Oil on Canvas
98,4 x 70,9 in (250 x 180 cm)

Surrealist painting a profound art work in the communist world.

Ling Jian was born in 1963 Shandong Province, China. In 1982 Studied in Qinghua University Art College, Beijing and began painting and in 1986 Graduated from the same university. Following his critically acclaimed “Communist Sister” series, Ling has continued exploring issues concerning communism and the role of women in a changing Chinese society through his surrealism art work. Through his painting, Ling Jian also explores the evolution of Chinese cultural identity as a whole.

Surrealist art of painting of beauty and love with violence and war and power.

Ling Jians works are replete with contrasts; Beauty and love contrast with violence and war, fragility and femininity contrast with power and masculinity. The paintings themselves are executed with incredible skill, in a highly realistic manner. Despite this semblance of surrealism painting however, Ling Jian’s subjects appear to be in a surreal world, populated by angels and rifles. Some of his solo exhibitions are Red Vanitas, Oil Paintings by Ling Jian, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kongin 2007; Ling Jian One-Man Show, Art RAI, Amsterdam Chinese Visions, Art scope Gallery, Brussels 2005; Immaculate,