On Thursday, Nov. 17th, I attended the speech whose topic is Cross-Boundary Practice and Imagination in Contemporary East-West Artistic Creation, which is given by Leah Lihua Wong, a famous artist who has received several arts award in Ohio.
Leah L. Wong was born in Qingdao, China. In her day, which is around 60s in China, there was no electronic products like we have today. However, she still has some hobbies such as collecting candy wrappers, cutting paper, and reading line drawings. She also liked the hero and heroines’ figures from the posters. Those figures also showed in her first painting, which was created at age 13, and exhibited in a children artwork exhibition.
After Leah grown up, she insisted to go to art school, even though her parents did not agree. To enter the art school, she needed to go through a tough exam. First of all, she need to submit 10 to 12 original artworks for interview. After she passed the interview, she would get an exam admission ticket and she need to …show more content…
First of all is the Xie He’s six laws. Leah mentioned that when she was in college, she learned oil paintings by copying other’s works, which is the sixth law in Xie He’s six laws – Transmission by Copying. We can see that people keep copying others when they want to learn from others, In ancient times and in our times. The second thing I found relates to our class is the combination of different cultures. What Leah do after she went to the US is combined the traditional Chinese paper cutout to the western symbolic art, and create her own special work. In our class, we also learn tons of examples of people combining different culture and create their own new style. For example, the Colossal Shakyamuni and Future Buddha, is a combination of Indian style and Chinese style. Cultural collision of different culture is good, especially for arts, in most cases. This is an important way to create new
Leah L. Wong was born in Qingdao, China. In her day, which is around 60s in China, there was no electronic products like we have today. However, she still has some hobbies such as collecting candy wrappers, cutting paper, and reading line drawings. She also liked the hero and heroines’ figures from the posters. Those figures also showed in her first painting, which was created at age 13, and exhibited in a children artwork exhibition.
After Leah grown up, she insisted to go to art school, even though her parents did not agree. To enter the art school, she needed to go through a tough exam. First of all, she need to submit 10 to 12 original artworks for interview. After she passed the interview, she would get an exam admission ticket and she need to …show more content…
First of all is the Xie He’s six laws. Leah mentioned that when she was in college, she learned oil paintings by copying other’s works, which is the sixth law in Xie He’s six laws – Transmission by Copying. We can see that people keep copying others when they want to learn from others, In ancient times and in our times. The second thing I found relates to our class is the combination of different cultures. What Leah do after she went to the US is combined the traditional Chinese paper cutout to the western symbolic art, and create her own special work. In our class, we also learn tons of examples of people combining different culture and create their own new style. For example, the Colossal Shakyamuni and Future Buddha, is a combination of Indian style and Chinese style. Cultural collision of different culture is good, especially for arts, in most cases. This is an important way to create new