Abstrakte Gemälde von Victor Wang

Victor Wangs Gemälde "Falling Leaves" ist eine Mischung aus leuchtenden Farben und butterweichen Texturen, die einen Moment der Meditation einfangen soll. In diesem Werk steht dem B...

Die stark strukturierten Gemälde von Victor Wang bestehen aus dicken Farbschichten in tief gesättigten Farben. In "Purple Sky", eine durch und durch moderne weibliche Figur steht d...

Victor Wang's highly textured paintings involve thick layers of paint over collaged images. In "Red Boat", a thoroughly modern female figure reclines in a red boat, her soft delicate skin is contrasted by the highly textural elements surrounding her. Influence by the Renaissance Masters Titian and Rembrandt for their glazing and layering techniques respectively, the artist builds the surface using heavy paint, swirling and mixing the color on the canvas. The end result is a poetic and emotionally powerful representation of the human form. Victor Wang Red Boat, 2021 oil on canvas 60h x 48w in 152.40h x 121.92w cm VWG007 My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences - worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure - which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences. I grew up amongst the sunflower fields in northern China. In my childhood years, I played under the bright, yellow sunflowers with my brothers everyday. China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage. My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China. Although I often gain great pleasure from the process of painting, it is most important to unfold expressively those feelings within myself. Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism...