Chen Yanning Paintings Collection Fine

Author: Chen Yanning
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Chen Yanning, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Affiliated Secondary School of Fine Arts. Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Art College in 1965. From 1971 to 1985, he engaged in painting creation successively at the Guangdong Provincial Literature and Art Creation Studio and the Guangdong Art Institute. In 1986, he studied abroad in the United States, graduating from the Art Department of the University of Oklahoma City in 1988 and teaching at the university. In 1987 and 1989, the Hanover Gallery in the United States held two successful solo exhibitions for him in New York. He has held numerous solo exhibitions abroad. In 1991, he won the portrait competition grand prize organized by the British Artists Association and subsequently painted portraits for the British royal family and nobility. His collaborative comic strip "Songs of the Proletariat" with Tang Xiaoming won the second prize in the second National Comic Strip Award for Painting. Chen Yanning is skilled in oil painting and comic strips. He has held numerous solo exhibitions both domestically and internationally, receiving warm acclaim and high praise. His oil painting "New Fishing Port" participated in the 1982 Paris Spring Salon exhibition and was collected by the National Art Museum of China. His oil painting "Mirror" was collected by the Oklahoma City Art Institute. In China, collections such as "Chen Yanning Paintings," "Chen Yanning Works," and "Selected Oil Paintings of Chen Yanning" have been published. Like the renowned oil painters Chen Yifei, Chen Danqing, and others, Chen Yanning also engaged in comic strip creation, but his works seem even more numerous. His first comic strip may have been "Great Wall of the South Sea," co-painted with Wu Qizhong, Zhao Jiting, and others in the early 1960s. This book successfully portrayed and celebrated the advanced deeds of a group of South Sea fishermen, leaving a deep impression on people with its rich life, vivid storylines, and typical character portrayals. In August 1974, his collaborative comic strip "Songs of the Proletariat" with Tang Xiaoming won the second prize in the second National Comic Strip Award for Painting. The creators used solid artistic skills and a strong political passion to describe the brilliant life of Eugene Pottier. This was an outstanding work that achieved significant success during the Cultural Revolution, gaining fame for its serious and accurate theme, rigorous and vivid painting. Additionally, the comic strip "Laughing Pictures" (1) he participated in painting for Guangdong also won the second prize in the second National Comic Strip Award for Painting. Besides the award-winning work "Songs of the Proletariat," Chen Yanning's other Cultural Revolution-era comic strips include "Capturing the Second Yanzi," "Adolescent Ade," "Coconut Thunder," "Sea Flowers," "Nezha's Rebellion," and "Jasmine and Flowers." Especially "Sea Flowers," which was published in six foreign language editions (English, French, German, Arabic, Uyghur, and Hausa) by the Foreign Languages Press between 1975 and 1976, gained international acclaim. Reading Chen's comic strips from the Cultural Revolution period, one feels that he grasped the themes with accuracy and ease, and his paintings are lively and unrestrained. Most of his creations are for children, though set in that special era with class struggle as the main theme, many of his scenes still retain a sense of vitality and extreme beauty. For example, the protagonist in "Sea Flowers" is not only beautiful and adorable but also intelligent and clever. The scenes often carry the charm of folk paintings or even oil paintings, leaving people delighted.