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Biography of Mian Situ, fine artist
Mian Situ Biography
Mian Situ’s debut in the United States began with the 1995 Oil Painters
of America National Juried Exhibition, hosted by Greenhouse Gallery of
Fine Art, in which the judges recognized his exceptional talent and
awarded him the $10,000 Best of Show award. He was also voted the
People’s Choice Award recipient by collectors. Mian’s artistic genius
has gained him an impressive and loyal following. Since that time,
collectors throughout the country have avidly sought his work.
Known for his depictions of rural China, Mian strives to capture the
dignity and beauty in the everyday lives of its people. He feels a
strong need, as a painter, to preserve their traditional ways of life
and dress before they are lost. “My paintings always tell stories,”
Mian says. “I have spent many years traveling throughout China, taking
photographs and studying the people . . . trying to capture the rhythm
of their lives.” Situ has further continued to impress collectors with
his amazing versatility, recently venturing out into areas of
portraiture and California landscape. Whatever the subject, his fluency
of brushwork, subtlety of palette (especially in light reflected into
shadow) and empathic portraiture are unsurpassed.
Mian continues to amaze his peers and exhibit jurors as well, recently
winning several prestigious awards, including Best of Show at the
Carmel Art Festival and the Artist’s Choice Award for Painting at the
California Art Club’s 90th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition. In addition,
Mian recently had two paintings accepted in the top 100 of the Arts for
the Parks competition, one of which was purchased for their permanent
collection. Recently, Mian received an invitation to participate in the
highly respected Prix de West exhibit in 2001.
Born in 1953, he trained in his native homeland of Canton (now called
Guangdong), China and appears to be part of a remarkable cultural
transference. This transference occurred when 19th-century European
academic realism traveled to Russia under the reign of the Czars. There
it developed in the service of Communism as Socialist Realism and was
later imported to Mao's China. Western oil painting techniques were
fostered in the People's Republic during the Cultural Revolution and
were subsequently available to talented and hardworking young Chinese.
Situ was one of the best, and when he emigrated to the west he brought
his skills with him.
Mian’s work has the remarkable quality of appealing to all types of art
patrons, young and old, those purchasing their first piece of art and
those with established museum-quality collections. His collectors,
admirers, and potential collectors anxiously await his new work.
For more information about Mian Situ and examples of his work, please
call (800) 453-8991 or contact us on the web at
www.GreenhouseGallery.com.
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