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Xinjiang Scenery

Artist Li Tiexiang
Creation Date 2024
Material Oil on canvas
Size 80 x 90 cm
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Analysis and context

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Painting analysis

In Xinjiang Scenery, Li Tiexiang sets the viewer before a high valley ordered with quiet precision. The lower field is a luminous green, animated by fine yellow-green strokes and the small, pale forms of sheep dispersed across the meadow. A dark blue-grey passage of water holds the middle distance, creating a pause before the eye meets the dense band of forest beyond.

The forest rises in deep green and black, yet the composition remains open. Behind the trees, a group of small white houses is partly concealed by slope and foliage; further back, a slender column of cooking smoke lifts into the mountain air. These details are handled with restraint. They are not anecdotal additions, but evidence of habitation — signs that the valley is not merely seen, but lived in.

Above this inhabited ground, the mountain turns pale blue and finally into snow. Li’s achievement lies in the balance between scale and intimacy: grassland, water, forest and snow peak retain their grandeur, while houses, smoke and grazing sheep give the scene its human warmth. The painting offers a vision of harmony in which people and landscape flourish together, neither overwhelming the other. Oil on canvas, 80 × 90 cm.

Theme

Style and context

Xinjiang Scenery belongs to the modern Chinese oil-painting tradition of regional landscape, where place is treated as a lived structure rather than a distant view. Li Tiexiang orders the valley through successive planes — meadow, water, forest, dwellings, smoke and snow mountain — allowing natural scale and human presence to remain in equilibrium. The result is a landscape of coexistence rather than spectacle.

This restraint is central to the work’s authority. Xinjiang’s terrain could easily be rendered through grandeur alone, yet Li gives equal weight to habitation: the houses half-hidden by trees, the rising smoke, the grazing sheep. The painting therefore extends the realist landscape tradition toward a pastoral humanism, presenting beauty not as untouched isolation, but as a place where daily life and land flourish together.

Artist Profile

Artist introduction

Li Tiexiang, born in 1954 to a Mongolian family, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1984 and now lives in Shenzhen. He serves as chairman of the Shenzhen Dafen Artists Association and is a member of the China Artists Association, Liaoning Artists Association, and the Shenzhen Artists Association council. In 2014, he was named an Outstanding Expert of Longgang District, Shenzhen.

His practice is grounded in academic oil-painting training while remaining open to atmosphere, light, and emotional quiet. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Li moves between landscape and figurative subjects, often using colour, texture, and spatial stillness to create scenes that feel contemplative rather than narrative. His Mongolian background and northern training give his work a particular sensitivity to distance, climate, and the presence of figures or animals within open space.

His exhibition record includes a solo oil-painting exhibition in China in 1997, two solo exhibitions in Tokyo in 2001, Mother and Child receiving an Excellence Award in the Liaoning section of the 10th National Art Exhibition in 2004, Naqu Girl being selected for the 4th Beijing International Art Biennale in 2010, The Call from Afar entering the 2nd National Young and Middle-Aged Oil Painting Exhibition in 2013, and a solo exhibition at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in 2014. His works are held by private collectors, museums, and art institutions in China and abroad.

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