 hang Jian's paintings are like the sounds of the nature. His works seem to have nothing to do with the so-called "Contemporary Chinese Art," neither with its merits nor with its shortcomings. He's not cynical, he doesn't use the red symbols; he has no intention to reflect any social realities, or touch any sensitive topics. He just draws a pile of pictures of memories, related to a life we are seemingly familiar with. He uses some impressionistic concepts and techniques, but his colors are stronger and purer. He finds a relationship of harmony among nearly inharmonizable colors. Zhang jian's sunshine is symbolic and represents something nice but short-lived. He often used large areas of unmixed green in his paintings with similarly pure blue and light yellow inserted, showing a kind of beautiful multi-colored pattern.
Zhang Jian was born in 1968 in Beijing and graduated from the Mural Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts in 1993. He studied in the school's oil painting department.
Water Boiling,65×80cm,1995
Recling Chair under the Grape Frame,160×130cm,1994
Close to you,80×65cm,2003
Fairyland 2,140×200cm,1999
Houhai Series,250×140cm,2005
Houhai,97×130cm,1998
Square,200×300cm,2005
Chang'anjie,150×200cm,2006
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