Land scape
Chung Nguyen Van
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
understand, to use watercolor on paper( ink wash, calligraphy) makes viewers excited then ask the question, why drawing like this, like that. Must practice, but I still want to recall this( your invisible feeling), occupied 90 % of success.
How to draw my watercolor painting( numbers) is completely accidental( especially, I paint very quickly), sometimes I imagine I will draw by this way but when drawing it turns into another way, but my creativity is unlimited. I draw, sometimes only 2 brushstrokes then I stop, feel be OK, completed work, but some work I draw with many brushstrokes that I do not satisfy them. However one special thing, nobody will know if I do not say. In a day of drawing, when finishing the job, I will have a series of work, at least 5 at most 10.
We like No. 116 for the way it successfully attempts to capture such a physical feature and at the same time leaves space for the spectators to a multilayered visual experience, letting them become emotionally involved in what you are attempting to communicate. How do you view the concepts of the real and the imagined playing out within your works?
My No. 116, I also like this work, No. 116 or other numbers, all of them are my accidental drawing. When drawing I do not imagine in advance it will be as you see finally. If you monitor my work process over years, you will recognize a lot of combinations. The black color occupies half of my work as my drawing in the first stage. The brushstrokes run on the patchy walls accidentally. And the numbers, I do them accidentally like the artists make music, the hands over the keyboard. And I let the brush run on paper.
Oriental characters seem to be a major theme in your work. Would you say that freedom is one specific theme that you’ re chasing? Is there any specific theme that you’ re chasing in your work?
Yes, Oriental character, Oriental topic. People look at the series of my paintings, I also guess, people will think that I pursue this topic. But actually, I have never imposed by that topic, but one thing I realize by myself, I am the Oriental, I love all Asian culture. Surely, I like the ancient streets, calligraphy work, the characters on the old town, the Asian cities I go through. And so, it gradually absorbed in my mind, although the abstract painting is very modern but people always recognize that I am drawing the Asian style by the way. And one thing I reveal- the largest inspiration in my series of painting is