Zhang Haiying - Style of Painting

Style of Painting

In response to the Government's initiative activity in eradicating prostitution and pornography, Zhang Haying started the Anti-Vice Campaign series through different series. In this artistic work, Zhang Haying found pictures on the Internet to repaint them in oil canvas to reveal some non-politicised means. The pictures are published illegally on the website ether for no purpose or to degrade women's societal level. There figures are either in gray or color scale. The most famous feature about these figures that they are painted in very real style, especially the women figures. Some elements in the figures such as hair, clothes and body shape are painted very carefully to show contrast in a social realist styles. Women are painted with red skirts most of the time as a stereotypical image of women who are involved in prostitution. The painter is trying to show the big contrast in these pictures. Women are being objectified. The painter is catching the audience's audience by the contrast to send uncomfortable message. There is a sense of depression and sadness underneath these pictures . The artist is using these paintings to wake up the Chinese society about what is going on and asking them to stand up to take these women out of the illness system In color scale works, Zhang Haiying painted women figures with red fabric and other pop sheen details that catch audiences' attention. Women are objectified in these paintings to reveal an invisible message about the power inequality, depression and exclusion.