0014 1999 年作 蓝宝石 油彩 画布
作者 忻东旺(1963-2014)
尺寸 80×65cm
作品分类 西画雕塑>油画
创作年代 1999 年作
估价 USD 30,440-39,860
专场 现当代艺术
拍卖时间 2019-01-26
拍卖公司 新加坡33拍卖行(33 AUCTION PTE LTD)
拍卖会 2019年新加坡艺术周拍卖会
款识:东旺 1996.6(右下)《蓝宝石》
说明 80 × 65 东旺(画背)
XIN DONGWANG — A World Forgotten
忻东旺 - 遗忘的世代
Xin was a Chinese artist who was born into humble beginnings in the remote village of Xinjiafang in Kangbao County, Hebei Province. To make a living, he took on jobs of a transient nature, which included working as a house painter and a glass cutter. The humble beginnings of his socio-economic status provided him with the many imageries of faces and people that he would later transfer onto the canvas. Although he gradually rose through the rungs of society to become an associate professor in the painting department of the Academy of Art and Design at Tsinghua University, he never deviated from painting portraits of people from the most ordinary walks of life. He received national recognition for his painting Honest City (诚城), which depicts five waiting migrant workers. His paintings do not romanticize his subjects – one gets the sense that Xin conscientiously aimed to express the spirit of a social class though his portraits. His subjects are painted frankly and emotively – telling signs of their social class are given in the portraits: the deep lines of worry, the reddened skin from labour under the sun, wizened body structures. Through his social portraits, Xin reasserts their place in a society that is increasingly carried forward on waves of wealth and prosperity.
Xin titles his paintings with a good dose of irony, often tagging his subjects with the role or identity rendered by society. The implication is that these titles deny the humanism of the subjects. Xin is a master at expressing the inner hopes, apprehension, and psychological state of his subjects – making them emblematic of the forgotten lower class of society. For example, Blue Diamond represents the aspirations that parents in the rising class place on their children, which is contrasted with the stagnant and apprehensive expression of the subject.
忻东旺出生在非常淳朴贫困的河北省康保县辛家坊僻远农村的家庭。为了生活,成年后就从事过很多零时工,如油漆工,玻璃车工师。这些艰苦的经历,和工友们的面孔根深蒂固的在脑海里留下了烙印,而后演绎在他从后的艺术创作中。以自身的才华,他逐渐走上更高的社会阶层,在清华大学担任美术学院绘画系副教授,但他的作品却从不偏离这些最平凡朴素社会底层的人物。因为这独特的绘画题材,他的作品《诚城》描述5名外来劳工的作品获得了国家的认可。他的作品从不刻意美化画里的人物,能感受到画家想通过真切的绘画功力,描叙社会边缘人物的精神。他的人物题材都是坦率的,真挚的,而他们所经历的生活和处于的社会阶级在昕东旺的笔下历历再现;忧心忡忡的表情,阳光爆嗮下劳动者发红的皮肤,虚弱的身躯,等等......通过这些肖像,在一个越来越富裕和繁荣的浪潮中昕东旺重拾起这些被社会遗忘的边缘人物。