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Lot Essay
Pang Jiun is an oil painter who endlessly pursuits innovation and creates life in art. His works are highly sophisticated due to his practice of music during the early years, his interest in literature and poems, and his exposure to Western modern art. Pang insists on using oil as the sole medium with free style Chinese ink painting techniques to depict the world. His painting concept emphasizes objective observation and subjective creation. Refusing amendments to his work, he believes that only by finishing a painting all at once can attain the "vigour" and "freshness" of works of art. From his still life and landscape paintings, viewers can see his fluent handling of vivid colours and grey tone.
The Kiln No. 1 (Lot 176) was created in 2002. Revealing Pang's great interest in Impressionism, this painting has successfully captured the change of light in the atmosphere. Choosing a processing kiln in an iron and steel factory as his topic, Pang endeavoured to render the flowing steam formed by the kilns. The tongues of fire in the centre become a focus and attract viewers' attention. What is noteworthy is that, inspite of the Impressionist technique of layering colours, Pang invented parallel arrangement of colours and blended them into the picture plane.
In Lilies (Lot 175), the grey background brings out the freshness of the flowers. The vivid red flowers play a key role to decorate the whole composition and create great contrast with the purity of the white lilies. The light pink lilies and the warm grey background create a lovely harmony.
Grey tones became Pang's preference due to his keen observation on the landscape from his hometown. Grey tones best describe the charm and subtlety of Chinese literature, and the unassuming and humble characters of Eastern people. In Tranquil Landscape (Lot 174), the river in the centre is surrounded by mountain ranges, which seemingly extend beyond the picture frame. The diagonal composition exudes an infinite space. The use of different shades of grey illustrates Pang's fantastic sense of colour, as well as his delicate emotions and skilful execution. The subtle impression of the grey on top of the faraway mountains, in the reflection of light, and with change of time dramatically deliver a deep sense of space, idealized beauty, and Pang's romantic expression of Chinese literati landscapes. In Pang's art career for more than seventy years, his oil paintings have been ignited by the soul of music, literature and philosophy and the spirit of Chinese art.
The Kiln No. 1 (Lot 176) was created in 2002. Revealing Pang's great interest in Impressionism, this painting has successfully captured the change of light in the atmosphere. Choosing a processing kiln in an iron and steel factory as his topic, Pang endeavoured to render the flowing steam formed by the kilns. The tongues of fire in the centre become a focus and attract viewers' attention. What is noteworthy is that, inspite of the Impressionist technique of layering colours, Pang invented parallel arrangement of colours and blended them into the picture plane.
In Lilies (Lot 175), the grey background brings out the freshness of the flowers. The vivid red flowers play a key role to decorate the whole composition and create great contrast with the purity of the white lilies. The light pink lilies and the warm grey background create a lovely harmony.
Grey tones became Pang's preference due to his keen observation on the landscape from his hometown. Grey tones best describe the charm and subtlety of Chinese literature, and the unassuming and humble characters of Eastern people. In Tranquil Landscape (Lot 174), the river in the centre is surrounded by mountain ranges, which seemingly extend beyond the picture frame. The diagonal composition exudes an infinite space. The use of different shades of grey illustrates Pang's fantastic sense of colour, as well as his delicate emotions and skilful execution. The subtle impression of the grey on top of the faraway mountains, in the reflection of light, and with change of time dramatically deliver a deep sense of space, idealized beauty, and Pang's romantic expression of Chinese literati landscapes. In Pang's art career for more than seventy years, his oil paintings have been ignited by the soul of music, literature and philosophy and the spirit of Chinese art.