Large-scale works, as a history paintings for the emerging world.

Sight, is the capability of the eyes to detect images of visible light, generating electrical nerveimpulses for colors and brightness. Visual perception processes these impulses, interpreting visual stimuli through comparison with experiences made earlier in life. For this reason we have brought you to this creatively special land, the Chinese province of Liaoning, where the work of a painter will help to enhance your sensory capacity. Here, you can admire the House of the Huangcheng Chancellor (royal residence of the Prime Minister Chen Jingjing), a castle complex of buildings with more than 500 years’ history. 

LIU XIAODONG was born in 1963 in Jincheng (Liaoning Province), becoming one of China’s most celebrated Contemporary artists. In 1980, he left his hometown to pursue art in Beijing, attending the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is a leading figure among the Chinese Neo-Realist painters to emerge in the 1990s. His figurative painting was grow stance within a art context where photographic media dominate. Inside the legacy of Chinese Socialist Realism, his compositions are painted with loose always layered with meaning.

With his ruse of framing and perspective, his subjects are often common people. Capturing snapshots of time, he is primarily a Figurative painter, and lives and works in Beijing, where he is a professor in the painting department at CAFA. The artist has been is represented by a number of galleries, and  His works have been shown at prominent institutions. His work often alludes to social problems he seeks to highlight through his creativity, so LIU XIAODONG always tends to draw inspiration from peoples doing everyday activities.

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