This painting was created in 2019. This year is the third year of college. I started to prepare for my graduation work, so I tried paintings with more concepts, depth and formal unity. In these paintings, you Being able to begin to see a more specific me. Such attempts did add weight to the work, but it was only a small step compared to the depth that would later come with the weight of life. Then came the COVID-19 epidemic at the end of the year, and the future that people expected changed its face, either urgently or slowly.
Inches: x in
Size without the frame: x cm
Country: China
Date: 2019
Materials: Oil paint on linen
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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"Floating Forest" constructs a unique landscape through abstraction, exploring the fusion of nature and the soul through artistic expression. Compositionally, irregularly stacked blocks of color disrupt the order of the typical landscape. Inspired by the "unreal space" of Paul Klee's paintings, the work disassembles and reassembles natural elements like trees to create a floating, ethereal visual realm, like a collage of dream fragments, inviting the viewer to break free from the constraints of reality and explore perception.
The use of color is the soul of the painting. Deep purple, gray-green, and bright yellow interweave, creating a tension between the dark background and bright blocks of color, similar to the powerful emotional expression of color in the works of Egon Schiele. While the predominant color palette is cool, accented with warm colors, it creates a mysterious and profound atmosphere, rather than a depressing one. It seems to contain a secret message from the soul of nature, allowing color to become a medium for conveying emotion and philosophical thought. The brushwork is bold yet rhythmic, combining thick and thin application. Blurring the edges of blocks of color softens outlines while adding a hazy, poetic quality. This is comparable to the free and spontaneous brushstrokes of Zao Wou-Ki's abstract paintings. The seemingly casual daubs are in fact precisely captured, imbuing the painting with a sense of breath and fluidity.
Content and Theme: Using the name "forest," the work eschews figurative realism, using blocks of color to symbolize trees, sky, and other elements, creating a spiritualized distillation of nature. Much like Kandinsky's integration of music into painting, "Floating Forest" constructs a visual "natural symphony," transforming the forms and atmosphere of the forest into a dialogue of color and shape, exploring the connection between humanity and nature in an abstract dimension. It represents a modern deconstruction and reimagining of traditional natural themes. The emotional expression is subtle and profound. The bright colors in the dark colors are like glimmers of hope. The floating shapes convey awe of nature and reverie of the unknown, as if questioning the resonance between the essence of nature and the human soul. The viewer can touch the warmth of the artist's philosophical thinking on nature in the abstract symbols. In the lineage of contemporary abstract painting, it writes a unique lyric poem about nature, continuing the eternal thread of art's exploration of the essence of the world.
A1: The trunks are elongated and softly blurred, resembling paint dripping down from the sky rather than solid wood rooted in the ground. This sense of floating and groundlessness conveys the fragility and uncertainty of nature, while also giving the trees a dreamlike quality.
A2: The reddish-purple tones create an atmosphere of twilight or inward reflection, infusing the scene with both tension and mystery. Rather than resembling a real sky, it functions like a psychological backdrop, heightening the surreal mood and providing a dramatic stage for the suspended forest.
A3: Amid the heavy, saturated hues, the tiny white cloud feels light and delicate—almost like the painting’s only breathing space. It disrupts the oppressiveness of the scene and introduces a faint sense of hope, distant yet vital.
A4: The trees do not anchor themselves to the earth; instead, they hover like shadows or mist. The soft merging of color fields dismantles spatial logic, transporting the viewer into an abstract inner world rather than a literal landscape.
A5: Floating Forest projects a mood suspended between serenity and unease. The drifting trees resemble wandering souls—mysterious, solitary, and evocative of the same sense of displacement found in both nature and the human psyche.
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