Gen Chen 陳根 was born in Liuyang, Hunan Province, China, Chen graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art. Now, he lives and works in Liuyang. He practices oil painting with the studying of objects, emotions and poetry of invisible and mystery, in order to question the justice of realities where he lives. Connected with the traditional Chinese painting schema and symbolic objects in traditional Chinese paintings, he tries to express the contradiction between tradition things and the contemporary world, observation beyond the realistic and the unrealistic.
Meat 4 | acrylic on canvas | 150cm × 80cm | 2018
Beyond mountain forest | acrylic on paper | 76cm × 53cm | 2018
Meat 7 | oil on canvas | 76cm × 53cm | 2018
Portrait of grandma | Multiple materials on canvas | 100cm × 80cm | 2017
xLandscape 3 | oil on canvas | 50cm × 40cm | 2018
xLandscape 2 | oil on canvas | 100cm × 80cm | 2018
Lonely bird | oil on canvas | 80cm × 60cm | 2018
Meat 3 | oil on canvas | 60cm × 60cm | 2018
Bird | oil on paper | 76cm × 53cm | 2017
Below the persimmon tree | acrylic on paper | 76cm × 53cm | 2015
xLandscape 1 | oil on canvas | 190cm × 170cm | 2019
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