AYE GALLERY

Sheng Tianhong

Born in Zhejiang in 1973, Sheng frequently swept the art scene in Beijing and Germany. In 1997, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a BA in liberal arts. In 2003, he finished his graduate studies from the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in Germany with honor. Sheng Tianhong’s paintings are based on his knowledge of world art history. He is a scholastic painter with a childlike innocence. His academic life in Germany and his childhood have a deep influence on his future creations. He sees the world in a child-like manner. The technique of expression also draws on the methods of children’s graffiti and is never conceptualized or symbolized. Behind these seemingly casual skills lies the excellent painting quality brought about by long-term training.

Sheng uses daily routines, words, numbers and other media, and adopts two-dimensional traditional patterns as his means of expression. His pictures, colorful and crude, often strike the audience as expressionistic, but the actual connotation is rich and the metaphor is profound. Through refined and elegant painting language, Sheng Tianhong’s freedom-loving nature is spread through the canvas. Picasso is his favorite inspiration in the course of western art history. Sheng’s recent paintings are more focused on styling, permeated with in-depth thinking process of art and society, and are quite wise and rigorous. He believes that rationality and sensibility should be interspersed in the process of artistic creation, and the external environment have an impact on artistic creation that cannot be ignored. His latest paintings focus more on Chinese and western modern art history. They explored and combed modern western history, and influenced Sheng’s painting language and creative themes.

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ARTWORKS

Crossing the River

Mixed media on canvas
213 x 152 cm
2018-2019

I think, therefore I am

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2019

Color Composition

Mixed media on canvas
30 x 20 cm
2018

Earthly Joys and Sorrows

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2018

Collage

Mixed media on canvas
30 x 20 cm
2018

Xiao Hei

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2008+2018

Deer Head Up Down

Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2018

Abstract

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2008+2018

Hand and Wolfberry Fruit

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2018

Child Being Splashed Ink

Mixed media on canvas
30.3 x 20.2 cm
2018

Sorrow

Mixed media
21.2 x 15 cm
2018

Grey

Mixed media on canvas
30 x 20 cm
2018

Unable or Unwilling to Utter a Word

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2018

Giacometti

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2018

Child in Forest

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2018

The Prime Minister and Cleaner

Mixed media on canvas
21.2 x 15 cm
2018

Royalty Deer (Vela zques’s self-portrait?)

Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2013

Oriental Musician

Mixed media on canvas
80 x 100 cm
2008+2018

Din

Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2008+2018

Sagittarius

Mixed media on canvas
30 x 30 cm
2008+2017

Rousseau’s Forest

Mixed media on canvas
205 x 193.5 cm
2017

Boy with Thorn

Mixed media on canvas
183.5 x 141 cm
2016

Jiang Nan

Acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2008

Journey to The West-Don’t Beat the Monk

Acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm
2015

Mishima Yukio II

Acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2012

Mishima Yukio I

Acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2012

The Bat Escaped from Severe Explosion

Mixed media on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2013

David Bowie

Oil on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2013

Norway Dead Island

Acrylic on canvas
170 x 190 cm
2011-2012

Discoloration of Franz Kafka

Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2013

Klaus Kinski in His Youth II

Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2013

Klaus Kinski in His Youth I

Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2013

Shao Xunmei

Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2013

Lawrence of Arabia

Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2012

Baithasar’s Woman

Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2012

Miwa Akihiro 2

Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2012

Miwa Akihiro

Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2012

Miss Tang

Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2012

Confused

Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2011

Six Eyes

Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2011

Volcanic Eruption

Water-soluble oil on canvas, collage
40 x 30 cm
2008

Blaze of Colors

Acrylic on linen
40 x 30 cm
2008

Young Asian Lady hugging Deer

Acrylic on linen
213 x 152 cm
2010

Little Red Drawings

Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 cm
2019-2023

Little Red Drawings

Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 cm
2019-2023

Little Red Drawings

Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 cm
2019-2023

Little Red Drawings

Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 cm
2019-2023

Little Red Drawings

Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 cm
2019-2023

Little Red Drawings

Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 cm
2019-2023

Little Red Drawings

Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 cm
2019-2023