Fresh from recent projects with Louis Vuitton and luxury goods group Richemont, renowned female portraiture painter Liu Hong is a popular Chinese contemporary artist.

She was born in Shan’xi Province in 1956, earning a major in Oil Painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Her mostrecent work “Luscious Lips” portrays the role of consumerism and changing moral values among Chinese women.

Widely exhibited, her works are held by several museums and important private collections such as the Knie Family Museum in Switzerland.

The so-called social discourse refers to the situation that girls in the paintings are complete dominated by desires produced by consumerism and spectacularisation, which is visually presented through desire-related symbols, that is, lips and its language. It reveals consumerism's materialization towards human by lips-language representing sexuality and personality. What the artist mainly intends to deliver is consumerism's demand of various images of women. Then it is who that altering the criteria of beauty, redefining sexy and creating gender- oriented commercialized desires. If the past is led by political discourse and male aesthetics, then nowadays is a collaboration of industrial culture, pop culture and consumer discourse hidden behind a variety of fashions.

Liu Fei is known for his bald girls with a strong revolutionary theme. The images these girls make an unforgettable impression. The artist's means of expression is an exaggerated anti-aestheticism and the elements he uses are not taken from life. Rather, they are derived from female students in the 1920s-a white blouse with a black skirt. They have appeared in many novels, movies and photographs of the period. However, in historical images they are accompanied by faces of innocence and beauty.

In recent years, Liu Fei has reinvented landscape paintings and these works bring to mind feelings of nostalgia, reminding us of memories encapsulated in the stillness of time. Chinese people's love for mountains and rivers seems to be innate. From ancient and modern poetry, masters of calligraphy and painting have a passion for depicting famous mountains and rivers. My works are self-imagining to pay tribute to the classic works of predecessors, so that their works are presented in this era, and there is a sense of existence in past and present.