Li Qing

Li Qing (born 1981) is a Chinese artist based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Life Li was born in the Zhejiang province. Li attended the China Academy of Art, graduating from the Oil Painting department in 2004. Style Li Qing's main medium is oil painting on canvas. He has also worked with photography. He is a painter whose work confronts issues surrounding visual perception – his Point Out The Differences series consists of pairs of paintings based on the same image, into which Li inserts a number of differences not immediately obvious to the viewer. Li is part of a generation of Chinese artists increasingly informed by the images and history of Western culture. Li Qing has brought his experience from the exploration of painting language to new mediums (2010 video Drift Poetry of feathers floating through the air inside a down-coat factory).