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Sunday, April 1, 2012

吴象峰油画（人体艺术）- Wú xiàng fēng yóu huà (rén tǐ yì shù) - Oil Painting (Body Art)

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PHOTO: 油画《梦》《倩影 qiàn yǐng》入选法国卢浮宫世界艺术大展获特别奖。
Oil painting titled《Dream》《Beautiful image of a woman》 selected for the France Louvre, the world art exhibitions and won a Special Award.
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出生于上海。毕业于湖北艺术学院。湖北省美术家协会会员，襄樊市美协顾问，市油画研究会顾问。
Born in Shanghai. Graduated from the Hubei Fine Arts Institute. Hubei Artists Association, Association Consultants, Xiangfan City, City of Oil Painting Research Society adviser.

1991年油画《天涯海角》入选庆祝中国共产党成立70周年美术作品展,获优秀奖。
Oil painting 《The ends of the earth》 was selected in 1991 to celebrate the Chinese Communist Party 70th Anniversary Art Exhibition. Win an Excellence Award.

1994年油画《古井》入选湖北省第八届美术作品展。
《小平你好》87年出版单幅画，95年入选中国历史文化名城展,获三等奖。
1994 oil painting 《Furui》, was selected by the eighth art exhibition in Hubei Province.
《Hello Xiaoping》, a single picture, published in 1987. In 1995 it was selected for the historical and cultural city show. It won the third prize.

油画《梦》《倩影 qiàn yǐng》入选法国卢浮宫世界艺术大展获特别奖。Oil painting titled《Dream》《Beautiful image of a woman》selected for the France Louvre, the world art exhibitions and won a Special Award.

PHOTO: 油画《梦》《倩影 qiàn yǐng》入选法国卢浮宫世界艺术大展获特别奖。
Oil painting titled《Dream》《Beautiful image of a woman》 selected for the France Louvre, the world art exhibitions and won a Special Award.
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1997年出版《香港回归一国两制》《甘当人民公仆为官造福一方》《建文明城市做文明市民》《把我们的事业推向新世纪》等宣传画。
Published in 1997, the Hong Kong Reunification, 《One country, two systems》 and 《Willingness to be servants of the people》, 《To build a civilized city by civilized people》,《Bring our career into the new century》.

1998年油画《古老的作坊》入选全国第八届群星奖。
1998 oil painting 《The old workshop》 was selected for the National Eighth Star Award.

1999年油画《古老的作坊》入选湖北省第三届“楚天群星奖”,获优秀奖。
1999 oil painting 《The old workshop》 was selected in Hubei Province for the third Chutian Stars Award "Excellence Award".

2000年油画《远方的祝福》入选第九届湖北省美术作品展。
2000 oil painting 《The distant blessing》 was selected by the Ninth Hubei Province Art Exhibition.

PHOTO: 油画《梦》《倩影 qiàn yǐng》入选法国卢浮宫世界艺术大展获特别奖。
Oil painting titled《Dream》《Beautiful image of a woman》 selected for the France Louvre, the world art exhibitions and won a Special Award.
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《远方的祝福》入选《走向21世纪湖北省书画艺术作品大展》获金奖，多幅作品参选湖北省画院系列展，出版挂历专辑《东方神韵》。
《Distant Blessing》 was selected. 《Towards the 21st century Hubei Province, calligraphy and painting works of art 》 exhibition "Gold Award, multiple entries from the Hubei Art Academy exhibition series, publishing calendars album" oriental charm.

2001年《杂技之花》《龙的传人》《小演员》入选第六届全国年画展，《龙的传人》获铜奖，《杂技之花》获优秀奖。油画《远方的祝福》入选爱我中华中国画油画大展获银奖。
2001 《The acrobatics Flower》,《Descendants of the Dragon》 and 《Young Actor》 were selected for the Sixth National Exhibition. 《Descendants of the Dragon》 won the Bronze Award. 《The acrobatics flowers》 won the Award of Excellence. Painting 《The distant blessing》 was selected for Love China Chinese oil painting exhibition, which won the Silver Award.

