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中誠2016年春季拍賣「現代與當代藝術」
ZHENG FAXIANG (b.1956)
1995
69x137cm
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Yu Wenlin, also called Mei Daoren, was a contemporary expatriate artist in America. Since the first encounter with art when he was 7, he has gotten involved with oil painting, watercolors, calligraphies, and seal cutting. In the 90s, he was noted for his skills in plum blossom paintings. His solo exhibitions were held in more than thirty various countries including China, United States, France, and Russia when he got the titles: “saint of blossom” and “the saint of blossom painters”. A prominent calligrapher, Guan Shanyue complimented him with the quote, “Prominent skill, unexpectedly creative; House of the blossoms, out of the common”. 1990, he joined China Central Academy of Fine Arts majoring in calligraphy. Simultaneously, a large-scale of his solo artwork was on exhibit. His paintings have received a silver medal from New York World’s Art Fair, Outstanding Awards from International Exhibition in Oriental Art, Grand Prize from the Chinese Plum Blossom Art Exhibiiton, Golden Awards from the China Arts Committee for Chinese and foreign celebrities Research Center. His works have become one of the most honorable foreign exchange gifts for China Culture Department, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, China Federation of Returned Overseas. They have always been highly sought by institutions including United Nations Headquarters, Chinese Embassy in United States and United Kingdom, Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China. The calligraphies are also widely collected by Chinese national institutes such as the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Great Hall of the People, Tiananmen, Zhongnanhai, National Art Museum of China, and Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution.