ILLUSTRATED:
Pang Jiun, Artist Publishing Co., Taipei, 2006, color illustrated, pp. 224-225
Landscape
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2005 Oil on canvas 170 x 170 cm Signed lower right Pang Jiun in Chinese,dated 2005.1.1 |
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 595,200 - 833,300 76,200 - 106,700
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Sold Price
4,484,000 1,060,298 135,776
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The "Painting Genius" professor now serves in National Taiwan University of Arts. He was born in Shanghai in 1936, His father Pang Xunqin, mother Qiu Ti were both the first generation oil artists studied abroad. Pang was deeply immersed in an artistic atmosphere when he was young, he held a joint exhibition with his sister Pang Zhu in Guangzhou when his only 11 years old. By the age of 13, he was accepted by Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, later transferred to Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, taught by masters like Lin Fengmian, Pan Tianshuo, Huang Binhong, Hsu Peihung, Wu Zuoren, Dong Xiwen, Li Keran, and Li Ku-chan. In 1987, Pang settled in Taiwan, serving in National Taiwan University of Arts still.
Pang's oil paintings absorbs characters from the late western impressions and Fauvism paintings, pursuing the purity and harmony of the colors, his works carries his passion and explosive force, combines expressions in Chinese cultures, with western techniques and eastern spirits within, Pang makes his paintings unique with lots of characteristics. His lines are with strength like those we seen in western paintings, they're also implicit like eastern paintings, pursing liveliness, likes and dislikes, and he paints mostly his feelings, and successfully created his eastern Expressionism.
There aren't limits on Pang's painting subjects, he painted landscapes, still objects, and people. In Pang's eyes, the feeling on any ordinary objects isn't determined by their "forms", but the observer's feelings and emotions at that moment, and colors are the best medium to carry those feelings and emotions. No matter it is the regions of rivers and lakes in Jiang Nan district he paints, or nature he sketches, he treated those "scenery" emotionally.
His "Landscape" can be classified as one of the artist's large size works, it is extraordinary in many aspects, the artist composed it brilliantly makes the whole picture not crowded, and his well use of yellow colors demonstrates his skills in color representations.