This painting was created in 2024. The colors of this year are still bright but not dazzling. I have gradually found a balance point among the bright colors.
It's midsummer in southern coastal cities. It's hot here, the sweat is sticky, and the brushstrokes are sticky as well. The world is particularly bright and clear due to the strong light, but people's thoughts are muddy.
Inches: x in
Size without the frame: x cm
Country: China
Date: 2024
Materials: Acrylic paint on paper
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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1. Medium and Atmosphere
This painting uses the fluid rhythm of watercolor to construct a polyphonic space where emotion and memory interlace. The medium’s softness enables the image to hover between material presence and dreamlike evanescence, amplifying the sense of lingering vows that resist fading.
2. Expressionist Logic
The work draws upon the brushstroke logic of Expressionism, embedding the figure in a hazy field of interwoven blues and purples. Through deliberate color collisions and blending, the artist conveys a turbulent emotional landscape where intimacy, melancholy, and persistence coexist.
3. Symbolism of Color
The contrast between the figure’s reddish-brown hair and pink-purple face against the dominant blue tones creates a sharp color confrontation. This interplay mirrors the internal clash of repeated vows reverberating within the heart. The chromatic discord emphasizes both the warmth of passion and the coolness of distance, forming an emotional duality.
4. Metaphor of Smoke
The figure’s cigarette smoke, rendered with a wet-on-wet technique, drifts into indistinct forms. It functions as a visual metaphor for repetition, blurring the boundary between reality and fantasy. Just as smoke disperses yet lingers, so too do vows: ephemeral, intangible, but emotionally binding.
5. Emotional Materialization
Here, art breaks free from the limits of realism. Instead, it translates vows into an emotional materialization, making visible the weight and fragility of human commitment. The viewer is invited to experience how vows are both solemn affirmations and fragile constructs, vulnerable to dissolution.
6. Dual Tension
This painting establishes a profound tension: it completes a poetic gaze at vows through the grammar of Expressionism, yet resists conventional storytelling with its ambiguity of form and chaotic interplay of colors. In this paradox, the work becomes a two-sided mirror — one side reflecting humanity’s longing for eternity, the other exposing the futility and absurdity of such longing.
7. Philosophical Dimension
In its core, the painting interrogates the nature of “eternal vows.” Do repeated vows represent an embrace of eternity, or are they merely a dance with nothingness? By positioning vows as both persistent and uncontrollable, the work compels viewers to recognize that what seems like devotion can just as easily unravel into obsession, melancholy, or illusion.
Amedeo Modigliani, Woman with a Black Tie — Unique lines and muted tones evoke elegance and restrained intensity.
Marc Chagall, The Lovers — Dreamlike colors and romantic composition convey lyrical surrealism.
Sanyu, Half-length Nude — Minimal brushstrokes and soft hues present quiet, understated beauty.
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait — Exaggerated forms and bold colors express raw emotional tension.
The artist employs a cross-play of warm and cool tones to express bodily tension and inner conflict. The purplish-red intensifies the sense of blood flow and desire, while the aqua-green contours suggest a more spiritual outline, merging flesh and consciousness within the same canvas.
The smoke is rendered as soft, ethereal gray-white, interlacing with the more linear forms of the flowers in the background. This creates a coexistence of the real and the elusive—viewers can sense both the dispersing atmosphere and the symbolic presence of plants.
The semi-kneeling pose, with a cigarette in hand and a slight twist of the shoulders and waist, appears relaxed on the surface. Yet the visible muscle tension conveys restraint. This paradox—between relaxation and control—becomes the focal tension of the narrative.
As a work of contemporary symbolist figurative painting, it carries both lyricism and philosophical weight. It is particularly suited for personal studios, private studies, or gallery feature walls, where it can create an atmosphere of reflection, solitude, and intertwined desire.
The work has distinctive significance in the realms of contemporary figurative art and psychological narrative painting. Through its layered color and suggestive posture, it reflects the interplay between personal memory and social symbols. Beyond its visual impact, it stands as a text for interpretation, offering both long-term academic and market potential.
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