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Renming Cheng

Norway

Painting, Digital on Canvas

Size: 49 W x 44 H x 0.1 D in

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Making and Printing of My Digital Paintings Making and Printing: These paintings are made by computer software and they are printed by industrial or professional large format printers on canvas or fine art paper with the highest quality. Size: Because the image comes from the digital file, so in theory, they can be custom-made to any size, as long as the w/h ratio is kept. The price quote here however, is for the most popular size, between 37 and 47 inches ( 93 cm and 119 cm). Please contact the artist for price for any larger sizes. Limited Edition: These paintings are sold as International Limited Edition, only 10 copies are sold worldwide for each painting. Because they are digital paintings, the original and copies are exactly the same. Artist Statement and the Making and Printing of Digital Paintings "The more frightening the world becomes ... the more art becomes abstract. Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. Deeper down, it is subject to the common laws of the 'cosmic world.' And so a 'new world of art' is juxtaposed to the 'world of nature.' This 'world of art' is just as real, just as concrete. For this reason I prefer to call so-called 'abstract art' 'concrete art'." (Wassily Kandinsky) The artworks of Jackson Pollock and Marc Chagall would often pop up in my mind in the years I struggled. By pure accident, I started to make paintings which I would later call "digital paintings" and the art form "Digitalism" or "Digital Expressionism". When I did my paintings, the old memories sometimes would bring me back to my childhood, my youth, my family and friends in China. I was locked up one night in a storeroom in the basement when I was in a privileged boarding school type of kindergarten, simply because a kid bullied me (What?!); my uncle was sent to a labour camp for more than 15 years and he once spent almost half of his monthly salary to buy me an inflatable plastic swimming ring; my dear grandma who was once almost deserted by her husband (when he bought two concubines and brought them home), would often save her own food for us kids, and would give food to our neighbours during the famine in China in 1958-1960; one of my classmates was sent to the countryside in the middle of his school year because of his poor grandfather was a landlord; the father of one of my classmates committed suicide at home during the Cultural Revolution, when he opened the door, he was so shocked he was never the same person... All those pieces of old memories played a part either consciously or subconsciously when I made my paintings. I can't tell but I know it. Those years were hard, and I can never forget the time when I spent between 12 and 15 hours a day, day in and day out for about two years until I got sick. It was a dark and lonesome period of time in my life. Everyday, I would literary lock myself in my rented 200 square feet apartment to paint on a computer. I would spend days even weeks on one single painting. And later on, I would constantly change it and modify it until I was totally happy with what I came up with. The tittle would always instantaneously pop up in my mind as soon the painting was finished, and I almost never change the tittle at a later stage. In 2003 my paintings are shown in the Art Center in Stavanger in Norway, and a year later in Oslo City Hall Gallery. In 2009, my painting was shown in Salon d'autumn. It's always hard for an artist to make it, to mark his existence, to leave something behind, to have his own voice heard, and to make his life meaningful. Life is hard. Life for an artist is even harder. We try not just to survive and make it, but to live for the art. Because art is Immortal.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Digital on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

49 W x 44 H x 0.1 D in

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In 2003, a new artform, Digital Painting was launched in Norway and it was soon called Digitalism. These paintings shown here are made by Norwegian artist Renming Cheng with the help of computer software. Cheng is the first artist in Europe to launch Digital Painting and had his one man exhibition in a public cultural centre. In 2003 more than 40 Digital Paintings were shown to the public Sola Culture Centre in Stavanger, Norway for the first time. Since then Cheng and others in the new digital art movement have been active in Europe and their motive is to change the landscape of art in Europe. Cheng is a Chinese artist living in Norway. Having worked as businessman, journalist, teacher, guide, business consultant, freelance writer, and finally artist, he always finds the environment hostile and life challenging. Cheng was unemployed for many years in Norway after 11 years of university education. He had never studied art before but all of a sudden he started to have art exhibitions in Norway, England and France, including twice at the prestigious Oslo City Hall Gallery. In summer 2009, it was the first time for Cheng to apply to the most important art exhibition in Norway, - The Autumn Exhibition, and he was chosen as one of the 140 artists candidates from 1750 artists and their 4500 artwork by the Jury. This was considered an achievement. In November 2009, Cheng's painting was shown in the prestigious Salon D'automne in Paris, where many years ago, artists like Vincent van Gogh's artwork were more than once rejected. Renming Cheng and partners invite any artists with the same motivation to join them in the new art movement - Digitalism, and use Digital Paintings like these to dedicate to the 21st century, and to pronounce the death of modern Nihilism which has been taking away creativity from fine art and replaced it with commercialism, meaninglessness and pervasiveness. Renming Cheng was born in Beijing, China. He has been living in Scandinavia since 1985. He started Digital Painting and Digitalism (or Digital Expressionism as he later call it) with partners and had the first Digital painting exhibition in the world in 2003. Renming Cheng's art is Abstract Expressionism, made by computer and printed on large format professional printer on canvas. His paintings sell with Worldwide Limited Edition only sells 3 canvas for each painting.

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