Liu YAMING ✿

Liu Yaming (刘亚明) is a professional chinese painter. Born in 1962 in Sichuan Province, he studied in the Department of Film Studies at Beijing Film Academy in 1986 and worked as the artist and art designer for some popular Chinese TV series.

The is best known for his somber, evocative oil paintings of female figures. Liu’s paintings focus on a single female figure, usually looking straight at the viewer without a smile. This moody, mysterious atmosphere is heightened by the hazy backdrops he paints the women in. In this piece, though he uses multiple colors in the background, the pinks, yellows, and blues are murky and painted in almost nebulous shapes. In contrast to the backgrounds, the subjects are painted in exceptional detail, which contributes to a sense of individuality and personality unique to each piece.