Monthly Archives: September 2020

Due to its free cross-border and eclectic art form, mixed media art shows a cultural trend of diversity and human culture in terms of artistic concepts and innovative forms. It self-adjusts and innovates according to the characteristics of contemporary art, and strives to continuously improve itself in media and techniques, and at the same time incorporates the advantages of various art disciplines to demonstrate the unique charm of the times. This is why mixed media art is widely favored by interior designers.

The picture looks messy, but actually, it's the rippling lake with the quiet bamboo forest beside it. The essence of mixed media art is to break through the shackles of form and create transformative art forms.

The scattered lines are full of logical sense and are broken by the materials pasted randomly in the picture, which integrates rationality and randomness, making the artistic view more diversified.

The persistence of design is not limited to the height or width but also stems from the temperature yearning for the good quality of life in the cold modern industrial society.

The flowers, trees, running water, light and wind are extracted from the natural world according to people's wishes. In time and space, aside from stereotypes and restrictions, regardless of style and genre, and elegance is created by natural scenery.

Elegant but simple, simple but luxury, are also extremely distinctive design language. Using colors and layers to create, mixed media can create unlimited hidden spaces from unexpected angles.

Each artist has his own individual creative concept and a common yearning for beauty and truth. Only with this intention can he create art that is closest to life, but higher than life.

Abstract art is a kind of specious art. It does not depict the physical appearance of reality, it is to convey the truth of the artist's inner mind. 

Free, open and flexible, mixed media can become jumping notes in the space like the finishing touch appearing in various areas. It is the mission of mixed media art to break through the shackles of material and form and create transformative artistic language.

Green is a perceptual color. The unexpected intervention of the brushwork is a kind of poetic beauty full of life and a strange and intoxicating life charm.

Mixed media can be orderly, disorderly, abstract, and concrete, creating beautiful and new artistic decoration effects in terms of volume, space, and material.

Black, white, gold, modern and simple structure, diverse textures, just like a crystal clear riverbed.

Morning stars are scarce; everything goes back and forth; circle is the origin of all things.

Starting from colors, materials, and emotions, in a specific time and space environment, art is deconstructed, reconstructed, re-interpreted, and a new spiritual and cultural meaning is created. The essence of expression is ethereal and pure.

The elegant picture sets off the modern and simple living temperament of the room. The breeze is gentle and comfortable. Even if life is fragmented, as long as a beam of light can break through the gaps in the clouds, it can shine on countless days and nights.

On September 19, Huang Dan's latest solo exhibition "Beholding" opened in Sanyuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China. The exhibition presents her latest works created in 2020. These artworks retain the consistent calm tones of cinnabar and peacock blue and express the exploration of the intrinsic essence of life and the praise of endless power through full and publicized brushwork. She constantly crosses the boundary between concrete and abstract, blurs classical and modern categories, removes attributives and returns to the original.

Huang Dan was born in Guangxi in 1979. Her father was a traditional Chinese landscape painter. She enjoyed the painting tools and all kinds of art supplies that can be seen everywhere in her home since she was a child. After that, she entered the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts to pursue her bachelor's and master's degrees in traditional Chinese painting. Huang Dan is good at painting with large-scale rice paper, and her works are strong and bold. Her works avoid excessively detailed descriptions, and the vibrant natural mineral colors focus on the expression of abstract forms and volumes. She uses ink and wash as a medium, but goes beyond the cultural paradigm of ink and wash. The courage and strength of "indestructible" have been throughout Huang Dan's artistic practice. She has stripped away the traditional cornerstone under her feet, leaving only the essentials of expression.

The goal of the solo exhibition "Beholding" in 2020 is to show the life force surging in nature. Huang Dan said more than once, "Life is beautiful". The power of life makes Huang Dan unable to look away. She constantly gazes at the world full of vitality, and looks for this power from the vast things in the ocean and nature, praising every living body for its small, weak but fearless internal power. She enriched and purified the rough sense of the power of all things, explored the possibility of multiple feelings and emotions from the language of materials, presented natural and free "watching" rhythm, and weaved a more abundant picture of life phenomena.

