Balloon and Torch - Oil on Canvas 31.5'' × 23.6'' | Chinese Original Painting | Magic Bear Art

Balloon and Torch-Oil on Canvas 31.5'' × 23.6''

$2,950.00 USD
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Balloon and Torch - Oil on Canvas 31.5'' × 23.6'' | Chinese Original Painting | Magic Bear Art
Balloon and Torch-Oil on Canvas 31.5'' × 23.6''
$2,950.00 USD
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Title: Balloon and Torch

Artist: Ma Ao

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Artwork Size: 80 × 60 cm(31.5'' × 23.6'')

Framed Size: 100 × 80 cm(39.4'' × 31.5'')

Year: 2025

Frame: Walnut-colored solid wood frame

Artwork ID: MBA-2025-047

Authenticity: Original · One of a Kind · Signed Certificate of Authenticity

Artwork Description:

Balloon and Torch is built through fractured figurative forms, symbolic imagery, and a highly charged interplay of color and gesture. Rather than presenting a stable or literal scene, the painting unfolds as a shifting visual field in which body, creature, object, and sign seem to merge into one restless composition.

The bird-like shape, torch-like element, suspended limbs, and mask-like facial structure all contribute to a sense of tension between playfulness and unease. Ma Ao uses distortion not simply for dramatic effect, but as a way to compress emotion, instinct, and psychological intensity into the image. The result is a painting that feels simultaneously animated and unresolved, as if caught between movement, ritual, and dream.

Through its layered brushwork, vivid chromatic contrasts, and compressed spatial structure, Balloon and Torch resists a single fixed interpretation. Instead, it invites the viewer into an unstable but compelling inner landscape—one shaped by memory, symbol, and subconscious force. Bold yet ambiguous, expressive yet carefully structured, the work carries a strong and lasting visual presence.

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MA AO

Ma Ao is a Chinese contemporary artist and designer working across painting, experimental ink, and interdisciplinary visual practice. His work is characterized by a distinctive personal language and a strong visual structure that reflects both individual consciousness and cultural inquiry.
Ma Ao has participated in international exhibitions such as CONTEMPORARY CHINA 1946–2019 (Italy) and the PRISM International Artists Exhibition (Norway), along with multiple contemporary art and cross-cultural exchange projects in China.
His work Shuncheng Temple is collected by the Brunei National Mosque, and Zhong Kui is collected by the Cross-Cultural Research Center of the University of Reggio, Italy.