WORKS ELABORATION:
The painting try to make female’s self-reflection: you can be a daughter, a wife or a mother, but you are yourself.
Artist makes female pelvis as the main body of the picture in order to enhance the sense of form and ceremony, who uses interspersed with barbed vines and image of butterflies to symbolize the bondage and suffering, beauty and freedom of female. Furthermore, by adding female body silhouette shape summary, which expresses the "female" features more clearly, the work arouses the audience to meditate more about female role.
TUTOR COMMENT:
We can feel Che Hongxiao's thinking on contemporary painting from her works. She focuses on female themselves from a unique perspective which not only gets rid of the graphic pattern of traditional meticulous figure painting but also takes the advantages of exquisite of Gongbi painting features.The work is full of a sense of ritual, which foils the feminine form and creates a graceful and quiet artistic conception.
Female pelvis, barbed vines, butterflies and other unspeakable things of metaphors are presented in delicate pictures, which triggers audience’s deep association.