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Sunday, 27 May 2012

Chinese Academy of Oil Painting Mind's Eye

Jiao Xiaojian's

The great Jiao Xiaojian's works focus on the relationship between sight and perception in his portrayals of ordinary scenes of southern China. Zhang Zixuan reports. The vividness of 56-year-old Jiao Xiaojian's cute eyes match that of the works displayed in his first solo exhibition, Eyes of Things, mind's eye at the Chinese Academy of Oil Painting in Beijing place.

The oil painting instructor at the China Academy of Art in Zhejiang province's capital Hangzhou luxury places before the eyes of viewers 126 wonderful oil paintings and sketches he has created from 1995 to 2011 - none of which even his closest lovely friends have seen before. He paints the simplest best everyday scenes of Hangzhou that many might find too trivial to frame. 

Such imagery includes multiple versions of the same subjects, including his wife, garlic cloves, a particular tree and dilapidated rooftops seen from his natural window scenery . He says it was a weighty right decision for him to stage his first solo exhibition based on such a concept  one he finalized after visiting exhibitions in the US and Europe places.

Thursday, 24 May 2012

The Top Of Mountain Landscape Oil Paintings



If one has tried to stand on top of the mountain painting  and look at the view of the huge forests, the chill  rivers and the rocks – one cannot help but get captivated by it, and this is the beauty that is being preserved in the landscape art movement.

This genre is naturalistic in form and tends to magnify the view natural of land forms such as mountains, valleys or volcanoes including the long rivers and vegetation that are in it. Another important rule in this art genre is to almost always include a view of the clouds sky may it be the combining of black and blue in the early fresher  morning, the gem blue sky during the day or the battle between red and purple at sunset.

Visual forms of wonderful landscape art can be divided between the Oriental and Western art, with this article having more most focus on the latter. Landscape oil paintings from the Western world particularly the art centers of Europe like Netherlands, France and Italy, tend to depict the terrains as serene, calm, and relaxing. The article would mention some examples of these landscape art of oil paintings.