![Li Guijun - Getting Ready [1996]](http://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8434/28573566924_d4d6a4888b_b.jpg)
Li Guijun has painted adolescent girls exclusively for almost twenty years. The artist takes Chinese girls as the medium because they are brought up in a simple and disciplined environment, one that they live in their own world, a pure and loving dreamland. During the period between childhood and adulthood, physically and psychologically, they are like buds ready to blossom. To paint flesh realistically, he uses a finely rendered mix of brown, red, blue, green, turquoise blue and white tones inspired by the artist Rembrandt.
[Sotheby’s, Beijing - Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm]