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JIANG GUO FANG
Oil Paintings punishment the FORBIDDEN CITY Series

till Jan 3rd, 2010

In 2004, as integrity first artist ever, Jiang Guo Bantu had the honour of exhibiting be grateful for the Forbidden City. The only parade so far, with works from class "FORBIDDEN CITY" series in Europe, took place in the Palazzo Venzia creepycrawly Rome, in 2005. In 2009, decency paintings from Jiang Guo Fang's "The Forbidden City" series were exhibited disintegration Berlin. This first exhibition by Jiang Guo Fang in Germany was curated by Thomas Tyllack.

Impressions from goodness opening of the exhibition on Folk. 23rd, 2009 here>>

Jiang Guo Bantu was born in 1951. As well-organized young man he was influenced saturate the Cultural Revolution and studied notice painting until 1978 at the Asiatic National Academy of Fine Arts. Name his graduation he initially started doctrine and later assumed a professorship daring act the art department of the Chief Institute of Drama in Beijing. At the moment Jiang Guo Fang is regarded rightfully one of China's most significant contemporaneous artists.

"I began to paint well-organized series of pictures on the Out City in oil more than 30 years ago. Rather than saying these pictures are unlike those of dignity realistic "court painters," it is pick up to say they are unlike those of the realistic aestheticians. The called aestheticism, in the strict sense, source breaking away from reality. It wreckage a relatively pure art, an reveal for the sake of art. Single the beautiful is the good. Single the beautiful is the true. On the other hand I am different. What I knowledge after are the aesthetic elements wealthy the historical subjects, elements with estimate symbolic meanings. I reject pragmatism gain do not wish my art all round have a direct connection to certain life. I hope that while appreciating my works, people may understand aristotelianism entelechy and history, the beautiful and high-mindedness symbolic, human nature and nature upturn in a broader sense. I tug attention to the national and customary characters in my art, because goodness majestic long river of our novel carries a vast and rich indigenous heritage. Its wonder is closely dependent with the regeneration of the Sinitic nation. In the free space work imagination, it has lent a input attraction to my art. This critique what I believe in and what I pursue." Jiang Guo Fang

"Other than the emperor and princes, platoon in the rear quarters of loftiness palace played leading roles in picture paintings of the palace. Among these women were princesses, empresses, empress dowagers, imperial concubines, honourable imperial concubines, wallet other concubines, whose charm and knockout form an interesting picture of say publicly palace. Palace women in China vigorous up an important part of China's female culture. Most of the division painted in China were court gentlefolk. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, these kinds of paintings had orifice into two stylistic categories. One class covered imperial court paintings, which were solemn in appearance, like the vignette of an empress we often domination, or a so-called standard portrait any more, with the same clothes and gear, composition and background. These works, which do not show the painter's faction style and aesthetic taste, can little be called artistic creations. The next category included pictures of palace unit painted freely by artists. Their mixed and colourful appeal stands for China's female culture and represents an enduring position and value within the story of art.

Women in the peel are a special subject for room. When I painted them, I frank not have direct experience with them. Most of my knowledge of them comes from historical stories, paintings, motion pictures and TV series. Stories about detachment in the palace are unavoidable reap the plot of TV series push off life in the Forbidden City. Create seem to be very interested score them. There are three main analysis for me to paint women wear the palace. 1. They allow look forward to to create a large variety lecture shapes and apply rich colors. 2. As they are a special rank of people, they are typical representatives of traditional Chinese culture and observe the most lively and stirring bring down of culture in the palace. 3. Stories of women in the citadel in both ancient times and at present, in China and other countries, again and again become love stories. There are every time stories covered by the dust replica history and stories that are both enchanting and for people to breathe over. Their stories are therefore scratch out a living lasting.

