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Manchurian Minority Dance, original oil
painting by Zhao Bao Cheng This is the best, most creative painting that we have seen by Zhao. It has the feel of a Chagall, with its playfulness and its subtlety. The more you look into it, the more you see. It shows real development of style from the paintings that we have from him from a decade ago when he was focusing on still life paintings of flowers in a more impressionist style. Lately, though, his paintings are showing a more surrealistic and constructionist style. |
140x140cm | ||||||
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101. | Peach Flowers in Glass
Pitcher, original oil painting on canvas by Zhao Bao Cheng This is a bright, cheery still life of flowers in a pitcher of water. Although it may be a common theme, it is an uncommon painting. It has an impressionist feel to it with its use of pastel colors and an impasto painting technique that makes the flowers, literally, jump out of the painting. It shows skill and understanding of the more subtle properties of light, as it captures the way that diffraction of light, in water, changes the appearance of the stems that are partly in-partly out of the water. Look more closely, and you can see that even the handle of the pitcher has picked up another branch by the diffraction of light through the curved glass. Petals of flowers are seen on the table as always happens when fresh flowers are cut an put in water. All in all, it is a very pretty piece of art, and Zhao Bao Cheng is famous for his floral still-life paintings, with larger ones having gone up for auction, recently, in the $10,000 range. |
$2,000 | 27x25cm | ||||
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Fragrant Wild Flowers, original oil
painting by Zhao Bao Cheng We have included this painting as a contrast in styles to the preceding one. They were painted about 10 years apart. The pitcher is the same, the technique still includes the impasto painting that was done in the first, but the style is slightly more abstract, and the colors are brighter. |
41x33cm | ||||||
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733. | Lilacs, original oil painting by
Zhao Bao Cheng In his paintings from a decade ago, like the peach flowers and fall flowers, above, Cheng's style was much more realistic and impasto. His more recent work has taken on a more abstract feel and the colors are much color, as compared to the bright hot colors in those earlier works. In this work, he does, however, retain some of the impasto painting that was his trademark, a decade ago, and he has also filled the painting with a celebration of lilacs, as there are lilacs displayed in a number of vases of various shapes, sizes and positions around the painting. The cherries are a devise that makes you focus on them, only to discover all of the other things going on in this painting, as you begin to look around it. It is a nice example of his newer style, yet, it has connectivity to his earlier work, which often focused on still life paintings of flowers. |
$6,500 | 60x60cm | ||||
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751. | Sitting Nude, original oil painting by Bao Cheng Zhao I am usually not a fan of the nude paintings that proliferate today's Chinese oil paintings. I know that the reason that so many artists make nudes is that Chinese men like to buy them, not because they are good paintings, necessarily, but because they are pictures of naked women. Thus, when I do choose nudes to display in the gallery, it is because I have found something or another that attracts me to the composition of the piece. Indeed, we have seen a larger number of Cheng's recent nudes, but we have chosen only two for the gallery. The pose is more modest than sexual, although the modesty is not overdone but simply feminine. The composition is more abstract, even with the running paint that I have been seeing in many painting, lately. It also has little dashes of abstract flowers, dotting the canvas to emphasize the femininity of the piece. |
$7,000 | 60x60cm | ||||
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742. | October, original
oil painting by Zhao Bao Cheng This painting is rich in the sober yet bright colors of fall. The style, with some of the paint running down the painting, is a style that we have observed, in Chinese paintings, over the last several years. Sometimes, it can be overdone, but we thought that this painting, which uses it sparingly and effectively, is a better example of that style. It has a niice feeling of sitting in for a cold October evening, enjoying your living room and having a glass of champagne. |
$6,500 | 60x60cm | ||||
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