A Woman Who Draws a Female Body or A Cochain NFT Player? Love to Think, Dare to Be the First, Chinese Painter Born in the 1990s
Recommended artist of today: Xuan Xiong
*Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Sichuan Normal University and a postgraduate of the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music
*Under the tutelage of modern Chinese painter Mr.He Duoling
Foreword
Development of block chain technology enables us to equally collaborate to achieve a certain goal in a decentralized environment. Since 2020, the concept of on-Fungible tokens (NFT) in the blockchain field has rised, and become popular globally in 2021. NFT is considered to be the only and irreplaceable digital asset. Its ownership is transferred on the blockchain (such as Ethereum) and currently mainly used in art and games.
The artwork cochain and made into NFT, it will have its own “identity card” that cannot be tampered with. Currently the most expensive NFT artwork comes from artist Beeple, which was auctioned at a high price of nearly US$70 million in Christie’s London. Christie’s New York post-war and contemporary art expert Noah Davis said: “Christie’s has never auctioned such a large and important new media art. Beeple’s works brings a rare opportunity for collectors to have masterpieces created by top digital artists with the use of blockchain”
Indeed, the birth of NFT and its integration with art have allowed more works to carry value in the digital world. Today, FansForce NFT takes FanForce as the starting point, through NFT- Tokenisation, so that more ordinary players can participate in the art NFT world, reconstruct the value system of NFT with a new perspective, and make everyone become the leader of NFT game.
#NFT:
NFT is the abbreviation of Non-Fungible Tokens, which means non-interchangeable token, relative to interchangeable token. Non-interchangeable token is also called Non-Fungible token. NFT is unique, which cannot only represent an artwork, an original music or and end product, but also be a dream, a feeling or a spirit totem of team. Its unique properties can well realize value anchoring on and off chains, and gain it excellent asset digitalization conditions. Therefore, NFT, out of no doubt, will usher in a more extensive development in the future.#FansForce:
FansForce NFT (FFN) token is a functional basic token in ecological operation. Every NFT requires accumulation of corresponding force in their growth. The amount of force also reflects user attention received by NFT and their own value.#NFT Tokenisation:
NFT tokenisation means to divide one NFT into multiple fungible utility tokens, and the number of tokens is set by creators based on market conditions;#NFT Fungible Utility Token:
Fungible utility token based on NFT tokenisation meets the SRP protocol rules in ERC20, and carries with NFT value, which can be possessed by participants, being evidence of profits gained from NFT work auction.
The second painter we invited was Xuan Xiong, a post-90s Chinese female painter from ChengDu. As a woman, she is good at drawing women. Her appearance of FansForce is also the first time her work has been minted as NFT on the chain. She will show a number of works full of personal characteristics, the main material being oil paintings. As the first representative of a Chinese artist, she will use a unique personal perspective to talk about her understanding of art, and present us with a feast of online visual NFT works from different aspects. Hope everyone to stay stuned to FansForce- collect activity of the FansForce NFT platform on HSC at 20:00 on July 21, 2021, and call for Xuan!
About Xiong Xuan
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Sichuan Normal University in 2012.
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music in 2015, under the tutelage of modern Chinese painter Mr. Duoling He.
Thinking Xiong (Xiong’s point of view)
Xuan likes to use tempera painting to tell women’s stories. She believes that women painting women can better grasp the inner world of the subject, more delicate and more touching. The human body may be erotic or sacred, and it is also a vehicle for conveying human spirit. “Tempera painting is more complicated and delicate, and it takes energy and time to squeeze. Although there are many convenient materials now, I still like the texture of tempera paint, and its production process is one that makes people gradually enter the state of painting. The process is equivalent to sorting out your mood.”
Art on easel is not only to please the retina. People who are engaged in painting have a deeper motivation than getting a pleasing work — the desire for expression, deep thinking in the process of painting, and as an individual, they will not stop freely moving. Nor will it stop aesthetic activities. This commonality is hidden in people’s sub consciousness — the demand for aesthetic activities and aesthetic products.
I like the unpredictable language brought by color, and the metaphors in the composition of the picture. Therefore, after the clear expression is presented, I still start from this ambiguity. It may be precisely because of this that I make every time Creation is an opportunity. You can open a small window to see the novel scenery you want to see, or open the existing deadlock you are in.
