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    LIU WEI (b.1965)

    Love

    1988

    Oil on Canvas
    40x50cm

    Signed on the reverse: Liu Wei in Chinese

    Estimate TWD 2,700,000-3,700,000
    USD 90,000-123,300
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 2,950,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

Provenance:

Illustrated:ILLUSTRATED "Liu Wei", Hongqiao Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2008, Page 18-19

Exhibition:EXHIBITION "Art Beijing", National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China, April 2012

Exposition:

“I greatly respect how I feel internally and with my own style and method I interpret what I see and feel so that everyone knows that it’s my artwork. Only an inspired artist can move viewers and then you can talk about aesthetics.”

---Liu Wei

Liu Wei’s art is never conformed to any style or party but his own heart. He purely presented himself with art and with the passionate creativity, his art style never remains the same. He is not prolific but each of them is a masterpiece. He said “I will never produce identical artworks.” He realized his dream as an artist with an unspoken romantic atmosphere and sometimes surreal comprehension. Sometimes it may seem playful and insincere; sometimes it looks confused and intertwined. Each is unique and wonderful and are the embodiments of the talented art language.

《Love》speaks of thick love and longing of his home. The changing lines and rich colours employed in fairy tales are lively and vivid and exotic. Liu Wi spread the colours evenly and freely added the texture and thickness to the colour to make the painting more rhythm. He combined all sorts of elements and the lady laying elegantly with her eyes closed dreaming about 《Love》.  The interesting flowers and cute crocodile and the exaggerated bird live freely in this mysterious jungle. The free flowing lines jump along with the change of light reflection. The compositions remind viewers of surrealism artist Chagall that is romantic and imaginative. He also reminds viewers of impressionist art master Gauguin whose style is primal and vivid. A show of love and mystery begins with this painting. 

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