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La femme en rouge153 Zeng Chuanxing

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La femme en rouge153 Zeng Chuanxing

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  1. 153 La femme en rouge

  2. Zeng Chuanxing (1974) is a contemporary Chinese painter known for his portraits of ethnic minority women. Known as the Paper Bride series, Zeng’s realist portraits express a melancholic delicacy in his sitters. The artist’s work serves as a commentary on the post-Mao, post-Cultural Revolution era, as well as on the Western influence on Chinese culture

  3. Sacrifice of Youth #3, 2004 Price realised HKD 1,087,500

  4. A jack of straw, 2000

  5. Float, 2003

  6. 2009

  7. 2004

  8. Fable, 2006

  9. Zeng Chuanxing was born in Longchang County, Sichuan Province, in 1974. He majored in oil painting at the Central University for Nationalities from 1995 to 1998. His realist paintings depict young, beautiful girls and women reflect a return to classicism and a subtle, yet poignant commentary to modern day China. While the majority of his artist contemporaries have explored and implemented more contemporary modes of expression, Zeng turn to a traditional way to express his modern ideas. The classical skills not only clearly convey his own feelings, but, almost more importantly, to serve as a window to understanding other people’s feelings, thoughts and emotions. About his ongoing series of Paper Bride, Zeng was enlightened by one of his “successful in business but unlucky in love” female friend. Zeng comments on the fragility and uncertainty of marriage. In old times, Chinese marriage was strictly assigned. The possibility of divorce was none and even the thought of end a relationship was considered criminal. Marriage was like a gambling, you never know what you are going to get. As social progressing, women are free to choose and change their spouse, but still vulnerable in marriage. Zeng’s quiet and melodic figures, draped in delicate paper gowns, represent the fragility of this once impenetrable bond and reflect the often melancholic and insecure state he sees in the new generation of Chinese women. Holding hands

  10. Paper Bride, Red Grass Sea, 2006 Sold: GBP 146,500

  11. Paper Bride - Fish, 2009

  12. Red Paper Bride, oil on canvas, 130 x 150 cm

  13. Paper Bride Series Horizon 92x75cm

  14. Paper Bride Series The Distant Home 152x76cm

  15. Zeng pays particular attention to his characters’ eyes and hands, as he maintains it is with these parts of the exterior body that a human being’s soul can vividly and truly be reflected. He currently teaches painting in the Fine Arts Department at Hunan University of Arts and Sciences. His work has been extensively exhibited and can be seen at the Beijing Yan-Huant Museum, the Hunan Museum (Changsha) and the Guangdong Art Museum.

  16. Bride in Red Paper

  17. Bride in Red Paper Spring, 2005

  18. 2015

  19. Red Paper Bride, 2005 Paper bride, 2005 Sold: HKD 3,847,500 (419,000euro)

  20. Red paper bride The setting sun, 2012

  21. Orange Paper Bride- Jiuzhai Paradise 2014

  22. Red paper bride 2006 130.5 x 150 cm

  23. Bride in red paper- From far..., 2012

  24. Paper Bride The Prayer, 2005

  25. Paper Bride, 2005

  26. Paper Bride Sold: GBP 61,250

  27. Red paper bride Pink rose, 2012

  28. Red paper bride At the river side, 2014

  29. Caribbean sea Helen, 2011

  30. Paper bride, 2005

  31. Red Paper Bride 2010 oil on canvas-150 x 130-cm

  32. Bride in red paper Lake, 2005

  33. Paper Bride Series Red Emerald Lake

  34. Paper bride series, 2011

  35. Paper bride series

  36. Red paper bride series City at night, 2010 90 × 150 cm

  37. Quintessentially the Paper Bride is homage to classicism, and the bride is symbolic for fragility, he gives them immortality and transcends culture

  38. Text and pictures: Internet All  copyrights  belong to their  respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu https://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda .2018 Sound: Peter Kater & Nawang Khechog - The Dance Of Innocents 1998

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