An Analysis Of Chen Chi's Art Works

Chen Chi, a well known contemporary Chinese artist, famous for his world recognized watercolor paintings. He has the rare quality of being abode to apply traditional Chinese materials, like writing brush and rice paper, etc into the creation of western water paintings. The Chinese manner he painted with a solid style of delicacy in the western painting mingle well in his master pieces, bringing his technique of Chinese drawing into color paintings whereas building up a new style of entirely modern, integrating oriental and accidental elements.From youth to elderly, tracing back into Chen Chi's journey of creation, we found his works showed his thoughts in depth, endowing his attention on nature, the positive attitude to life and human beings, reflecting his rich spirit of still water running deep. His work is sophisticated yet fresh and original, in which the Asian culture influenced him at most. His extraordinary achievements in arts win the compliments from audience worldwide. Just like what Ms. Pearl S. Buck, a Nobel Laureate in Literature pointed out,"Chen Chi is not a local watercolor painting artist, he is worldwide"This paper starts from the life experiences of Chen Chi and shows a fruitful research on his works in different period and its key style elements. Meanwhile, this paper emphasizes research on his watercolor paintings, which is known as"the mingle of Chinese and Western culture, playing as a whole"and his unique expression and feelings on traditional Chinese culture. Meanwhile, it analyzes the essential relations between his changing styles and his life experiences, which is a meaningful example in research on the communication, integrating Chinese and Western culture as well as the trend of contemporary art.This research is the first one in China that delivers a thorough and systematic research on Chen Chi's art works. The writer of this paper was living and studying together with Chen Chi for 8 years so that he collected a large number of first-hand achieves and photographs and arranged them in order. Meanwhile, a completed annals he finalized will surely be a valuable historical heritage.