Provenance：
Illustrated："Splash and Splendor - The Style of Huang Leisheng’s Ink Paintings", Taiwan Soka Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014, page 24
"Chinese Paintings by Wong Lui-Sang", National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011, page 116-117
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In late Qing Dynasty the Lingnan School Style originated in Guangdong, with the aim to "Compromise the East and West, to create a fusion between tradition and modern". The movement achieved great success, as it became the leader of new modern Chinese traditional painting. It’s aim to import Western painting technique, unifying the finest elements of both Chinese and Western painting. Thus, preserving characteristics of Chinese traditions while exploring a new pattern of modernity within ink-drawings. Their influence reached out to many, and became the mainstram expression within art world today.
“Huang Lei-Sheng, even when faced with national crisis, he studied hard, with gifted talents, he gave complete devotion to the visual arts. With consistency in progress, his future pomised endless possibilities. Influenced by the book “Through Art, Sorrow is Forgotten” these words became his encouragements for creating continously.”
- Chao Shaone. 1957
Huang Lei-Sheng, as the outstanding representive of the third generation Lingnan School Style , he learned under the instruction of master Chao Shaone. Born in 1992 in Guangdong, Taishan, Huang was studious since his childhood. Growing up in a sophisticated family, he lived with endless resources of poetries and books, however ink-drawings remain the most fascinating to him. At the beginning of studying Western paintings, eager to exceed in watercolor techniques, he imitated the master ink painters of Ming and Qing dynasty. He understood that, in order to combine Eastern and Western aesthetic, he must first establish a strong solid foundation. As an admirer of Lingnan School painter Chao Shaone, after living in Hong Kong, Huang Lei-Sheng soon became one of Chao’s students in 1949. Under the instruction of Lingnan ideas, not only was he learning from the paramount, his commitments to combine the finest of East and West expression through succeeded in becoming his individual style. The international art scene praised Huang Lei-Sheng’s aesthetic expression; he was awarded by Japan’s Asian Youth Art Exhibition for first prize in ink drawing, and also rewarded by United States’ Feilisiman Art Award receiving international recognition. In 1960, he moved to the States opening a National Wind Art Gallery in San Francisco to promote and educate others on Chinese culture and aesthetic.
Huang Lei-Sheng’s works explores a wide variety of subjects completed with rich content and profound philosophies. Common theme within his works includes flowers, landscapes, birds, portraits -none he cannot conquer. Huang was well traveled in his lifetime; consequently his artworks are truthful representations of his realistic life experiences, sensibly capturing the essence of nature’ sceneries. In The Reeds Swaying under the Moon, his vigorous brushstrokes, dry brush technique, rendering of wet ink, and delicate use of color shades, sesitively illustrates the vibrant movement of the aloe flowers. Between each brushstrokes withhold the “Bold waves of ink, delicate brush work of clouds and smoke”, the wind within the painting sung a delightful rhythm. The work also emphasize on Western painting’s composition, perspective, redering, and ethereal approach; though blending, the moonlight became livelier than ever, within the bleak of night, the moon shines on the aloe flower that is thouand of miles away, translating a quiet and peaceful termperament.
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