David Chen
While Chinese-born David Chen’s artistic credentials are impeccable, including
winning the Silver Hawke Award at the Fourth International Art Contest in Nice , France in 1992, it is his uncanny ability to fuse the landscape and the human form in pictorial harmony that rivets the eye and spellbinds the viewer, setting him apart as an artist of illusionist mastery.
His classical style and technical skill, manifesting in sweeping flickering
descriptive brush strokes, deep perspective minus the expected constricting
vanishing points, and a refreshing use of abstract colour tonality, secures him a rare place in the Australian contemporary art world.
“David’s art embodies a painterly approach, where the picture’s subject and the painter’s process is fused into a “figurative approximation” – all superfluous detail is removed by the rendering only of essentials to reveal an evocative yet mysterious atmosphere of scintillating light emanating from the painting’s inner dynamic.
Unusually, the observer becomes at once involved in the intimacy of a private
moment’s reflection captured as the painting’s subject and the beautifully sensual rhythmic forms of musical brush strokes becoming objects; a lyrical delight most evident in such refined impressionistic work.
David’s work is represented in private, corporate and municipal collections both in Australia and overseas.
陈小强
著名华裔画家DavidChen出生於中國，擁有美術硕士學位及热術教育研究生文憑。出国前曾在中国大學教授美術，并担任北京人民美術出版社编辑，他於1991年入選“百名中國藝術家”全球巡迴展覽。1992年，他在法威尼斯舉行的第四屆威際热術大赛中獲得銀鹰奖。David於1993年移居墨爾本，次年他的作品就被邀请在維多利亚威家美術NGV展出。自從來到墨爾本以來，David一直是全職藝術家，舉辦過多次個展邀，常年担任澳洲著名大学客座教授，也是澳大利亚现实主义艺术家协会的评委，其作品在澳大利亚和海外的被很多私人藏家，企業和政府机构收藏，其中作品《正午》在堪培拉国家博物馆展出，并被陈列在联合国纽约会议厅。
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