Wind and Moon
Artist Name:
Wei Rong
Medium:
Digital Pigment Print
Release Date:
9/1/2003
Image Size:
18" x 19.5"
Number in Edition:
100
Price:
$1,000.00
Wei Rong's unique style of painting has developed due to what she describes as her need to link the past with the present. For her works, she researches 19th century photographs of both known and unknown Chinese subjects; sometimes her paintings include portraits of scholars, writers and artists and sometimes, the people in her paintings are anonymous. Often she combines the figures with different backgrounds; however, she always places a modern figure in the paintings. The modern figure is always in color, contrasted with the realistic black and white imagery of the old photographs she references. Her style has been called 'hyper-realistic', but Wei Rong says she is only painting what she sees in the photographs and wants the viewer to connect the historical feeling of the pictures with the modern day subjects.
