Featured Artist: He Qi
August 11, 2006 · Print This Article
Jeff showed me some of He Qi’s works and I instantly loved it! The painting have vibrant colors combined with geometric shapes and curves, and a Christian theme blended with a Chinese style. Okay enough of me. Know the author and see some of his works below. Just click on the first thumbnail and navigate throughout.
“Today, He ranks as arguably China’s most internationally
sought after contemporary Christian artist.”
~Far Eastern Economic Review~
Dr. He Qi was a professor at the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and a tutor for master candidate students in the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He is also a member of the China Art Association and a council member of the Asian Christian Art Association.
He has been committed to the artistic creation of modern Chinese Christian Art since 1983. He hopes to help change the “foreign image” of Christianity in China by using artistic language, and at the same time, to supplement Chinese Art the way Buddhist art did in ancient times. In his works, He Qi has blended together Chinese folk customs and traditional Chinese painting techniques with the western art of the Middle and Modern Ages, and has created an artistic style of color-on-paper painting.
He Qi strongly expresses a type of aesthetics with a peaceful and stable composition. As we approach the new century with a jumble of conflicting emotions, He Qi affirms,”We need to hear a peaceful voice from the angel in heaven.”
The paintings really look great and not to mention the artist is Chinese, which we all know are not Christians in general.
Kool Ymir!
the artist itself speaks for a vibrant life tru the way his brush strokes and colors.
like jef said, first time i saw a chinese painter using christianity as subject.
danda ng artwork.. although nde ko talaga ma appreciate mga yan..
sometimes we need a dose of art in ourselves. ^_-