“Photographic Intermediary and Semantic Space of Chen Anjian’s ‘Post-Folk Painting’” was published in the 12th issue ofLiterature & Art Studies in 2020, by Peng Rong, professor of the Arts College of Sichuan University, as the first author.
It mainly focuses on the interaction between photograph art and Chen Anjian’s “Tea House” series. In the field of Chinese modern and contemporary art, Chen Anjian is an unusual and persistent “post-folk” artist. In his artistic creation, photography is an unneglectable important factor and step, which also constitutes a foundation of research on the artist’s works. Photograph’s intermediating effect on painting enables Chen Anjian’s “Tea House” series to present a triple spatial dimension of reality, photography and painting. As “painting with photography”, the “post-folk painting” element in Chen Anjian’s “Tea House” series has constructed a unique visual semantic space for the Chinese contemporary realism art history.