2002年参加第10届中国艺术博览会，出版《黄河画室画集》。
Attended the 10th China Art Exposition in 2002. Published the 《Yellow River studio art collections》.

PHOTO: 油画《梦》《倩影 qiàn yǐng》入选法国卢浮宫世界艺术大展获特别奖。
Oil painting titled《Dream》《Beautiful image of a woman》 selected for the France Louvre, the world art exhibitions and won a Special Award.
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参加上海艺术博览会。
Participate in the Shanghai Art Fair.

2004年参加第11届中国艺术博览会. 参加首届中国收藏文化博览会，并荣获金艺奖。作品《睡美人》被印制成门票发行。
Attended the 11th China Art Exposition in 2004. Also participated in the first collection Culture Expo, and was awarded the Gold Arts Award. Work, 《Sleeping Beauty》 was distributed together with the sale of ticket.

2007年《夏日》入选湖北第12届楚天群星奖获优秀奖，入选纪念省美协成立50周年湖北省美术作品展。《母亲湖》入选荆风楚韵画展。
2007 《Summer》 was selected at the 12th Hubei Chutian Stars for the Excellence Award Prize. It was selected to commemorate the province of the United States Association 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition in Hubei Province. 《Mother Lake》 selected for the Jing Feng Chu exhibition.

2009年《舞》入选纪念中华人民共和国成立60周年湖北省画院优秀作品展。《奥运新秀—廖辉》入选北京祖国为你骄傲展并获奖。
《Dance》 was selected in 2009 to commemorate the founding of the People's Republic of China 60th anniversary, the Hubei Art Academy Outstanding Works Exhibition. 《Olympic New Comer - Liao Hui》 was selected for the Beijing motherland, "Proud of you" exhibition, and won an award.

Translated by:
Using MDBG English - Chinese Dictionary (www.mdbg.net), an online dictionary with English and Chinese language (with Pinyin), and Google translate.

PHOTO: 油画《梦》《倩影 qiàn yǐng》入选法国卢浮宫世界艺术大展获特别奖。
Oil painting titled《Dream》《Beautiful image of a woman》 selected for the France Louvre, the world art exhibitions and won a Special Award.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Colour his world

Today, Monday, August 1, 2011, Arts, Page 2 & 3
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By Mayo Martin, 04:45 AM Aug 01, 2011

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A retrospective on Liu Kang sheds light on the Nanyang pioneer artist

PHOTO: Liu Kang borrows traditional Chinese ink landscape styles but fills it with colour for Life By The River

"In terms of sheer colour, he is the boldest painter in the country; no one else tries, and gets away with, such flaring contrasts of red and blue as Liu Kang does."

That bold statement was uttered back in 1957 by the Singapore-based Australian art critic Frank Sullivan, and more than 50 years later, these words still resonate distinctly.

PHOTO: A Girl Sitting On Verandah/ My Young Wife
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While there are many delightful aspects to pick out and mull over in Liu Kang: A Centennial Celebration, the ongoing survey show at the Singapore Art Museum, none stands out more than the late Nanyang pioneer's lust for life through his sheer passion for colour.

PHOTO: Liu Kang's Offerings.
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This is the fourth extensive exhibition on Singapore's pioneer artists by the National Art Gallery, Singapore, after Anthony Poon, Yeh Chi Wei and Cheong Soo Pieng; and over the course of 100 paintings, sketches and artefacts, audiences can immerse themselves in the world of an artist who had once described his life as colourful as his paintings.

The travelling man and his art

Like many of his contemporaries who would eventually emerge as the cornerstones of the country's fledgling art scene, Liu shuffled from place to place before settling in Singapore. Born in Fujian Province in China in 1911, he found himself in the Malaysian town of Muar, where his father worked as a rubber merchant. He later studied in Paris in the late 1920s, returning as the youngest lecturer in Shanghai Academy Of Fine Art.

