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| | | | | Patti is challenging us this week to 'Find Something Red'. I searched around and this is what I found... These red church doors really stand out as you go by and they've always caught my eye. On a trip out west a few years back, I visited the Angel Stadium in Anaheim which is all... | |
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| | | | | This week - Patti has us looking for beauty in unexpected places. I've decided to highlight macro photos in this post because they can often bring out both detail and beauty that may not otherwise be noticed. This is a very old piece of jewelry. The intricate detail is beautiful. Cut glass can also be... | |
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| | | | | This weeks challenge from the Lens-Artists asks: Travel has taught me that once we go through a narrow path, alley, and/or road with a little patience, at the end it always opens up to pleasant surprises. The experience certainly has broadened my horizon allowing me to see the world through different eyes. Thus, I choose... | |
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| | | Wei Dong was born in 1968 in Inner Mongolia, China. He received a BA in Fine Arts from the Department of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, China in 1991 and moved to the United States the same year. A personal obsession with the female body is one of Wei Dong's many complex interests. Growing up in China under the watchful eye of Mao's red guard, sexual fantasies and freedoms were forcibly repressed. Socialist realism was the standard fair in the art academies of the time, and as a result, any hint of sexual or erotic expression was taboo. Upon entering the United States in 1991, Wei Dong's preoccupation with the root of erotic desires as a young adult were given free reign over his canvases, resulting in grandiose explorations of the flesh. In the artist's words, "I paint others' faces and bodies, but it's mostly a very personal experience... about my perception of other people, my own feelings. I even see myself in certain figures." Attributed to the artist's consistent exposure to the consumer-based culture of the United States by way of fashion magazines and newspapers, it is the artist's intention to create a new visual language consisting of disparate individual sources, similar, in a way, to how individual Chinese characters convey a meaning beyond their uniqueness as images. Wei Dong has exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world with exhibitions at Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery, London, UK; Oriental Foundation, Macao, China; National Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Jack Tilton Gallery, New York; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; La Biennale de Issy, France; Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong; Estella Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Arndt & Partner Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Goteborg Art Museum, Goteborg, Sweden. | ||
