Ma Haifang’s paintings are valuable. The auction price of his works is between RMB 50,000 and RMB 100,000 per square foot, and the fine works exceed RMB 100,000.
Ma Haifang’s paintings are valuable. Ma Haifang, Han nationality, was born in Beijing in 1956. Graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1981. He studied under Mr. Lu Chen, Yao Duo and Liu Boshu. He is a member of the China Art Association, a professor at Rongbaozhai Painting Academy, and a contracted painter with Rongbaozhai. He is the editor of the People's Fine Arts Publishing House, and graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has a deep traditional foundation.
After the mid-1980s, a new art trend emerged. Ma Haifang did not follow the fashion to engage in modern ink painting, nor did he paint the so-called new literati paintings, but followed his own path down to earth. His works have won awards in national exhibitions and received widespread attention from society. Mr. Shen Peng, acting chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, wrote an article praising his genre paintings, calling them "Beijing style".
Ma Haifang's genre paintings directly inherit the tradition, with elegant pursuit and healthy taste, truly depict the customs and customs of Beijing area since the late Qing Dynasty, and capture the daily life, leisure and entertainment of Beijing citizens on silk. , successfully reproduced the cultural landscape and vicissitudes of changes in the ancient capital. It feels like you are in the bustling bustle of the old capital.
Ma Haifang specializes in old Beijing-style figure paintings. Ma Haifang has taken a road of struggle that is unimaginable for ordinary people. Over the years, his diligence and hard work have been well-known by famous artists in the painting world. Ma Haifang has a good background in the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, but he never regards this as "capital". What he believes in is his own hard work.
Characteristics of Ma Haifang’s paintings
1. Accurate, vivid, rich and changeable shapes. This is mainly due to his sketching skills and solid foundation in life, creating a unique mood that is completely different from classical literati paintings and today's mainstream paintings. Let people see paintings that are closer to the essence of painting and human nature itself.
2. His works have purely personal characteristics, and his thoughtful thoughts on painting are successfully realized in his works. He does not deliberately create characters and typical images, but carefully reduces the weight of ideology, slows down the fluctuations of emotions, and makes everything orderly and measured.