Article | Tan Jiangning
May be the reason of drawing Chinese claborate-style painting pictures for many years, I always compare prefer line painting and sculpture, especially the works of Picasso, Mirro, Quell, Kandinsky, Henry Moore and other world-class master works. In a lot of their works, although only had a simple line, but let me feel rich connotation and tension from line, feel the space, volume color relation and artistic conception between lines, the feeling always affected my artistic creation activities.
Tan Jiangning, The Purple Air comes from the east, 88 x 80cm, acrylic paint, May, 2003
From 2000 to 2001, I was in Vancouver and Toronto to study and creation of art activities more than a year, in many museums and galleries, I saw the different styles of works. There were the world-class work and native artists work, they were good at expressing the high level of art scene through all kings of media by using the beauty in the daily life, and it created a profound artistic world. Especially in Vancouver Queen Park, I saw many modern sculptures of Henry Moore, it just a simple combination, but it can be create a very unique artistic effectin in three-dimensional space, and it let me feel very magical. In the same line, the same is a face, body, color and space, in Picasso, Mirro, Kandinsky, Henry Moore, their works of visual space will constitute a fantasy world of art, and it gave to me a lot of line art inspiration. In those days, I created some new works and they were praised by a number of Western artists of Vancouver.
After returning home, after more than two years of meditation, I suddenly had a thought to combined the traditional Chinese painting, western painting, modern decoration painting and sculpture into creative experimental. After a period of time to study lines and experience sculpture, ceramic art creation, it had a lot of new experience. Through the exploration and practice, it preliminary searched for the new way combination of eastern and western painting and sculpture and modern decoration, and it created some new style works, most of the works recorded my thoughts and ideas at this stage.
Tan Jiangning, Chang, 85 x 46cm, acrylic pain, June, 2003
Making use of the opportunity of going to press this painting album, I wanted to express my thank to my teacher Yao Kui, thanks for his art director and comments of works, thanks for my best friend, the professor Zhang Yangen, who gave me support and help.
6th,May,2011