Jie Xiangyuan

Xiangyuan Jie, oil painter, a native of Hunan, China, now lives and works in New York State. Jie is a member of the Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Plein Air Painters of West. Jie is a member of the Portrait Society of America, and a member of Oil Painters of America.

Jie’s expressive painterly approach is largely influenced by the direct and fluent style of early European, Russian, and American impressionists and realists. Jie enjoys painting people from life settings and en plen air landscape on locations wherever he goes on the road trips.

Jie received his formal art education in China, Europe, and the United States. In 1982, Jie graduated with a BFA in theatre set design from the Central Academy of Drama at Beijing. He then taught art and design at Hunan University. In 1987 and 1988, Jie studied and lectured at the Ecole Cantonal d’ Art de Lausanne, Switzerland. Upon immigrating to the United States, Jie taught at Auburn University as a visiting professor. In 1995, he received his master’s degree in industrial design from Georgia Tech. Since then, he has been working at the Disney and Fox Feature Animation studios as a background stylist and visual development artist. His screen credits include Mulan, Tarzan, Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear, Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown.

 

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