IN THE STUDIO OF AI XUAN

Ai Xuan (艾軒) was born in 1947 in Zhejiang, China and studied at the prestigious Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), graduating in 1967. He is one of the most successful contemporary Chinese painters. Ai Xuan is also the son of one of China’s most loved poets Ai Qing, and the brother to one of China’s most well-known artists in the west, Ai Weiwei. Like many artists of his generation, Ai Xuan grew up during the Cultural Revolution, a period where art students had extremely limited options. They could choose between traditional ink painting and realism, with the latter medium almost exclusively taught by Russian teachers. Ai Xuan chose to focus on realism, and after the Cultural Revolution began to wane in 1974, he joined the army and was sent to Sichuan, where he started to get his first glimpses of Tibet. Taking his passion for painting and travel, he fell in love with Tibet and this has inspired his popular Tibetan series ever since. Ai Xuan is also somewhat of a contradiction. He defines himself as a realist painter and believes that the more realistic a painting, the better. Yet none of his works are based on scenes that he observed or photographed at a specific moment in time, he takes to his work like a movie director. To this day, Ai Xuan travels to Tibet regularly before commencing new works, but he takes neither a sketch book nor camera, instead soaking up his surroundings before returning to Beijing to start sketching ideas. Once his ideas have started to flow, he will return again to Tibet to cast his movie, finding the right model and setting that fits his idea and only then putting paint to canvas. His continued focus and dedication to his Tibetan series, coupled with the time hungry process of capturing and creating such detailed works has undoubtedly helped to create the strong and stable market for his works that is evidenced in his auction record, which has consistently seen his average auction price exceed $300k USD every year since 2010.
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[@MeGeorgeSand]

Fantastic Art

[@maechia02]

thanks for the loud music
REALLY HELPED

[@ebarriosortiz]

Muchas gracias, hermoso...!

[@hongleong5537]

Another great,great painter yes!

[@OlafSager]

As a German I want to call it ouderwets, dutch it's ouderwets. And knowing that wet and wetten are law and laws likewise ouders are the parents makes you see. Dane forældre (parents). For old ones. Like french entre parenthèse, swedish inom parentes. In brackets.
Excellent paintings, even free, but with a high certainty not good. Only acceptable within an area of same rules. What rule would it be. Dividing mastership and apprentice? Parents and childs? In my world parents are brackets and a child is a shield too.
In medicine we call it parenteral food. In our times a wonderful possibility to avoid malnutrition (be aware here of the link mal, as german Maler, italian male, french mal). Nothing to chew anymore. Sin fe (no faith) only worth a fee, solo vale una tarifa.
German you can say: mit Gebühr, that does not say fee in all circumstances, gebührend feiern does mean to celebrate enthousistic, touching. I understand why people do that. But it is absolute not my party, my feelings, my art, my possibility to see the meaning of the world. I recall it - ouderwets - something deeply hunker, fossil, rusty....

[@user-yp3kz6mf1h]

画是好画，但是同一题材画了这么多年，多少有点不想走出舒适区

[@89210336]

你不明白藝術圈的運作，你知道他們願意這樣做嗎？

[@edwardtranfaglia8397]

Can't understand what the hell he is saying..to bad he is a good artist

[@JackDanieldd]

There is no philosophy behind these paintings, that's why most artists have nothing to offer except random colours.

[@yijunzhao7519]

就一招西藏组画

[@89210336]

你不明白藝術圈的運作