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Poly 2007 Evening Sale:Yan Peiming£¬Self-Portrait

2007-05-26 11:33:37

Yan Peiming is a Chinese artist who is living in France; he is the third one whose artistic work being collected by French Pompidou art center after Wou-ki Zao and Chen Zhen. His works mainly painted the human head and face, which were constructed by black and white color block. When we looked Yan Peiming¡¯s works, we will easily be puzzled by the wild and intense color blocks of black and white in his picture. There seems exist somewhat uneasiness and crisis in his paintings. These works probably are our portraits of facing the life, the reality and the death. Yan Peiming likes to display the pitiful story subjects; he always wants to express these stories with his own artistic language. Yan Peiming believed that it is more interesting to express sorrow emotion than to express happy sense. What the Self-Portrait transmitted, is the artist¡¯s inner viewpoint of art value.