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Artist: Victor Wang
"The Coming of Age", Oil Painting on Canvas, Portrait, Sunflowers, Textured
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
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2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"When Sunflowers Are Falling...", Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, Flowers
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Qi Baishi", Figurative Charcoal Drawing on Canvas, Portrait, Abstract Drawing
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal
"Autumn Riding", Mixed Media Oil Painting on Canvas, Collage, Figurative
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Sunglasses", Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Oil Paint, Canvas, Abstracted
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blue Dream", Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Canvas, Abstract, Texture
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Light Touch", Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Oil Painting, Canvas
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Holding Back the Time", Contemporary, Oil Painting, Canvas, Figurative Portrait
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
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2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
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Dreaming Away - Highly Textured Dream-like Painting with Surreal Nautical Theme
By Victor Wang
Located in Chicago, IL
Victor Wang's subject is a female seemingly caught in a contemplative moment yet a war rages behind her. She dons a hat shaped as a boat and carries and oar as if to "Dream Away" these other thoughts. Wang uses a blend of luminous colors and buttery textures to evoke these enigmatic moments of meditation. 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
Dreaming Away, 2017
oil on canvas
42h x 56w in
106.68h x 142.24w cm
VWG009
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 but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S.
“When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening rod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Let Her Go - Thickly Painted Impasto Surface Oil Painting with Dream-Like Scene
By Victor Wang
Located in Chicago, IL
Victor Wang's highly textured paintings involve thick layers of paint over collaged images from the Tang Dynasty. In "Let Her Go", the foreground shows a modern female figure sitting upon the side of a boat which gives the impression she is wearing wings and about to take flight. Upon closer look, there are various scenes taking place around her in the water - warriors with knives drawn, a jeep in pursuit of some unseen enemy, a cauldron boiling over. 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
Let Her Go
oil on canvas
48h x 60w in
121.92h x 152.40w cm
VWG011
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 but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S.
“When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"The Arrowed Pillar", Contemporary, Oil Painting, Canvas, Figurative, Portrait
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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.
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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 but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S.
“When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening rod.”
That was a time when artistic expression was curtailed to suit political needs. Faced with limited freedom of choosing subject matters, many of them devoted energy to the development of painterly skills. Aspiring artists, frustrated by lack of formal training opportunities, built their artistic foundations by studying privately with masters outside of the mainstream.
“My recent paintings are based on my life in the two worlds. Increasingly I look into my roots for inspiration. I am particularly intrigued by human figurative expression. It has strong narrative rhythms. In paintings I constantly ask this question: how is this going to affect my perspective of the story?”
Wang’s “Life on the Edge” series centers on how distant culture, considered primitive by many, deals with forces of modern intrusions.
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1979-1983 BFA (oil painting) Department of Oil Painting, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, China,
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VWG010
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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 but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S.
“When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening rod...
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By Victor Wang
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Victor Wang's highly textured paintings involve thick layers of paint in deep saturated colors. In "Purple Sky", a thoroughly modern female figure faces the viewer, her soft delicate skin contrasted by the thick swaths of paint upon it. 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
Purple Sky
oil on canvas
60h x 48w in
152.40h x 121.92w cm
VWG008
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.
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VWG007
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By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
"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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Varnish, Oil, Stretcher Bars
The Boat - Kimono Shaped Diptych Original Oil Painting With Female Figure
By Victor Wang
Located in Chicago, IL
Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
The Gentle Breeze of Autumn
By Victor Wang
Located in Chicago, IL
Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S.
“When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening rod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Victor Wang Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
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