Lotus Land(part4)-------A wild goose in the lotus pond

A fresh piece of canvas or a blank piece of paper is not just a kind of painting materials for an artist.It is similar to a little plot of land in which the seed of creative genius is sowed,and then a distinctive form of art gradually develops,and begin to take shape.However,sometimes the little plot would turn into an epitome of arena for artistic concepts to rival each other in it.

This painting should be considered as the pendant of<A wild duck in the lotus pond>.I started my work without having a set goal in mind for how the painting would appear.But the restful mood and the poetic grace should be the main theme that the primary subjects,the setting,color and touch would be fashioned into the textured vision and such vague imagery kept linger in my mind.I made a serious effort to visualize it and I had worked in a similar vein for quite a long time,and continued to work in this way as the integration of primary subject and setting remained my foremost concern.

Exemplified in this painting,a screen of lotus leaves and flowers in the immediate foreground hides partial sights of the pond.The blurred apprearance of the pond indicated at the far upper right is my intention to express the ambient light refracted from the constructed atmosphere.At the lower right of the composition,where the pond surface lightened with rippling whites demonstrated the shimmering play of light and shadow which were the irradiative effects of the mild autumnal sunshine.

I also wanted to render a new emphasis upon spatial complexity in this work. Therefore the scale-down size of the wild goose implied that there was a certain distance to the lotus on the left.And by placing the individual images to obstruct one anotheralso could signify spaces among them.Moreover,I have abandoned any concerns for naturalism in my treatment of the tones where everything is envolped in the autumn tints.

During the process of painting,I am not sure where my experiments would lead.I only know that I am captivated by finding an overall harmony which is to translate the classicizing qualities of Chinese traditional values into a contemporary setting, marrying the immediacy of visual experience with the more static,into something more enduring,something more solid.I had made every effort to project my way of thinking into the small piece of paper,and did not notice that time flied.