Artist Liu Yaming (Chinesse artist)

Artist Liu Yaming 

Beijing-based artist Liu Yaming (1962– ) was born in Neijiang in the Sichuan province of China. He is best known for his somber, evocative oil paintings of female figures. Liu’s paintings focus on a single female figure, usually looking straight at the viewer without a smile. This moody, mysterious atmosphere is heightened by the hazy backdrops he paints the women in. In this piece, though he uses multiple colors in the background, the pinks, yellows, and blues are murky and painted in almost nebulous shapes. In contrast to the backgrounds, the subjects are painted in exceptional detail, which contributes to a sense of individuality and personality unique to each piece.Liu has a remarkable and uncommon sensibility for considering the emotional worlds of his subjects, and his works often contemplate female-related emotional themes. For example, his subjects convey a variety of facial expressions, from serious to assertive to sensual. These are adjectives that some conservative people – especially those in China – may deem unacceptable for females to embody, as women are often expected to be soft, polite, and docile.