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Available
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Publication
Purple Gold Guesthouse (2001), 104 pages
Physical description
104 p.
ISBN
9577447104 / 9789577447104
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Call number
MON.CHS.01
Library's review
A portfolio of Sheng-yao Chan's painting,
'Chan Shengyao is a Taiwan-born artist who settled in Vancouver in 1996, after spending ten years in the United States with his wife who taught art history at various art institutions there. Specialised in ink painting, Chan Shengyao's body of work can be
( Abstract source: https://www.aaa.org./hk/index)
'Chan Shengyao is a Taiwan-born artist who settled in Vancouver in 1996, after spending ten years in the United States with his wife who taught art history at various art institutions there. Specialised in ink painting, Chan Shengyao's body of work can be
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divided into several stages. The earliest consists of pure abstract paintings completed with splashed ink method. In the next stage, Chan avoided using brushes, preferring to use only ink and water and letting them blend and flow naturally on the paper. In his more recent paintings, gold and silver acrylic are used to sketch out a somewhat realistic or semi-abstract image emerged through a pictorial surface filled with numerous ink dots. Chan's experimentations with the ink medium and the influence of Buddhism in his art are thoroughly studied in the accompanying essays. A brief biography is provided. ' ( Abstract source: https://www.aaa.org./hk/index)
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Pages
104