Fang Limin

Before admiring Fang Limin's artworks, please keep some fresh spaces in your heart which are filled generally with noisy and imbroglio for citizens.

In Chinese long history, painting was ordinary a carrier for a literate about what he thought and hoped in all his life, a reflection about his understanding of the life meaning. All the objects and landscapes around him, became his talking object, and were alive, that was where the interests came from.

Fang Limin lives fortunately at Hangzhou where is famous for its profound culture, and he was well educated in the biggest Fine Art Academy of China-Chinese national Academy of Fine Art. From his artworks, we found apparently his living attitude and his pursuit for ideal that existed well in the modern life but succeeded completely to Chinese traditional literate, so degage, clever and elegant. How to stop the admiring eyes?

A vase, a memory, or a capriccioso, Fang showed us a special artistic conception with the traditional woodcut printing technique (printed with soluble inks). The steel graver, the blocks and the complicated printmaking process, for him, these were not a cord, but a necessary coagulation, by this coagulation, we saw a comely visual sensation.

Enjoy Fang Limin's prints, is an experience full of surprise. A single artwork is just like a brief rhythm; a series of artworks is just like a mellow movement; and all his artworks are just like a lyric symphonic poem, full of grand vigor.

Modern arts are rooted from the tradition, like the other old master graduated from Chinese national Academy of Fine Arts, Chu Teh-chun and Zao Wou-ki for example, Fang created his artworks spontaneously and unaffectedly. It's unnecessary for us to distinguish the tradition or the modern, the realistic or the abstract from his artworks, for a confident, changeable and free artist, the essence is very same.

1964 Born at Qu zhou city of Zhejiang province
1989 Graduated from the education department of CNAFA
1999 Graduated from the printmaking department of CNAFA, won the postgraduate degree and worked at CNAFA as a teacher.

Present occupation:

Member of Chinese Artists' Association
Member of Chinese Printmakers' Association
Teacher and vice-director of the Printmaking department of CNAFA

Awards:

1991 Print < Way > won the copper prize at the "Zhejiang Artwork Exhibition"
1994 Print < Expressions of West Zhejiang > won a prize in the Tomihari Print Prize in Japan
1994 Print < Sunrise sunset > won a first prize at the Zhejiang provincial Print Exhibition
1996 Print < Capriccio of the four seasons > won an outstanding prize at the Zhejiang provincial Print Exhibition
1998 Print < Lonesome > won a bronze medal at the Zhejiang provincial Print Exhibition
2002 Print < Hill Flown from Afar, no.4 > won a bronze medal at the Zhejiang provincial Print Exhibition
2002 Print < Hill flown from Afar, no.4 > won an outstanding prize at the 16th National Print Exhibition
2002 Print < Hill flown from Afar, no.2 > won a groping prize at the 6th National Fine Art Universities Prints Exhibition

Collections:

< Warm Autumn >, < Landscape > and < Lotus pond > collected by Muban foundation
< Expressions of West Zhejiang> collected by Tomihari Art Museum in Japan
< Landscape > collected by Shanghai Art Museum
< Lonesome > collected by Shenzhou Print Museum of Sichuan province
< Capriccio of the four seasons > collected by Jiangsu Art Museum
< Sunrise sunset > collected by Shenzhen Art Museum

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