Wang Dehui: Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings

This enticing well-chosen representation of Wang Dehui's marvelous calligraphy, Chinese brush painting and oil painting, spanning a decade and a half of his recent work (1990-2005), captures the beauty, vitality and grandeur of the natural and human worlds.

Artist Wang Dehui blends calligraphy, Chinese brush painting, and oil painting into a unique asthetic presence in his works, creating impressive effects in many aspects of painting. The fundamental basis in his work derives from his bold expressive calligraphy; his Chinese brush painting demostrates straightforward, direct, masterful characteristics mixed sometimes with assertive personal artistic style of "self-revelation."

"His paintings are exilarating, life-enhancing - a transcendence to a spiritual reality" - Virginia J Rock, PhD, D. Litt.

"With simple brushstrokes, a generous amount of ink and water, a bold application of colours, Wang Dehui paints clouds stretching and folding, birds flying, flowers blooming, fish swimming and frogs jumping. His work presents the natural with such conentrated colour and energy that sometimes it becomes supernatural." - Lien Chao, Ph.D and award-winning critic

"Very few artists can bring Chinese calligraphy brushstrokes - essential elements of Eastern art - to converge with oil painting. And the dots, lines, mass, and blocks in his paintings, are all bright with harmonious colours, illustrating a true challenge to composition and techniques. In both Chinese brush painting and oil painting, Wang Dehui has made new impacts." - Prof Wang Lui Qui, Artist and Art Critic