4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, February 3, 1984
Union gallery art exhibition
Grace Chow
adds color to Chinese
By ARLAINE ROCKEY
Slarf Writer ' '
Grace Chow has brought the Carolina
Union a splendid exhibition of Chinese
watercolors with distinction. The unique
ness of Chow's style lies in creatively
liberating color while maintaining a
reverence for classical Chinese painting. '
Classical Chinese paintings are dis
tinguished by the use of rice paper,
calligraphic-type brush strokes, nature as
subject matter, Chinese ink and Chinese
philosophy behind the work.
To understand the importance of
Chow's creative use of color, it must be
realized that, traditionally, Chinese
pigments come in a very limited array of
color.
The basic ink stick, made from the soot
of burnt palm, is ground by the artist and
mixed with water to create various shades
of black on paper. Chow's crab paintings
are exemplary basic black ink water
colors. To create color, two types of Chinese
pigment chips are soaked in water for.
about 15 minutes.
Mineral pigments are opaque. The
gradation in Chow's horizontal rock for
mation landscapes is created through a
mineral
layering techriique using
pigments.
The more transparent vegetable
pigments are used alone or are mixed with
other pigments to create other colors. For
example, various hues of green are ob
tained by mixing yellow with indigo blue.
The traditional Chinese color wheel,
however, has no red pigment - one. of
the Western world's primary colors.
By exercising her artistic license, Chow
uses Western red in her watercolors to
bring out the vivacity of her subject mat
ter. Therefore, her show appears much
more lustrous than would be expected of
a typical exhibition of Chinese water
color. This fact is especially apparent in
her lotus paintings.
Chow demonstrated her methods of
composition and technique Jan. 22 to an
eager audience of about 30 students, ar
tists and fans. During her demonstration,
she explained the basics of Chinese water
color and told about her life.
. By the age of 12r Chow had had several
miniature paintings published in a
children's magazine in Hong Kong.
Recognizing her talent, Chow's father
sent her to her future in-laws for private
art lessons.
Chow spoke about life as a young art
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student in China. Students help their
teachers by grinding the ink and changing
the paint water, she said. The students
learn by imitating the works of the
masters and of their teachers. Chow
studied for six or seven years before com
ing to the United States.
As a student, Chow learned more than
technique; she learned the philosophy
behind Chinese painting. The Chinese
venerate nature. They paint subjects in
their natural settings. Therefore, Chow
explained, one would never paint a vase
of flowers, but always flowers as they
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memory, so the artist must have firm
knowledge of the life cycles of their sub
jects. The artist must study nature
thoroughly. Whenever human life is pre
sent in Chinese paintings, it is always sub
ordinate to nature. On the left wall as you
enter the gallery from the Union lobby, a
fisherman and his boat are painted very
small in the mountain river painting.
When Chow came to the U.S., her
greatest dilemma as an artist was that she ;
was faced with the threat of composition.
As a Chinese student, she had been
taught to mimic, not to create. Now she
paintings
finds that her compositions explain them
selves to her as she paints through a
balance of shapes and colors.
Chow's paintings often maintain the
Chinese "moving-focus .perspective,"
meaning that the viewer has the freedom
to compose the ability to choose vary
ing perspectives from which to view the
work. There need not be any specific
focal point in a painting.
Surprisingly, this solo exhibition is only
Chow's second. Her first was in Seattle,
Wash, in 1976. In the past eight years,
Chow has been busy with her family and
her education. She received her master's
degree from the University of Washing
ton at Seattle in 1982, where she studied
Western watercolor.
Chow perceives herself as continually
learning and transforming. She cherishes
.the freedom of creativity she has found in
the States and looks to cultivate that
freedom especially in chjldren;
Through her study in China, she came to
understand the feelings of deep involve
ment in her art, which remain with her.
-Grace Chow's personal triumph has
been to return to Chinese watercolor
while maintaining her artistic right , to
creativity.
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