Excellent Chinese Oil Painting Artist Lin Fengmian Art Review - Drama Character

Painting Title: Drama Character

Art Category: People oil painting

Artist: Lin Fengmian

Painting Size: 74*54cm

Painting Media: Paper, Framed

Year of Creation: Unkown

Art Career of Artist Lin Fengmian:

Mr. Lin Fengmian (1900-1991), famous Chinese modern artist and art educator.

Formerly known as Lin Fengmin, was born in Mei County, Guangdong Province, who became enjoyed with painting in his childhood.

Had been to France for a work-study program in 19-year-old, and took a further education of Western painting in the Beattie School of Fine Arts, and later transferred to the National Higher School of Fine Arts in Paris to take up a advanced studies.

After returnning homeland in 1925 he took up the post as the Chancellor and Peking Professor of the Yuanpei College of Arts in 1927.

Invited by Cai Yuanpei Mr. Lin went to Hangzhou city and creat the National Art Academy(Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts later) in 1927 and acted as the president.

After the liberation Mr Lin was acted as the office of Shanghai Chinese Painting Institute Artist. Lin Fengmian was settled in Hong Kong since 70s, in 1979 he held a individual painting exhibition in Paris, which achieved a great success.

Representive Works of Lin Fengmian there are "Clear Spring", "Riverside", "Lady", "Landscape", "Still Life" and so on. He had finished book "New Theory of Chinese Painting", and published "Lin Fengmian Artbook" and so on.

Lin Fengmian was good at describing lady figures, opera characters, the fishing village customs & sceneries and female bodies, as well as various types of still life paintings and landscape oil paintings within houses.

As viewed from the contents of his artworks the style of desolate, lonely, open and , lyrical styles are typical; From forms one is a sort of square composition, and the other is no title, with distinct characteristics, people can understand his paintings once see it. He tried to attempt to break the boundaries of the Western art and Chinese art, thus to create a common language of art.

Mr. Lin is a worthy enough a significant Master of Arts full with innovations, and his works has produced far-reaching influences on many offspring artists. Lin Fengmian is the spiritual leader of the Chinese arts in the whole 20th century.