February 04, 2018, 16:17 China News Network
[Explanation] On the afternoon of February 3rd, local time, Xiong Ming’s personal painting exhibition “Shaoyan on the Sea” was launched in Shanghai for the first time. This exhibition displays more than one hundred oil paintings by artist Xiong Ming.
Xiong Ming, born in 1965, worked as a driver for a moving company after retiring from the army. In 1987, he had been interested in painting since he was a child, and "followed his inner instinct" and was admitted to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts through tutoring. In the 12 years since he became a master, Xiong Ming has traveled all over China, looking for inspiration and studying painting techniques. It was not until 2010 that Xiong Ming's works began to attract attention from the European art world. In 2013, he became a contracted painter of the Louvre Museum in France and was invited to join the Louvre's "Master's Road, Centennial Plan".
It is understood that famous artists such as Picasso and Monet have all been contracted painters at the Louvre in France. Xiong Ming said that the biggest gain from signing a contract as a painter is that he can be influenced by world-famous paintings at close range and broaden his horizons.
【Same period】(Artist Xiong Ming)
The gain is that you can learn about some of the world’s cutting-edge artistic trends.
[Explanation] Xiong Ming, who now lives in France, devoted himself to studying creation at the Louvre Museum and gradually formed a unique artistic style that combines Chinese and Western styles. Xiong Ming said that his main task now is to use Western artistic expression to convey Chinese culture to more Europeans.
【Same period】(Artist Xiong Ming)
How can China’s own culture be reflected abroad? Next, I made some purely abstract (paintings), which have not been released yet but are available abroad. They are about using colors to shape Chinese characters and Chinese calligraphy.
Xu Mingrui and Guo Rong report from Shanghai
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