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      • Conglin Cheng: Untitled
        Jun. 16, 2021

        Conglin Cheng: Untitled

        Est: €20,000 - €30,000

        CHENG, CONGLIN 1954 Chengdu/Sichuan Title: Untitled. Date: 1982. Technique: Oil on untreated cotton. Measurement: 54 x 40cm. Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Con Lin 1982. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Provenance: - Private collection North Germany.

        Van Ham Kunstauktionen
      • Young goat herder
        Dec. 05, 2019

        Young goat herder

        Est: €8,000 - €10,000

        CHENG, CONGLIN 1954 Chengdu Representative of Chinese 'Scar Art' in the 1970s China. Dated 1991. Oil on canvas. 69 x 56.5cm. The young woman, whose clothes clearly show that she is not married, stands in front of the gate of the goat pen with lower wall. Behind it, the higher wall around an estate with trees in fresh leaves. She is dressed in a long pleated skirt with blue and brown ribbons, combined with a top, which closes on the right shoulder and an embroidered collar. She wears a small headgear, jewelry in her ears, at the wrists and a necklace. Lowering her gaze, her face shows a serene expression. On a long leash, she holds a young, black and white spotted goat. Sign.: Cong Lin. 1991 (below right). Wooden frame 82 x 69.5cm. Framed in July 1991 by Art Trade TH. HÜLSMEIER, Osnabrück. Backside a label. Condition A/B. Provenance: -North German private collection. In the family estate since 1991. The Yi people, one of China's 55 minorities, live mainly in the mountainous areas of the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. In addition to their own language, as well as indigenous ideograms, they cultivate their own costumes, which include wide, pleated skirts combined with jackets dyed in dark indigo blue. Cheng Conglin, born in Chengdu, Sichuan, studied oil painting in the 1970s and 80s at the Institute of Fine Arts Sichuan, where he later worked as a professor, as well even later at the Central Art Academy of China. Upon invitation of the 'Centre national arts plastiques', he was guest in France in 1986. In the period from 1987 to 1990 he taught as visiting professor at the University of Osnabrück. From 1984 to 1990 he worked on two extremely large and impressive cycles with the themes of 'Wedding and Funeral of the Yi', which have been exhibited 1992 from May 24 to June 7, in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück together with other works. In the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and even before in the time before, art mostly served propagandistic purposes under the highest cultural maxim: 'Art in the Service of the Politics'. After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, the political situation changed and likewise the situation of artists. A long suppressed urge for freedom broke free everywhere. Numerous artists dealt with the events of this extraordinary epoch. In many works of art of this period the consciousness about the fanaticism and violence that had been exerted on people became an important issue. But after the end of the Cultural Revolution persons are no longer shown as heroic embodiment of valiant ideas and concepts, but are portrayed as individuals with their feelings readable. Often, however, a melancholic mood prevails, the people are introspective and the coloring of the painting is dark, sometimes almost monochrome. At the end of the 1970s, the 'Scar Art' represents one of the main trends of Chinese contemporary art. The denotation derives from a narrative published in 1978 entitled 'Scars'. Besides Zhang Hongnian, Luo Zhongli, Gao Xiaohua and others Cheng is an important representative of this style. The painting \Young Goat Herder\" represents a somewhat later phase in which Cheng was concentrating on the portray of persons of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan. The paintings developed under the influence of impressionism. They show volatile moments in which the light and the atmospheric conditions constitute an important part of the representation. Overall, the picture conveys great vibrancy and depth, on the one hand by skillful shading and on the other hand by the setting of the persons, the wall, the trees and the house in a the stage-like scenery, which is also used as technique in traditional Chinese painting. Explanations to the Catalogue Conglin Cheng China 20th C. Asian Art - Chinese Paintings 1950s Figurine Painting China "

        Van Ham Kunstauktionen
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