{"id":2604,"date":"2015-04-01T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/artist\/liu-baomin-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:01:47","slug":"liu-baomin","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/liu-baomin\/","title":{"rendered":"Liu Baomin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in\u00a01968 in Xi\u2019an, China.<\/p>\n<p>Living and working in Beijing, China.Liu Baomin got his diploma in 1989 from the Xi&#8217;an Academy of Fine Arts (major in oil painting).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The core of his work is the tension between reality and illusion, in an hyperrealistic manner\u00a0consisting of portrayals\u00a0seen through wet glass. He believes that it is because of consumerism that people put \u201cvalue\u201d on all sorts of things, on every aspect of life, and not just objects. A consumer lens,\u00a0like the wet glass that is put between his viewers and the subject matter, distorting and skewing reality. There\u00a0is an invincible intermediate layer between self and object, and thanks to\u00a0that reflexion,\u00a0the images Liu Baomin creates are not the appearance of images themselves.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0consumerist and materialistic society produces\u00a0self-alienation: extremely objectified daily life turns into something extremely unreal. Instead\u00a0of social criticism, Liu Baomin exploits the\u00a0appearance of a \u201cself\u201d resulting from a visual experience, making extreme reality become the most trustful portrayal of something unreal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in\u00a01968 in Xi\u2019an, China.<br \/>\nLiving and working in Beijing, China.Liu Baomin got his diploma in 1989 from the Xi&#8217;an Academy of Fine Arts (major in oil painting).<\/p>\n<p>The core of his work is the tension between reality and illusion, in an hyperrealistic manner\u00a0consisting of portrayals\u00a0seen through wet glass. He believes that it is because of consumerism that people put \u201cvalue\u201d on all sorts of things, on every aspect of life, and not just objects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":990,"template":"","artist_cat":[24],"class_list":["post-2604","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-painter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}