Ink Painting
Watercolor painting or Watercolor painting is a type of painting originating from China. Water means water, ink means ink, Watercolor painting is a painting drawn with water-based ink or Chinese ink on silk paper. The main themes in the paintings are usually trees, flowers, landscapes, birds, animals, people... and often accompanied by poetry and words.
Origin
Ink Paintings often depict a calm, sometimes sad, and thoughtful mood about life. The purpose of the painting is to capture the spirit, like when painting a flower, the flower must be painted so that it has a fresh, soft look. The difficulty in Ink Paintings is that each stroke after putting the pen on the paper is considered finished because it cannot be erased or stamped.
Hundred Flowers Bloom
Lingnan School
The Lingnan Painting School originated from the innovative school in traditional Chinese painting, formed in Guangdong at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The works of this school did not stop at imitating the painting style of the ancients but carried the breath of the times, gorgeous colors, innovation in both aesthetic consciousness and artistic style with the concept of "Pen and ink according to the times".
Fun
Artist Luu Chau Minh
As a rare young artist pursuing the art of Ink Painting of the Lingnan school, a style of painting that cannot be copied but also requires years of hard work. The exhibition at Art Space displays 27 paintings by Luu Chau Minh. With diverse sizes, the smallest painting is 33cm x 53cm, and the largest painting is 95cm x 179cm.
Lotus Fragrance
It only took him a few months to complete the 27 paintings, but to start painting, he had to spend more than ten years of hard practice. He shared, "Actually, to draw a watercolor painting is very fast, usually it takes a few hours for one painting, but to start painting, I had to practice since I was in elementary school." To have a work of depth and thickness, the artist must diligently cultivate not only the technique but also the soul and spirit of the artist hidden in the paintings.
Coming to the exhibition, you will be able to admire many typical paintings of the Watercolor painting genre with extremely impressive lines and colors. You will also be surprised by the liveliness of the Peony flowers, Peach branches, Lotus flowers through the paintings "Peony blooming", "Sapa peach blossom" or "Lotus fragrance", "Spring happiness"... feel the calmness and peace in the artist's landscape paintings through the paintings "Peace", "Origin" and especially "Snow rain".
Flowers bloom in prosperity
Sleet
At the opening of the exhibition, Artist Luu Chau Minh sketched a painting for auction to raise funds for breast cancer patients.
Article: Bao Khuyen
