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Arms Crossed,
2011
La Ba Quan
Painting : oil
101.6 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm 40 x 32 x 2 inch
$3,600
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101.6 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm 40 x 32 x 2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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‘Arms Crossed’ is a medium size vertical expressionist figurative oil on canvas painting created by Vietnamese artist La Ba Quan in 2011. Featuring a palette made of grey, soft blue, green and pink, the painting brings to mind the fascinating aura of a Chaim Soutine. This expressionist painting is dominated by the tortuous lines of the man’s silhouette, along with the tick texture and strong contrast of the various colors. Sitting in a twisted position, the man is focusing all his attention on a cigarette resting on a petite yellow green pot. ‘Arms Crossed’ is one of a series of portrait paintings entitled "The emotion of an old man". Quan uses shades of black, grey skin tones and bright colors to accent the emotions of his figures. He creates extensive texture with thick layers of paint applied on his canvas with a pallet knife. In his own words: “Many men, many minds, many joys and sorrows too. Everyone has his or her own hapless things; less or more depends on a man’s characteristics and endurance. Men in a certain way can exchange segments of sufferings for entertainments, but with too many agonies inside they just keep all in themselves and considerately observe them in sad and painful silence. From time to time numerable human faces have shown up with tears or happiness. There are some blissful laughs, but people cannot conceal the past austerity and other grievous aspects. I have met many faces, from luxurious places to the end corners of many streets… Their wrinkles can show many portraits of indefinite as they are telling the world with their wordless stories that are finished only when men and women will not reserve their misery or bliss in life. I have painted them, depicting their joyful or sorrowful conditions and trying to narrate their living stories. " With its captivating presence and nice proportions, this unframed expressionist oil on canvas painting will be a wonderful focal point in any home, whether placed above a commode, side table or credenza.
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La Ba Quan is a Vietnamese fine art painter, born in 1976 in Nam Dinh Province. His subject of matter are human emotions, joy and sorrow, powerfully depicted in his distorted portraits.
Quan graduated from College of Arts Nam Dinh at Nam Dinh province in 1999. After experiencing in various kinds of work, in order to gain knowledge and skill, Quan decided to come back and got his Bachelor of Art degree at Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2005 in Vietnam. To enhance the methodology and logic and literary argument, he studied and got the Master of Fine Arts degree at Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2010.
La Ba Quan paints with thick layers of paint, often directly from the tube using a palette knife to achieve his result. Since 2005, he has been working on a series of portraits named The emotion of an old man. This series of paintings, as well as many of his other works, are inspired by his father who endured hardship and poverty during the war time. His paintings directly reflect on his life and his father's life, showing the admiration and gratitude towards his nation, which suffered the painful war period, and whose memories return in Quan's haunting portrait images. Focused on individual stories and personal conditions, he manages to narrate their living tales and paint their wordless misery, inner feeling and sorrow and sometimes, happiness.
La Ba Quan has participated in several group and solo exhibitions in New York, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Israel as well as in Vietnam. He works with oil, lacquer, and acrylics, and is also interested in photography.
Quan lives and works in the capital Hanoi, Vietnam.
2009: Group Exhibition in Hanoi.
2010: Group Exhibition in HCMC.
2010: 'Face to Face', Minotaure Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010: Art London 2010, Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3
2011: Group Exhibition in London , UK
2011: Group Exhibition, New York, AiBo Fine Asian Art
2011: Group Exhibition, Art Asia Miami, Florida, AiBo Fine Asian Art
2011: Group Exhibition Art Palm Beach, Florida AiBo Fine Asian Art
2012: Group Exhibition Art Asia Miami, Florida, GB-AiBo Asian Art
2013: Group Exhibition Art Wynwood, Miami, Florida, GB-AiBo Asian
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