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As an oil painter, Chen Ben is fashionable, avant-garde and more of a life aesthete in his pursuit of quality of life.
Between the flickering candlelight and the mingling of drinks, Chen Ben leisurely said, "I like Duchamp, art is life, life is art."
I looked at his trademark beautiful beard that shone in the darkness of the night and, for a moment, seemed to see a vivid Mona Lisa with a beard.
Duchamp, the loudest name in the 20th century, the pioneer of epoch-making experimental art, his appearance changed the concept of art in the United States and even the whole West. 1917, Duchamp named a male urinal "Spring", signed his name "R.mutt" on it and sent it to the Society of Independent Artists in New York to request to exhibit it as a work of art, which caused an uproar. This way of giving up painting and treating the readymade products as works of art directly, thereby eliminating the fun and traditional aesthetics of art, caused an uproar and became a landmark event in the history of modern art.
In 1919, Duchamp used an aluminum pen to add a goatee to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and the Mona Lisa with Beard became a stunning masterpiece in the history of Western painting. For nearly a century, many artists have been inspired by him, but no one has ever surpassed him, for he achieved a state of physical and mental freedom that no one has yet equaled.
"Grandpa was a Sheshan-type character," and there were no boundaries set for life and art. Growing up in such an atmosphere, Chen Ben naturally has a frank and funny character, friendly and warm, sometimes with a bit of flirtatious humor.
[Elysée Official Collection] Autographed Letter from President Sarkozy to Chen Ben
In 2010, Chen Ben's exhibition in Paris was honored with a congratulatory message from the French Presidential Palace.
Chen Ben's perfect pursuit of beauty, the interpretation of beauty, from the bones seeped out. Chen Ben's elegant demeanor, he is well-dressed, with a strange, beautiful beard, a pigtail, likes to taste red wine, likes to hold a Cuban cigar - this gentlemanly demeanor originated from his family: a born in Xiguan, Guangzhou, and the beauty of the educated middle-class family, he inherited from his grandfather, the genes of good taste in life, elegance and spontaneity.
Ben Chan at Lake Mocco, Italy in 2012
Ben Chan in Paris 2013
Ben Chan in Paris 2013
Ben Chan in Palau in 2014
Ben Chan in France in 2015
As a child, Ben loved to go with his grandfather to Ho Wing Kee, Guangzhou Restaurant, Tao Tao Ju, Lian Xiang Lou, and Pan Xi Restaurant for tea and leisure trips. As he remembers, the weekly dishes at home were never repeated every day, and in the evening, his grandfather made coffee on the "Ghost Boy" radio, while in the morning, the bonsai plants on the balcony, accompanied by a number of famous sparrows, wafted the fragrance of birds and flowers. ......
Ben Chan at the Seine, France
Ben Chan in Italy in 2015
Ben Chan in Malta in 2015
Ben Chan in France in 2015
Chen Ben - Aegean Sea
In 2007, there were 'three good men' in Guangzhou. The first was Mr. Zhang, who lived in a cramped nine-square-meter house with no more than dry yuan, but never left his wife, who had been paralyzed in bed for twenty years, and put his son through college; the second was Chen Yang, a media personality who spread Mr. Zhang's story and life's misfortunes through the Guangzhou TV station's "News Daily" program; and the third was Chen Ben, an artist who saw the TV show and went to Mr. Zhang to create a life-size portrait painting of his face called "Uncle Zhang. The third is the artist Chen Ben, he saw the TV after a special trip to find Mr. Zhang, created a life-size portrait oil painting "Uncle Zhang", the picture of Mr. Zhang's face is full of love and true feelings, the clenched hands show the poor and unshakable, steadfast and chaste temperament, he raised 100,000 yuan for Mr. Zhang's donations. The incident of "The Good Man of Guangzhou" was followed up and reported for half a month, with a steady stream of warm-hearted people appearing, forming a hotspot in the whole city of Guangzhou, and upgrading to the "The Good Man of Guangzhou Phenomenon", and even Ben Chen was recognized by the cab drivers and refused to take his money when he went out to the street to take a cab.
