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Poly 2007 Evening Sale - Luo Zhongli£¬Xinyue

2007-04-21 18:03:15

Luo Zhongli touched almost all Chinese people in 1980s for his famous oil painting, the Father. Today, Luo had become a godfather of China contemporary art. He founded and directed the famous Tank Warehouse art zone in southwest China recently. Luo gave young avant-garde artists stably support in his place, which had become an important cradle of Chinese young artists. The title of this work, Xinyue, maybe the name of the young girl; it also could be a symbol of youth life, because Xinyue in Chinese means crescent symbolizing a new life. This painting was worked in 1982, which was thought as the stylistic continuation of the Father. Luo¡¯s most early works focused on the countryside life, the artist represented the hardships of farmers with humanity spirit. In the works of this period, Luo Zhongli endowed his works a realistic sense with the harmony between human and nature.