Feng Zhengjie Primary Colours exhibition

Feng Zhengjie is most well known with his huge portraits of people. The people he drawn includes his parents, himself, Chinese celebrities like sammy zheng xiu wen, and etc.The people in the portraits are painted only with 3 colours, like turquoise, maroon and white. The brush stokes are well defined, you could not even see any clear brushstrokes from far, so it makes it look like printed on giant poster instead of a painting. The artists explained the application of brushstroke as to hide the ugliness within the inner person and to create the artificial perfections, which people normally would like to see, as an contrast. The eyes of the subject matters are looking at different directions, and this is explained as dong zhang xi wang in Chinese. The background of the paintings is always contrasting with the foreground, and the outlines of the people in the portraits are always blended with white into the background.

Another collection of Feng Zhengjie's painting is about the traditional chinese wedding ceremony. The paintings gave me a creepy feeling. The colours used are dark red, yellow and green. The facial expression, smiling, of the couple in the painting looks very unnatural, as if they are forced to do so.

Feng Zhengjie is described as the chinese Andy Warhol but i think his style is not really pop art. I personally do not like his style because it makes me feel uncomfortable looking at them, maybe this is what the artist wanted to achieve?