Dancing by Wang Jixian, 2008, showing a female dancer arched deeply backward with crossed arms overhead and a patterned costume against black

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Dancing

Name: Dancing
Brand: Paint For Heart
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Artist Wang Jixian

Creation Date 2008

Material Oil on canvas

Size 68 x 78 cm

Category original

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The body extends diagonally from lower right to upper left, with the back deeply curved and chest lifted. Both arms form a closed arc above the head, one elbow approaching the upper edge. Arms, hair and shadow partly hide the face, although the gaze remains visible through them. The lower body is cropped; decoration and the turn of the waist hold its weight to the right, intensifying the upper body's retreat.

Ochre, orange-brown, pale pink and white strokes model the skin along the extension of arm, shoulder, neck and waist. Highlights mark forearms, chest and abdomen, while deep brown cuts quickly into armpit and flank to describe the twist. The ground is almost entirely black apart from a few grey traces of movement. White, gold, green and red fragments construct the costume, setting the continuous body against a more broken rhythm of cloth.

Wang has long made the moving body central to his work, seeking a balance between representation and abstraction. His exposure to the decorative traditions of northwestern China and to the sensitivity of Chinese calligraphy encourages close attention to line and colour rhythm. He selects the most unstable phase of the movement and keeps the dancer in motion. Anatomical accuracy makes the action credible; dissolving sections of contour carry it beyond the fixed instant.

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Painting dance requires a static surface to suggest that bodily movement continues. Modern artists extend motion through diagonals, cropping, repeated lines and open contours. Dancing makes the arched body its principal diagonal, then turns the raised arms into a returning curve. A black ground removes theatrical detail and concentrates every change in the figure.

Wang graduated from the oil painting department of Northwest Minzu University, and that foundation supports the demanding pose. His mature language increasingly converts limbs into sweeps of colour and line, absorbing decorative rhythm and calligraphic movement. The face, muscles and joints remain based on observation, while clothing and surrounding marks approach abstraction. The body gives him a subject in which structure, emotion and movement can operate at once.

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About the artist

Wang Jixian was born in Lanzhou, Gansu, in 1963, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Northwest Minzu University in 1992 and now works in Beijing. His training in northwestern China brought decorative pattern, calligraphic line and dense colour into the same visual field.

His principal subject is the body in motion, although he also paints still life. A figure begins with posture and balance, then broad strokes, colour blocks and continuous lines simplify detail so that arms, torso and clothing share one rhythm.

Wang held the solo exhibition Years of Life at Yunzhou Gallery, Beijing, in 2002 and another solo exhibition in Beijing’s 798 Art District in 2006. His practice has moved from academic figure construction towards a more compressed use of colour and line, translating observed anatomy into movement, balance and speed.

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