Juried Awards 2010  

 

Lingnan School of Painting 

The 16th Annual exhibition and Juried Awards 2010  Call for entryOpening and Award Ceremony. will be held November 6, 2010 at CCC Museum 555 Columbia St., Vancouver.

 So spectacularly successful had been Japan's modernization in the Meiji period that the Japanese were convinced that they had found the solution to the problem of how to adapt Western culture to East Asia, and t .......

 

 

 Ju Chao

 

 Ju Lian

The painter in the Qing Dynasty, a native of Panyu,GuangDong province,the brother of Ju Lian.His style name was Mei Sheng and his sobriquet was Mei Chao.He was talented in painting flowers and insects.

Ju Lian, alias Guquan, was a native Panyu. He was a bird-and-flower painter emphasized on observation and sketching of objects in nature. Ju specialized in the application of the innovative technique of "zhuangshui" 

 

 

Gao Jian-Fu 

 

Chen Shu-Ren

Gao Jianfu began studying with a prominent local artist, Ju Lian, in Keshan, Guangdong at the age of fourteen. He learned under his master's tutelage to paint flowers, plants, and .....

Chen Shu-Ren, whose original name was Shao, alias Nianhua-weixiaozi, Dean-laoren and Ershan-shanqiao, was born at Mingjing Village of Panyu District in the Guangdong Province. At the

 

 

 Gao Qifeng

 

Seiho TAKEUCHI

Gao Jianfu younger brother, Qifeng, accompanied him to Japan, where the younger man studied the art of Japanese realism, or Nihonga. This painting, with its combination of Western naturalism and Japanese decorative style, is a superb

When speaking of modern Japanese-style painting, the names Taikan YOKOYAMA and Seiho TAKEUCHI always arise. These two painters introduced European painting styles into traditional Japanese painting and harmonized them. .........

 

 

Ven. Hiu Wan

 

Japanese Connection

Ven. Hiu Wan was awarded the Cultural Prize in 1997 by the Executive Yuan, the nation's highest honor for personal achievement.

Aside from being a distinguished artist, she is a also renowned for her scholarship in Buddhism,

Although the Lingnan School stresses renewal and creativity, its essential spirit does not reside in rejection of traditional methods and inspiration. Rather, we consider ourselves heirs of tradition and we strive, clearly, toward

 

 

Chao Shao-Ang

 

Guan Shan Yue

Chao Shao-Ang is a native of Guangzhou, Guangdong. He founded the Lingnan Art Studio in Guangzhou. In 1937 he served as the head of the Department of Chinese Painting at the Guangzhou Municipal College of ..........

Guan Shanyue (1912, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province) graduated from Guangzhou Municipal Teachers Training College in 1933. His early work consisted of sketches made in Southwestern and ..................

 

 

  Shoen UEMURA

 

HASHIMOTO

Born in Kyoto in 1875. Winning many prizes early in her career, she was already known as an up-and-coming female painter in the 1880s. She submitted works to the Bunten exhibition from the first such exhibition in 1907. Her work ....

Born in Kobe in 1883. In his childhood, he studied sinology and basic classes at the Shijo school. He then joined Chikujokai, a private school led by Seiho TAKEUCHI, during which time he actively participated .....

 

 

 Au Ho-Nien

 

Yangshan Shen

A painter with the bearing of a master, one can almost hear birdsong sounding through the mountains/ As he rises aloft to the Milky Way, he looks back on the innumerable peaks below . . . (Chao Shao-Ang)Thirty years ago Au Ho-nine master Chao Shao-Ang,.........

Yang Shan-hen is one of the most representative artists of the second generation of the Lingnan School of Painting. Specialized in bird and flower, figure, landscape painting and excelled in calligraphy, he is open-minded to adopt the s...................

 

 

Henry Wo

 

The Art of James Tan

A subtle fusing of influences drawn from the East and the West softly permeates Wo paintings. He combines his strong heritage of Chinese brushwork and principles with his free translucent washes, punctuated with delicate linear accents.................

In his years of study with established masters of the Lingnan school and more than fifteen more years of teaching other aspiring artists, James Tan has now emerged as a leader of the next generation of Lingnan brush .........

 

 

Crossing Boundaries

 

Portraits of Chinese Masters

The “Crossing Boundaries 2010” Invitation Exhibition will be presented by Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver, in association with the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Chinese Canadian Artists .......
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 15th Annual Exhibition

 

A Missing Page

The 15th Annual exhibition and Juried Awards 2009 Opening and Award Ceremony. will be held November 7, 2009 at CCC Museum 555 Columbia St., Vancouver.

 

A specially curated retrospective exhibition of the works of the contemporary Chinese sculptor, Goon T. Chan, provided by his sons in Canada, will be shown at the Chinese Cultural Centre