Apart from promoting commercial exchanges with merchants and art collectors, the Art Of Nature International Saloon is committed to prosper the fine art education as an important asset to cultivate Chinese adolescents with wholesome spirituality, ingenious skills in creativity and solid ability in aesthetic awareness. On 3 July 2011, the Art Of Nature International Saloon and the Cross-Strait Metropolitan News made a historic attempt to jointly organize “Art Of Nature International Saloon – Adolescent Painting Competition” and welcome the participation of junior students from widespread secondary schools in Fuzhou. Mr. Li Xiaowei, Professor from the Academy of Fine Arts at Fujian Normal University, and a group of significant representatives in fine-art profession, were invited as Honourable Adjudicators.
Participating students demonstrated their creative ideas based on the theme called “The Homeland From My Dream”. They described their eagerness for a better future, as well as their thanksgiving feelings towards their hometowns. Each art piece conveyed audiences with adolescents’ wholesome perspectives towards the place of their origin. Finally, the adjudicators defined one Champion winners, two 1st-Runner-Up winners and three 2nd-Runner-Up winners. The Organizing Committee granted winners with certificates of appreciation and souvenirs. The Champion went to Zheng Weirui (Fuzhou Municipal Daming Primary School). The two 1st-Runner-Ups went to Chen Weiqing (Fuzhou Municipal 18th Secondary School) and Wu Donghan (Fuzhou Municipal Jinshan Primary School). The three 2nd-Runner-Ups went to Lin Qinglan (Taijiang District First Centre Primary School), Zheng Zexin (Gulou District Second Centre Primary School) and Lin Rongyi (Fuzhou Municipal Gezhi Secondary School Gushan Campus District). Before the prize-presentation ceremony, the adjudicator conducted a detailed evaluation on each submitted art piece. Participating students could thus enjoy a precious chance of wholesome education by listening to the useful comments. News related to students’ achievements, as well as their awarded art pieces, will be publicized in “Cross-Strait Metropolitan News” and the homepage of Art Of Nature International Company Limited www.msctq.com . |