HaoGuang
has learned to love painting since he was a child. The smooth lines and the
marvelous colors gave him a wonderful and completely new world which is quite
different from real life. He enjoyed the novelty and delight, and was immersed
in the profound traditional Chinese culture and the magic power done with a
simple brush. After he graduated from XIAN Art Institute, he became a teacher
for eight years. He learned and emulated the paintings of the great masters,
for example, the works of Wu Changsuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, and Shi Lu
etc. After long period of practices, he created his own style, which is simple,
interesting, naive, and brightly-colored. Flowers or birds, or leafs or fish
in his paintings are intended to represent the beautiful life. The delicate
and beautiful lotus flowers, the green and strait bamboo, the braving snow and
frost plum blossoms, or the dragonfly standing on the top of lotus, the fish
swimming in the water and the bird singing on a twig, form a quiet, bright,
warm and harmonic artistic conception.
The contents of his paintings are the most common things
in our lives. But he wants to express uncommon feelings and sense. So, the plum
blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum in his paintings are the symbols of
friendships, pure lotus flower is the symbol of chastity, peony is the symbol
of welfare.
Paintings with Ethnic Flavor
Born in Zhouzhi,
Shaanxi Province, in 1957, Chen Lianxi joined the army and was stationed in
Xinjiang in 1976. He graduated from the Art Department of the PLA Arts Institute.
He started to work at the XiĄŻan Arts Institute in 1995. Now he is the vice-president
of the Research Institute of Calligraphy and Painting of Shaanxi, and is engaged
as a painter by the XiĄŻan Chinese Painting Institute.
Chen Lianxi
is a man with wide experience. He underwent severe trials during his term
of military service-he was once stranded in snow for seven days and nights.
This gave him an understanding of the painful struggle between man and nature.
Chen Lianxi
had longed to attend an arts school since his childhood. To be admitted by
the art department of the PLA Arts Institute was a wonderful opportunity for
him. There, he was taught by Liu Dawei, a famous modern painter.Chen Lianxi
has produced a lot of paintings with ethnic characteristics, including vivid
figures of Uygur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Tajik people.
Chen LianxiĄŻs
Heading for Western Yangguan was selected by the Sixth China Art Exhibition
in 1984; The Brilliant Way and Little Trumpeter was selected by the PLA Artistic
Works Exhibition held on the 65th Anniversary of the PLA in 1992. The Brilliant
Way won the first prize, and Little Trumpeter won the prize for excellence.
Early Spring in the South was selected by the Eighth National Arts Work Exhibition
in 1994; Desert Scenery was selected by the National Exhibition of Paintings
of Scenery and Customs in 1999; Auspicious Light in the Snowy Region was selected
by the 2002 National Exhibition of Chinese Paintings in 2001; and The Source
of the Rivers was selected by the Second National Exhibition of Chinese Paintings
in 2003.
