1986 Golden Lotus Lady with red corset, 1986
Zhu Xinjian

This 1986 painting of Zhu Xinjian "Golden Lotus Lady with red corset" is painted by the artist in 1986. It is exhibited in 1987 in Galerie Lise Cormery, Paris for the Solo Show of the artist "Zhu Xinjian et la beauté de la chair 朱新建 Erotic Art" while the artist lives in Paris. It inaugurates his serie of paintings called "The Golden Lotus".
ZHU XINJIAN 朱新建 (1953 Dufang, Jiangxi province-Pékin 2014) China is a Chinese painter. Lise Cormery in her book "Post-War Ecole de Paris Art" writes his biography since she discovered his art when she met him in his small studio in Paris in 1986. "Member of China Artists Association, Zhu is considered like the most important Post War "Literati painting" artists. Under his brush exquisite ladies from yesteryear become part of our contemporary world looking both Oriental and Western, with a delicious and soft erotic style. Zhu graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Nanjing University in China where he became professor. During his studies and his teaching years he mastered the practice of Ancient Chinese Art and the richness of Ancient Chinese Art Litterature. He was awarded the Silver Medal during the 6th National Art Exhibition of China but was able to illustrate as well books for children and design Cartoons for Shanghai Animation Film Studio and China Central Television (CCTV). Zhu Xinjian belongs to the Post-War Ecole de Paris, since he spent several years in Paris, France and studied in Beaux Arts de Paris where the freedom opened his artistic path to a new hybrid Western and Oriental art world. During his sojourn he had Solo shows in Galerie Lise Cormery in Paris. First beginning to paint women in the 1980’s, Zhu titled his series of nudes, "Painting of the Beauty". In 1986, another set of paintings, "The Golden Lotus", named after the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) erotic novel, was first shown during an exhibition of young artists in Hubei Province, China. Although exquisite, they caused some scandal in China and France, in schizophrenic societies where nudes become "politically correct" only once exhibited in Museums and State institutions. Lise Cormery in her book on Pierre Granville Donations, denounced the hypocritical attitude of Art Collectors and curators, indeed "L'origine du Monde" by Courbet, hidden during so many years will be admired only once hanged in Musée d'Orsay. In 1987, Lise Cormery writes the text of Zhu Xinjian Solo Show in her Paris Gallery, "Zhu Xinjian et la beauté de la chair 朱新建 Erotic Art". "Zhu Xinjian suffer like French painter Gilles Cormery of the hypocritical devious minds in France and China regarding the beauty of nudity in art. Indeed, Botticelli is far gone in a contemporary art world brought to nought by the unskilled and the ignorant. The new Credo is only devoted to ugliness and decrepitude thus the beauty of women, tender flesh, love and passion are unanimously condemned."
Art Collections
National Art Museum of China, Royal Museum of Fine Art Brussels, Belgium. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Beaux-arts de Paris.
Shows Selection
1981 Exposition Nationale d'Art n° 6, Chine, Médaille d'Argent. 1987 "ZHU XINJIAN La beauté de la chair 朱新建 Erotic Art" Lise Cormery Gallery Paris, AC. 1989 "The New Literati Painting Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China. 1989-1990 "Zhu Xinjian Art Chinois Contemporain", Galerie Lise Cormery, Paris. 1990 Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. 1993 Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium. 1994 École du Cinéma, Munich (Cartoons Shanghai Animation (CCTV). 2004 "New Freehand Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing. 2006 Zhu Xingjian paintings, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine. 2013 30 years of Contemporary Art Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China. 2014 Today Art Museum 今日美术馆 "Modern Recluse, Hermit Spirits of Zhu Xinjian".

Critique d'art, Art Publications
1987 Lise Cormery "ZHU XINJIAN et la beauté de la chair 朱新建 Erotic Art"
1990 Christophe Comentale, Sinologue, Conservateur Art chinois, Arts et Métiers du Livre, La gravure en Chine, China Engravings, n° 159 Janvier 1990 "Zhu Xinjian est né en 1953 à Dufang, dans la province du Jiangsu, il suit l'étude des textes et de la peinture ancienne. Aux Beaux-arts de Paris il constate l'extrême liberté d’action laissée à chaque artiste."
2010 Christopher Crouch "Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture" Zhu Xinjian Portrait. "" He is a real new scholar painter because he becomes the carrier of artistic concept of the contemporary era using a style taken and modified from tradition." In China "The 1985 New Art Movement in the New scholar painting arose in response, to avant-garde as well as the state theory, that Chinese painting has reached its end." "Zhu works of naked women with bound feet during the ’85 New Wave of Art Movement" in China aroused much controversy. Zhu unique style and erotic element of women with bound feet was regarded as in conflict with the ideological convention at that time and even condemned as “sheer feudalistic rubbish”.
Li Xianting considers Zhu to be one of the representative figures of the Southern School of new painting of the neo-literati. The notion “hooligan culture” was thereby coined and it influenced the later on “cynical realism” in China."
Lise Cormery "Post-War Ecole de Paris Art ZHU XINJIAN 朱新建 (1953-2014)".
Auctions
Ravenel Hong Kong, 2014 "Beauty" 9,278 $. 2014, Nocturnal Mountain Rain, 23,226 $, China Guardian Auctions, 2014 Poetry in rainy night, 24 458 $, Appreciating flowers, 37,161 $, Sotheby's Pékin, 2014, Feng Chen San Xia, 38,609 $, “Lum Blossom in Golden Vase” Beijing Huachen Auctions “Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art”, 2014, $ 64,570.