Li Jin 李津

Li Jin (born 1958 in Tianjin) is one of the best-known
and loved yet unorthodox painters of the New Literati
Group which are mostly artists born between
1940s-1960s who experienced both the New China and
the Cultural Revolution. It is a coincidental movement
that reflected the social and political changes after the
Cultural Revolution. An iconic feature of their work is to
use Classical Chinese methods like ink painting and use
Western images such as Li’s famous comics to create a
fresh style expressing contemporary Chinese painting in
contrast to classics and “revolutionary model” painting.
Li developed his uniquely playful style in the early 1990s
and is now famous for food and wine and simple pleasures of the good life. The central debauched figure in all
his work is a self-portrait while the young women are his
ideal female beauties. The work we own is the cover of
“Chinese Ink paintings Now”
His paintings are in the collections of National Art
Museum of China, Beijing, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
and Seattle, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hammer
Museum Los Angeles, museums of California universities
in Berkeley and Sam Francisco, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York.
Li currently teaches Chinese painting at Tianjin Academy
of Art.

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