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    PANG JIUN (b.1936)

    Spring Flowers

    2009

    Oil on Canvas
    175x175cm

    Signed Pang Jiun in Chinese, dated 2009 With one inscribed seal of the artist

    Estimate TWD 4,500,000-6,000,000
    USD 145,700-194,300
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 6,720,000
    USD 214,013
    HKD 1,688,442

With a certificate of authenticity from gallery

Provenance：Yan Gallery, Hong Kong, Chinese Private Collection, Asia

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Pang Jiun is a painter that is in constant pursuit of new innovation and methods to emit vibrant vitality in his oil painting works. At a young age, he studied music and had deep appreciation for literature and poetry, he quickly grasps the profound connotation in Western contemporary art when he encountered it in his studies. While working exclusively in oil painting medium, Pang Jiun skillfully harmonize the conflicting demeanor of classical and modern aesthetics. The profuse aesthetic vocabulary of Western oil painting is seen in unison with the poise of traditional Chinese ink drawing, thereby establishing Pang Jiun’s distinctive Oriental oil painting style. His paintings embody the spirituality of Oriental sophistication and philosophical subtext; throughout his artistic career he emphasized the importance of observing nature objectively, but creating subjectively. The artist rejects making alterations to his works, sine he believed paintings should be completed in one attempt in order to be coherent in style; and to represent elements of the present and quality of excitement. The artist’s devotion to art is shown in his many years of practice, in which he achieved an expressive manner that portray the passionate and robust quality of Western style painting; through the use of unrestraint and vivid brushstrokes with daring choice of vibrant and contrasting color makes up the incomparable style of Pang Jiun. 

Chinese art historian Shao Dazhao commented on Pang Jiun’s works, he said “The academically trained, Chinese painter Pang Jiun developed his own distinctive flare but still exemplifies the essence of China. The temperament and delightfulness of his works is reminiscent of traditional ink drawing, and the infamous Dunhuang murals among other national treasures. His oil painting is in the style of Chinese Realists soaked in Chinese aestheticism and sentiments.” Pang Jiun believed that by strengthening the practice of freehand drawings, new innovation in Chinese oil paintings can be achieved. In his creative process, the combination of ink philosophy in oil painting not only infiltrate the aesthetic sentiments of Chinese culture but also resonate with the Post-impressionists and Fauvists style. His unique artistic expression carries out new extensions and progressions by inheriting the Chinese cultural characteristics and the art heritage of the West and other Asian regions. 

In Spring Flowers, the artist explored the correlation between subject, color and space, the work radiates with beaming affections and suggests prosperous allegory. Pang Jiun utilized large color blocks to compose the background. With three flower vase in close proximity in the foreground, distinguished by colors of red, black and beige, the arrangement further accentuates the pigment of the flowers and purposefully guide the viewer’s gaze towards the main theme of the work. Through every swaying motion of the brush, the spontaneous and vibrant splash of colors becomes a bunch of brilliantly bloomed flowers. The vines stretch upwards and bend sideways in unexpected manner, beneath the thick layers of colors portrays the variations of depth and movements in the artist’s extensive line work. The overall imagery conveys liveliness and liberation. Pang Jiun expertly demonstrated color theory borrowed from Western Expressionism, he also incorporated the many variations of lines borrowed from Chinese calligraphy; each line portrayed inversely in weight and lightness, shortness and length, thickness and fineness. Pang Jiun once said, “My flowers are more liberating and outstanding compared to other series. To me painting flowers is not literally painting flowers, instead colors, brushstrokes, personality and emotions become one, the represented spirituality becomes a visual language that belongs to the East and West” The artist used the fundamental elements of dot, line and surface, executed in a revolutionized manner of sophisticated Chinese aestheticism. Although the painted flowers are colorfully portrayed, they are more than the dazzling splendor they appear to be; instead they are portrayed as a spiritual sustenance, an abundance of emotions, while possessing introverted and euphemized quality. The flowers deliver emotions as well as rhythm, thereby forming a poetic and charming artistic conception that allows the viewers to engage unconsciously. All the while, they are the reflection and splendid reconstruction of the traditional still life theme and the insightful answer to why Pang Jiun’s works are outstanding.

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