Message from rliao

[Anonymous]

I visited the Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles last 5/20/12. It had all the things Julie mentioned above. I have learned that before we look at the Chinese painting, we should read the end of the painting, the painter wrote down his feelings when he painted the scroll. (This Chinese painting was once owned by Emoperor Qing Long. he thought that the painting was not the original painting).why he was painting . One of the paintings stood out for me was the painting of Huang Kong Wang on "Fu-Chung San Chu" It was painted by an 82 year old man, who painted with the philosophy of Lao-zi, positive space and negative were equally important. In his painting it showed the four seasons, reminiscence of his live, there were 7 people in the paintings, it showed a fisherman fishing from the beginning, near the end there was a pine tree welcoming the fisherman to the scholar, during that time, when the scholar were
tired of the politics they will just live in the mountain chopping woods to keep themselves warm, and fish around the lake for food. At the end of the painting, it showed a person returning back. It showed the philosophy of the cycle of life. If you have friends that understands Chinese language you can go to http://www.tudou.com/listplay/LwKO_MPXmzc.html to listen to the artist who explained this painting.

I will show some Chinese paintings to the students, introduce the tools used in Chinese paintings, and have the students use paint brush to draw lines with black paint on white rectangular construction paper, and decorate their paintings with crunched up tissues paper as flowers, put their painted and collage art with black construction paper as backing, tape yarn on top of their black construction paper, and it becomes a Chinese art in a scroll.
edited by rliao on 6/10/2012
edited by rliao on 6/21/2012