Xing Jun Qin Artist Page
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Xing Jun Qin Artist Page |
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| Xing Jun Qin is an artist-colonel in the Chinese military. His large-scale, realist paintings portray its activities: manoeuvres, processions and occasionally actual battles. While Xing is an 'insider' within the military his pictures are not as straightforwardly propagandistic as one might expect. A recurring theme is the soldiers' use of the tools of war (guns, Jeeps, tanks etc.), a juxtaposition of the human figure and the machine which is unsettling even as the artist seems to revel in its pictorial potential. Xing's camouflaged soldiers occupy a shallow, stage-like space that lends these paintings a beguiling unreality. |