Artist Dongqing's artistic road



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原文刊登《今日湖北》2014年11月/总第187期

It was reported on the newspaper "Today's Hubei" , in Nov. 2014, issue No. 187


Paint life with dazzle dancing

——Artist Dong Qing's artistic road

Author / Xiawa

 

Dong Qing, born in Wuhan, Hubei, is one of the contemporaryChina’s artists and an Oil painter. He is members of some professional organizations, such as Chinese Artists Association, German Society of Economic & Cultural Communication,Hubei Artists Association and Hubei Aesthetic education association, and the researcher of the Chinese Classics Institute. Moreover, his works had been widely exhibited in many famous art agencies both in china and abroad. 

At the first time I met him, I could felt his artistic temperament. He was elegant in his behaviors and easygoing people with a friendly smile. 

Qing is just like the “second art generation”, as his father Dong Li, is also a famous oil painter in the early 1950s in which the art had been influenced by the Soviet  Union at that time. Qing began to learn painting at the age of five. He had seen all forms of art in his childhood including oil painting, traditional Chinese painting, prints, sculpture, and he was in his father’s studio nearly all of his spare time. When he went to the junior high school affiliated the Hubei academy of fine arts, he fall in love with the symbolical and abstract pictograms, such as rock paintings, ancient painted pottery, bronze ornamentation, portrait brick ornamentation, such as Han Vatan. 

In early 1994, when Dong Qing was a sophomore in the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, in four months , He had created the great works — "Gluttonous",which were a set of 16 paintings. The works told the myth in ancient China: at first told Chiyou’s story as a clue, then we could read the image of the ancient myth Kuafu,Nvba,Fenghou,Xuannv, etc., which were happened in the background of Yan Emperor and Huang Emperor. At the same year, the works "Gluttonous" had been exhibited in his college. 

At that time in his college, the Chinese art trends had been used to return to reality seeking to match the international art standards. But Dong Qing, he threw himself into the studio, and accompanied with his paintings of symbolic art like bronze, pottery, han brick’s decorations  . He used Chinese ancient life symbols and patterns to go after the mysticism. This is the main artistic style of Dong Qing’s early works in the 1990s. All his brain were full of Chinese ancient myth, religion, ancestors, totem, ceremonies, and so on, which mean the nature of life. After he had done the works of "Gluttonous", he created other works such as《Fu-his》、《Padmasambhava》、《Bronzeseries》、《Feast》、《Space-time》etc.

Civilization as historic cycles, when reaching the bottleneck, with a new direction it returns back to the start line, to find the souls. Such Philosophy thinking is often reflected in his works of this period, then he painted it in his works: In his paintings, he was asking questions, answering them, then moving on.

《Space-time》told the cycles of life: beginning at Chinese ancient cliff paintings and firstly coloured potteries coming out, then reaching Spring and autumn period the curious beasts and strange people in  'Mountains-Seas Book” showing, with the time flies the folk pattern going on, From Qin dynasty to Tang dynasty the images of the Buddha coming, all this had been composed by using Dunhuang mural type.  This is absolutely a magnificent masterpiece as history books.

On November, in 2010, Beijing Opera as an important component of Chinese culture that had been enlisted into Masterpieces of the oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. However in 2009, Dong Qing began to compose the series of Beijing Opera, expressing his special painting style. The works were continued the oriental cultural symbols, then he expressed and explored the new. He focus on visual effects which had been produced by the characters, costumes, color, movement, under the light and shade, and he could have painting all this to his oil paintings, which looks colorful, dazzling and amazing.

Dong Qing, he is not only an artist who has experienced techniques, but also he paints history and society, and reflects on the culture and life in the paintings. In his works of 《Mountain Dance series》、《Chasing the sun》、《Outskirts》, we could vividly find people are chasing immortal lives and everlasting existence.

Translation / LuLu

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