- about LingJian painting

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Decadent is late romanticism mannerist, imagine all broke through the boundaries of the romantic style. Decadent, in the name of freedom, create sex psychology and artistic new demanding standards. This is an objective and curing process, it has turned out western bad eyes. Camilla palmer bounty "sexual mask"

In camilla palmer bounty of the controversial book, "sex mask (Sexual Personae), the female scholars from Yale inspected the western from ancient Greece to the Oscar Wilde in the era of British Duan Wenxue and art history, points out that the western from the classical to the modern creative source of many of the great works of art are from sex and decadent, known as the wine in the human nature god, dithyrambs of Dionysus spirit and social morality and religious practices of process, it is a continuous breaking taboos of literature and art, can say without the description on sex and passion, so a lot of great work won't come out, we won't see Michelangelo and botticelli's genius.

Sex has always been one of the artistic creation of human a natural impetus, religious neutral in India is a highly publicized embodies the original universe, so to speak, we most of the literature works of art today the factors behind the birth of sexual and erotic. Some more implicative, some more bold and direct, Andy warhol's "Marilyn Monroe" and silk screen print

LingJian works of visual aesthetic feeling has been occupied the center of the picture, either the Buddha or worldly beauty, or is it with men of neutral beauty, has a blow play to delicate skin and bright red lip is about to drip, but despite these characters have a highly realistic texture, flesh, let a person feel is real, or put on a layer of artificial mask, the layer mask is actually present in the era of cultural and aesthetic psychology and social economic form made by mold, it reflects and transmits a men is not only a painter psychology of aesthetics, as well as his social, his photograph on the portraits are mostly from the fashion pictorial or advertising, the painter consciously choose some character as a model for his creation, such as a model or a movie star, etc., as to the reason of choosing these people is social and the aesthetics of The Times, because they represent the age of the common requirements and standards of female beauty. Interestingly LingJian conscious here east of that kind of facial features are exaggerated, or that he consciously the westerners think that especially the appearance of the Chinese characteristic to amplify on the east, so as to explore what is called the Oriental beauty, this kind of present popular Oriental aesthetic principle is based on how the basis of a political social culture and history? Can copy and change many things in this human technology and appearance of the era of sets of genes, as well as the western image culture occupies the major media and the public environment of our society, what is sexy and beautiful indeed is not only a physiological problems, and is mainly a and cultural, economic and political capital to produce the problem associated with sociology, it even has closely associated with ideology. And artificial appearance is beautiful and the lack of inner personality spirit and hollowing out is one of the most significant cultural and social characteristics of this era.

LingJianCeng spoken about, where is the beauty of the Oriental? This probably has to do with his personal life, he lived in Europe for more than ten years, see too many europeans, so his heart will always get people to make a comparison between east and west. In his view the beauty of the Oriental has a unique charm, especially Chinese women. Like compare jewelry, westerners can be compared to a diamond, radiant, bright is dazzing. And the Chinese are more like jewels, the ancients described will say when a person has a good moral character "polite, a jade", describe a beautiful woman would say "" as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, jade panhandle by ancient Chinese as a mysterious force of gem, only of high character talented person can wear. So that the Chinese more praise is a kind of implicative and inside collect, not make public of reserved beauty.

In work "priority number one", an exaggerated oval face, almond eyes and fleshy beauty cherry small mouth, mouth mouth of a speckled with bead jade stone beauty, her face is slightly aloof and naive, black eyes looked to us, seems to be mocking people covet of her beauty. And she with Hollywood's animated film mulan in the role of modelling resembles a face, is can be seen as a kind of coincidence, the artist conscious use similar to a form of orientalism to ridicule the west so-called Oriental stereotypes and lack of imagination.

LingJian painting for her present in her masculine perspective may not cause of feminist criticism, but the deep meaning of his picture is lies in the consciousness of men's dominant consumer society culture of a kind of ironic expression and narrative. Another Chinese contemporary female artist Cui Xiuwen also did a lot of girls of portrait photography, from the Angle of the female to arrange her pictures and the main characters in the picture, although her works in the girl the same show young sexy temptation; And LingJianZe performance from the perspective of men or for women's imagination and social aesthetic pattern. His picture is on the artist personal daily empirical formula of reflection of the world, those with a large head and small beautiful girls neck and body image convey is handling all the business capital, has the incomparable power of the madness of the era of morbid and decadent aesthetic feeling, this kind of malformation of beauty standard is by the entertainment media, film and television and the mass media and the capital market, to promote and build by them and there is the slimming advertisements on TV and whitening cosmetics together emphasized the physiological characteristics of female body outside, and gives its social culture and moral tradition in the legitimacy of the subordinate status, the women to become the object of a for people to enjoy, and was formed as a relative to men. Work "upstart - lulu", "bad girl" and "the upstart - white image of a girl in men's aesthetic look forward to meet with botticelli, Rubens and ingres's works are essentially the same. They are a kind of sociology in the sense of gender definition model.

