Jia Juanli
Jia Juanli is an artist who quickly established herself as a leading painter during the period of intense creativity in the Chinese artistic world at the end of the 20th century. She then chose to depict images of a timeless China, composed essentially of palace interiors, gardens, and delicate female figures. This enchanted world opens up to complex spaces and multiple depths, in which the painting itself presents a strong materiality and nuanced colors, adding substantial poetics to this dream-like universe. The meeting between an underlying drawing of great firmness and the oil technique of Western inspiration, combined with a mastery of passages and depths taken from traditional Chinese art, serves an exclusively feminine, idealized world. This world seems to contrast with the life in modern China and invites silence and peace of soul.
—— Pierre Paliard.
PHD Art History. Professor at Ecole Supérieure d‘Art d’Aix-en-Provence
(original reference in French)