国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

Culture

Spanish painter displays wax works in Beijing

By Deng Zhangyu ( China Daily ) Updated: 2016-03-17 08:41:17
Spanish painter displays wax works in Beijing

Spanish artist Jose-Maria Cano is showing his encaustic paintings in Beijing.[Photo provided to China Daily]

Spanish encaustic painter Jose-Maria Cano is displaying his works at an ongoing retrospective show in Beijing.

His paintings, made by mixing color with hot wax, exhibit the two main themes of his art-materialism and spiritualism.

Cano's show, Differences and Similarities Between Reality and Truth, which continues through March 23, displays 11 series of some 200 paintings he produced since 2003, including his well-known Wall Street 100, a collection of large-size images of public figures whose photos appeared in the Wall Street Journal. He started the series in 2004, long before a meltdown hit US investment banks.

For his Beijing exhibition, Cano, 57, added two special sections. The RMB series presents massive Chinese currency notes in denominations of 1, 10 and 100. The Beijing series features one landscape painting of the present-day city and its landmark buildings, and another from 1930s China, based on the Tintin book The Blue Lotus to show the changes in cities here.

The paintings of bank notes offer audiences an unusual way to clearly see the details of money, something they pay little attention to daily. One needs to see "the beauty of the money itself", Cano says.

"The portrait of Mao Zedong on a 100 yuan note is beautiful. So is the color and the watermark," he says, adding that he makes money paintings just like he would paint colorful gardens.

Besides the yuan, Cano has also painted pounds, marks and euros. He says it's an ironic way to show beauty because rich people are considered "beautiful" and painters are "obliged to paint beauty".

Cano has visited Beijing a few times, and it is the first time that the Central Academy of Fine Arts, an art school that produces well-known artists, is hosting his works at its art museum.

During his first visit to the country in 2006, he went to Shanghai and saw how the economy was growing, he says.

On display are also many wax paintings inspired by newspapers' layouts.

It takes months to produce an encaustic painting, he says. He has dedicated more than a decade to the art form, and now has a distinctive style.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

 
Editor's Picks
Hot words
Most Popular
 
...
康保县| 华亭县| 昌乐县| 九龙县| 漾濞| 桃园县| 中西区| 葵青区| 盖州市| 碌曲县| 项城市| 阜新市| 兴仁县| 奉化市| 天峻县| 绩溪县| 石嘴山市| 文昌市| 天峨县| 洮南市| 澳门| 石狮市| 忻州市| 石门县| 德令哈市| 苍山县| 堆龙德庆县| 蓝田县| 铜山县| 航空| 广安市| 东海县| 旺苍县| 治多县| 乌拉特前旗| 佛山市| 阳城县| 资溪县| 祁阳县| 旺苍县| 长武县|