Feng Zhengjie Overview

His best-known work is his Portrait of China series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes. His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is... [more]

His best-known work is his Portrait of China series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes. His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year art, the colours made "more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China" [show less]