RICHMOND, VA – April 30, 2015 / Award winning artist, the notable “Heaven Style” painting founder, Shaoqiang Chen’s art works have been accepted to one national show and one international show recently. The works will be appearing in New York and Texas.
Staring on May 4th, Master Chen’s work “Delight with the Peony” will be exhibited in the National Art League’s (NAL) 85th Annual National Juried Open Show at the NAL Gallery in Douglaston, New York.
Shaoqiang Chen’s painting is featured with strong color contrast, thickness of color and dynamic in lines and strokes. In addition to these features, he impersonated the bees in work to interact with the flowers to depict a playful scene. The work thus delivered a delightful impression. The national show ends on May 30th.
His other painting “Fun in the Lotus Pond Looking from Heaven” will be exhibited in the Society of Watercolor Artists’ (SWA) 34th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas.
The exhibition will showcase high quality art works of distinguished artists from many countries. The painting “Fun in the Lotus Pond Looking from Heaven” is one of Shaoqiang Chen’s “Heaven Style” representative art works. It well illustrates his unique thoughts and novel techniques of this new school. The exhibition opens from May 3rd through June 13th.
For more information about the NAL’s national show, please contact NAL at 44-21 Douglaston Parkway, Douglaston, NY 11363, (718) 224-3957, NAL website: http://www.nationalartleague.org. For SWA international show, contact SWA at 3600 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76133-1407, (940)-320-5660, SWA website: http://www.swawatercolor.com.
About the Artist
Shaoqiang Chen pseudonym “Fou Chi” or “Follower of Wu” and “Zhi Yuan” or “Learning from Afar”. Master Chen is a Yihong Culture Communication Distinguished International Artist. He is a Nanning Yihong Fine Art School Distinguished Art Teacher to the United States. Chen is a Yihong Culture Communication Distinguished International Art Juror and a Richmond Painting and Calligraphy Club Board Member. He also is a member of Guangxi Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute.
Master Chen is the founder of “Heaven Style” of painting. He learned Painting, Calligraphy and Seal Cutting from Master Hong Huang, who is the standing director of Guangxi Calligraphy & Painting Research Institute and the founder of Yihong Fine Art School China. Master Chen is an expert at Mountain – Waters painting, Flower – Bird painting regular script in small characters calligraphy running script calligraphy and seal carving. He has won many awards in national and international art exhibitions and competitions.
Email: Richmond.Chinese.Art@gmail.com
Website: http://shaoqiangchen.wix.com/delightchineseart
RICHMOND, VA – February 26, 2015 / - Shaoqiang Chen gave a public lecture on Chinese painting at the Twin Hickory Library on February 21st. The lecture consisted of two parts: 1) presentation on how to read Chinese painting; 2) hands-on experience of Chinese painting. The lecture attracted many art lovers’ attentions. Shaoqiang Chen not only vividly explained how to appreciate arts from cultural perspective but also guided people to paint a piece of lotus painting, which further helped them better understand Chinese painting through practice.
During the presentation, Shaoqiang Chen conducted deep dive on: 1) foundation differences between Western and Chinese painting theories, 2) the connection between Chinese painting and traditional Chinese culture & philosophy such as Taoism philosophy, 3) Chinese calligraphy art of lines as foundation for Chinese painting, 4) examples of how to distinguish excellent Chinese painting. Shaoqiang Chen emphasized that any forms of arts are connected to their culture and foundational theory. For example, in traditional Western painting, perspective science is one important foundation. For Chinese painting, however, Chinese calligraphy strokes and “Ying & Yang” are decisive elements.
To correctly appreciate Chinese painting, one must read from the key Chinese art elements: calligraphy strokes, “Ying & Yang” contrasts, Chinese philosophy and Chinese culture, etc. After the hands-on experience, many people gave instant positive feedbacks. “I have taken art history courses about Chinese arts in University, but none of the those explained so thorough and vividly as this lecture did.”, said one student.
Due to people’s further interests and requests at the end of this lecture, the Twin Hickory library would host more lectures on Chinese arts provided by Shaoqiang Chen in the near future. For more information about the lecture, contact Twin Hickory Library at (804)290-9200 or www.henricolibrary.org/locations/twinhickory
About Shaoqiang Chen
Shaoqiang Chen pseudonym “Fou Chi” or “Follower of Wu” and “Zhi Yuan” or “Learning from Afar”. Master Chen is a Yihong Culture Communication Distinguished International Artist. He is a Nanning Yihong Fine Art School Distinguished Art Teacher to the United States. Chen is a Yihong Culture Communication Distinguished International Art Juror and a Richmond Painting and Calligraphy Club Board Member. He also is a member of Guangxi Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute.
Master Chen is the founder of “Heaven Style” of painting. He learned Painting, Calligraphy and Seal Cutting from Master Hong Huang, who is the standing director of Guangxi Calligraphy & Painting Research Institute and the founder of Yihong Fine Art School China. Master Chen is an expert at Mountain – Waters painting, Flower – Bird painting regular script in small characters calligraphy?running script calligraphy and seal carving. He has won many awards in national and international art exhibitions and competitions. Shaoqiang Chen's website is http://shaoqiangchen.wix.com/delightchineseart
Email: Richmond.Chinese.Art@gmail.com
Website: http://shaoqiangchen.wix.com/delightchineseart
HANGZHOU, CHINA – October 6, 2014 - / - Shaoqiang Chen is very pleased to announce that his solo exhibit “Heaven Style” will be conducted in Hangzhou, China in October. The show will display about 40 pieces of his recent creations in Chinese painting, calligraphy and seal carving.
Many of these Chen’s pieces have won many national and international level awards. One important part of the show is featured by the “Heaven Style” painting, which was created by Shaoqiang Chen and has been followed by several art schools and art organizations in China and formed a unique painting school recently.
Another highlight of the show is his panorama painting work “Florida Impression”, 1800 cm long, taking 6 years and 2 months to finish. This piece beautifully integrated the freehand painting strokes with his experiences in Florida to depict a novel impression of various creatures that he has seen before.
The exhibition will be held from October 9th through the 16th of October 2014. The exhibition will be held at the Hangzhou Public Library Art Gallery 6, Hangzhou, China. The Sponsor of this event is Guangxi Yihong Culture Communication. The Organizer is Hangzhou Public Library and the Co-Organizer is Nanning Yihong Fine Art School.
For further information on this event and on Shaoqiang Chen's wonderful "Heaven Style" art; Shaoqiang Chen Website
About Shaoqiang Chen:
Shaoqiang Chen pseudonym“Fou Chi” or “Follower of Wu” and “Zhi Yuan” or “Learning from Afar”. Master Chen is a Yihong Culture Communication Distinguished International Artist. He is a Nanning Yihong Fine Art School Distinguished Art Teacher to the United States. Chen is a Yihong Culture Communication Distinguished International Art Juror and a Richmond Painting and Calligraphy Club Board Member. He also is a member of Guangxi Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute.
Master Chen is the founder of “Heaven Style” of painting. He learned Painting, Calligraphy and Seal Cutting from Master Hong Huang, who is the standing director of Guangxi Calligraphy & Painting Research Institute and the founder of Yihong Fine Art School China. Master Chen is an expert at Mountain - Waters painting, Flower - Bird painting regular script in small characters calligraphy? running script calligraphy and seal carving. He has won many awards in national and international art exhibitions and competitions. His website is http://shaoqiangchen.wix.com/delightchineseart
Contact Information:
Phone: 813-500-9907
Email: Richmond.Chinese.Art@gmail.com
