Self-portrait China
Han Hsiang-ning is a Taiwanese-American artist. Han has participated in many prominent museum exhibitions. He often uses spray painting and paints photo-realistic street scenes. In 1961, he joined the "Fifth Moon Group". He began abstract form oil painting, and his works first appeared in the magazine Pen Review. In 1963 he began working with roller and stencils on rice paper, still abstract, emphasizing form and space structure. In 1969 he began spray painting works using acrylic paint on canvas, created the "Invisible Image" series. In 1971, in the process of spray gun painting, found how to create different combinations of sprayed color dots, a form of pointillism. In 1971 he continued the spray gun technique, but began using New York city-scenes as a subject and his camera as sketching tool. In 1972 he launched studies on industrial scenes with vivid images. He completed his first self-portrait in 1981. In 1983 he began using brushes to paint watercolor and ink on paper. His subjects being street crowds and bird's eye views of intersections of New York streets.
Ye Hongxing (Chinese: 叶红杏) is a Chinese artist.
Ye Hongxing's work uses traditional Chinese motifs and contemporary elements to create visually sublime scenes that impose an opposition of calm and complex madness. Using the traditional Western medium of oil paint, she creates attractive self-portraits with eyes closed and a calm expression superimposed on multi-coloured currencies or vibrant decorative and sinuous floral patterns derived from traditional Chinese porcelain.
Li Tianbing is a Chinese artist. Li Tianbing’s body of work is characterized by the dual influence of the Far-East and the West: the first being a legacy of Chinese painting imbued with Taoism, the second coming from the teachings of art professors such as Vladimir Veličković, Christian Boltanski and Giuseppe Penone while he studied at the Fine Arts School in Paris. His work was marked by a pivotal moment in 2006, when he compiled a family album comprising portraits of him as a child, for the purpose of denouncing the one-child policy, thus depicting an imaginary family through replications of himself. He henceforth developed a new visual language in which portraits abound, creating through his art a dialog between reality, imagination and fantasy. When working on his compositions, Li Tianbing essentially uses oil paint; however, another of his main means of expression remains drawing with Indian ink. He also enjoys working with watercolours, alternating between Chinese and European paintbrushes.
