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The Double Screen
ID: RPD-HDK001
Artist: Huang Dekun
Date:1995
Size: 72 x 25.5 in. with mounting
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, mounted on satin.
Price: $ 5,000
Chinese Art Specialist Comments: "This is the best painted and most complicated classical Chinese figure painting every produced in the recent history of Chinese art. Painted on silk with a pointed brush, the artist demonstrates his solid academic training, dedication to Chinese painting traditions and passion for highest quality Chinese figure painting. I have been studying, examining and writing about Chinese painting for the past 25 years, this is one of the few pieces that has the power to move me. It is a true gem waiting to be discovered and appreciated."
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Biography of the Artist
Huang Dekun was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1975. Since graduating from Sichuan Fine Arts Academy in 1998, he has been teaching Chinese painting and calligraphy at Sichuan Teachers University. A master of Tang (618-907), Five Dynasties (907-960), and Yuan (1279-1368) painting styles, Prof. Huang is beginning to earn a ranking alongside the most celebrated artists of the past. He has received extensive national recognition for his reproductions of famous Chinese paintings. As a young but accomplished professional artist, Huang is passionate about Chinese painting traditions and the technique of learning-by-copying. He values the same method in teaching his students. His reproductions of ancient Chinese paintings can be compared with museum-owned masterpieces that are copies of or inspired by artists of the Tang, Five Dynasties, and Yuan. His reproductions of famous old paintings, all of them collectible, are one of the gems in WEI YANG ART. Given the difficulty of purchasing high quality ancient Chinese painting, Huang's reproductions are a thrilling and sensible alternative for the serious collector.
Reproductions of famous old Chinese paintings by Huang are mainly based on traditional paintings in museum collections in China. As an art professor, he has gained personal access to many old masters' original works housed in Chinese museums. His works demonstrate his devotion to traditional Chinese art and painting techniques. He spent six months reproducing the Double Screen by Zhou Wenju of the Five Dynasties (10th c.), shown in our catalog under Reproductions. After living with the painting for eight years, this and other paintings had become part of him, and he was very emotional when he decided to put it up for sale in 2005 in order to support his other art projects. The passion, expertise, and dedication to classical Chinese painting traditions in Chinese Art Paintings convinced him that his paintings would find a good home. Professor Huang is willing to accept commissions for any classical Chinese figure paintings before the 14th century currently held in any museum or private collection. Huang's work is available in our Current Offerings under Classical Chinese Paintings.
Selected Exhibitions and Awards.
2004 -- "Light Music" joined the exhibition of art works created by college students and faculty held in Beijing.
2004 -- "Qiaochao" was included in Collection of Famous Contemporary Chinese Artists published by Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing.
2003 -- "Stream in Forest" was selected for Exhibition of Passion for the Earth, Chinese Paintings held in Beijing.
2000 -- "Tiger Cliff," winner of the Best Work of Art award in the 60th Annual Art Exhibition held in Beijing.
1998 -- "Light Moon," winner of the Best Work of Art award in the 56th Annual Art Exhibition of Sichuan Fine Arts Academy.
Other Honors and Awards -- Huang Dekun have received many regional awards and honors in southeast China, especially Sichuan.
