A painter who is more expensive than Fan Ceng married four wives and gave birth to a son at the age of 58. What happened afterwards?
There are a thousand Hamlet arts in the eyes of a thousand people, which can be simple or profound. Different people have different views on it, and the artistic level is also very rich. With more and more people claiming to be artists, works tend to express themselves. If you don't think carefully, you may really miss some unique works.
Some people say that art is an elegant thing, and it is difficult for ordinary people wrapped in rice, oil and salt to collide with art. Others say that art is a vulgar thing linked to money, and many classic authors have higher value after death. There is such a painter in China, whose works are mixed with vulgarity and elegance, and the works of several generations can be sold at high prices.
This is a painting by Zhou Chunya. His paintings were criticized as unworthy of fame, but they were the most popular at the auction. The turnover exceeds that of China painting and calligraphy master Fan Ceng. One of his paintings sold for 43.7 million, and his life was equally wonderful. He married four wives and gave birth to a son at 58.
Zhou Chunya 1955 was born in Chongqing, and 1982 graduated from sichuan fine arts institute printmaking department. However, due to the lack of accumulation and precipitation of art knowledge, he went to Germany for further study, and 1988 graduated from the department of free art of Kassel Academy of Fine Arts in Germany. This combination of Chinese and western learning experience laid the foundation for his painting. Everyone says that "there is no shortcut on the road of life", but we have to admit that talent is sometimes the biggest shortcut, especially in artistic creation, talent is almost given to us by God. Among a group of contemporary painters, Zhou Chunya is undoubtedly the luckiest genius.
In China's traditional painting, Zhou Chunya's painting method has both freehand brushwork and blank space, and at the same time, it combines the rich colors of the West. Impressionist learning experience made him more familiar with China's composition and lines, and at the same time he noticed the power of western oil painting techniques. This eclectic approach has made Zhou Chunya's paintings popular with many international lovers. Zhou Chunya 1955 was born in Chongqing, Sichuan, and showed amazing painting talent in his childhood. After re-reading, Zhou Chunya was admitted to Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with great artistic enthusiasm, and Zhou Chunya's paintings made great progress in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.
Perhaps it is this blending of Chinese and Western thoughts that makes Zhou Chunya's creative thinking very flexible and capricious in expressing his personality and thoughts. As the embodiment of his personal life experience, his painting style is constantly changing. In the early 1990s, he began to create a series of stones, taking the stone image in China traditional culture as the main element and giving it a bold and strong new expression of western color. After graduating from Zhou Chunya University, he worked in the system for a period of time. 1986, he decided to go to Kassel University in Germany for further study, where he was deeply influenced by foreign artistic styles, laying a solid foundation for future artistic creation without sticking to form.
At this time, he just started his career as a painter. Everything is brand-new and enthusiastic, capable and lively, and his style is quite direct and lively. By 1997, Zhou Chunya's comprehensive painting techniques for things gradually matured, and he began to create his most controversial "Green Dog Series", in which the protagonist is a dazzling green dog with surreal, exciting and grotesque effects. Zhou Chunya is different from Luo Zhongli and other colleges. His creative style is unique, which is incompatible with the mainstream painting world at that time, but he still insists on his own style and has a large number of followers.
The dog in the painting is out of tune with the surrounding environment, giving people a strong impact. In fact, this is Zhou Chunya's expression of his feelings about human loneliness. The bright dog is so vivid, but he can't understand all kinds of people around him. This is a kind of loneliness and longing in the painter's heart. If the "Green Dog Series" is strange and desolate, then the "Peach Blossom Series" created by Zhou Chunya in 2005 is colorful and full of enthusiasm.
Large pieces of white powder are spread on the canvas, either unrestrained or soft. Peach blossoms are full of visual tension, cheerful and beautiful. In traditional painting circles in China, peach blossom is regarded as a symbol of femininity and femininity, while Zhou Chunya is a symbol of passion and romance. Because he was in love, he poured this sweet feeling into his paintings, so he had a colorful "Peach Blossom Series".
