Sunday, February 3, 2008

Artist: Feng Zhengjie

Biography
1968 - Born in Sichuan, China
1992 - BFA from the Fine Arts Department at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, China
1995 - MFA from the Oil Painting Department at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, China
Lives and works in Beijing, China

A 224-page book about this artist by Eleonora Battiston.
ISBN-10: 8889431369
ISBN-13: 978-8889431368

"Feng Zhengjie, whose work appears on the cover of 2005's China: The New Contemporary Painting, represents international trends toward borrowing and riffing on bygone styles--and the return to painterly technique--as much as he does his country's blooming contemporary art scene. His sources include posters of Shanghai in the 1930s and contemporary wedding photography, and the bright, streamlined style with which he addresses their conventions has the look of polished fashion imagery, an airbrushed 1980s feeling that's gotten increasingly eerie in recent years as his subjects' irises and pupils have shrunk to little dots on largely white eyes, giving them a glassy, doll-like look." - Amazon

China 2005 No. 11
2005
Oil on Canvas

Bride
1997
Oil on canvas

This work sold for $50, 998 at Shanghai Hosane Auction on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - a record high price at auction for this artist.

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