LI JIN (B. 1958)

The Bountiful Harvest

Details

LI JIN (B. 1958)
The Bountiful Harvest
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and colour on paper
54.9 x 100.5 cm. (21 5/8 x 39 1/2 in.)

Further details

LI JIN (B. 1958)
Selected exhibitions
2014 Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
2012 Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (solo)
2012 Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (group)
2011 Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (group)
2006 National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (group)
2003 Seattle Arts Museum, Seattle, USA (solo)

Notable collections
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Museum of Fine Arts, University of Washington, USA
Daejeon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Born in Tianjin in 1958, Li Jin was fascinated by painting at a young age when he showed a keen interest in modernist art. Following the advice of the renowned painter Zhou Sicong, Li studied Chinese paintings at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts from which he graduated in 1983. He currently serves as Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin.
The audacious use of colour and playfulness in Li's paintings are visually impactful. Li is known for his vernacular scenes depicting flirtatious men and women indulging in life's pleasures, based on daily experiences and often with figures modelled on him. A social commentary on the collective mind, Li's work portrays figures with an expressionless guise and distorted bodies that convey a certain sense of isolation and alienation in contemporary society.

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Lot Essay

In The Bountiful Harvest, Li Jin depicts vegetables, fish and meat, and completes his composition with calligraphy of the lyrics of a song. Food represents fundamental human needs; while the lyrics, an extract from the popular and clich?d song in China named xiao ping guo (small apple), represent the most banal kind of spiritual need of the public. By portraying the ordinary things in his daily life, Li explores the relationship between the basic elements of human existence in a humorous manner.

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