Petshop Girls - 1 Painting

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.