In the mirror

70 x 90 cm1200 $

This painting was created in 2019. This year is the third year of college. I started to prepare for my graduation work, so I tried paintings with more concepts, depth and formal unity. In these paintings, you Being able to begin to see a more specific me. Such attempts did add weight to the work, but it was only a small step compared to the depth that would later come with the weight of life. Then came the COVID-19 epidemic at the end of the year, and the future that people expected changed its face, either urgently or slowly.

 


Overall Size: /
Size without the frame: 70 x 90 cm
Country: China
Date: 2019
Materials: Oil paint on linen
Condition: well preserved

 

Creative themes and style |   My works revolve around the creative concept of  "The land of humanity, People on the land". The people in the painting are people in nature, and the lines, shapes, and colors are close to nature. The nature in the painting is nature in the eyes of humans, existing in interaction with humans.I don’t pursue a series of works with a fixed and continuous style. I hope that the style of the pictures will synchronize with the changes in my life and always remain oscillating. The performance of the work must be in sync with the development of one's own life in order to be Sincere and powerful. Ideas are later.

 

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In the Mirror constructs a dialogue field between the individual and the surrounding world with a unique visual language. In terms of composition, the figure occupies the main part of the picture, and the abstract forms in the background, like a hazy mirror image, break the conventional spatial logic. It can be compared to Chagall's poetic reconstruction of reality in his works, interweaving real - world elements and illusory artistic conceptions, making the figure seem to shuttle between reality and surrealism, expanding the narrative dimension of the picture.

 

The use of color is restrained and layered. The low - saturation color tone creates a gloomy atmosphere. The gray tone of the figure's clothing merges with the dark purple and gray - green in the background, similar to how colors in Modigliani's paintings set off emotions. With a soft and restrained color language, it conveys the loneliness and contemplation in the individual's heart, making color a link connecting external vision and internal spirit.

 

The brushwork technique combines realism and freehand brushwork. The delicate depiction of the figure's face and clothing patterns anchors the foundation of realism, while the spontaneous smearing in the background adds freehand ease. It can be compared to Freud's precise capture of the texture of figures in his paintings. By means of different brushwork rhythms, it distinguishes the subject and the environment, enhancing the wonderful texture of the interweaving of virtual and real in "the mirror", making the picture have both the warmth of reality and the abstract reverie.

 

In terms of content and theme, it focuses on the metaphor of "in the mirror". The abstract symbols in the background seem to be fragments of the world projected on the individual's spiritual level. The figure stands silently, becoming a medium between the self and the world, coinciding with Bonnard's exploration of the individual's inner world in "intimate painting". However, it abandons the ambiguous daily life and uses more contemporary visual symbols to explore the individual's identity cognition and spiritual dilemma in the complex world, an artistic inquiry into the eternal proposition of "who I am".

 

In terms of emotional expression, it is implicit and profound. The figure's drooping eyebrows and eyes, and the quiet posture convey lonely self - reflection. The haziness of the background is like the spread of thoughts, as if telling the confusion and exploration of the individual in the face of the complex world. In the context of contemporary painting, it weaves a spiritual map from a personalized perspective, continuing art's deep gaze at the human inner world, like a prism, reflecting the complex emotional spectrum in the game between the self and the world.
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