Guangzhou, the home of Mr. Chen Ben, has a unique flavor. Although Mr. Chen Ben has traveled around the world and seen the beauty of the world, it is not as strong as the love of Guangzhou.Therefore, Mr. Chen Ben's works always take the corner of Guangzhou as the subject of his paintings, and express his love for Guangzhou with his brush.
Deer Lake-March 80x60cm 2016
Spring of Deer Lake No.1 80x60cm 2016
This is Ben Chan.
After Chen Ben's oil paintings were exhibited at the Salon 100 Years in France in 2003, and his photographs were selected for the Salon d'Art in France in 2004, which created a sensation, Chen Ben held an exhibition called Urban Tattoos in 2007 at the Case Gallery, displaying a number of works reflecting the city's "psoriasis," in which he explained the relationship between art and life in a similarly flirtatious style, which also drew the attention of the society. In 2011, Chen Ben's oil painting "Fish Song", which is 8.3 meters high and 8 meters wide, was hung in the lobby of Sofitel Guangzhou Sao Feng, bringing us not only a burst of color and the generation of chiaroscuro, but also the release of a state of life.
Chen Ben "Spring Rhythm" 60x60cm 2015
Chen Ben "Peach Blossom Garden" 100x90cm 2015
Chen Ben "Listening to Lotus" 180x140cm
Chen Ben "Fish Intentions" 2005
Fish Series" is the beginning of another path of artistic writing for Chen Ben, following the exploration of imagery painting in "Heart Lotus Series". Maybe it is the unique sensibility of the painter's talent for color, maybe it is from the artistic enlightenment of Professor Xu Jianbai, whom he called "the mother of stretching", or maybe it is due to the influx of Western culture and art along with the opening of the country's doors in the 80's. At this stage, Chen Ben dabbled in foreign literature and works such as Schopenhauer, Hegel, Nietzsche, and naturally, there is also the omnipresent Duchamp's writings, which can still be felt in the netherworld. Naturally, there is also the ubiquitous thought of Duchamp, which can still be felt in the underworld, and thus "he has opened his vision, heard revelations, and discovered reasons in the dimension of the intergenerational" (Li Wei's words).
moistenGrowing up, Chen Ben loved wine and tea, enjoyed lotus and music, watched birds and raised fish, sighed coffee, went after food, excelled in photography, good travel, and each of them achieved not bad!The attainment.
A corner of Chen Ben's Guangzhou studio
Benny Chan Senior Architectural Engineer, Italy
Chen Ben Canada Group Exhibition
Chen Ben and the Fish Song
Ben Chen with his mentor Xu Jianbai. Tan Xuesheng
Chen Ben and the French Collector
Chen Ben and the French Collector
Ben Chan collaborates with Canadian painters
Chen Ben appreciates Duchamp, not only to draw the nutrients to be a good artist, but also to be a free person physically and mentally, and to live a kind of life state like a flowing river.
Perhaps, along the trajectory of Duchamp's thoughts, arriving at the realm of freedom is Chen Ben's highest tribute to Duchamp.
Benny Chan and the Canadian Painter
Sofitel Guangzhou - Fishing Song
Ben Chen with the Consul General and his wife from the Greek Consulate in Guangzhou.
Benny Chan in Normandy, France
Ben Chan in Malta
Chambon is in the southernmost part of Greece.
Chen Ben Sketching and Communication in Athens
Ben Chen as the guest of honor at the "Impression of Yangcheng International Microfilm Awards".
Tomb of the Van Gogh Brothers
Radio France Bleue 2008 [China. Chen Ben's Oil Painting Exhibition] Interview
This is the real state of life of Chen Ben, the original state of life of an artist.
Between the swaying candlelight and the mingling of drinks, Chen Ben exhaled a mouthful of smoke and said leisurely, "I like Duchamp, art is life, and life is art."
[This article was transferred from China Oil Painting Online]
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