Mian Situ Art
Chinese, b. 1953
Biography Mian Situ (Born 1953) Winner of the Best of Show in 1995 at the Oil Painters of America, Mian Situ made his art debut in the United States at that time. He is Chinese born and having traveled extensively in that country, he creates impressionist paintings that focus on depicting the everyday life of the people he knows. Situ studied at the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts where he had basic academic training. However, during the Cultural Revolution in the mid 1980s, he was ordered to work as a film projectionist for propaganda films. Later he returned to the Institute to graduate.
He wanted to study art in America and arrived in Los Angeles in 1987. He worked in a commercial gallery where he copied European paintings for 75 dollars per painting.
Born in Southern China, Mian Situ's received his formal art training in his native homeland of Guangdong, formerly Canton. During his schooling, he experimented with various artistic styles such as impressionism, post-impressionism and expressionism. He was also deeply influenced by the 19th Century European Academic Realism that traveled to Russia and was eventually imported to China. His academic training is a result of western influences that were prevalent during the Cultural Revolution, and available only to talented young Chinese. After teaching at the institute for six years, Situ moved to Canada where he became a citizen and lived for ten years before reaching the United States.
Situ's paintings clearly reflect his upbringing in the rural countryside of his native China. His deep-toned impressionistic paintings of the backcountry often focus on people going about their daily lives in their small villages and farming communities. Despite leaving China in 1987, the rural countryside life of his youth is one that is still deeply rooted within him. Situ's paintings often combine elements of the young and old, which he sees as symbolic of the passage of time. He endeavors to capture the dignity and quiet beauty of the traditional way of life and dress that is eminently disappearing. Situ's artistic versatility is also evident in his exquisite portraiture, as well as his more recent works inspired by western historical themes and American landscapes. • BFA, MFA, Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
• National Museum of Wildlife Art, Western Visions, Jackson, WY, 2014
• Trailside Galleries, East Meets West, Scottsdale, AZ, 2006-2014
• Autry National Center, Masters of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, 2001-2014
Selected Publications
• Trailside Galleries, Mian Situ-Colors of the Shaoshu Minzu, April 2013
Selected Press
• Western Art Collector, March, 2013
• Southwest Art, May, 2012
• Art of the West, January/February 2011
• Western Art Collector, December, 2010
• Southwest Art, December, 2009
• Art of the West, May/June, 2007
• Fine Art Connoisseur, January, 2006
• American Art Collector, September, 2006
• Art of the West, April, 2005
• Western Art Collector, October, 2007
• Western Art & Architecture, Fall/Winter, 2008
Affiliations
• California Art Club-
• Oil Painters of America-Signature Member
Selected Collections
• Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA
Awards
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Artist: Mian Situ
In Tradition
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower right
Description
In this oil painting titled, In Tradition, Mian Situ pays tribute to the ...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$16,000
Wa Market
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
On consignment to the gallery from a private collector in Newport Beach, California.
Artist Statement
"The location is in a small town within the province of Yunnan in So...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$90,000
Lantern Festival
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower left
Description
The subject of this oil painting by Mian Situ shows a young woman standing poised in a moment of contemplation. The Lantern Festival is a time to remember departed family members. In her deep blue silk robe...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maui Coastline
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower left
Description
A work done en plein air while the artist was visiting the island of Maui, ...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family Helping Hands
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provnance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Signed "Mian Situ: on lower right.
Description
Three Miao sisters from the Guizhou Province of China, accompanied by the...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Glimpse of Beauty
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Signed Mian Situ" on lower left
Description
The artist portrays his wife, Gloria, in an elegant and refined setting. Her sinuous pose and assured profile project a sense of beauty and confidence. The drape of her pink silk robe hearkens back to her Chinese ancestry and its contrasting embroidered border creates a diagonal line that exudes a feeling of strength. Outside is cool and fresh, the beginning of spring; and the Glimpse of Beauty is viewed from either side of the window.
Artist Statement
"A Chinese lady looking out of her window enjoying the magnolia blossom in Spring. Her window is decorated with a piece of Paper Cutting art...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gloria
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower left
Description
Mian Situ portrays his wife, Gloria, as a woman of beauty, dignity, cultu...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
Prepare to Celebrate
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower left
Description
Charged with uplifting energy, this beautiful oil painting by Mian Situ is ...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Day Dreamers: Miao Girls fom Basha, Guizhou Province
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower right
Description
In the painting, “Day Dreamers,” Mian Situ refl...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Sunny Afternoon on the South Course
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower right
Exhibited
Mian Situ: Passion, History and Culture, American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Day Dreaming; Miao Girl
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
On consignment to the gallery from a private collector in Newport Beach, California.
Signed "Mian Situ" on lower left
Artist Statement
"Miao people are one of the larges...
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Noon at Eaton Canyon
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Signed " Mian Situ" on lower left
FRAMED: 17.25" x 21.25" x 1.625" UNFRAMED: 12" x 16"
Artist Statement
"Eaton Canyon...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Thai Woman at Market" Original Realist Cityscape Market Scene
By Mian Situ
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Statement
"This market scene is from Cangyuan county in the Yunnan Province. The woman carrying the basket is Thai, while the other people at the market are from the Wa tribe....
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Companionship
By Mian Situ
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on canvas by artist Mian Situ. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Her Big Brother
By Mian Situ
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on canvas by artist Mian Situ. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hani Tradition
By Mian Situ
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on canvas by artist Mian Situ. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time with Mom
By Mian Situ
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on canvas by artist Mian Situ. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mian Situ Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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