The construction of gender is a kind of sociology, Nick, whitty (Monique Russia vw sales chief detlef Wittig) in her article "woman is not innate" have been discussed, and she have challenged gender structure of existing problems, points out that the only answer is to sex and gender in comprehensive deconstruction, is also a gender and physiological level the distinction that having essence, social gender more represents a kind of specific social and cultural form for the role positioning of the two sexes and characterization of moral identity, it is a kind of culture and the construction of psychological, women in male culture accounts for the main body of social form are often referred to as a kind of aesthetic object and alienation, this is a kind of the object of objectification and solid process, make the system of aesthetic pattern. In this regard, the painter with naturally sensitive and the assurance of pair of social trends, in fact, by his paintings have touched on this question. In his works, with a round face, or innocent, or sexy siren, or bony slim girls or concave and convex have send, they are sending out the charm of women, and all have some kind of decadent overtones. Their head and body proportion is just in order to make them look more sexy.

In Chinese traditional culture, has always been a taboo areas, direct description of sex is not permitted, and even the specific description of the body is also considered obscene, but that doesn't mean is not active social culture in ancient China, the woodcarving porn prints were popular in the Ming dynasty, and the Japanese yamato-e had a great effect. While in ancient China from the mainstream literature and art in the song dynasty, a hit for sex is a taboo, but even in such a great literature is a dream of red mansions depiction of women to make also a subtle implicit sexual. Literary value as a dream of red mansions the vernacular novels of jin ping mei in the description of sex is more bold and free, is relatively conservative and stagnation in the field of Chinese painting, the south's literati paintings completely abandoned for depicting characters, and the ideal of intellectuals harmonious picture of the universe into landscape pastoral insects, fish, and herbs of position in which the dispensable, this is actually the inevitable result of the road of the development of the eastern and western culture and philosophy, in the west from the ancient Greek, has been the ideal of the human body as representatives of supreme harmony of the universe, so just can have portrait art, and the prosperity and development of human art. The nearly hundred years of history of art in China is almost a blank, is not the Chinese people are not good at realistic modelling, han dynasty bronze sculptures and some of the tang and song dynasty buddhist images to highly realistic level, but cultural taboos and conservative led to the emergence of this phenomenon. Since oil painting into China, the portrait painting got great development, the painting style also is endowed with different functions, from commercial to propaganda and avant-garde art. LingJian style is between reality and not reality, sexy body language and the beauty of the absurd interweaving elegantly surreal images, like Jeff koons's good image, business spending time in public idol is tempered, but under the brush of LingJian they are super girl, sister lotus, movie stars, rich lover with a mix of white-collar workers.

LingJian picture makes me think of John Currin Lin American painter John library shelves. When the audience first saw his portrait painting, they will think of early Renaissance and technique works; But after carefully appreciate library's creativity to emerge. Despite his portrait looks from people familiar with the classic works of the Renaissance, but in fact his picture reflects the modern social ethics and aesthetics. Through the characters facial expressions and posture of the special arrangement, the characters in his painting (usually women) presents from modern fashion magazines and gossip illustrated on the standard of secular expressions and artificial style, through the modern image of the so-called gaudy grafting with ancient portraits of the master, to obtain the effect of a kind of irony, the irony is not only embodied in the criticism of contemporary consumer capitalism society's image, but also to the moral teachings of classical art side of ridicule. In women who are too thin a long body, breasts and pathological sexy naked all suggest that the contemporary American society for aesthetic standard of men expect women. Such a substance of modern social everyday life vulgar sexual side criticism in a humorous style and elegant classical form to send out.

Another American artist Richard Philip Richard Phillips, art also reveal similar temperament and artistic pursuit. His painting subjects usually comes from fashion magazine in the 70 s, Lin painting of these features can also be found in our LingJian works, they are the same by magnifying some come from popular publications or images to evoke images of the product style and style of our modern consumerism society and in the capital of national cultural identity and the image under the background of globalization, and the relationship between the aesthetic standard construction. In his 1997 work "tongue" is a classic portrait of pornography to make, in a very low point of view to the audience's eyes were focused on the model of open very red lips, and out of the wet tongue. Larger than life size give a person a kind of oppressive feeling, also took the picture of a woman's sexy exaggeration. The two works of the painter and LingJian art on the choice of subject matter and technique of applications have in common, they are to enlarge sexual and erotic to highlight the imprint of The Times.

For a nation, the image of the memory and the reconstruction of the history is very important, in the movie "knot" for the people's liberation army (PLA) image of the aesthetic style and romantic heroism of description, and the painter qi zhilong volunteers and the combination of symbols and beauty picture of the red is a kind of based on the present aesthetic standards for reconstructing the memory of the past era, while LingJian sharp portrait oil painting from a non realistic yet highly realistic perspective to grasp and expressive of other style, thus to his art involved in this kind of image reconstruction of memory of history, they will be together at the beginning of the 21st century Chinese contemporary aesthetic image.

Beauty and the hero, has always been a national culture construction of the main role in the history, from the British national gallery to the Louvre museum in France, the metropolis along the palatial hall of a considerable part of exquisite painting is about all kinds of beauty and the image of hero. They are all according to the aesthetic standards of their era pose grace or sexy body, told people of the glorious history and memory. Heard the Louvre will be after the guggenheim museum in the capital of the united Arab emirates ABU dhabi building a branch, so the image and the influence of power even for the game of international political economy, is also important, but I really want to know the nude Venus and Apollo, they will be shown with come east sexy and scale of their ideal?