Descripción

small 4to, broch. 46 paintings by xu xi (born 1940), mostly in color. Xu Xi was a born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 1940, From 1956 to 1965, he studied at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. After graduation, he became an art editor for the Beijing Art Press. Later he was transferred to the creative workshop of the Press as a professional painter. He has worked on charcoal sketching, caricatures and prints and is best known for his ink-and-wash landscape paintings. His works always leave an impression on the viewers with distinctive refreshing quality and depict sense of time, place and life. He is especially good at capturing the natural beauty of South China scenery with simple brush-strokes. Of late, he migrated to the United States and his painting subjects extend to drawing scenery all over the world. His paintings have been displayed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, the U.S. and Austria, and have been awarded at several international painting exhibitions.