Surrealist Artist Lui Liu and His Erotic Fantasies on the Female Body (20 photos)

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Surrealist artist Lui Liu is one of the most unusual contemporary painters. He was born and raised in China, but having absorbed the ancient culture of his people, he moved overseas to Canada to create. In his homeland, Lui's paintings are considered obscene, bordering on pornography, but the world highly values the artist's work, and his exhibitions always become cultural events.

Lui Liu is reluctant to talk about himself, but in one interview, the artist admitted that his artistic development took place during the Cultural Revolution. He was born in Northern China in 1957 to a simple family, where no one had any connection with art. Even as a teenager, Liu drew propaganda posters that adorned the streets of his city.

His love of drawing and painting led the young man to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the most prestigious educational institution for artists and illustrators.

After graduating with honors from the academy, Liu tried to work in China, but soon realized that he couldn't paint as he wanted in his own country, and in 1991 he decided to emigrate. A good knowledge of English helped the artist adapt to his new home in Canada, and Lu was soon able to organize his first solo exhibition.

Lui Liu currently lives with his wife and daughter in Toronto. He is a member of the Ontario Society of Artists, and his admirers live not only in Canada but also far beyond. His surrealist works are exhibited in galleries across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His paintings can be seen at the Center for Contemporary Art in Holland and at the Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan.

Some of Liu's works have found their way into private and corporate collections and adorn the homes of renowned contemporary art connoisseurs and the offices of international corporations. The artist himself describes his work in an unusual language that aligns perfectly with the images we see in his paintings:

"I see modernity as a tin bucket into which every possible style has been poured, all mixed, used, and abused in the search for self-expression. A child can express himself with trivialities and trifles. But great art cannot be pure self-expression; it is, unfortunately, the opposite. What I am in my paintings is a combination of the rules and techniques of others and my psychological perception of reality."

Lu Liu enjoys painting women, nude or in unusual, antique, and fantastical attire. His maidens are fair-skinned and weightless, possessing all the anatomical details, yet never provocative or vulgar. Some of the artist's paintings allude to famous Renaissance masterpieces, yet retain their individuality.

Lui Liu's paintings can be seen on the artist's personal website, where you can wander endlessly through the galleries, constantly discovering new facets of his talent.