CAI Jin
1965 born in Tunxi, Anhui Province, Cai Jin is known for her lush oil paintings. She graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Anhui Normal University in 1986, and completed the Advanced Oil Painting Programme at Central Academy of Art in Beijing in 1991, and taught at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art.
Cai Jin has described the visual sensation of a half wilting banana plant almost as a seduction, in which the sight and scent of decay draws forth her sensual responses, such that in depicting the plant in oils, especially when the colour red starts to take over, she feels an immense pleasure and an uncontrollable urge to immerse herself in the painting. The ambiguity of the obvious animal odour in the vegetal flesh of the banana plant, and the indefinite sexuality of the apparently autobiographical vaginal texture of the leaves heighten the sensuality and mystery of these paintings. Biography
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