06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Cui Xiaodong with footnotes # 157

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)

Floating , c. 2010

Oil on canvas

130 x 130 cm. (51.2 x 51.2 in.)

Private collection

Cui Xiaodong's works are very pure oil paintings. The characteristics of oil paintings are fully exerted, and the interest of the shape and the expression of colors are combined very well. This kind of oil painting with traditional skills, the techniques are mastered so skillfully. Cui Xiaodong's colors are thick, and his brushwork is delicate and vigorous. He has both the strictness of the northern style and the combination of the southern agile brushwork. The colors are very powerful. Chen Danqing

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)

Early spring , c. 2004

Oil on canvas

85.5 x 115.5 cm. (33.7 x 45.5 in.)

Private collection

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)

Female body , c. 2000

Oil on canvas

91 x 65 cm. (35.8 x 25.6 in.)

Private collection

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)

Nude, c. 2010

Oil on canvas

60 x 50 cm. (23.6 x 19.7 in.)

Private collection

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)

女人体 /  Woman body, c. 2001

Oil on canvas

58 x 75 cm. (22.8 x 29.5 in.)

Private collection

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)

霸王别姬 (Farewell to my concubine) , c. 1993–1996

Oil on canvas

162 x 128 cm. (63.8 x 50.4 in.)

Private collection

Cui Xiaodong was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province though his ancestral home was Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Cui Xiaodong graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, CAFA in 1988 with a Master’s degree. Currently he is a professor of CAFA, Director of Yanhuang Art Museum.

With a profound traditional foundation in painting, Cui Xiaodong’s landscape painting is the combination of the tradition of Chinese painting and modern people’s aesthetic consciousness and the spirit of the age, he creates a dignified and vigorous, natural and fresh style of landscape painting, he is a representative of contemporary Chinese painting and has an important status in this field. His works are collected by the National Museum of China, CAFA, National Art Museum of China, The Great Hall of the People, Zhongnanhai Central Government Compound as well as in individual collections at home and abroad. He has published more than 30 books and individual workscatalogues. More on Cui Xiaodong

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