Xu Weixin Portrait Oil Painting Appreciation --- Miner Come from Szechwan

Xu Weixin Oil Painting Work --- Miner Come From Szechwan

Painting title: Miner Come from Szechwan

Artist: Xu Weixin (China)

Painting media: Oil paint on fabric

Painting size: 250*200cm

Creation year: 2006

Artist Xu Weixin Brief:

Xu Weixin, Male, was born in 1958 in Urumqi city, Xinjiang province, China.

In 1987 he graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts at at oil painting department postgraduate class, and gained a master's degree. Now Xu Weixing is acted as professor and vice president at Xu Beihong Art Institute at the Renmin University of China.

In 1987 oil painting work "Nang Room" was won the first prize at the First Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition

In 1999 oil painting "Acid Rain" was admitted to attend the Ninth National Art Exhibition and won a Bronze medal.

In 2003 oil painting "Work Shed" was been selected to attend the Tenth National Art Exhibition and won silver prize, at the same time it won Beijing Municipal Literary Art prize, and fine art works award of Beijing Art Works Exhibition…

In 2006, oil painting "Portrait Series of Farmer Li Fuguo " was been selected to attend the "Farmers, Farmers" Exhibition

In April 2007, Xu held his first individual oil painting exhibition in Shanghai Art Gallery, themed with "Song of Workers".

Art Remarks:
Representative Works (oil painting): "Contemporary People Figures - Workers, Peasants and Soldiers" series, "2005 China Coal Mines Documentary - Miner Portraits Series," "Chinese people figures in the history of China(1966-1976)" and so on.

Represent the characters of figures through careful conceives and rigorous & realistic performance are most outstanding features of Xu Weixin oil painting art style.

The working manner of Xu Weixin is serious and solemn, his oil painting works are all created based on his own experience of life, and were created on thoughts of something, for example, in order to finish his oil painting work "the Holy Land of Lhasa" (1995), he came to Tibet and lived there for 2 years, in Tibet, he finished all process of planning, deliberation and working about this oil painting work.

Xu Weixin studied art rules and creative principles of large size oil painting constantly, he is able to deal with the complicit relations between theme regularity and the occasionality existed in the creating process dialectically, he is good at improving the occasion naturally when deal with pictures; He added thickness of material and feeling expressing in the process of repeated amendment; He built perfect relations of shape and color artistically, and put a high premium on the color tune of the whole picture.

Xu Weixin's oil painting works not only have grand visual effects, but also can stand up to people's repeated scrutiny and considering…