Hung Liu

Hung Liu is an artist who takes something and recreates it into something new. 

The medium Liu mostly uses for her art is paint. 

The majority of Liu's paintings are based off of these old, historical photographs. She gets her pictures from a variety of sources, such as from people she knows or pictures she just happens to find. From these old photographs she creates new paintings with her own added twist to them. Liu will render the photo accurately but will take into account what they might have been thinking at the time as well. This results in added elements that were not part of the original photograph, such as birds and flowers. 

The subject matter Liu depicts a lot of are people since the photographs she uses mostly portrays people. Liu also likes to paint animals and flowers. Her representative paintings have a drippy quality to them as well since she lets her paint drip quite a bit in her pieces. She also uses a good range of colors in her works, but they're toned down. This gives her paintings an aged look to them. 

Although Liu now lives in the United States, she does not forget her Chinese roots and includes traditional Chinese imagery in her paintings.

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ArtBabble. Indianapolis Museum of Art, n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.