Liu Guosong

•Artist:Liu Guosong

•Title:Heavy Snowing

•Media: Ink and Color on Paper

•Dimensions: 186cm x 94 cm

•Date:2009

Liu Guosong  Liu was born in Shandong, China and moved to Taiwan in 1949. He learned Chinese painting when he was fourteen and western painting when he was twenty. After graduating from the National Taiwan Normal University in 1956 where he studied Fine Arts, he founded the Fifth Moon Art Group and later became the leader of the Chinese Contemporary Painting Movement. Liu has taught in many universities all over the world, including the Department of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin - Stout in USA where he was a Visiting Professor, and National Tainan College of Arts, where he was Dean of the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts.

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• Statement: Liu Kuo-sung (Liu Guosong) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and Taoyuan, Taiwan. Liu is widely regarded as one of the earliest and most important advocates and practitioners of modernist Chinese painting.- wikipedia.org  ( https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?ei=UTF-8&type=avastbcl&hspart=avast&hsimp=yhs-001&p=+Liu+guosong+biography)

•Background Information on the art:  Liu set new trends in modern Chinese ink painting by assimilating Western art theories and Chinese ink painting with inventive techniques. Through the distinctive use of rubbed inks, sprayed inks and torn fibres, he creates fascinating surrealistic sceneries that capture the spontaneity of nature. This innovative approach in ink art allows the artist to rethink the essence of Chinese ink painting and boosts the exploration of different effects in the art of ink painting.

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•Theme Connection:The snow falling reminds me of many  winter days at a cabin my family had in  Big Bear California when I was a child. The snowball fights, building snowmen, and sledding were so much fun. Despite having cold noses we played in the snow of " The Great Outdoors"  for what seemed like hours on end. While inside, this was a common view from out of our cabin window while we got warm in front of the fireplace drinking hot chocolate.