Ai Xuan 2 (Chinese, 1947)

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AI XUAN
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Ai Xuan is a naturalistic painter born 1947 in
Hebei province, whose scenes usually present lone
children in vistas of Tibetan landscape. A member
of the Chinese Artists' Association, Ai is also a
full professor at the Beijing Painting Institute,
and co-founder of the China Realists group. In
1987, Ai spent a year in the United States,
serving as a visiting professor at Oklahoma City
University. While there he met with several noted
Western artists and hosted his own solo
exhibition. Ai also travelled to Great Britain to
participate in an auction organized to raise
funds for renovation of the Great Wall of China.
In Ai Xuan's paintings, two subjects
predominate children and the snowy landscape of
Tibet. The image is of tranquility and empty
space. The crease in the leather and fur coat,
the withered grass in the snow form the details
of realism. But the space framed by the outline
of the human figure in the distant horizon forms
a certain symbol. In Ai Xuan's art, this symbol
is achieved by the description of human figures
and landscape, colour contrast and curve of
outline, and the relationship between them. Ai
Xuan visited Tibet many times and, attracted by
the landscape, he painted the people and the
land. One winters day Xuan received a sudden
shock, a feeling of helplessness and loneliness
in the snowy wilderness. From that time on,
Tibetan people and landscape took on new meaning
in his paintings. He left the traditional realism
of his earlier works and approached the world of
Buddhism and Zen. Ai Xuan's well-drawn figure
outlines fill his work with the charm of Chinese
classical art transparent colours make the
painting echo with the rhythm of nature
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Not knowing tomorrow's wind
Sharing a Secret Christie's - Price Realized
745,895 (29 May 2011)
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North wind
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White fog dropping off 2005
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Weed joggling in the wind
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Wasterland in deep autumn (2008)
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Waiting for the flowers to bloom
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Cold dessert 2006
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Big Snow Mountain 2006
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The Sacred Mountain
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Lost in Wasteland
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Singing leaves away from me
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Thin snow came in midnight
Wasteland 2005
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Call of distant mountain 1996
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Dandelion flows in Wasteland
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Gaze 1994
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Breeze 2011 (69x86,5)
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February of Amuke Alley 2004
A cool wind sweeps across an icy plain
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Autumn Day (expect in autumn) 2001. Christie's
price realized (499,369) 27.11.2010
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Hell and Gone singing 2006 (110x110)
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Melting March
Horizon 2005 (90x90)
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Tibetan Girl
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Quiet freezon earth area 1992
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Unknown song from far, 2005
Wastelands
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Tibetan Girl 2002
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