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A Happy Excursion #7
Ying Guo
5345171961
UGallery
acrylic, watercolour, pastel, graphite on Paper New
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2016
22" h x 15" w |1 lbs. 0 oz.
SHIPS FREE
About
This
Artwork
This painting was created after coming back from a trip visiting my parents in China. I was delighted to see them and spend time with my family. This title also comes from the ancient Chinese philosopher Chuang Tsu's work, A Happy Excursion, which is a book about life philosophy.
This piece created with acrylic, watercolor, soft pastel, and graphite on heavyweight paper with deckled edges. It need a frame for display.
Ying Guo
Tianjin, China
Ying Guo began painting as a child, attending painting classes at the cultural center in her hometown in China. Since then, she says her painting brushes have not left her. Trained in traditional Chinese ink painting, her work clearly imitates the strong calligraphic lines and brushstrokes of her heritage. However, she has contemporized this tradition with a modern abstract expressionist approach. The pieces are bold and emotive, and inspired by the nature she experiences around her. Ying lives in St. John’s Harbor in Newfoundland, Canada, an island off the east coast of North America. The scenic views of the ocean and hills along the harbor provoke vivid colors in her art. She does not sketch or plan the pieces before she begins, which allows her to experiment with the process and come to an unexpected result. Although the paintings can feel unrestrained and full of movement, there is a controlled quality as well. The circular nature of the compositions, combined with an exquisite balance, make the work feel fully formed but not a single brushstroke overworked.
Very happy with my purchase, the color is even better in person. I love the paper too.
The most interesting part about painting is some paintings start from a similar point and end up quite differently along with the artist's experience change or we could say the paintings figure their direction out with the artist's performance.
I had a strong feeling of bringing my ink paintings skills, which has been abandoned for a while back to paper recently. And I fell in love again with the spontaneous ink spreading on paper. From this series- Precipitation, I feel more confident of putting things together and heading to my own art direction.
There was a short article about Picasso's self portraits posted by a high school mate in our circle recently. There was one portrait i loved very much created when he was 90 years old with simple black and white lines and shadow. I wondered what my art would look like if i could live to 90 years old.
A while ago, one day, i was thinking about the reason why i always wanted to make paintings. One little thing popped up in my mind that there was once when I was learning painting at the local Children’s Palace around 9 year old, some of my sketches dropped in the hallway that i did not realize when going back from outside to the classroom. A little young girl, around 5 year old, found the sketches and tore them into parts and threw them on the floor. This was found out by me ten minutes later. For some reason, I got mad and found that girl in a dance classroom and grabbed her out of her classroom and yelled at her and asked her why she did so. She was frightened and cried immediately. I felt sorry to the little girl after that. I should have calmed down and should have expressed my sadness about my sketches to the little girl’s teacher and should have waited for their response. But i did not. I realized that it was because i have taken my art creation seriously from the very beginning that I had a strong desire of being a great artist. This has reminded me that i got to keep my dream move forward.
Facing a blank piece of paper always frightens and excites me simultaneously. Obviously i have wasted a lot of paper. If by the end, i got some decent paintings, i would feel better.