Wall Art: Page 17: Leona Craig Art Gallery
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	Catalogue Number				Price		Approximate size(1 cm = 0.4 inch)	Button
	123.	Nude: original oil painting by Xue Sheng Tan (1963) This is the only portrait that we have in our gallery by Tan.  Moreover, for this one portrait, Tan has tried his hand at nude portraiture.  Trained by Lin Feng Mian (Feng Mian Lin), from among the original artists who brought modern Western oil painting styles to China, in the early part of the 20th century, Tan tends to be impressionistic with simplistic honesty, in his style. Here we have a painting of a nude woman, standing against an aging wall.  She is not some ideal of perfection but a simple study in the human body. To see more of the art of Xue Sheng Tan (Tan Xue Sheng), included in the Leona Craig Art Gallery on-line, please, visit the Xue Sheng Tan Page.			$20,000		61x40cm
	193.	The Corn Barn: original oil painting on canvas by Guang Zhi Zhang (2007) In China, stone and brick are still the common materials used to build structures of all sorts.  When you tour the countryside, you will see many tall brick smokestacks, the sign of a brickyard, marking wood-fired kilns.  The farm, in this lovely, colorful painting, has a two-story red brick storage barn for its corn, stacks of which you can see on the second floor, and other stone structures are still in the making.  It also has the hilly terrain that is so common, in China, and, as is also the case, in much of China, good use is made of the most unlikely land for a farm.  There are barnyard animals around the wall and some ducks in the stream, below. Having gotten his start painting for Mao Zedong, Guang Zhi Zhang, later, studied trompe l'oeil under the famous French master, Claude Yvel, and his paintings vary, in style, from very realistic to softer impressionistic.  This painting is done in an impressionistic style with bright colors and nice brushstrokes: full of color and life. See more art by Guang Zhi Zhang (Zhang Guang Zhi) on the Guang Zhi Zhang Page of the Leona Craig Art Gallery on-line.			$2,000		80x53cm
	604.	The Foot of Tai Han Mountain, original oil painting by Li Jin Ming (1974) 太行山麓 Dazhai was a poor village, in Shanxi Province.  In 1964, Mao made a collective farm here from all the little farms.  The farmers were tasked to dig channels from the mountain top to bring mountain stream water down the mountain and terraced plots were carved into the side of the mountain and hydroelectric stations were built along the course of the descending stream.  The project took sixteen years to complete, and it was used as a model for other collective activities around China.  As a result, the crop output increased sevenfold.  Li put the trees in the foreground as a symbol of hope. The colors are wonderful and it is a picture from Maoist China history. We offer several works by Jin Ming Lee (Jin Ming Li), in the Leona Craig Art Gallery on-line.  To see our current offerings, just click on: Jin Ming Lee Page.			$2,600		39x27cm
	196.	Girls of the Mountains: original oil paintingon canvas by Ri Dong Ou This wonderful pictorial essay about life, in some parts of modern China, is also cinematic, in scope, measuring almost 9 feet by 7 feet (approximately 80" x 107").  It shows a group of mountain girls on an outting ... or is it a mission?  It also shows the typical mode of dress of the Yi minority people living in the mountains, in Sichuan Province.  Like men in the mountains, the women also wear simple hats, kerchief style. One has on a poncho; one, dressed in camouflage; a baby is tied papoose-style to the back of another.  Several of them are carrying things in balled-up cloths (most people, in China, do not have suitcases, like we do, in the West).   They seem happy but determined, as they trek along a ridge, the dog leading the way.  They are painted against a background of mountain peaks, lost in the clouds.  It is an uplifting piece that mesmerizes, and it is perfect to adorn that extra large wall with extra high ceilings. You can view more art by Ri Dong Ou (Ou Ri Dong) on the Ri Dong Ou Page of the Leona Craig Art Gallery on-line.			$		200x279cm	call or email to arrange for acquisition and shipment.
	704.	Old Farmer in Shanbei 1: original oil painting on canvas by Zhao Qian Xu (2006) Art has its roots in social commentary: that's what the cave drawings from 30,000 years ago were all about.  Today, in China, social commentary takes on a number of forms.  There is political art, which is, sometimes, creative; sometimes, strictly commercial.  There are a lot of paintings of girls because the sexual revolution of the 1960's was delayed by the Cultural revolution and is only occuring now.  The final form is true social commentary on the way people actually live, in China, today, as opposed to all the modern life scenes that China shows us on TV. This latter category gives us true peeks into real life, in China, not that of the glossy newsreels, and I appreciate it, personally, most of all, for I have lived in and traveled the backroads of China for the last five years, and this is what I see. This is a portrait of a simple farmer from Shanbei, in the north.  It shows a rugged man with his simple native dress, and, as usual, Xu has done an excellent job at the art of portraiture, this time, in a more realistic style.			$6,000		80x70cm
	172.	Portrait of a Zang Man: original oil painting on canvas by Jian Bai Xu, 1955 In our minds, some portraiture throughout art history had a contrived feel.  We realize that that is so because art was a chronicle and because people are vain.  The wonderful thing about the great impressionist movement, in art, was that contrivance was replaced with more honesty.  In this painting of a man from the so-called Zang minority of China, who live in Sichuan and in the area around the Tibetan plateau, we see the portrait of a real person.  Like in most of the genre of portraiture from impressionist artists, it does not look posed or contrived.  It simply looks like the artist has snapped a photograph of a man unaware that his picture was being taken.  He just looks like he is sitting somewhere, lost in thought.  It even gives one the impression that he is tired and just taking a rest to sit and think something out or just to be lost in his own thoughts for awhile. Jian Bai Xu is one of the great Chinese impressionist artists who began painting in the 1940's, under the tutelage of Lin Feng Mian (Feng Mian Lin) of the Hangzhou school of Chinese oil painting art.  We have other works by Jian Bai Xu, in the Leona Craig Art Gallery on-line.  To see more of her work, just click on: Jian Bai Xu Page			$10,000		25x20cm
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