About the artwork
Liu focuses on portraits, most of them featuring sculptured torsos or busts. They possess a wide range of emotions, from frustrations to passion, and each figure can be linked to a distinctive background that is easily recognizable as his unique style. They are immune from reference to others. One is unable to discern any straightforward meaning from Liu’s leaden background and painted bodies that possess seemingly simple contours.
About the artist
Born in 1980 in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, China, Liu Zheng Hong graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2004 with a major in oil painting. Armed with textured movement and a vivid sense of colour, Zheng Yong channels the most intrinsic of Chinese sensibilities into a distinctly western medium.
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