Provenance：
Illustrated：ILLUSTRATED
(1)“Monogatari - Water, Art and the Human” Shi Chong Collection , Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 2006, Page 6
(2)“The Fine Arts World”, Shanghai Brilliant Publishing House, China, April 2008, Page 6-7
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Exposition：
Shi Chong is one of the most famous and controversial artists in Chinese contemporary art. His art style incorporated performance art, installation art, classical old painting and even concept art. He continues to breakthrough and mimicked western avant-garde art to define a very significant meaning for “Contemporary Chinese painting.” He has won numerous awards over the years and even broke his own bidding price in an action in Beijing. “Monogatari - Water, Art and the Human Series” belongs to one of the series that brings impact with classical skills and surprising the viewers with the classical stereotyping of female figures as “voluptuous, complete and elegant.” The female figures are divided into segments of nude colors, and the oil-water like surface blurred the definition of painting and classical. “Monogatari - Water, Art and the Human Series” surpassed realist painting habits with realist concepts. Shi Chong employed classical realist painting as his inspiration but meanwhile realist skills are also essential in his art works. Human figures are simplified and analyzed into symbols through classical techniques and with layers of objective texture such as cloth and plaster, the artist re-interpreted the body (the creator’s body, the model’s body or even any kind of bodies from the art concept. All objects experience a brand new environment, the tension and anxiety from within created a bigger meaning.
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