This large 5-panel painting Shifting Perspectives and the Body (240 x 900 cm) forms the climax of Chinese-Australian artist / painter Fan Dongwang's work, by mixing all the different images from various visual sources using shifting perspectives. It is a replication of the bodies full of social and cultural inscriptions and ambivalence. Many aspects of his study are mixed up in this large painting including the classic Chinese painting Night Entertainment of Han Xizai, Botticelli's Madonna Enthroned with St Peter the Baptist and St John the Evangelist "Bardi Madonna", and Fan's own work Descendant and Human Conflicts. All of these ambiguous images have nevertheless achieved a visual solution: a synthesis of cultural differences created by a new system of shifting perspectives. The artist uses shifting perspectives as method (sculptural painting) to analyse different art styles while using shifting perspectives as metaphors to convey different cultural aspects. The environment (or the association of the forms) determines the concept of the object. The painting shows a series of mannerisms and conventions of shifting perspectives that serve in a way to impose a hidden order upon surface chaos to achieve a visual poetic. 

All paintings are acrylic on canvas