Tan Ping - Complete Collection of Chinese Oil Painters

Author: Tan Ping
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This art album collects the representative works of Mr. Tan Ping over more than ten years of artistic creation, divided into three major categories: oil paintings, prints, and sketches. These works showcase his ongoing exploration and innovation in recent artistic creation, as well as a summary of his artistic achievements. This book is a comprehensive collection of Mr. Tan Ping's oil paintings, serving as a reference for. Mr. Tan Ping is a renowned contemporary artist in China and currently serves as the Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Since entering the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1980, he has focused on in-depth study and research in oil painting and printmaking. In 1989, he received the Germany-China Cultural Exchange Scholarship and studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, earning a master's degree. Upon returning to China in 1994, he engaged in art teaching and design education, holding positions such as Design Director and Dean of the School of Design. Mr. Tan Ping is an artist with keen insight into life and humanity. He has an unwavering pursuit of experimentation and innovation in language, never being bound by fixed styles or forms. His creative style has remained abstract for many years, and his works have continuously evolved in form and language. Since 1989, Mr. Tan Ping has rarely had a fixed, recognizable representative style, as he has consistently strived to break free from the concept of "representation" and the process of "shaping." He places greater emphasis on the expression of his own feelings. The notable characteristics of his recent paintings are the integration of clarity and ambiguity, order and nature, and concentration and dispersion. He focuses on the new language that emerges after the "negation" of creative painting language, involving the redefinition of abstract images. His subjective "editing" and "selection" dominate the magnified images from the microcosm, while his dynamic brushstrokes create a novel visual language of "disharmony."