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Lin Minggang, an independent artist with keen interest in oil painting, has persisted with his artistic ideal for almost 40 years. He studied and traveled in France for 21 years. Apart from painting, he pursues a wide range of interests, including aesthetic and philosophical researches. Up to now, he explores the virtue of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi’s Taoist theories. For this particular aspect of academic issue, he elaborates his opinions with such statement: “I am a human-being from this Earth. I won’t be too mean with the difference between East and West. I acknowledge universal values. Therefore, we should bear up with a courteous learning attitude once we appreciate particular kinds of classical objects that are wholesome for the development of human world.”
Art provides you with better lifestyles, whereas life makes your art become more extravagant
Being noted by an artist like Lin Minggang with staunch persistence on painting art, Miss. Cissy Cheung, President of the Art Of Nature International Saloon, regards a provision of exhibition opportunities for the artists as her unprecedented mission.
In this epoch with rapid technological advancements, human beings enjoy the comfortable lifestyle due to their civilized status. But they experience spiritual pressures in their existence. Miss. Cissy Cheung, who has been administering the electronic manufacture for more than ten years. It seems to be a kind of destiny, in which she began with an ignorant status on art and further developed herself as being very fascinated with an art career. Cheung felt very thanksgiving with such a precious experience, as she often mentioned a statement – “Art provides you with better lifestyles, whereas life makes your art become more extravagant.”
Lin Minggang thinks that, art can bring about changes for concreted substances. It changes to be another kind of judgment and comprehension on substances. This is a kind of participation in the aesthetic consciousness through creative means. It makes you realize the genuine characteristics of this world. Our world is filled with mysterious and immense changes. These cannot be explained despite of our solid experience in this realistic world. Therefore, art provides an alternative mode of delights and hopeful spirits for our insane lives.
The arts that accommodates the regularities of universal values in this human world are the most trustworthy form of cultural asset
If there are no literature, no music and no painting, what would our human world become like? Maybe, it is to be a realm of darkness. Lin Minggang states that, the literatures and fine arts express the modern style of civilized life. It is a green forest in which we cannot loose it. By having this forest, our life will be enriched with more bright and wholesome elements. Our artistic creativity must fulfill the cored values that are recognized by the majority group of common people. So, your art pieces can search for a kind of cultural consonance in the public, as the genuine aesthetic values are perceived vividly. If your art can transcend the racial framework and the national boundaries, you can bring auspiciousness to the mankind.
There is a simple logic on art – An art that impresses the largest number of people is a demonstration of one’s great potential in creativity. Being an artist, you must admit this fact. Taking an example of “Mona Lisa”, this is a painting that inherits for almost three centuries. It is still cherished by the current art lovers. This explains why “Mona Lisa” fulfills such regularities. If an artist just aims at creating pieces with superficial contexts for visual excitements, this type of art lacks a kind of longevity.
Conclusion
Art is a bridge that provides linkage between artists and those people who adore an optimistic lifestyle. Art presents us with the wholesome mode of life, and it is a kind of reward for us. Life facilitates the development of art. No matter whether you admit this fact or not, our life cannot depart from the affection of art. Art is similar to air, which becomes an essential part of our life. Despite of whether you are an artist or not, art is very important to the lifestyle of contemporary citizens, and it cannot be substituted by other kinds of affairs. |