Mother

2006

Oil on canvas

100 x 100 cm

Signed lower right Ke in Chinese and dated 2006
Titled on the reverse Mother and signed Chen Ke in Chinese, media oil on canvas in Chinese and size 100 x 100 cm, dated 2006

Estimate
1,200,000 - 2,200,000
307,700 - 564,100
41,400 - 75,900
Sold Price
2,242,000
575,462
73,738

Ravenel Spring Auction 2008

174

CHEN Ke (Chinese, b. 1978)

Mother


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Catalogue Note:

Born and bred in Sichuan, Chen Ke had been studying at Sichuan Academy of Arts all the way from middle school to post graduate, and she is true to name a girl of Sichuan. But her character is not bold and vigorous, she is like the image she created in her works, or she does not face the model for creation, but often takes her own as every object to paint. The similarity is not the appearance, but the temperament - though lovely, but with a little bit of sadness. Born in 1978, Chen Ke is often classiied into the gen- eration of 70s or so called cartoon generation. The complexity of the art is indeed impossible to be expressed and summed up with a few words and concepts. Chen Ke is regarded as the most attractive female artist of post 70s in China nowadays. As early as she studied at Sichuan Academy of Arts, she has drawn popular atten- tion and concern. In the generation of memory, it is the fairy tale, rather than cartoons, that had a great impact on the course of growing up. Cartoon is no longer simply lovely, the artist sought to convey the phenomenon of escaping reality through the picture, depicting the prob- lems, confusion and perplexity they faced when they entered the society. However, cartoon is a component in the form of images, it is impor- tant that the views of the artist on the life and ideas. When mentioned about creative ideas and signiicance of "Mother", Chen Ke said, "It is a complex feelings between human beings. Love is a beautiful, but sometimes it is the shackles, only a step away from cruel sometimes. It is just like sometimes when seeing a cute thing, there will be a violent impulse for having it." The sadness and the warmth, the cruel and the consolation, the contradiction and the struggle, these are the common psychological experience of this gen- eration.


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