In the auction, Zhou Chunya's creative style has been changing with each passing day for decades, but he has his own life experience and performance, with rich connotation and high collection value. At the auction, the price of his works also rose, and some antiques were remake into tens of millions of yuan.
For example, his series of works The Story of the Rock, which was created in 1992, was sold at a high price of 43.7 million in the Jiadechun auction on 20 18, and this work is not his most famous series of works, Green Dog and Peach Blossom. Zhou Chunya ranks first among the "most expensive artists in the world" with a total turnover of 470 million by virtue of its outstanding achievements in the 20 13 Hurun Art List.
Because his work style is not limited by the trend, he is good at excavating the unique angle of ordinary things, giving people strong ideological and aesthetic resonance, and some early works are auctioned at high prices because they conform to the international aesthetic vision of today's people. With the increasing enrichment of domestic cultural activities, Zhou Chunya's paintings are also exhibited in major art exhibitions, and their popularity is further improved.
The turnover of Zhou Chunya's works in the auction reached 65.438+67.7 million yuan, ranking third among local artists in China in recent ten years, but this is only temporary. His paintings have been recognized and favored by more and more people in recent years, and the turnover has increased rapidly. If the time is cut in half, he will be the best-selling artist in China, even the painter who auctioned hundreds of millions of paintings can't compare with him.
In love, if a painter wants to create emotional works, he must first be an emotional master. Zhou Chunya is an affectionate person. He had four good-looking marriages, and they lasted quite a long time. He is seriously looking for a partner, but he has repeatedly encountered "peach blossom robbery."
Because most of his works are romantic and gorgeous, and because his works are loved by many women, even the actress Carina Lau is his loyal fan, it can be seen that Zhou Chunya should have a good affinity for women. As a creator, his works are his sustenance and his expression. Zhou Chunya's feelings are all expressed in his paintings.
He knew each other when he was young, when he was still young. He painted portraits of each other, "a woman with blood type A" for his second wife and a famous "peach blossom red man" for his third wife. According to him, the divorce is due to the pressure of painting, gambling to release the pressure, and often reversing the schedule with his wife, which often leads to his wife's dissatisfaction and eventually leads to various contradictions and breakups.
Zhou Chunya's emotional experience is often criticized, and people have different attitudes towards his feelings. Some people think he is irresponsible for promiscuity, others think he is a lover, and at least take every relationship seriously. In fact, like many artists, Zhou Chunya's wives used to be his muses, and he painted a portrait of his first wife. He wrote a woman with type A blood for his second wife, a peach blossom red man for his third wife and a peach blossom red man for his third wife.
Life will be stable. In fact, Zhou Chunya's love is still very early. His first child, Zhou Brown, was born in 198 1 and is now married. Now living with Zhou Chunya is his fourth wife. They met through charity auction, and later they got to know each other gradually because of their common interests. They got married in a low-key manner at the beginning of October13.
At the end of the same year, 58-year-old Zhou Chunya finally gave birth to her second child. She claimed that she had finished an amazing work of art. Although Zhou Chunya is over 60 years old, his creative sources are still endless, but his style has undergone new changes. When his old works with strong colors sell at sky-high prices, he prefers to make works with elegant colors and delicate lines.
But this is not surprising. He said that contemporary art is the creator's own language and should be expressed by his own experience. Now, with a happy family, he often plays with his son and grows flowers and grass, which has faded his enthusiasm when he was young. This quiet and warm style of painting may be a reflection of his mood.
Over the years, with the younger son's fame, Zhou Chunya was very happy. He named the child himself, and asked Li Xianting, the godfather of contemporary art in China, to check, and finally decided to call him Zhou Ziyan. As can be seen from the name, the youngest son and wife have placed their greatest hopes and are the focus of their lives now.
Immortal works of art often have a kind of authenticity, that is, the creator naturally reveals a kind of real fantasy of human beings, which is the common touch of human beings. They entrust sincere feelings to flowing colors, which are warm when they are happy and cool when they are depressed. They have no goal, no frame, and they declare themselves cleanly. Creation is an addiction. In fact, there is no art, only a living life.