin Shangyi, the creative practice of history paintings is just one of important links which urged him to begin his creation of portrait painting.

In the process of painting history oil paintings, Jin Shangyi gradually found the most interested things are those figures per se who showed unique vitality and personality, which make his thinking about the history of switched to the explore of the life and the human's spiritual world. He inclined much and much to use simple compositions, as little as possible figures to reflect the broad social life, gradually this type of natural development sense become clearer and clearer, and ultimately he aimed to portrait painting as his main creative direction.

Publications: "Selected Oil Painting Works of Jin Shangyi" (published by Henan People's Publishing House), "Selected Portrait Oil Painting Works of Jin Shangyi " (published by Tianjin People's Publishing House), "Human Portraits of Jin Shangyi"; Thesis "Steps and Methods of Sketch Practice" (published on magazine "Art Research" on the 2nd issue in 1979).

Representive Works: Jin Shangyi oil painting work "Northland Scenery" was collected by the Revolutionary Museum; "Youth", "Sculptor", "Thinking" were on display on the "The 3rd Oil Painting Research Exhibition", as well as been collected by the National Art Museum of China; Oil painting "Explore" in on display on the "Beijing City Oil Painting Exhibition", and won a second prize of outstanding works; Oil painting "Violinist " was on display on the "Teacher Works of Central Academy of Fine Arts Teacher Works Exhibition" held in Hong Kong, and collected by a Singapore collector; Oil painting "Artist Huang Yongyu" was on display on a thematic art exhibition that organized by "Guangming Daily", and won an Outstanding Award, and became a private collection; Oil painting "Memories" was on display on the USA Connecticut Art Exhibition, and turn to a private collection; Oil painting "Nature's Song", "Tajik Bride" were collected by Chinese National Art Gallery.

Oil painting "Qu Qiaobai" was admitted to participate the 6th National Art Exhibition and won a silver award, and was collected by the Chinese National Art Gallery; In 1986 Creation "Sun Yat-sen" won the first prize for the best best stamp design in the country, and collected by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.