JING ZHAO
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I
enjoy creating portraits or figures and landscapes in which I can find a certain beauty in a unique characteristic or moods either from my daily life or a photo I took. I try to hold onto a child-like curiosity and use the artistic well-trained eye to see the beauty of our everyday life. Oil is my preferred medium. My works use the line, shape, value, color, texture, and edges of all these technical elements to create a poetic interpretation of my inner voice. These basic concepts provide the fundamental structure for my visual goal of the paintings. When I see the subject, I try to interpret it and communicate my unique vision. It is not my goal to merely depict the scene as I see it. Instead, I use my artistic eye to express my inner response towards what I see—depicting my emotion and mood from personal life experience and inner spiritual world.
“Blue Dancer” Oil on Canvas, 24”x20”
Therefore, my visual vocabulary has to do with what I initially see in the subject to create my mental image of the result of the painting.
“Frolicking in the Shallow” Oil on Canvas, 16”x20”
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“Mom’s Helper” Oil on Canvas, 16”x20”
SUMMER 2021 | 59
