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I
have once been fascinated by Sur-realism and painted things vividly,
I have also been deeply in love with some Old Photos, in which I put
people in modern time to reproduce the History, and thus made them
full of vitality, but finally I chose the familiar daily life around
me. When I was travelling in the region of rivers and lakes of the
Pearl River Delta or those remote coastal rising villages in
Guangdong Province, when I was visiting in the fortified mountain
villages of the Yao nationality in North Guangdong, I would always
feel excited and profoundly touched. I felt that because I was
facing the native land and people that brought me up, it was just
beautiful scenery like this with fragrance of earth and vigor from
Nature that provided my painting creations with an endless source. I
have been trying to combine the spirits of J.F.Millet and Courbet,
two famous French masters in Realism painting, with the humanism in
Chinese paintings, to grasp the essence in oil paintings by
Rembrandt, Michelangelo and Jan Vermeer, etc, and apply it in my
Chinese oil painting, and to improve my works by learning skills
from the Itinerants Russian, Russian Viadimir Art School and
Tekajorf Brothers. I painted my feelings about life and my
annotations of ideal into the brown complexion of the peasants
laboring on the threshing ground, into the bamboo rain hat on the
head of and old farmer picking up grain in the fields, and so on. I
tried to move the readers with artistic conception in my works, to
affect the readers with beauty and power, to infect the readers with
the harmony of life and Nature. I will be seeking for this natural
and unadorned Conception forever and for good.
With
all my works here, I am expressing my heartiest thanks to all the
people who had offered me help in every aspects.
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