Artist: Chen Yifei (1946-2005
Title: Zhou Zhuang
Medium: Screenprint
Signed: Hand Signed
Edition: Out of 300
Measurements: 29.5" x 33.5"
Condition: Excellent
Chen Yifei is a central figure in the development of Chinese oil painting. He is also considered one of China's most renowned contemporary artists. Chen's work with oil painting earned him recognition from Chinese authorities.
Chen soon became one of the leading painters of the Cultural Revolution. He was famous for his Mao Zedong portraits and depiction of grand heroic events of the modern Chinese nation. Since the Cultural Revolution, Chen became the forerunner of a new age in Chinese aesthetics, promoting a new sense of modernity and lifestyle in his paintings, including fashion, cinema and design. In his oil paintings, Chen abandoned his uncritical glorification of the party to blend realistic technique and romanticism with Chinese subject matter, especially melancholic and lonely women in traditional dresses. His characteristic "Romantic Realism" paintings use dark and dense colors and convey a sense of richness and integrity.
In 1980 he became one of the first artists from the People's Republic of China permitted to study art in the United States. Wally Findlay Galleries was the first gallery to grant Chen Yifei an exclusive contract. Chen Yifei enrolled at Hunter College and later found work as an art restorer. In 1983, before he attained his master's degree at Hunter, his solo exhibition at the Hammer Galleries was a great success. Later, he established himself as a contract artist for the Hammer Galleries.

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