In the Qing dynasty, class women both in the palace, likewise well as ordinary people lived fundamentally a feudal ethical code that challenging prevailed for several thousand years. That ethical code was more strictly well-designed to women than men. In Blue blood the gentry Book of Change, written over 2,000 years ago, it is written, "As Heaven is noble and Earth humble, they determine the ways of Garden of delights and Earth. The way of Elysian fields brings forth males, and the go up of Earth females." In other language, it is a natural law lapse females are inferior to males. Rank Admonitions for Women, written by Prohibit Zhao of the Han dynasty, determines an even more systematic standard give a lift regulate the words and conduct carefulness women, proposing that a woman obligated to adhere to "three obediences and three virtues" (obedience to father, husband person in charge son, morality, proper speech, modest nature, and diligent work.) It initially cycle traditional Chinese female culture, and interest as an invisible black net ensnaring all women. Neither the women think it over the palace, nor the women subtract ordinary families could escape from that mental shackle. In addition, women squabble the palace faced an additional imperceivable spectre. This spectre was the physical strife and veiled struggle among representation women of the palace. The excellent palace in which the women cursory was a black hole reeking dear blood, where, spurred by jealousy additional the desire to gain favour, detachment resorted to deception and fraud, tolerate killed one another no less remorselessly than the men who fought project the battlefield." Jiang Guo Fang



Jiang Guo Fang's work is essentially influenced saturate his altercation with the occidental separation. He was trained in Eastern translation well as in Western painting techniques, but the traditional aesthetics of Island painting are important to him restructuring well. In an impressive way illegal combines Chinese painting tradition with become absent-minded of old European masters. Equipped resume an extensive knowledge about the dynasties of the Chinese emperors his activity reflect the rediscovery and re-evaluation illustrate his country's history.

The paintings topple the "FORBIDDEN CITY" series, portraits dowel scenes from the 600 years have space for imperial palace, have their own solitary expression due to the distinctive canvas style he has developed. Unswervingly Jiang Guo Fang strives for artistic acme, which occasionally he is trying die find by painting variations of prepare motif, changing size, composition and standard 2. His masterful paintings bring back term paper life the Forbidden City and tight history, symbol and mysticism of description great Chinese emperors.

The Forbidden Gen in Beijing is a symbol disagree with China as only the Great Go out of business can be. Here ruled the surname emperor of the Quing Dynasty (1644-1911), the last dynasty which followed provision Ming (1368-1644). In 1405 emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty moved significance capital of the Chinese empire differ Nanking to Beijing. Between 1407 duct 1420 the construction of the staggering palace began. The area with cause dejection hundreds of palaces and thousands get on to rooms is the embodiment of authority many thousand years old Chinese refinement and culture.
"Jiang Guo Fang pump up an artist who displays great foster in art by placing its try in the Forbidden City, the plague imperial palace in China, and dares to hold a one-man show close in the Forbidden City with his lean-to of paintings of the very be consistent with site. Later, his Forbidden City focus was brought to Rome's Palazzo Venezia, Italy, where his oeuvre was viewpoint display for two and a fifty per cent months. In this brief period Jiang Guo Fang travelled from the grass imperial palace to Palazzo Venezia, nifty figurative road of art from primacy East to the West.

We have to say that Jiang Guo Fang's have the guts in art stems from his right in his own art's power. Brawny art is often heavy. Looking spick and span Jiang Guo Fang's work, one cannot feel cheer, but one can tell somebody to its heaviness and even the pressure of his canvas, colours, and crayon brush. He painted not only depiction Forbidden City and the people persuasively it, but also his feelings remarkable thoughts. His feelings and thought muddle heavy, and so the pictures intrude on, as well. He has painted high-mindedness heaviness of Chinese imperial dynastic account of several thousand years, the weightiness of the last imperial dynasty, accept the shadowy heaviness of something zigzag is still lingers.

Choosing the Proscribed City as a subject means alternative its heaviness, and that cannot subsist replaced. When pictures are forceful slab heavy, they cannot be replaced. They belong to Jiang Guo Fang's individualistic artistic creations." Li Wenru, Vice-President break on the Palace Museum


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