Therefore, the pine that she paints has long been unconstrained, the branches are coiled and slanted. They are like folding fans opening the leaves and faintly glowing. She is not painting Taihu stones, but the spirit of Taihu stones. She also knows how to use the most concise method to sketch the essence of horses, mobilize the huge power behind them, and express those creatures who are calm and faintly sad.

                                                                                                              Being 

                                       Chroneme

                                                    Sublime

                                              Tranquility

                                                      Blessing

                                                  Uplifting

3D wall art is increasingly popular in interior design for its innovation and mystique. With creative and artistic three-dimensional textures, 3d artwork can give people a different visual enjoyment. The followings are several kinds of common arts and crafts of 3D wall art.

1. Contemporary 3D Mural Installation Art

The strong contrasting colors light up the space, and the shape of the bird can increase the spirituality of the space.

When creating, we need to go to the project site to shape by projection, and then fix the buttons on the wall one by one with nails. It's better to choose wooden board as the wall, so that we can use longer big nails, which is more delicate and textured. The difficulty lies in making the nail spacing dense and orderly, and the head of the bird has excessive color depth.

2. Contemporary 3D Installation Art

Dark blue shows a sense of solid and steady. The interlaced and orderly stripes make people full of scientific and technological imagination. It seems that the two-dimensional space has evolved into different levels of space. Therefore, the most important thing in this work is to make the color and shape a little more delicate.

There are many customized factories on the market to produce this work, but there are great differences in material and process details. At present, there are two kinds of mainstream: wood art and iron art, and sometimes acrylic art. Wood art is made by cutting wood and wood panel, and then using straight nails to arrange and fix. Iron art is made by welding iron sheet and iron block. The two processes have their own advantages. After the wood art is colored, it has the wood texture, and the surface is elegant in absorbing light. The iron art is firm and thick, and the surface is smooth, but the details are not so delicate because there are welding traces under it.

3. Contemporary 3D Decorative Art

Simple with delicate colors and elegant shapes; it is like expressing that people have joys and sorrows, the moon waxes and wanes. Whatever we meet in life, we should always keep calm and confident.

The material can be wood or metal, then by sculpturing, artificial coloring and three-dimensional mounting. The difficulty lies in the manual grasp of silver gray, and whether the way of supporting and fixing the round plate looks good from the side.

4. Contemporary Installation Art

This installation work is very popular this year. Many designers have applied it to their own space, which is very consistent with the current space design concept of a simple modern style. And this installation is very elegant in material, color and technology.

5. 3D Fabric Art Installation

It seems that there is no difficulty of the craft. There are many more complicated weaving patterns on the market, some of which are fabric and some of which are leather. The difficulty of customization of this work lies in the uncertainty of the pattern and arrangement of the cloth belt, as well as the skill and details of the knot of the cloth belt.

6. 3D Wood Art Installation

In order to meet the needs of design, many artworks have also increased a lot of sense of line design, combining multiple spatial senses among points, lines, squares and circles.

There are few technical difficulties in this work. A wood engraving machine model and careful assembly lines are enough. The most important point is that the materials should not be poor to avoid lack of heaviness and firmness. 

7. 3D Wall-mounted Installation

The raw material is glazed artistic ceramic tile, but because of the great uncertainty in the pattern of the material, acrylic spray painting is also used in the market to achieve a similar effect, but the transparent texture will be a little poor.

8. 3D Mirror Installation

The mirror, in fact, is in an unreal space behind the appearance. I am on the side where I am not. A shadow gives me visibility and allows me to see myself there, but I am not there.

The sense of space outlined by hand-painted sandstone texture gives people an imagination. At present, there are also mirrors replaced with canvases on the market, and the reflection contents of mirrors are expressed by hand drawing.

9. Contemporary Object Art Installation

For example, Venus with broken arms, incomplete patterns, worn wood, retro colors, exposed iron wire, just shows another kind of defective beauty.

The stainless steel frame is cut and shaped, welded with wire mesh, assembled with wood blocks and hand-painted patterns.