Impression

Throughout his lifetime, Mr. Su Tianci had been consistent in adhering to the integration of Chinese and Western style of painting, which had been initiated by his teacher Mr. Lin Fengmian. He thus actively explored the innovative expressions and new contents in his oil paintings. He absorbed the spirit of traditional Chinese painting and expressed it with the modern western art forms, which helped to create his unique style of painting. He presents rich oriental artistic conception in his landscape and still life oil paintings. It enriches the styles and expressions of Chinese oil painting. His paintings can be claimed as the classic models in reforming the foreign art forms with the spirit of Chinese culture, its aesthetic mentality as well as its geographical features. In this way he infused new life to the western oil painting...