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Chung Nguyen Van
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
painting. For instance, I did not find out the beauty of works of Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, but I only liked the beauty immediately catching the eye of the viewers like Chinese watercolour painting. I liked and learning about this kind of paiting. However, from time to time, my perception of painting in changed; I recognized the Western painting was really wonderful. I always asked myself why Pablo Picassob draws like this or Vincent van Gogh draws like that; They were recornized by the world so there must have some reasons. What I have not undertood I will find out until I can undertand.
I began drawing abstract paintings when I found out the beauty of Western painting but the benefit I had more than others in drawing and I guessed that not many people know was that I applied the spirit of paiting style of Chinese watercolour painting. The array of colors and contours are always in an invisible balance, to the extent I can control and manage; there is no superfluous brushwood; if there is meaningless brushwood superfluous, the paiting will be damaged. I always applied the invisible feeling for my works.
The visual language you convey in your pieces seems to be the result of a constant evolution of your searching for new means to express the ideas you explore in your works: your inquiry into the expressive potential of tones combines together figurative as subtle abstract feature into a coherent balance. We we would suggest to our readers to visit http:// chungpainter. blogspot. it / in order to get a synoptic view of your work: in the meanwhile, would you like to tell to our readers something about the evolution of your style? In particular, would you shed light on your usual process and set up? Do you have a composition in mind when you start painting, or do you go with the flow?
Oh, wonderful! If you visit the website chungpainter. com, you will immediately see the process of my creating. In that website, I set up timeline such as what I drew in 2011, what are differences in 2012 and so on. One thing I cannot explain is that when I was interested in paiting, I immediately loved or saying in a standard way that I was born to be abstract painter. The period before 2011, I drew many kinds of paiting such as realistic paiting, manifestation paiting and watercolour painting in the Chiness style but after that I realized