Brush Magic - Jinghua Gao Dalia

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Splendid Garden

Splendid Garden (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Immortal Rhymes

Immortal Rhymes (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Under the Sun

Under the Sun (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Carefree Life

The Carefree Life (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

I am painting very large paintings these days, painting either large size or very small ones are all challenges. Whether managing a lot of subjects in a large space or carefully mapping key images in a small space, it's all about Yin and Yang balance.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Under an Autumn Sky

Under an Autumn Sky (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

Holiday season is around the corner, time flies too fast to accomplish everything and the new year is knocking at the door. I try to do as much as I can to improve my art skills, this is my greatest concern for every year.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Water Music

6" x 8" watercolor
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I draw "birds and flowers" and landscapes as well. People would ask me which one is my favorite? I think that both styles represent nature's magnificence. If I can capture its spirit well, they each give me joy and peace.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Fragrance at My Window

6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

Every year the magnolia blossoms beautifully, it fills the air with pure fragrance. I used to sketch them under the tree while I soaked up its beauty and fragrance.

An Artist's Life

I began my art study at the age of nine with my father, Gao Yi-hung, who was a leading Chinese artist and the calligraphy master to Chiang Kai-shek’s son, Chiang Ching-guo, the President of the Republic of China. I also had the unique opportunity to study with some of China’s most outstanding watercolorists.

I received a Fine Arts degree from National Taiwan Normal University and studied in the graduate art program at the University of Hawaii. In 1996, Madam Lien, the wife of the Republic of China’s former Vice-President Dr. Lien Zhan, honored my art exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan.

My paintings have been exhibited at Lincoln Center and the Soho Art Museum, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Bower Museum, California; Currier Museum of Art, NH.; and the DeCordova Museum, MA. At the Copley Society of Boston, the oldest art society in the

U.S.

, I was the first Chinese artist to be honored with both a solo exhibition and a Master Workshop program. I have been frequently interviewed by the various news media. My paintings have been widely exhibited and awarded in prestigious venues and collected internationally for over three decades.

I use traditional Chinese brush painting techniques to paint landscapes, birds and flowers, and figures in either detail or free style. My watercolor paintings move between classic and contemporary Chinese concepts. I am also interested in the use of color from a Western perspective. Further, I freely incorporate Western concepts of composition, light, shadow, perspective, and color to explore space and to develop bolder compositions.

Each of my paintings exists as a poetic expression of the interaction between space and form. My subjects are those of traditional Chinese nature painting and the balance between the fundamental forces of Yin (female, passive, dark, mystical) and Yang (male, active, light, rational). I see Nature in this traditional sense, not as a “still life,” but in its most profound relationship to humankind as the sustainer of life and the source of life’s deepest meaning.