LandEscape Art Review // Special Issue | Page 124

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