Xie Qiu Wa
Xie Qiu Wa (born 1969) is a renowned oil painter and leader of the Chinese Neo-Realism (visual arts) Movement. He usually signs his paintings in Chinese with his artist name, Xie Qiu Wa or birth name Xie Zhong Hua and is considered one of the key inheritors of Chen Yi Fei's romantic tradition with Asian figurative themes and North-Eastern landscapes his hallmark.
Amongst the Chinese painters, Xie stands as one of few to develop a strong international following and he shows regularly in United States and Canada. Xie burst upon the Chinese art scene in late 1990's, and earned a reputation for a mercurial temper and an enigmatic, rather eccentric manner. He has never lacked for patrons, yet has shied from the limelight and prefers to paint from an atelier in one of the more remote regions of Northern China.
Xie was born in Shandong Province, but attended Xian Art Academy for his formal art education. In 1998 he moved to Shanghai where he opened a studio and began experimenting with what later became his much emulated style of combining carefully executed Realism foregrounds together with Impressionistic backgrounds. Some of his key earlier works include "Her Calligraphy" and "Third Sister".
Xie undertook two extended sketching trips through the Southern Regions of Tibet in 2004 and 2005. The oil paintings he completed in his studio are considered a unique reflection of a disappearing culture, although he often romantisized his models somewhat, departing from the accuracy of his field sketches to capture a larger emotional truth.
External links
Xian Art Academy
Works by Xie at Salty Dog Studios
Biography from Centaur Galleries
Articles
A Kodak Moment (Part 1)
Hidden Thoughts
Xie & Dong