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Poly 2007 Evening Sale: Wei Rong, 50s

2007-04-27 15:54:36

Wei Rong is an outstanding female artist in contemporary China. She likes to produce ¡°photos¡± with her perfect oil painting skills. All of these ¡°photos¡± take the daily lives of normal people in different historical periods as themes. So does the 50s. The protagonists of the 50s are a group of women in 1950s. Having got the chance to have a photo with great Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, they were happy. There are intelligent female officials as well as simple female worker among them. Some of them are fashionable and elegant, while others are plain. However, all of them are happy and hopeful. It is the kind of happiness and hope that could hardly be found in modern society. Although we have far more advanced technology and civilized society, we have lost the simple happiness, which could only be brought by the faith for a certain ideal. Moreover, we have no idea of the fact until Wei Rong shows it to us.