Introduction
Graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design, Y. Shen has made Chinese Brush Painting her passion for years. Her artwork has appeared in solo and group exhibits in Boston, Wellesley, Chelmsford, Lexington MA, and Sorrento, Maine during the past two years. People enjoy her artwork very much; some of her artworks were sold in the exhibits. Y. Shen's studio, Qing Feng Zhai in Chinese, means 'Refreshing Breeze'. It comes from a poem written by Su Shi(1037-1101), one of the famous Chinese poets: 'Who are sitting here together? Moon light, refreshing breeze and me'. Paintings displayed on this website are Y. Shen's works in recent years. There are four subject groups: Flower-bird (including varieties of flowers, birds, fruits and trees with significant Chinese symbolism for hundreds of years); Landscape; Rooster and Four Subjects of plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. Traditional Chinese Painting has its unique style by using ink, rice paper, and calligraphically writing skills; and composing and accomplishing paintings with painted objects, blank spaces, calligraphically writings or poetries, and seals. There are similarities between Chinese and Western painting as far as the types of brush marks is concerned, but the two are very different in their methods of presentation. In both Chinese and Western painting, a distinction is made between formal likeness and spiritual likeness, and in both formal likeness is achieved. But Chinese painting has long freed itself from the constraints of form and shifted its focus to the spirit. 'Poetic sentiments, picturesque language&', 'painting in poetry, and poetry in painting'-- these are some common sayings on the affinity between painting and poetry. In other words, a painting must have a soul and that is the artist's original conception. A good landscape painting is one that gives the viewer the feeling that he is actually in it. It should have an ever-present aura. It can be compared to a good portrait in which not only the physical likeness of the sitter is captured but also, more importantly, the spirit. Please enjoy paintings that Y. Shen presents to you with her skills, her heart and her soul.
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