Modern Tibetan Man: oil painting portrait by Dapu (Ai Min Zhang) (2008) Painting by Zhang Ai Min (Dapu)

He wears his hair long but neat. He has traditional beaded and braided headband on underneath a more fanciful modern cowboy hat. He is a modern man from the Tibetan Plateau, in the region around the border between China and Tibet. He looks rather dapper with his hat tilted on his head, and he exudes self-confidence.
It is a very nice portrait painting by Dapu, and it is a good representation of the so-called Zang minority people who live in the region. Indeed, it has the look of a portrait of an American Indian, and it reminds us that those first Americans came from this part of the world. It also reminds us of a portrait of a Zang man by Jian Bai Xu that we also have available, in the Leona Craig Catalogue Art Gallery. The brushwork is wonderful, the colors are bright and beautiful, and Dapu has not let us down with this display of his talent in portraits.
Dapu is a talented, relatively undiscovered artist who we recently discovered and who displays talents in a number of venues and styles. He is honing his talents by exploring life on the border between China and Tibet, and he has brought us some wonderful, expressive chronicles of life, from there, in his paintings, which show thoughtfulness, in their topics, and ability, in their presentation.