The person I did this week is Luo Zhongli. He was born in Chongqing in 1948. He works in realistic paintings and famously known for doing portraits. He was also known for developing a lot of chinese art back in the 1980s. During that time (1982) he went to school at Shichuan Fine Arts Institute. He then went to the Royal Academy of Fine arts in Belgium in order to get an Masters of Fine Arts in Oil painting.
Luo did this painting called Father which is one of his best works. This piece below is revolutionary. It spread all across the world and helped bring a lot of attention to Chinese artist. For the painting itself, its a point of view of peasants and allowed people to bring thought into how they were treated.
Zhongli was awarded the National Golden Award which was huge for Art in China at the time. His work ended up being put up in the Chinese art museum.
Luo Zhongli had quite a few exhibitions in America in New York and Havard Art museums while he was still in school for his MFA.
Reconciliation
signed and dated ‘Luo Zhongli 1991’ and signed in Chinese (lower right)
oil on canvas
This is another example about his research in peasants and trying to get his audience to look into history and understand this piece. The medium he used is Oil on canvas. The colors he uses in his paintings are correlated to a palette that he uses for most of his paintings. The reason for this is because of religious motifs. In this painting, he uses red and blue for the buffalo. This symbolizes the strength and rage in the buffalo.
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drawing into space 