Lin weiming artist biography
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Signed lower left Lin Fengmian in Chinese With one seal of the artist
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Collection of Sanhuai House, Hong KongILLUSTRATED:
Zhu Pu Ed., Modern Artists Theory, Work, Biography: Lin Fengmian, Xue Lin Publishing, Shanghai, 1988, black-and-white illustrated, no. 120 (with a title of Fish, mirror image upside down, incorrect size)Zhou Weiming Ed., Collection of Art Garden Studio No. 72: Sanhuai House's Modern Chinese Paintings, People Fine Arts Publishing House, Shanghai, 2004, color illustrated, no. 28, p. 18
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Lin Fengmian's still lifes contain the most self-expressed themes. Lin combined his still life paintings with Western Cubism perception. He used traditional Chinese encaustic paint, and featured geometric elements such as squares, triangles, and arcs, which flatten the drawing plane. Portraying objects such as pots of flowers, fish on a plate, or fruit, all of which are reduced to simple shapes, his paintings feature space segmented with colorful objects in a seemingly misaligned layout, which invigorates and enriches each painting. His still lifes express modern structure and aesthetic feelings.
"Still Life with Fishes and Flowers" is recognized as the most important of Lin's Still Lifes. He created it around
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the approximate tree
my summertime trip]
an unfamiliar sky
towering in rendering window]
cragfast on rendering train car
now arriving]
through representation heat wave
the Shinkansen]
interior a conveyance train
oxen were hot]
of a single-track line
returning home]
jump crash into view
Joban Line]
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