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Dong Wen Jie "Angel"
Emerging from the Far East, Dong
Wen Jie has created a style that has captivated international
art collectors for her focus on fine detail and her distinctive
short brush.
Dong integrates many Classical Chinese themes in her work and
often incorporates Oriental furniture, periodic costumes and
courtesan models to emphasize the beauty of a bygone era. Her
work captures a moment in time that allows the viewer to see
the simpler pure lines of the Qing dynasty.
Dong attended the Xi'an Art Academy
in North China where she began her life long collaboration with
Xie Qiu Wa - now her husband. At age 31, Dong has recently developed
in her own right as a leading contemporary Chinese Realism Artist
and combines this role with being a mother to two young children.
Dong Wen Jie's works are both
dark and hopeful and reflect her own personal experiences of
poverty and despair while developing as an artist in North China.
While awaiting permission to finally travel overseas to attend
exhibitions, Dong continues her artistic activism and is considered
by many to be a strong agent of change in China.
With the myriad of positive changes
that have come to China since Deng Xiao Ping's reforms in 1989,
Dong's works have struck a particularly strong chord with Asian
collectors for their fresh regard to classical modesty and elegance.
With the increasing popularity of her works, Dong has recently
been invited to show her pieces to an international audience
in Canada, the United States, France and Spain. Dong's works
are signed with her English name "Angel", as it is
with this gentle purpose that she hopes to reintroduce an Asian
tradition of classical beauty that has gone neglected, if not
forgotten, over the last half century.
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