Shen Jiawei's Tower of Babel
Author’s words He became famous overnight in that crazy era. With quiet fame and accomplishments in his motherland of China, he crossed the sea to the strange continent and started all over again. Under the sunlight of the southern hemisphere and the wavesound of the Pacific Ocean, he had portrayed many characters including a Denmark princess, an Australian Prime Minister, and a Roman Pope. These portraits were found in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Eventually settling down in a beautiful seaside artist's village, he lives a peaceful life. However, in order to fulfil his dream, whilst in his seventies, he spent several years creating a giant historical oil painting with more than 450 characters. The painting is 7 metres high, over 20 metres long. In his own way, he attempts to portray the true appearance of the characters which have been obscured for a long time. With his own understanding he displayed that bloody human history bewitched in a utopian dream. He se...