Xuan is a person who can’t be idle. When painting, she must listen to stories. When she can’t move her pen to think, she does come small wood carvings or handcrafts, but later she found that these small movements are still quite distracting. “Until I decided to start drawing Tempera, the small movements were replaced by tedious production processes — cutting wooden boards, nailing nails, boiling glue, mounting gauze, and then hitting it more than a dozen times. After using the egg yolk, I still need to find a place for the egg white. When it’s hot, the egg liquid and paint that I can’t use for two days start to grow hair. It’s really troublesome. Its uncontrollability is the main factor that attracted me at first, and it often makes me cry without tears during operation. I still like Tempera very much, because it has a charming texture, moist, thick and transparent. After painting such a picture, I will find it extremely precious, just like the little prince said, ‘ You spend time for your rose, it becomes precious’.”
Fresh quick Q&A
1. Which period of art or artistic activity has the most impact on you? What is reflected in your works?
I used materials from my era, and some of them are my imagination, but they all say that my picture quality is classical, but when it comes to the classical period, I only recently realized that I probably liked the art of the fresco period most, with gray but bright colors, charming texture, and clumsy modeling language. So I unknowingly started to explore tempera a few years ago. At that time, I didn’t realize what was affected; it was just my preference and taste establishment.
2. How do you make a choice of new ideas derived from the creative process?
Maybe my painting is not very planned, I will follow interesting new ideas, which leads to a lot of directions in my work; but this is also very good, I am very happy in it.
3. Many people now believe that easel painting is bound to die out, and installation art and new media art will be the future development trends. What do you think of their views?
There are more and more various kinds of art, which is a good thing. Of course, the art of the new situation will become the trend, but the art of the easel will last forever, and the art that lasts does not aim at the trend. It stands still and is not limited by time. Imagine that after a long period of information explosion, those who have not been thrown into the void may still be art.
4. The development of the Internet has allowed more and more people to participate in art criticism. The quality of these people is uneven. Some people are from a non-professional background and lack some influence, but sometimes they occupy the advantage of public opinion. I wonder if you have encountered this kind of situation in your ordinary artistic creation work? How do you handle and treat this kind of problem?
It is inevitable for the public to participate in art criticism. It can be said that everyone has the right to comment. The ability of art to have a relationship with the public is a force for both parties. There may be people with a lack of artistic accomplishment who have the advantage of public opinion, but if you look at it from a long-term perspective, it is just a link in the chain reaction and does not represent anything.
5. Whether it is painting or other art media, you will face the problem of effective expression between language and thought. How do you think about solving these problems?
I think this is one of the ultimate problems of art. As far as painting is concerned, the painter injects his own thoughts to construct a flat image. The viewer uses vision to open up other senses, arousing emotions and arousing thinking. These are two transformations. Effective expression is done jointly by the creator and the viewer. I can only say that this is not a problem that can be solved by skills and methodology. It is difficult for me to say clearly. Some people are naturally good at it.
Evaluation of other artists
“Xuan’s work is different from most Chengdu painters: she doesn’t seem to pursue the historical and contemporary sense of the pictures, but is more interested in relatively classical language. But after all, she is a post-90s painter, which makes her work equipped with classical techniques and contemporary thinking, showing a distinctive appearance, both solid and illusory” This is the evaluation of Xuan’s teacher He Duoling.
Guo Wei, professional painter: “When I first saw Xiong Xuan’s work, I thought it was made by a boy, with solid, generous and restrained style, simple and elegant colors, and I think she is a high-profile rookie.”
Luo Fahui, Chinese oil painting artist: “ Xiong Xuan’s pictures are more of a reflection on the structure of the picture. It is full of subversion and unruly, creating a vast second-dimensional space for individuals.
Wang Chengyun, German Chinese painter: “ Xuan’s work has many undecided elements in it, including the loneliness of the Italian painter Mario Sironi. She evokes a kind of memory, a kind of dead and irresistible youth…”
A brief analysis of the works cochain this time (choose one)
One of the works that will be minted into NFT this time, “ Large Back View”， has no story, no self-pity for the shadow, relying on a back, standing upright, conveying weight and solidity, the audience is like standing at the bottom of a high tower, looking up, feeling the rolling, or ascend step by step. The “sublime” in traditional aesthetics comes from what humans feel in front of magnificent natural phenomena, and the humility and submissiveness generated by the huge difference in size and strength at the physical fact level; the “sublime” in modern aesthetics is closer to a thin sparrow screamed and snarled in front of a strong hound, forcing the opponent to retreat with its mental power, which made people respectful. Unlike the physical “heavy” created by the size of the frame and the thickness of the paint, this “Large Back View”, which is less than one meter, completely relies on image, composition, and color, and directly appeals the “heavy” to the nervous system of the audience. This is painting.
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