Mian Situ Landscape Paintings
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
Oaks in Tejon Ranch
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
UNFRAMED: 12" x 16" FRAMED: 19.5" x 23.625" x 2.375"
Artist Statement
“The painting was created during a plein air painting trip o...
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2010s Impressionist Mian Situ Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Old Fishing Boats in Laoshan
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"I visited Qingdao City in northeast China in 2019 with a group of artists. Qingdao is also spelled Tsingtao. Located on China’s Yellow Sea coast, these old fishing boats are still performing their job."
— Mian Situ
Exhibited
Mian Situ: Passion, History and Culture, American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena, California, May 6 – June 11, 2022
California Art Club...
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2010s Realist Mian Situ Landscape Paintings
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Maui Coastline
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
A work done en plein air while the artist was visiting the island of Maui, the second-largest of the Hawaiian...
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2010s Realist Mian Situ Landscape Paintings
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Noon at Eaton Canyon
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
FRAMED: 17.25" x 21.25" x 1.625" UNFRAMED: 12" x 16"
Artist Statement
"Eaton Canyon, locate...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mian Situ Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Sunny Afternoon on the South Course
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
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Exhibited
Mian Situ: Passion, History and Culture, American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena, California, May 6 – June 11, 2022
Category
2010s Realist Mian Situ Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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