The Peachy Artist of China

While in 19th century, when the western artists were actively engaged in art works of their own heritages, there had been very few Asian artists stand out to present Asian arts. However, at the time that we started to see masses of Chinese painting showing in museums, people began to be aware of the name ‘Hung Liu’ because her art work was unique and impressive due to her Chinese culture background. Hung Liu’s art works mostly aim at Chinese woman and prostitutes. She is fond of painting Chinese women’s body because she considers the women’s body as a powerful symbol and she tries to give people an image of what Chinese women look like and how strong and beautiful they are through her painting. Thus, Hung Liu’s art works become famous for the body images of Chinese women, and are widely known by people from all over the world.

Like the Mexican artist using blood quite a lot as a powerful symbol in her art works, Hung Liu think that the body image of Chinese woman stand for the strong power. Hung Liu is a Chinese American artist who was born in China in 1948. She attended Beijing Teachers College in 1975 and studied mural paintings at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. However, she ended up transferring to Sichuan Art University and graduated in 1982 with Painting major. In 1984, she immigrated to the U.S with her family. Later on, she got into UC, San Diego University and again majored Art. At that point of time, she was already good at historical photograph and oil painting. Her oil painting can be seen as critiques of Chinese socialist realistic style because of her using of strong Chinese traditional images. Today, her art works are massively shown in many exhibitions and museums worldwide. The most recent exhibitio...

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...passes over in the girl’s life. The fish was colored by light green, like a little shinning spot in the blue sea. The girl’s massy hair shows her upset and frustrate. On the contrary, her face

(Figure 2, “The Lost Fish” 76×68 in)

shows peace and quiet as if nothing happens. Hung Liu creates a visional world in this painting. The whole painting points out that the girl is confident, clean, healthy and powerful though she has some concerns in her mind. “The Lost Fish” depicts the prejudice towards women, and describes the beauty of women. Moreover, it reveals a truth that women can prove that they are real powerful and meaningful to the world. They have inner wealth, talent and are capable to do anything that men do. It is the reason of why Hung Liu is so popular and well-known by women all around the world as she sways people’s misconception towards women.