A leading Chinese artist Yuan Xikun said that during the tumultuous cultural revolution, "to escape against the meaning between people" he went and lived in the wilderness like Robinson Crusoe.
Although he has chosen to stay in town to paint a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong, Xikun asked to be sent to the countryside Xishungbanna. Life in the wilderness provided fodder for his paintings. In particular, meet a tiger close to have a great impact on him, influenced his art.
His painting of Tiger many; Special gaudy is one titled ' mountain man ' persistent staring at the canvas of the Oriental.
"When I came across the forest to be staring match and then Luckily it goes away," said Xikun, speaking through a translator at a talk he gave Monday night at the national art gallery. The new Chinese Ambassador to the Maldives Yu Hongyao and Deputy Minister attended the talks along with artists of the Maldives.
Eleven paintings by Xikun, tigers in various poses, on display at the art gallery. One of the small Chinese Tigers tame lying at the foot of right entitled ' Tiger tamed by a boy with magical powers. ' The magnificent creatures stir up Sympathy in the viewer in a painting entitled ' Waiting for ' the sadder to see through the bars of its cage.