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With the onset of Sino-Japanese war in 1937, he relocated his family to Muar and then to Singapore. He would shuffle back and forth yet again before settling for good in Singapore after World War II, where he stayed until his death in 2004 at the age of 93.

The artist's wandering ways enabled him to soak in and combine influences from Asia and Europe. The touch of post-Impressionism is very obvious in works that proudly wear their badge of allegiance to Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin and - as in one obvious exercise in unabashed homage, a sunflower painting - Van Gogh.

PHOTO: Liu Kang borrows traditional Chinese ink landscape styles but fills it with colour for Life By The River

According to curator Ong Zhen Min, Liu never turned his back on his roots - the meticulous and studied use of lines in his paintings and drawings were drawn from the tradition of Chinese ink painting. In the famous piece, Life By The River, for example, Liu transports a kampong scene within a composition reminiscent of Chinese ink landscapes and renders it as an oil painting.

In Liu Kang: A Centennial Celebration, the exhibition itself eschews (avoid) the more linear, chronological approach to track down Liu's artistic journey - mostly because the Nanyang artist doesn't seem to lend himself to that.

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"He moves back and forth styles," said Ong with a wry smile.

Even the curators' tactics to divide the show into four thematic (relating) sections - early works, artistic practices (line works, sketches),subject matter (works from his travels and motifs), and a "documentation" of Singapore and Malaya's landscapes - seem tenuous (not substantial) at times.

Depending on your disposition (inherent qualities of mind and character), it could either be frustrating or liberating. Or both.

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However, freed from the weight of chronologically witnessing an artist developing his craft, one can see Liu Kang as a man of many dispositions. At times, he comes across as an artist who really seemed to love doing nudes or portraits, or, as the case may be, portraits of artists doing portraits or landscapes. Ong said that as an artist, Liu considered portraiture as a more solid foundation for an artist than still life.

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At other times, in the subtlest of ways, the artist is a guy with a sense of humour. How else can you explain The Padang, with its image of a man with a lawnmower set in the middle of, well, the most recognisable field in the city? Or maybe he's simply one who is at once restless and playful in his attempts to jump from various styles.

While some observers may look at Liu as a one-dimensional artist - or at the very least, not as versatile or conceptually innovative as his fellow contemporary Cheong Soo Pieng, for example - his dedication and approach to the use of colour comes across as a satisfyingly unifying element in the show.

PHOTO: Liu Haisu's Tenth Trip To Mount Huangshan
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How colour shaped Liu Kang's world

The use of colour had been something that was hinted early on in Liu's career, but seemed to have exploded after the now-historically seminal Bali trip in 1952 with the likes of fellow artists Cheong, Chen Wen Hsi and Chen Chong Swee.

PHOTO: Liu Kang's Indian Musicians.
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The emergence of more vibrant colours in his works - arguably even more so than the rest of his contemporaries - was brought about by the efforts to capture his tropical surroundings, said Ong. But it wasn't only the environment that burst with colours. Liu was also entranced by batik patterns, which he wove into to works like Women Drying Sarongs.

But it wasn't just colour that oozed from his works post-Bali. More importantly, Liu began to actively articulate what was integral in this so-called Nanyang style of art, with its mix of East and West in a tropical blender.

PHOTO: Artist And Model
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From the 1950s, Liu became a vocal advocate (publicly supports or recommends) of Nanyang art, said co-curator Grace Tng. He presided over the Singapore Art Society for a decade in the late 1960s and, while his contemporaries were seemingly focused on simply making art, Liu also dabbled in writing about art. His writings can be seen in Liu Kang:

Essays On Art And Culture, a compilation of his articles that has been translated from Chinese into English to coincide with this retrospective (looking back on) exhibition.

PHOTO: The National Art Gallery, Singapore, will be commemorating the centennial birth of Liu Kang (1911 – 2011).

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From articles about fellow artists like Chen Wen His and Georgette Chen, to his musings on music, medical science - and even French ballet; to his travel observations on India and Bali, to problematising Singapore's own art scene, and even pushing, way ahead of its time, the idea for a South-east Asian arts centre, Liu was more than an artist - he was an intellectual. And that, really is what makes him stand out.

