Beautiful Snow

Framed, 50 x 60 x 4cm I love the snow scenery of the Forbidden City, so I paint it, and I hope you can feel the quiet beauty. As the most famous palace in the world, the Forbidden City has over six hundreds of years of history, old, beautiful, awesome, solemn and sacred. In China, there were uncounted relics like the Forbidden City. However, along with the pace of modernization, many many old buildings and historical relics now vanished, like the plum blossom, falling down to the ground, little left. The plum blossom is the symbol of traditional culture. Jia Yuan-Yua is a Chinese artist born in 1980 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Jia works mainly with oil and acrylic in his painting. His contemporary artworks focus on social issues such as the protection of historical buildings, the inheritance of traditional culture, the conflict between tradition and contemporary times, education reform and the sustainable development of the natural ecological environment. There are two main forms of expression in his works. One is a common realistic technique known for paintings. The other is to use an oil painting knife for carving on the surface of the oil onto the canvas but the artist also creates lines in his artworks to express the outline of objects either existed or vanished.