This painting was created in 2021. I spent half of this year teaching painting and the rest of the time traveling alone. There are less paintings and more poetry creation. Most of the feelings about the works come from what I saw during my travels.
As I experienced the differences in my friends' lives, I also experienced the love they each built on their city lives.
Inches: 23.6 x 25.6 in
Size without the frame: 60 x 65 cm
Country: China
Date: 2021
Materials: Acrylic paint on board
Condition: well preserved
Creative themes and style | My works revolve around the creative concept of "The land of humanity, People on the land". The people in the painting are people in nature, and the lines, shapes, and colors are close to nature. The nature in the painting is nature in the eyes of humans, existing in interaction with humans.I don’t pursue a series of works with a fixed and continuous style. I hope that the style of the pictures will synchronize with the changes in my life and always remain oscillating. The performance of the work must be in sync with the development of one's own life in order to be Sincere and powerful. Ideas are later.
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This painting Love in the City of the Construction Site presents a slice of urban emotions from a unique perspective. The content focuses on a woman. Her curled - up posture seems to be wrapped in the urban architectural environment. The forms of her hair and clothing convey softness and laziness. In terms of composition, the irregular polygonal frame breaks the convention. The figure is at the center, and the background architectural elements extend hazily, creating a sense of spatial compression and extension, guiding the viewers to focus on the figure’s emotions. The color application is delicate.
Low - saturation tones such as brown and gray - purple are dominant, setting off the striking red lips and forming a visual focus. The collision of warm and cold tones coincides with the emotional tension of coexisting loneliness and passion in the city. The painting style tends to be expressive realism. The loose yet precise brushstrokes capture the figure’s demeanor. The blurring of architectural details in the background through blending strengthens the atmosphere creation, integrating reality and artistic expression. The emotional expression is implicit and profound. The figure’s posture and tones convey the vulnerability and attachment of urban people in the architectural jungle.
The implication of “Be careful of the construction site” implies the squeezing and shaping of the individual emotional space by urban development. In this context, love is a microcosm of the complex relationship between the individual and the city. In terms of similar artists, it has something in common with Lucian Freud’s figure paintings, both focusing on exploring the inner emotions of figures. However, this work incorporates urban architectural elements, using more contemporary visual symbols to interpret the urban emotional ecosystem. With a seemingly personalized portrait, it reflects the deep - seated connection between the city and people, and between love and living space. In the interweaving of brushstrokes and colors, it tells the common emotional experiences of urban people.
This work adopts a frame resembling an architectural cross-section rather than a traditional rectangle. It echoes the theme of the city, suggesting that even emotions are framed and refracted within the geometric world of steel and concrete.
The figure’s skin tone is not rendered in natural flesh tones but layered with cool violets and blues. This palette lends the face a dreamlike sense of distance, as if illuminated by shifting neon light in the night.
Amid the overall gray-brown and bluish-violet atmosphere, the bold red lips stand out as a focal point. Beyond serving as an aesthetic anchor, they also symbolize a flash of desire and warmth within the solitude of the city—an expressive hallmark of contemporary urban emotion painting.
The background lines resemble gridded glass or architectural perspectives, yet they are blurred rather than sharply defined. It is not meant to depict a literal setting, but to suggest atmosphere. This abstraction provides a tension between figuration and expression, making the piece especially suitable for modern interior design or thematic exhibitions.
The work blends realism and expressionism, capturing the softness of the subject’s demeanor while using color and composition to convey urban metaphors. As a representative of “contemporary urban emotional art,” it holds value for private collections, curated art spaces, and urban-themed museums, offering both visual appeal and conceptual depth.
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More paintings from this series：
Careful Architecture of City Love 2
Careful Architecture of City Love 3
Careful Architecture of City Love 4
