Chinese artist visits Tucson (picture)

Chinese artist visits Tucson (picture) Author: Chalin Pao Tao This year is a colorful year for Chinese art in Tucson. From China...

Author: Chalin Pao Tao

This year is a colorful year for Chinese art in Tucson. Visiting scholars and famous painters Professors Xiao Yushan and Chu Peiyan from China were invited by the Department of East Asia and the Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona at Tucson to give lectures and demonstrate painting in Room 301 of the Art Department Building on the afternoon of November 18. There were about 70 people present, including professors, students from the Department of Art and East Asia, and members of the public. On the 20th, he gave a speech and demonstration at the Chinese Cultural Center in Tucson. The audience was amazed by the beauty of his paintings.

Both art professors are famous painters with profound skills, and their artistic styles combine Chinese and Western styles. His works are collected by several museums and private collectors in many countries.

> Art Department of State College of Science and Technology, famous for its innovative painting methods. With the rise of new artistic trends, he was not satisfied with the traditional expression method of gouache painting, so he created a whole set of new techniques of scraper gouache. Therefore, his gouache paintings are not only different from traditional gouache paintings, but also completely different from oil paintings and watercolor paintings. There are many award-winning works. This time he is showing the long scroll work "Approaching Zhouzhuang", which is a masterpiece based on scraping and supplemented by moving point perspective. It fully displays the vicissitudes, time and space and reality of ancient buildings caused by weathering. He has won many awards.

At the end of November, Professor Song Yuanming came to visit again and gave painting demonstrations at Catarina Foothill Middle School and other schools. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, he was a professor at the Art Department of Linyi University in Shandong Province. He was good at painting landscapes, flowers and birds, figures and animals, especially tigers. His works have won many awards, and the calligraphy and painting circles call him "the first person to paint tigers in Lu Meng".

(Thanks to the Tucson Chinese Contact Newsletter for the contribution)