Ai Xuan2

1. 2 AI XUAN

2. Ai Xuan is a naturalistic painter born 1947 in Hebei province, whose scenes usually present lone children in vistas of Tibetan landscape. A member of the Chinese Artists' Association, Ai is also a full professor at the Beijing Painting Institute, and co-founder of the China Realists group. In 1987, Ai spent a year in the United States, serving as a visiting professor at Oklahoma City University. While there he met with several noted Western artists and hosted his own solo exhibition. Ai also travelled to Great Britain to participate in an auction organized to raise funds for renovation of the Great Wall of China. In Ai Xuan's paintings, two subjects predominate: children and the snowy landscape of Tibet. The image is of tranquility and empty space. The crease in the leather and fur coat, the withered grass in the snow form the details of realism. But the space framed by the outline of the human figure in the distant horizon forms a certain symbol. In Ai Xuan's art, this symbol is achieved by the description of human figures and landscape, colour contrast and curve of outline, and the relationship between them. Ai Xuan visited Tibet many times and, attracted by the landscape, he painted the people and the land. One winters day Xuan received a sudden shock, a feeling of helplessness and loneliness in the snowy wilderness. From that time on, Tibetan people and landscape took on new meaning in his paintings. He left the traditional realism of his earlier works and approached the world of Buddhism and Zen. Ai Xuan's well-drawn figure outlines fill his work with the charm of Chinese classical art; transparent colours make the painting echo with the rhythm of nature

3. Not knowing tomorrow's wind Sharing a Secret Christie's - Price Realized $ 745,895 (29 May 2011)

4. North wind

5. White fog dropping off 2005

6. Weed joggling in the wind

7. Wasterland in Deep Autumn (2008)

8. Waiting for the Flowers to Bloom

10. Cold desert 2006

11. Big Snow Mountain 2006

12. The Sacred Mountain

13. Lost in Wasteland

14. Singing leaves away from me

15. Thin snow came in midnight Wasteland 2005

18. Call of distant mountain 1996

19. Dandelion flows in Wasteland

20. Gaze 1994

25. Breeze 2011 (69x86,5)

26. February of Amuke Alley 2004 A Cool Wind Sweeps Across An Icy Plain

29. Autumn Day (expect in autumn) 2001. Christie's Price Realized($499,369) 27.11.2010

31. Hell and Gone singing 2006 (110x110)

32. Melting march Horizon 2005 (90x90)

34. Tibetan Girl

35. Quiet freezon earth area 1992

36. Unknown song from far 2005 Wastelands

37. Tibetan Girl 2002

38. Text and pictures: Internet All  copyrights  belong to their  respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda 2012 Sound:Peter Kater and Nawang Khechog - Touch of an Angel