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Beach Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 18 W x 14 H x 1.2 D in
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About The Artwork
have a strong interest in the visual aesthetics of written language, especially Chinese characters and writing systems. The evolution of Chinese characters, or morphemes, is roughly like this: before the invention of Chinese morphemes, primitive humans recorded language with different methods of knotting ropes; engraving pictures in bone, wood, shells, and jade; and drawing and painting pictures to assist in note-taking. As humans transitioned from nomadic to agrarian societies, they began to use characteristic graphics to simplify and replace knotted ropes and pictures. As literacy increased and written communication and record-keeping became more important, graphic symbols were simplified and codified to create the morphemes that comprise written Chinese. In short, Chinese characters are simplifications of graphics. Now, I use in my art these "simplified graphics" to recompose images. In my paintings, Chinese characters are used as dots or lines. In this painting, I used texture effects to create the feeling of waves. Then I wrote each grain of fine sand with small Chinese characters for sand: “沙". In both painting and nature, the color of each grain of sand can be slightly different. Every Chinese character for "sand" gathers and disperses to form rhythmic dots and surfaces. This is my beach. I would imagine shells, footprints of shore birds, and the hairs that people shed as they lay in the sand, and I laughed when I thought of these details. As I write, I revel in the joy of the beach of my imagination. If you can read Chinese characters, reading this beach is like reading a poem. Even if you cannot read Chinese characters, the hieroglyphic nature of Chinese characters and the way they are incorporated into the texture of the image will give you many interesting details to enjoy. In this way, Chinese characters come from images, and I try to make them return to images.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18 W x 14 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Other
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Jingyu Xu is a multi-media artist whose main areas of practice are sculpture, painting, video, and installation art. Jingyu was born in Shandong, China in 1981. She currently lives and works in South Florida, USA and Beijing, China. In 2004, she earned a bachelor's degree in sculpture from the Shandong University of Art and Design and was invited to stay at the school to teach until 2012. From 2007-2008, Jingyu was a visiting scholar at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon, France. Her works have been exhibited at important art institutions in China and other countries. include the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Guangzhou Grand Theater, Grand Palais in Paris, and the Chinese Embassy in France. Her video works have won the Outstanding Work Award of the 1st U.S. Yage Literature and Art Awards (2020), and her design works have won the Bronze Award of the 10th National Art Exhibition of China (2004). To date, Jingyu has had seven solo exhibitions and participated in more than fifty group exhibitions. Some of the significant group exhibitions and events she has been invited to participate in include: "Beyond the Lens", Palm Beach Design and Art Showroom, Florida, USA (2023); "A World of Coexistence" Jinan International Biennale, Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, China (2022), " True Character / Becoming" Chinese and Israeli Female Artist Video Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2021); "Shuffle" Reloaded Chinese Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria GALERIE ERNST HILGER and Austria Ge Monden Kammerhof (2012, 2014); "Top of Fashion" China's First Contemporary Women's Art Invitational Exhibition, Yue Art Museum, Beijing, China (2012); "No Difference" Contemporary Art Exhibition, Li Space, Beijing, China (2012);" Heart Tangle and Hand Knot", Longdexuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China (2010); and the GALERIE ERNST HILGER Artist-in-Residence Project, Vienna, Austria (2012). Xu Jingyu's important solo exhibitions include: "Light at Night", Village One Space, New York, USA (2019); "Motherhood", Fan Space, Beijing, China (2016); "Cleanliness" Zhong Gallery, Beijing, China (2016); "Love With Art", Chinese Embassy in France, Paris, France (2008); and "Life", Art Museum of Shandong University of Art and Design, Jinan, China (2004).
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