Excellent Chinese Artist Wang Yidong Oil Painting Art Appreciation - Lady from South River

Wang Yidong Portrait Oil Painting - Lady from South River

Wang Yidong is one of representatives that behalf of neo-classical style in Chinese contemporary oil painting artists. His portrait oil paintings that began from his oil painting work "College Student at History Department" have shown a rather purely classical style, at the same time his oil painting works featured with a common basic object, that is: to find the characteristics of the nation.

In background of his figure oil paintings, images as "Flying to The Sky" and "Gentle Ladies" had created an unique Chinese situations; In his oil painting works with simple and pure backgrounds, his realistic painting skill and concerted style sometimes will make viewers ignored another fact in Wang Yimeng art, that is: To exceed the 19th century realism style.

From that time, wang Yidong began to admire masters in earlier times. His oil painting works themed with "Sewing", "Big Uncle Liu", "Tiedan", whose figures and light dealing should thanks to art of Raphael and Rembrandt, this throwback style drawing make the drawing with a spirit existence which was beyond skills.

With high skills of painting classical oil paintings, Wang Yidong returned to countryside and native themes, his initial attempts are cautious, and at this stage, Wang Yidong preferred to choose people with rather odd lookings, and background sceneries in his paintings will still make the objected people keep their portraits, while their figures become more rich and lively based on the formation of real space.

In Wang Yidong paintings he reclined more on concrete shape contrasts to say the themes, such a sort of inclination to figures, caused the artist emphasis more on the whole color layout and processing…At the same time, Wang Yidong had tried to find feelings very abstract in a quite realistic picture, such a type of abstract are not a simple abstract in generally meanings, as well as not to excite people's sense organs purely, but to serve a certain emotion or moods that the whole picture aimed to deliver, upon that, in his oil painting works, simple black and white color and neutral brown formed an art purity, while a layer of bitter moods added in too.

About Artist Wang Yidong:

Wang Yidong, who was born in 1955 and come from Shandong province, China. In 1972 he entered in the Shandong School of Fine Arts for art study, and had been acted as Fine Arts teacher in Fine Arts Department at Shandong School of Fine Arts; In 1978 he was admitted to enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts to study oil painting, and acted as a teacher after graduation, now he is a member of Chinese Artists Association.

Wang Yidong loved his hometown Yimeng Mountain much, and the village people and sceneries of Yimeng Mountain are main themes in his oil painting works. His works of oil painting had been invited to Singapore, France, Italy, Japan and the United States for exhibition.

In 1987, he hold his personal exhibition of oil paintings in the Hafner Gallery (New York). His oil painting work "The Old Village" is collected by the Chinese Art Museum.