Zhou Fan Art

"Zhou Fan is a rising star in the Chinese art scene – he is a young, yet extremely creative, Chinese contemporary artist."(Link)
Zhou Fan's art is just amazing to me. His paintings are very detailed and live from their colorfulness. I love his ideas of motives and the Japanese style you can find in them even though he is only 1/4 Japanese.
Interesting is also that
"Zhou Fan has been very inspired by his childhood. While the artist has always had a strong fascination for Jellyfish, Zhou’s “Love of Jellyfish” series of paintings is based on dreams that he had as a young boy of many jellyfish floating in the sky, some of which fell to the ground on parachutes and became mushrooms. These dreams had a strong impact on the artist, and he remembers them vividly. The artist explains, “Somehow I feel that it is easier to focus on dreams than reality”. According to psychologists, our daily fantasies and dreams are actually extensions and expansion of our reality."




































For me personally, the images of the fat boy inspire me the most. I am fed up with the drinking, smoking and drug culture of these days and I always wanted to show my criticism in paintings. I had this idea in my head for a few days now and I was thinking of how can I express my criticism in a pictorial way. I think that the boy shoving tons of pills down his throat, being way obese and even crying in other paintings show a dark side of addiction and overdoing. It also shows how ugly one can become in an addictive circle like that and how helpless one is when one's body and soul just function with "helpers". Then the fun stops and reality strikes back. Maybe that was not the intention of the artist but that is what I see in these paintings. I am trying to find a way which makes me able to express my thoughts on "drugs, partying, smoking and drinking to the max" in a visual way. I think that Zhou Fan's Paintings are an inspiration for this journey.

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