Brush Magic - Jinghua Gao Dalia

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bamboo Bliss

Bamboo Bliss (c) 2009
6"x 6" watercolor
contact: jhdalia@gmail.com

Birds love to bathe and what could be a better place than among the cool bamboo. I saw this scene frequently in China. I wonder which the birds prefer bamboo or artificial bird baths? Perhaps, the birds don't care!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Visiting the Temple

Visiting the Temple (c) 2009
5" x 3.5" watercolor
contact: jhdalia@gmail.com

Visiting the temple on a bright spring day, we offer incense and good wishes for our ancestors, our families, and our friends.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Cardinals in Spring

6"x 6" watercolor
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SOLD

Getting the right mix of water and color plus brush techniques to paint this free style work on rice paper is not an easy task, although it looks very simple, but once the brush touches the paper there is no going back!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Peony Season

Peony Season by Jinghua Gao Dalia
6" x 6" watercolor (c) 2009
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I have been busy for my summer shows one after another while the peony garden blooms splendidly. Here is one glance that I caught.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

After Morning Mist

6" x 6" watercolor
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Over the Garden Wall

Over the Garden Wall (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
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Monday, May 4, 2009

Pond Side Beauty

Pond Side Beauty (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
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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.