Beijing Olympics Series
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Dr. Chen was very inspired to paint a series of paintings in homage to the Olympic Games, not only because of its historical significance to China, but also because he saw that it is a “sports for humanity’s sake” instead of just “sports for sports’ sake” This is in alignment with his art style of Neo-Iconography, which is an “art for humanity’s sake” instead of just an “art for art’s sake”. Both of these also correspond to the Chinese cultural tradition of forging a world family in harmony and peace. Dr. Chen produced 66 Olympic artworks, exhibiting them before, after, and during the Game in 5 museum shows with artworks of “Temple of Heaven series” as well as “Humanity” series all together in his “Art for Humanity” World Tour, besides publication of his Olympics series in an art book.
Dr. Chen wrote: “Since the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing promises to be an unforgettable event, as China wholeheartedly embrace its role as the host, this occasion will mark a golden moment in the Peaceful Arising of a new China since its Reform and Open Up in 1978, China is planning an Olympic Event of superior standing, infused with Chinese taste, color and style. They have created three directing principles---Green, