Shen Qin
July 24, 2000 by TCG Nordica
Filed under artists, visual artist
Lighting the world of life with paintings
By Hen-Xiaoxin
Shen Qin is a talented woman from Suzhou, and an outstanding student of China Fine Arts Institute. Since the end of 2000, her paintings mostly circles around the infant. These figures are sketched with a casual feeling and a succinct summary, omitting some detailed depiction. At this point, Shen Qin s style is very different from that of Neo-Zhe School -figure painting. But on the other hand, her strengthening of the expression of paintings continuously develops the Neo-Zhe School system.
These paintings are successfully combined with the technique of drawing, which is a big challenge to an artist s painting language and its expression.
An artist should enrich his painting language from the traditional resources. The traditional painting language has a rich legacy, which is a big resource for contemporary artists. Still, we must realize our own advantages and be proud of them. Many years ago, I had an idea: as Spinkle put it, the traditional painting language is a pure form, deeply rooted in the culture , a basic symbol of traditional wash paintings (one of Spinkle s notions). The traditional painting language should have three basic functions: the first is depicting (namely drawing the appearance); the second is freehand brushwork (emotion, idea and interest); the third is expression (directly express the intelligence and the power of life). Drawing the appearance has not been so important, freehand brushwork was exaggerated by the artists of Ming, Qing Dynasty. Only the expression function has not been sufficiently developed.
Shen Qin develops and transfers the expression function of the traditional painting. Her paintings are full of intelligence and life, which is not so easily achieved. Her paintings are relatively aloof and free, as relaxed as possible. She is not fussed about the so-called painting effect, interest or meaning. She tries to make her painting technique varied dry or wet, thick or light, She handles the brush with ease, sometimes use the midpoint, sometimes the side point, sometimes scraping sometimes dyeing lightly with the ink, which makes her paintings full of rhythm and strengthens the expression of her painting language.
The Infant series concerns the contemporary problems, there are various forms of vivid life, which are enough to strike the contemporary people s soul and waken the power of life. The medium painting language, is truly the traditional painting language, which is not entirely same to any artist or school, but a comprehensive development and contemporary transfer. Maybe some people would say that Shen Qin is influenced by Dumas from Belgium, but we should not forget that her cultural personality absolutely belongs to China.
Nanjing, Nov.15, 2004
Resume:
1974 Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
1999 Graduated from Traditional Chinese Painting Department, China Academy of Fine Arts, with a major in portrait painting
1999 Been teaching at the Department of Fine Arts, Yunnan Academy of Arts
Solo Exhibitions
1999 Shen Qin Ink Painting Exhibition, Switzerland
2002 Babies ? Shen Qin Ink Painting Exhibition, Kunming, China
Co-Exhibitions
2006 Contemporary Tradition, Italy
2005 The 21st Century Invitation Exhibition of Young Outstanding Chinese and Korean Artists, Beijing
2004 The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2004 Yunnan Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Kunming, China
2004 The 10th Chinese National Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
2004 ?The Five Artists ? Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sweden
2004 Infants, Norway
2004 The Logbook co-exhibition by Chinese and Swedish artists, Kunming & Beijing
2004 The Children at Mount Menghan?? the 1st Prize of the 4th Yunnan
Literature and Artistic Creation Foundation;
2003 Chinese Mainland ? Overtake Enjoyable New Art Request Unful, Shenzhen, China
2003 Shanghai Art Salon, Shanghai
2002 The National Fine Arts Exhibition to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Speech by Mao Zedong Yan an Forum on Literature and Art Forum, Kunming, China(bronze medal awarded)
2002 The 1st Exhibition of Yunnan Young Artist Nominees Kunming, China
2001 Chinese New Paintings Exhibition, Sweden
2000 Yunnan Traditional Chinese Painting and Portrait Paintings Exhibition , Kunming, China
1999 Painting Exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the foundations of the Yunnan Academy of Arts, Kunming, China
1999 The 9th Chinese National Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China
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