China-Belgium Painting Exhibition for Art Dialogue presented 50 works by 7 distinguished contemporary artists from China and Belgium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries in the hope of an even brighter future for deepened cooperation between Chinese and Belgian artists.
LHCH International shot the official video of this beautiful artistic encounter, a little delayed by the pandemic. We thank for their collaboration: Renmin University of China School of Arts, Beijing DongXiFangYuan Culture and Art Co.,Ltd, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Hunan TV International and China Chamber of International Commerce Representative Office in the European Union, Sir. Paul Volckaert (Former International Advisor to the UN Under-Secretary-General; Senior Advisor to the Belgian Minister of State and Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Belgium Diamond Ambassador) and Mr. Dany Bosteels (Chairman of the EU-China Tourism and Business Summit Committee; former President and Standing Committee Member of the Antwerp Provincial Liberal Party)
Beauty of Life in Chinese and Belgian Paintings : Yan Ping, Roland Palmaerts.
Yan Ping (born in 1956 in Jinan, Shandong) is a female oil painter in China. Yan Ping attended to Shandong University of Arts in 1979. She is now a professor of School of Arts, Renmin University of China, director of China Artists Association, director of China Oil Painting Society.
Her work combines a sensibility of vitality with rationality, connecting art to life in the context of a female’s individual perspective.
Yan Ping’s painting style emphasizes color expression. The clear indoor light and bright colors drawn by her distinctive character strokes introduce something new to Chinese audiences, who are accustomed to heavy forms, and repressed emotions of art to feel the cheerful and clarity of humanity from art. Yan Ping’s paintings give a warm and clear humanity to the stressful Chinese environment.
The most frequent colors found in Yan Ping’s oil paintings are rose pink and gemstone green. She uses them because they represent life, a reference to heme and chlorophyll as the source of life for animals and plants. The red and green colors symbolize a vitality of an endless force and emotion. Yan Ping has hopeful beliefs that for peace and compassion, but she encountered a difficult decade during 60’s and 70’s. Thus, her value in beauty and romance were not with her at the time. As a result, Yan Ping brought these feelings and thoughts about love alive in her artwork. Yan Ping’s works today are vivid, lively and romantic, which are dramatically opposite from her adolescent experiences.
From 1990 to 2016, Yan Ping had created a total of 208 oil paintings, the most famous of which is her Mother and Son series. She had held solo exhibitions in Beijing, Jinan and Hong Kong. She has published nine individual painting albums.
Roland Palmaerts
The greatest Belgian figurative watercolor artist is a precocious genius. At the age of 6, he won 1st prize in the National Tintin Competition! In 1978, therefore, at the age of 25, he became professor of watercolor with His Royal Highness, Prince Philippe of Belgium. He also participated in the first World Watercolor exhibition in Qingdao, China, where some of his works were selected for the city museum. He’s also a world record holder for the 2013 Guiness Book: he painted 60 watercolors in 60 hours! He received the Silver Medal for the “Les Créateurs du Siècles” competition in Arles, France and is one of “the great names of contemporary figurative art” (2005)
A few words also about the wife of R.Palmaerts :
Odette Feller
Odette Feller has always wanted to keep freedom of movement, color and form in her “instinctive” art of watercolor, between abstraction and figuration. A passion that she shares with her husband, the great Belgian watercolorist Roland Palmaerts. Odette Feller does not look for international awards, but devotes her life to teaching her art, notably by using the internet (Arts 2.0). There is something about the Chinese art of calligraphy when she lets her brush flow to the spontaneous rhythm of the Dao before specifying the motif to “reassure” her large international audience.
The video also shows paintings by Wang Keju, by Cao Pei An (living in Brussels), Odette Feller ( Palmaerts’s wife), Robert Devriendt and Koen van den Broek.
