Chinese Faces (Jia Ren) Nr. 3 (2019) Painting by Hu Hei Bei

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 19.7in, Width 15.8in
  • Framing This artwork is not framed
  • Categories Paintings under $1,000 Minimalism
The most fascinating subject of art is the human face. Is it male or is it female? Is it old or is it young? Is it Asian or Caucasian? Is it Chinese or Japanese? The human being behind the face - is it happy or is it sad? Is it surprised or is it bored? What's the interaction between that human being and me - the viewer? In my art[...]
The most fascinating subject of art is the human face. Is it male or is it female? Is it old or is it young? Is it Asian or Caucasian? Is it Chinese or Japanese? The human being behind the face - is it happy or is it sad? Is it surprised or is it bored? What's the interaction between that human being and me - the viewer?

In my art work I am still in the beginning to deal with these questions, to understand the human face, to understand the colours and to handle with the different materials, techniques and styles.

Liu Shi Shi, one of the most famous actresses in China nowadays, is personifying the glorious time of earlier dynasties. Her face is showing the intensive fragility of high quality fine bone chine. This painting is inspired by a well known foto image of Liu Shi Shi.

I decided to develop my painting on rough canvas. Thus the colours of the painting are changing when you place it on a dark respectively on a bright ground and when you change the direction and the intensivity of the light.
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Once and again life guided me to East Asia (Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong) and back to Germany. It was in my early twenties when I first visited Japan: I was overwhelmed by the unreachable, untouchable[...]

Once and again life guided me to East Asia (Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong) and back to Germany. It was in my early twenties when I first visited Japan:

I was overwhelmed by the unreachable, untouchable beauty of traditional Geishas and I was deeply impressed by the variety of emotions which can be expressed by a single stroke of a brush with black ink on a sheet of rice paper.

It took nearly half a lifetime before I had the opportunity to attend the first professional art lessons.

Mildred Hsu Yee Wong (Painterland Studios, Hong Kong) helped me to develop a deep understanding of Chinese culture. She told me how to find the unity of spirit, body, brush, ink and paper and thus to control the flow of the water. All my capability in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy I owe to Mildred.

After going back to Germany in 2006 I started to learn the basics of Western painting and drawing at Lübeck School of Arts. In all these years I have been dealing with a huge range of different materials, techniques, styles and subjects.

Corresponding to my experience of life I developed a great variety of artworks from minimalistic or puristic Chinese paintings of e.g. a bamboo or a pine tree or a beautyful face to an explosion of colours and dissolving structures which you can find in the Western world.

I am deeply impressed by the postimpressionist masters (e,g, Matisse, Vallotton, Jawlensky, Derain) and by the old Chinese and Japanese masters of ink painting and calligraphy.

My Chinese paintings and calligraphy  are signed and sealed with my Chinese name "Hu Hei Bei".

In my account "Herbert Ruf" on Artmajeur you can find a small collection of my 'Western-style' artworks.

Education:
* 1949

1998 - 2002
Musik- und Kunstschule Lübeck
Watercolour Painting and some Basics in Printing

2003 - 2006
Painterland-Studios Hong Kong
Chinese Calligraphy and Traditional Chinese Painting

2006 until today
Kunstschule der Gemeinnützigen Lübeck
Portraits, Figures, Landscapes and more in Acryl, Pastel, Charcoal and Ink


Exhibitions:
2019 SwissArtExpo Zurich
Painting "Young Chinese Nr. 1" is presented by ArtboxProject

2017 Art Basel Basel
Painting "Couple II" is presented by ArtboxProject

11/2016 - 02/2017
"Impressions of the Far East"
Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy and Ink Painting
MedicalCentre Lübeck

2016 Art Basel Miami
Drawing "Geisha I" is presented by ArtboxProject

01/2016 - 03/2016
"Humans, Sea and Light"
Portraits and Seascape in Acrylic and Pastell
Jacques Weindepot Lübeck

01/2014 - 05/2014
Art on Rice Paper (Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy)
Ärztehaus vor dem Mühlentor Lübeck

11/2012 - 03/2013
Art on Rice Paper (Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy)
Dao-Haus Lübeck

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