Yifang Zheng

By writing the critical practice, I have done a lot of research on surrealist artists. There is one artist really attracts me and gives me a lot of inspirations. Her name is Julie Curtiss.

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I know Julie through her official website, and I like her works very much when I see them. Her paintings are full of strangeness and absurdity, as well as a mysterious narrative and voyeurism. The most interesting thing is that her work style and I have many similarities. Like me, she draws by memory and imagination, not by drawing reference objects, and thinks that it is easy to draw too specific, but her paintings have many very realistic details, so that she can bring the audience back and forth to reality, making people feel fuzzy and confused about reality and fiction.

 

She has a lot of things for me to learn and explore. First of all, her works are also about human beings, but the difference is that she explores the relationships among humanity, feminism and society from her thinking about women's hair. Compared with my works, she has a more interesting angle to connect the works with the reality, which I think is the place I need to improve and continue to explore later.