Author: YAN BING 闫冰

Size: 80×100cm

Signed and dated: Painted in 2012

Estimate: 500,000 -700,000

Final Price: RMB 660,000

LITERATURE
2016 Yan Bing / Hebei Publishing and Media Group Hebei Hebei Education Press
signed in Chinese and dated 2012
Yan Bing has a common feeling in the creation of different media, that is, his feelings for daily life. He is good at expressing complex internal feelings with extremely simple language and plain scenes, mining the rich vitality of ordinary objects by means of magnification and gazing, and endowing them with a simple, grand and sacred temperament. In Watermelon Red (Lot 1081), Yan Bing transformed the traditional still life painting into a landscape painting with composition. In the picture, the watermelons cut into slices only retain the pulp part, and they converge with each other, just like mountains. The hard edges and corners of watermelon have lost their original shape and texture, and the inherent bright colors no longer exist. The artist intentionally reduces the lightness and brightness of the color, creating a smooth and cold appearance texture with strong light and shadow projection; The background is a cloudy sky, with dark clouds. Only a ray of light shines from the upper left. Against the gray background, the watermelon in the foreground shows like a pyramid in the storm, emitting a strong sense of mystery and eternity.