Chen Lingjie
July 24, 2000 by TCG Nordica
Filed under artists, visual artist
FROM THE LAND
by Professor Mao Xuhui
To understand young artist Chen Lingjie’s oil painting, we must bear in mind two vital facts. One is that she comes from a peasant’s family, who has been laboring on land, generation after generation; the other is that she was born in the Jiangchuan County, a place of origin for Yunnan ancient culture. As early as two thousand years ago people in this area created great bronze culture.
As a peasant’s daughter, Chen Lingjie deeply loves her village and her native land. Although she has become an art teacher in a college, she still works with her family on the farmland whenever she goes back to her old home. Many of her paintings represent farm tools and articles for daily use, which embody her heartfelt love for country life.
If we have seen ancient Yunnan bronze work, which was created by Chen Lingjie’s remote ancestors, it is not difficult for us to see that her paintings have something to do with those great bronze works in terms of visual effect.
Land, country life and ancient Yunnan culture have nurtured the peasant’s girl and her art.
Modern art education is another important factor for Chen Lingjie’s development. The generation after “the Cultural Revolution” in China was faced with a period of economic development and opening to the outside world. Art education in China gradually freed itself from the Soviet Union and Russian system, and accepted world’s artistic achievement extensively. In the years when she learned art, China’s art creation had gained much more freedom and was very active in the world.
She was lucky enough to be admitted to the Second Oil Studio of Yunnan Arts Institute to study under Prof. Wu Jun and Prof. Dang Zhigang, from whom she developed a new realistic trend, that is, she emphasizes putting personal life experience and subjective ideas into objective representation.
As an excellent student from the Second Studio, Chen Lingjie had developed her own painting style by the time she graduated in 2001. This was shown by her graduation solo exhibition. She has kept painting for nearly five years since graduation. A great many of her paintings have been shown in Yunnan and other provinces and have won many awards. In this nice autumn she holds yet another solo exhibition at T-caf’ Nordica Gallery, Kunming Loft, where artists are doing contemporary art most actively. Congratulations!
Chen Lingjie
Female, born in Jiangchuan County, Yunnan Province, 1978. Graduated from the High School affiliated to Yunnan Arts Institute in 1997. Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Yunnan Arts Institute in 2001. Has taught at the Fine Arts Department of Nie’er Music School of Yuxi Normal College ever since. Member of Chinese Artists Association.
2000 Still Life with Potatoes No.2 oil
Won excellence prize at the Exhibition of Yunnan Portraits and Still Life in Oil.
2001 Glory and Dream Report from the Training Field oil
Won the third prize at Yunnan provincial level at the 5th National Exhibition of Art
on Sports.
2001 The Way of Cultural Relics oil
Won the first prize at the First Exhibition of Yuxi Calligraphy and Painting Association.
2002 The Story of Grandfather oil
Won a gold medal at Yunnan provincial level and excellence prize at the
state’s level at the National Art Exhibition in Commemoration of Mao
Zedong’s Talk at the Forum on Literature and Art in Yan’an.
2003 The Story of Youth oil
Won the first prize at the Art Exhibition “the Light of Gold Shield” held for Yunnan Public Security Personnel.
2003 The Story of Grandfather oil
Awarded the third prize by the Fourth Foundation of Yunnan Literature and Art
2003 Still Life oil
Won the excellence prize at the Spring Festival Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition held by Yuxi Literature and Art Federation.
2004 The Festival of the Flower Streets oil
Won the second prize at Yunnan provincial level at the 10th National Art Exhibition
in Commemoration of the 55th Anniversary of the Foundation of the People’s
Republic of China.
2004 The Story of Grandpa and Grandma gouache
Won the third prize at Yunnan provincial level at the 10th National Art Exhibition
in Commemoration of the 55th Anniversary of the Foundation of the People’s
Republic of China.
2004 Object Series Land oil
Awarded the third prize at the 3rd Yuxi Excellent Literature and Art
2005 Sword Flower oil
Won the second prize at Yunnan provincial level at the 6th National Exhibition of Art on Sports.
Exhibitions
March, 2000 the Art Exhibition for the Exchange between Sino-America Art Academies
September, 2000 the Exhibition of Yunnan Portraits and Still Life in Oil
September, 2000 the 5th National Exhibition of Art on Sports.
March, 2002 the First Art Exhibition for the Nomination of Young Artists held by Yunnan Artists’ Association
May, 2002 the National Art Exhibition in Commemoration of Mao Zedong’s Talk at the Forum on Literature and Art in Yan’an
September, 2002 China-Vietnam Art Exhibition
January, 2003 The-Goat-is-Coming: the Art Exhibition of Yunnan Young Artists’ Paintings
April, 2003 the Third China Oil Painting Exhibition Works from Yunnan
August, 2003 the Art Exhibition Held by Yunnan Public Security Bureau
December, 2003 the 2nd Guiyang Oil Painting Biennial
September, 2003 the 3rd China Oil Painting Exhibition
November, 2003 the 3rd Exhibition of China’s Selected Oil Paintings
March, 2004 Women’s Artistic Expression the Art Exhibition in Commemoration of the Women’s Day
July, 2004 Yunnan Art Exhibition in Commemoration of the 55th Anniversary of the
Foundation of the People’s Republic of China
September, 2004 the 10th National Art Exhibition in Commemoration of the 55th
Anniversary of the Foundation of the People’s Republic of China
November, 2004 Review the Art Exhibition of Yunnan Contemporary Art
July, 2005 the 6th National Exhibition of Art on Sports, Works from Yunnan
October, 2005 the 6th National Exhibition of Art on Sports
June, 2001 Held ‘Chen Lingjie’s Oil Painting Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Yunnan Arts Institute
November, 2005 Held Images the Inner World Chen Lingjie’s Oil Painting
Exhibition at TC/Gallery Nordica, Loft, Kunming
Publications
Paintings and papers have been published in Artists, The Collection of Papers on Contemporary Oil
Painting, Issues on Visual Arts, The Collection of Selected Paintings from the 3rd China Oil Painting
Exhibition, The Collection of Selected Yunnan Paintings from the 3rd China Oil Painting Exhibition, The
Collection of Oil Paintings from the 10th National Art Exhibition in Commemoration of the 55th
Anniversary of the Foundation of the Peoples Republic of China, The Collection of
Paintings from the First Art Exhibition for the Nomination of Young Artists held by
Yunnan Artists Association, The Collection of Painting from Fictitious Cities the Third
Biennial Art Exhibition in Yunnan Arts Institute, Folk Sky File of Yunnan Contemporary
Art, The Collection of Young Women’s Paintings at the 2nd Guiyang Oil Painting Biennial,
Yunnan Art Review, The Journal of Yunnan Arts Institute, The Research of History of Yunnan
Higher Art Education, The Journal of Yuxi Normal College, Yunnan Daily, The Spring City
Evening, Kunming Daily, etc.
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