Bao Lede 宝乐德
- Land and Sea
Echo
of The Inner World
In
Bao’s landscape works, there are ink traditions and something new as well,
they are about what he feels in nature, not what he sees. Everything goes
through his mind, the mountain can be gray or blue, woods can be purple or
orange. Chinese art has its tradition of landscape, which is not realistic or
impressionistic but ideogrammatic.
The
landscape is an enchanted mixture of individual emotion, energy, and present-day
culture, reflecting Bao’s Chinese background and his life in the western
world. Kongling , an idealized
expression of spirit and aesthetics, is
the realm of all traditional ink landscapes, which is revealed in uninhabited
mountains and serene water. As oil
color is laid by palette knife and big brush onto those ink strokes and textured
layers of rice paper, Bao adds his modern life and sense of western
culture to the old tradition. It becomes an individual and personal style in
which Kongling can be expressively
articulated with bright color; idealized lofty aesthetics can be uttered in
total human emotion and energy. Bao’s landscape is a modern expression of old
Chinese tradition, a unique mixture of west and
east.
Bao
has experimented with mixed media for more than 30 years. The gentle, magical
and delicate transformation of ink on rice paper quietly emerges on the canvas,
and also strong ink stroke like calligraphy brushed on canvas, this is his
eastern way of expression. Within them are those expressive, textured gestures
of bold, pure color strokes, and also textured palette knife stroke, this is his
western way of expression. Now he often paints without ink and rice paper, with
oil, he still creates the same effect of powerful mixture of ink and oil, east
and west, the unique and only style in this world.
2022
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20 x 24" oil on canvas
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30 x 30" oil on canvas
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27 x 54" oil on canvas
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20 x 20" oil on canvas
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24 x 29" oil on canvas
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57 x 40" oil on canvas
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80 x 38" oil on canvas
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30 x 30" oil on
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24 x 30" oil on canvas
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