PHOTO: The National Art Gallery, Singapore, will be commemorating the centennial birth of Liu Kang (1911 – 2011).
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Liu Kang: A Centennial Celebration runs until Oct 16 at the Singapore Art Museum, 71 Bras Basah Road.

For details visit www.nationalartgallery.sg. Liu Kang: Essays On Art And Culture is available at S$28.88 from Museum Shop, Kinokuniya and Select Books.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Yoga Colour

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Project your true colours. Like the peacock feather ... discover blissful, spiritual awakening. Be all-seeing with knowledge and wisdom gained from compassionate, unbiased 'eyes'. Take pride in your nobility of character and regality (state of being a king or queen) of posture. See the yoga in you.

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The Power Of Colour
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You know that everything has energy. Life itself is pure energy. If you have ever felt the vital force of color vibrating from the environment, you have come one step closer to being connected not only with your spirit, by with your physical senses as well.

Each light and colour consists of many electromagnetic waves which vibrate at different frequencies. The reason you see colour is that these vibrations are received by the sensitive photoreceptors in the retina of the eye, called cones which able to translate the vibrating energy of each object into colours sending messages to our utmost powerful control centre – the brain.

In turn, the brain generates the release of certain hormones and neurochemicals depending on the messages it gets. For example, by looking at a particular colour you may stimulate or suppress pituitary and pineal glands located in the centre of the cranium. These glands regulate the function of hormones governing metabolism and growth of the body, sleep patterns and blood pressure functions, appetite and thirst sensations.

When the energy in one part of the body gets out of balance, the chain reaction will begin to happen leading to changes in all systems and organs. Hormonal disturbances, mood fluctuations, impaired digestion and other illnesses may all be caused by many different events, so correcting them all may need to be done through a variety of approaches. And something as simple as being exposed to the correct colour has a wonderful ability to help in treatment and prevention of unwanted existing and potential conditions related to different functions in the system.

Today, natural therapists use Colour Therapy as an alternative completely non-invasive method to restore energy and boost the natural immunity bringing vitality to one’s life. Therapists believe that as light and colour is received and absorbed through the skin, it works on the entire body conveying equilibrium to growth and sleep patters, nervous and immune function, sexual behavior and mood, digestion and appetite.

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Meaning of Colors
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RED stimulates brain wave activity, increases heart rate, respirations and blood pressure, excites sexual glands. It warms us and awakens us physically and energizes our blood. It is a good color to wear when we have colds and poor circulation. Too much red can over stimulate and make some illnesses worse.

ORANGE is the color of joy and wisdom, energy and internal connection. It stimulates appetite and it is a good color for illnesses of the colon and digestion.

YELLOW is the color of wisdom and emotions. It energizes, relieves depression, improves memory, stimulates appetite and helps in digestive problems.

GREEN has a calming and balances effect on the nervous system. Soothing and relaxing, green color ease from depression, anxiety, nervousness. Since green stimulates growth, it should be avoided in cancers and other tumors.

BLUE is calming and cooling to our system and hence, a good color to counteract hypertension. Spiritually it is the color of health and connects us to holistic thought.

INDIGO is the color for healing. It stimulates immunity and enhances intuition connecting us to our unconscious self.

VIOLET is cleansing, strengthening, and awakening. It has the power to suppress appetite restoring the peaceful environment. It affects the skeletal system of the body and is a good color for improving immunity, cancerous conditions, and arthritis. It also purifies the system and is an excellent color for headaches and migraines.

PHOTO: Yoga Colour
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Reference

Today, Tuesday, July 12, 2011, Hot News, Page 2 (Photo)
www.todayonline.com
http://imcmsimages.mediacorp.sg/CMSFileserver/documents/006/PDF/20110712/1207HNP002.pdf
http://powerofnature.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/colour-therapy-for-yoga/ (Texts)