Video: Flying jellyfish and colored dreams in Zhou Feng's paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Zhou Fan is considered a rising star in the Chinese art scene - he is young and strikingly creative. The first thing that surprises people when viewing his paintings is their brightness, multicolor and detail. Although everything falls into place, when you find out that Zhou Feng draws nothing more than his childhood dreams.
The author says that he uses so many colors when writing his works, because the objects that he chooses for the image are multicolored in themselves. Take jellyfish, for example. They can glow in a multitude of colors as they move in the ocean waves. “Making the work attractive is one of my main goals, and this is another reason why I turn to so many colors,” explains Zhou Feng. In general, according to the author, "visual effect" is one of the priorities in the work of any artist.
The sources of inspiration for all of Zhou Feng's works are to be found in the artist's childhood. For example, the series "Love of Jellyfish" is based on the author's childhood fantasies about how many jellyfish fly across the sky, and some of them parachute down to the ground and turn into mushrooms. These dreams had such a strong influence on the artist that he still remembers them in all colors and in the smallest detail. “Sometimes it seems to me that it is much easier to focus on dreams than reality,” says Zhou Feng.
The artist says that his painting was influenced by the work of the Qing Dynasty, which was characterized by the combination of various unrelated "flowers and birds" in order to create a certain atmosphere.
Zhou Feng was born in 1983 in the Shanxi province of China. Although some viewers consider his style of painting "Japanese", the author himself is ¾ Chinese and only ¼ Japanese; at the same time, he has never been to Japan and does not understand a word in Japanese. In 2007, his name was included in the list of the 25 best young Chinese artists. Exhibitions of the author's works are held not only in his homeland, but also abroad: in the USA, Germany, Canada, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates.
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