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Chinanews, Hangzhou, Dec. 8 - “Chinese oil paintings should include more national elements,” said Han Peisheng, vice1 chairman of the Zhejiang Oil Painting Artists Association, who is also a senior painter in China.
He made the statement in an interview while attending an oil painting exhibition that marked the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Zhejiang Human and Nature Oil Painting Academy. Just as red color means a lot to the Chinese, Chinese national elements also include something that is typical of the Chinese people, such as the pure emotions and the delicate expressions of these emotions, said the artist when addressing the vital force in Chinese oil paintings. As an advocate of this principle, Han always tries to include these elements in his paintings. “China is basically an agricultural country. Farmers are the root of the country,” he said. In his paintings, one will not see the prosperous urban life in cities. Instead, most of the paintings focus on the folk life of farmers in the artist’s hometown. He is therefore regarded as an expressionist with a realistic spirit. He goes to the countryside once in a while and his paintings are saturated2 with pastoral scenes: villages, rivers, old trees, small bridges, and farm fields. Ox working in the fields, rustic3 farmers, and young village girls are usually the main characters in his works. His characters usually wear a mild expression, depicting4 the kindness and sincerity5 typical of people living in the eastern part of Zhejiang Province. His paintings are thus well-known for the three basic elements, old men, old oxen, and old trees. To Han, most of Chinese oil paintings are good in quality. However, the price between Chinese oil paintings and those sold in other countries can vary greatly. If a Chinese oil painting can sell for several million US dollars, the price is good enough. Yet in other countries, a good oil painting can cost as high as hundreds of millions of US dollars. He said that Chinese oil painting market is transforming from an immature6 one to a mature one. Many Chinese paintings have begun to be sold in overseas market and a lot of foreigners have begun to recognize and buy these paintings. In this situation, China should regulate its oil painting market from basically two aspects. On the one hand, China needs to reduce the number of fake products with more advanced technologies and prevent speculative7 activities in the art collection market, which will cause bubbles in the market by pushing the price of paintings up to an unreasonable8 high level. At the same time, Chinese artists also need to include more national elements in their works.
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