The image library contains digitalized high-resolution art, ready to be utilized for various product layouts and designs. The ever growing collection of portfolios spans from ink and watercolor paintings to contemporary multi-medium art pieces, covering both Eastern and Western styles. Themes include nature, animals, landscapes, people, flowers, still life, calligraphy, zen and more.
The Artkey art licensing center was established in 1996 and has developed from a single partnership into an international enterprise. Today, Artkey is the largest Asian art licensing corporation with offices located in Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei and agents covering the US and Japan in addition to Plus Licens' agency in Europe and Russia/CIS.
Some of the many artists represented in the Artkey portfolio are:
Chang Hsitsun, born in Hexi village of Hancheng, Hebei Province. He masters traditional Chinese realism painting, which can be very detailed, and stresses on Zhongtsai technique (strong and heavy color application). Chang Hsitsun is also skilled at the academic techniques of Shuanggou (drawing outlines of objects with two brushes) and Zhongcai, and specializes in flower-and-bird painting on silk paper, with the purpose to represent the flavors and features of traditional Chinese painting.
Lee Huachazc, born in Sichuan Province in 1929, has specialized in bamboo painting, permeated with apprehension and earnest affection. Whether it be "wind bamboo" wavering in the wind or "snow bamboo" set in a flurry of snow, the images entirely capture the upright appearance and graceful look of bamboo. His art pieces have been displayed at exhibitions several times and won him significant awards in Taiwan, China and Singapore.
Meng Qingnan, alias Flower Fairy, was born in Liaoning Province, Mainland China in 1973. A master of oil painting, Meng Qingnan has also learned and practiced traditional Chinese painting and watercolor painting, and won the second prize in the fourth Children's World Picture Show held in Kanagawa, Japan. Advocating the beauty of flowers and nature, he has a magnificent painting style with a luxuriant composition of colors. Chinese brick-and-tile artworks, letters, musical scores, poems and imperial jade seals all serve as elements that go into his paintings.
