Yu Zhao

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Yu Zhao is a painter specializing in abstraction. His painting is intended to be a pre-historic field of writing. Yu Zhao Rebroose Chemin to grasp the source of the art of the brush. A Chinese heritage Born in Beijing and installed in France for 20 years, Yu Zhao has received a double training in Western and Chinese arts. During his journey, the artist meets contemporary dance and is inspired by his approach and his philosophy. Yu Zhao has paid passionate research on the writings in the pictorial art in ancient China in passionate: these reflections have become the sources of truth for its creation. According to the ancient Chinese masters, each calligraphic trait was compared to a "surreal" image. His painting is thus a place of experimentation and meditation. Under an identical style, each painting reveals a unique universe. The templera, ancestral technique The main medium of Yu Zhao is the templera (egg painting), ancestral technique of the West, used in particular in the art of icons, by Italian artists of the Renaissance, but which is also found in large Modern masters (Klee, Picasso Rothko ...). Close to the wash, the temperature gives transparent and bright bursts. Mythical and spiritual, it is also one of the most solid and durable paintings. Yu Zhao painted on thick watercolor or design paper, then marouflaged on canvas. The word of the sinologist Léon Vandermeersch "What was freed from Chinese art was ideography. And it is in this movement that Yu Zhao is an artist resolutely today while remaining much more authentically Chinese than most other contemporary Chinese artists. These [...] began to delicate their inks by dislocating the Chinese characters to recompose the graphemes. Yu Zhao, she, instead of breaking the ideograms, dates back to their source, "beyond the line" as said the title of one of his exhibitions. »»

  • Léon Vandermeersch (sinologist)

Selected Works

Storm and refuge by Yu Zhao

Storm and refuge

Paintings - 35x25 cm
One's field by Yu Zhao

One's field

Paintings - 30x25 cm
Dust and river by Yu Zhao

Dust and river

Paintings - 25x18 cm
Hermitage by Yu Zhao

Hermitage

Paintings - 25x30 cm
Vallée rouge  by Yu Zhao

Vallée rouge

Paintings - 65x25 cm
Résurgence by Yu Zhao

Résurgence

Paintings - 65x25 cm
Château dans le ciel by Yu Zhao

Château dans le ciel

Paintings - 39x30 cm
Pays natal by Yu Zhao

Pays natal

Paintings - 60x90 cm
Île idyllique by Yu Zhao

Île idyllique

Paintings - 75x150 cm
Vallée de l'insouciance by Yu Zhao

Vallée de l'insouciance

Paintings - 65x25 cm

Vents

Paintings - 40x40 cm

Terre chatoyante

Paintings - 100x50 cm

Montagne aux temples

Paintings - 42x19 cm

Village

Paintings - 25x65 cm

Cascade glacé

Paintings - 150x75 cm

Falaise

Paintings - 32x23 cm

Nature antique

Paintings - 14x9 cm

Tendre lumière

Paintings - 24x18 cm

Montagne à l'envers

Paintings - 100x150 cm

Paysage-Baleine

Paintings - 25x33 cm

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