Brief Introduction Of Chinese Color History, And Influence Of Greek Philosophy – Creation Of A Unique Western-Eastern Painting Language With Unique Characteristics

I’m using Western tradition-as where I come from- in terms of surface(canvas)and materials(spray, acrylic paint) but through the patient study of Chinese “martial art”(gong bi, the use of Chinese brush) in order to express the spirit of thousand years of civilization.I’ve been working on traditional Chinese techniques to refer to Chinese paintings, highlight them and make them understood to the rest of the world. By keeping the inner message of traditional Chinese paintings, the series of works I will be creating will express a message of communion with spiritual energies whilst making them more attractive to people who aren’t used to Chinese painting, and most particularly a western public.In the series of acrylic paintings I will be presenting, some works are inspired from traditional Chinese masters, both landscape and figurative painters through a contemporary fasma while some others are exclusively original with main characters abstracted from real and mythological world from folk and present China and my home country Greece.One of the major works I will be exhibiting is inspired by a traditional Chinese painting made by Liu Dao Shi, literati from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The originality of that painting is the adding of colours and more particularly very flashy colours.In this project my works can be exhibited in both regular light and in absolute darkness with ultraviolet light(UV) exposure.The use of ultraviolet/black light and flashy colours gives the possibility to use different perspectives in one painting. The painting brings the viewer to another level of contemplation: meditation.