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    ZHOU CHUNYA(b.1955)

    Peach Blossoms in the Spring

    2009

    Oil on Canvas
    120×150cm

    Signed ZHOU CHUNYA both in Chinese and English , dated 2009

    Estimate TWD 6,800,000-8,800,000
    USD 206,060-266,670
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 8,260,000
    USD 253,374
    HKD 0

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Zhou Chunya is one of the most representative painters in Chinese contemporary art. Also, he is the one who explores the art form at the earliest stage. Regarded as the most talented painter in controlling color, Zhou applies anti-naturalistic color as his typical style.

In Zhou Chunya’s “Peach Blossoms” series of paintings we can find some trace of Chinese traditional flower paintings. By utilizing every colors Zhou presents the peach blossoms on his canvas in a more dissolute and coquettish image. The image of peach blossoms symbolizes the coming of the spring season; in a broad sense, it also symbolizes love and sex. In Zhou’s work, the light red color of the peach blossoms represents the very nature of erotic love. These works are filled with cultural meanings, transfiguring the primitive or even savage sex impulse to a very elegant and complicated image. The peach blossoms also represent the painter’s mood. In a world full of blossoming peach trees, the painter’s mood becomes totally liberated. The images of peach blossoms in Chinese traditional culture have some hidden allusions to sex and preproduction, but in Zhou’s works, the image of peach blossoms as the symbol of erotic love is presented in a more bold and apparent manner. In addition to a dissolute and coquettish image of peach blossoms, Zhou usually adds the image of men and women in red who are making love under the peach trees into his paintings. “What I paint is ‘sex and love’, the instincts of human beings. The blossoming peach flowers are strangely juxtaposed with the men and women who are making love under the peach trees. This juxtaposition destroys the obstruction between human beings and nature as well as obscuring the boundary between moral and evil. In floating colors a world of fantasy has been created where the instincts and nature of human beings are fully liberated and released in a tender and also violent manner.” Zhou said.

“Peach Blossoms” series of works demonstrate an artistic style between the traditional and the avant-garde. He displays the tension between tradition and modern in a natural way by incorporating the form of western art and the spirit of oriental culture.

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