Chan Shengyao is a Taiwan-born artist who settled in Vancouver in 1996, after spending ten years in the United States with his wife who taught art history at various art institutions there. Specialised in ink painting, Chan Shengyao's body of work can be divided into several stages. The earliest consists of pure abstract paintings completed with splashed ink method. In the next stage, Chan avoided using brushes, preferring to use only ink and water and letting them blend and flow naturally on the paper. In his more recent paintings, gold and silver acrylic are used to sketch out a somewhat realistic or semi-abstract image emerged through a pictorial surface filled with numerous ink dots. Chan's experimentations with the ink medium and the influence of Buddhism in his art are thoroughly studied in the accompanying essays. A brief biography is provided.
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Onsite
artist
editor
Location code
MON.CSY2
Language
English,
Chinese - Traditional
Keywords
Publication/Creation date
2001
No of pages
104
ISBN / ISSN
9577447104
No of copies
1
Content type
artist monograph
Chapter headings
A Manifesto on the Creation of Art Generated by Enlightenment (translated by Mary May-Ying Ngai) - CHAN Shengyao, 詹聖堯
Chan Sheng-yao: An Artist Very Different from the Others - Chutsing LI, 李鑄晉
Embracing the Universe: Buddhist Paintings by Chan Sheng-yao - TSAI Emily Hsingli, 蔡杏莉
Smashing and Recreating the Universe: Chan Sheng-yao's Art Generated by Englightenment, 粉碎宇宙 再造宇宙 - 詹聖堯的覺能藝創
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