The works of Chinese artist Wan Liya offer many paradoxes,
and there is far more here than meets the eye.
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Born in QingDao, China in 1960¡¯s, Wan is a product of eastern thought, Zen principles,
and Buddhist philosophies, and yet, his paintings exhibit many aspects
founded in 20th century western art.
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His paintings are imbued with rich primary colors, creating moods and sensations.
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The American color field artists, like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler,
elicited similar emotional response through color, but by very different means.
Unlike Frankenthaler¡¯s use of diluted color pigments poured onto unprimed canvasses,
Wan¡¯s work¡¯s are structured through texture, as well as color and pattern.
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The methodologies are almost opposite; the effects very similar.
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Wan is perhaps more aligned with ¡°action¡± painting because he manipulates the canvas itself,
and allows the paint to find its own place, its own texture, its own pattern,
and its own blended colors.
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Wan would say he is an instrument, applying the paint, folding the canvas
in patterns and the final product is the result of the laws of nature.
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Patterns and colors emerge from an incidental process.
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The final painting is a vision ultimately created by chance, by nature,
by expectations that can never be exact or known.
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The possible outcome and combinations in each and every painting are literally infinite.
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Wan¡¯s work can bring to mind the multi-layered, scraped surfaces
with blended paint coloration, texture and pattern found in Gerhardt Richter¡¯s work,
an artist Wan greatly admires.
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Although the methods of the two artists are totally different,
the visual outcome has similarities.
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Both artist¡¯s works evoke transcendent emotional states much like Rothko achieved
60 years ago, but through very different means.
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In these works, the common thread is this :
the subject matter is the subjective experience of color itself, nothing else.
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So in the end, Wan is a combination of east and west, a global artist.
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In his work he uses his own intuition, his own impulse, deciding
what colors to apply and where to apply them on the canvas.
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Then he manipulates the canvases ,
folding in various patterns, interacting with the canvas support.
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But then he relies on Nature to produce the final stroke, to complete the human process.
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He sees the process as man and nature working together.
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The outcome is very beautiful symphony of color, texture and pattern,
made by nature , as well as by man.
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