Yan Ping (artist)
Yan Ping is a female oil painter in China. Yan Ping attended to Shandong University of Arts in 1979, graduated in 1983 and then stayed in Shandong University of Arts. In 1989, Yan Ping attended to the oil painting seminar class of Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is now a professor of School of Arts, Renmin University of China, director of China Artists Association, director of China Oil Painting Society. Her work combines a sensibility of vitality with rationality, connecting art to life in the context of a female's individual perspective.
Artistic style
Yan Ping's painting style emphasizes color expression. The clear indoor light and bright colors drawn by her distinctive character strokes introduce something new to Chinese audiences, who are accustomed to heavy forms, and repressed emotions of art to feel the cheerful and clarity of humanity from art. Yan Ping's paintings give a warm and clear humanity to the stressful Chinese environment. The most frequent colors found in Yan Ping's oil paintings are rose pink and gemstone green. She uses them because they represent life, a reference to heme and chlorophyll as the source of life for animals and plants. The red and green colors symbolize a vitality of an endless force and emotion. Yan Ping has hopeful beliefs that for peace and compassion, but she encountered a devastating decade of the Cultural Revolution during her childhood. Thus, her value in beauty and romance were not with her at the time. As a result, Yan Ping brought these feelings and thoughts about love alive in her artwork. Yan Ping's works today are vivid, lively and romantic, which are dramatically opposite from her adolescent experiences.Select works
Select works:From 1990 to 2016, Yan Ping had created a total of 208 oil paintings, the most famous of which is her Mother and Son series. She had held solo exhibitions in Beijing, Jinan and Hong Kong. She has published nine individual painting albums.
| Year | Title of the Artwork | Scale |
| 1990-1995 | Me and My Son Rose·Rose Let’s Dance Again #1 | 150*150 cm 55*60 cm 160*140 cm |
| 1996-2000 | Mother and Son Mother Warm Wind has Blown Swan Lake#2 Little Drama Troupe | 160*140 cm 160*140 cm 140*120 cm 140*160 cm 140*160 cm |
| 2001-2005 | Warm Air Mother and Son-Large Pink Lily Peony Blossom Purple Flying Like Birds | 59*60 cm 160*140 cm 160*140 cm 140*240 cm 140*160 cm |
| 2006-2010 | Mother and Son You Are My Pan Anmao Listen to the Wind Listen to the Wind Mother and Son 1 | 140*160 cm 180*200 cm 200*180 cm 200*181 cm 130*160 cm |
| 2011-2016 | Mother and Son 3 Soft Heart Attraction Flying Birds in Heart #3 Red Flowers and Young Boy | 140*160 cm 140*240 cm 200*180 cm*2 180*160 cm 140*120 cm |
Publications
Publications:| Date of publication | Title of publication | Publishing company |
| October 1996 | Comments of Chinese Modern Artworks··Yan Ping | GUANGXI ARTS PUBLISHING HOUSE Co. Ltd 广西美术出版社 |
| December 2001 | Touch of Love | - |
| January 2002 | Famous Artists and Artworks Selection—Yan Ping | ZHEJIANG PEOPLE’S FINE ARTS PUBLISHING HOUSE 浙江人民美术出版社 |
| January 2006 | Waiting for Flowers Blossoms—Yan Ping 2006 | People’ Fine Arts Publishing House人民美术出版社 |
| - | I Like the Fragrance of Lil—Huang Beijia VS Yan Ping | ZHEJIANG PEOPLE’S FINE ARTS PUBLISHING HOUSE 浙江人民美术出版社 |
| July 2006 | Color Impression and Language | Shanghai Painting and Book Publishing House上海书画出版社 |
| - | Yan Ping | People' Fine Arts Publishing House 人民美术出版社 |
| January 2010 | Contemporary Artist—Yan Ping | Shandong Arts Publishing House 山东美术出版社 |
| April 2012 | Awakening Insects: Oil Painting Research of Yan Ping | Shandong Arts Publishing House山东美术出版社 |