On today's Style Watch, we'll enter into the world of Chen Yifei, one of China's most renowned contemporary artist.
Chen, who passed away in 2005, is the forerunner of a new age in Chinese aesthetics, promoting a new sense of modernity and lifestyle in his paintings as well as in fashion, cinema, and design.
In his oil paintings, Chen blended realistic techniques and romanticism with Chinese subjects, especially melancholic and lonely women in traditional dresses.
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