Jong-Kie Jeong

THEIR OWN LANGUAGE - Photorealism / Young Girl with Ponytail and Brown Hair

2007

South Korean artist Jong-Kie Jeong alters the concept of the portrait by focusing on the back of his subject's head. A young girl is familiar yet...

Original Oil Painting by Sunghee Jang. Signed and dated by the artist on verso. Sunghee Jang (b. 1977, Seoul, Republic of Korea) completed her BFA at Sungshin Women’s University in...

Original Oil Painting by Lu Cong

"In my paintings, I frequently use a tall vertical format. This makes it more challenging to develop a composition. As I proceed, I find it more interesting to work out the problems...

This artwork "Little Chinese Girl" 1982 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed an inscribed A.C (Hors Commerce) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 24.5 x 22 inches, sheet size is 28 x 24.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...

This is a painting in realistic detail of a woman in profile using subtle tones. The oval shaped panel is framed in a custom frame with classic details. Matthew Cook...