A White Swan Gliding on the Surface of the Pond

Sometimes using the artistic vocabulary in a particular sense of vision is simply whimsical. As I aim to compose the suites of paintings with the motif of lotus, the reverie of the panoramic view of lotua pond with a tapestry of leaves and flowers emerged in the rippling water extending to the distant horizon, with a white swan paddling in it always absorb me. However to bring a new project to resolution is not easy to be realized.

Without relinquishing an array of traditional brush teachniques, I had already begun by 2010 to formulate the more sophisticated approach to theme and colour that would characterize all my lotuse pictures. This group of closely related pictures is executed to pursue a kind of modern expression in search of the various possibility within the presiding theme. My lotus pictures are also my meditations on contrasting modes of artistic awareness.

The treatment of colour could be descriptive or decorative, whereas in the “A white swan gliding on the pond’s surface” is characterised both by the calculated interplay of opposing complementary tones that heighten the illusion of space and by the contrasting interplay of closely related tones with just the opposite effect. In this picture, the related tones of the bright red colour of the lotus petals on the left, with the other red one muted in the golden light stand out and interact with the complementary green tones of those leaves. The red colour punctuates the complementary green waterscape, and then the spatial plane is formed.

The third lotus is rendered with all shades of purple which was conceived first of all as a harmony to the shaded background.The dimmed colours of green, blue, purple are like visual poetic vacables with orchestrated details all being encapsulated in the decorative harmonies.

At the same time, I defined some leaves which scattered on the plane with contour lines, that resonate with the delicately depicted swan as to achieve a decorative unity. In this painting a combined efforts as to suggest a parity between the sensitivity of the voluminousness of the pond, and the invariable quality of the basic form of the lotus render the changeable nature of the lotus pond with some everlasting quality.

The calculation of every nuance is by no means impromptu. All the artistic vocabularies harmonize, blend and finish by producing something vital and fine, that people should not see so much as intuit.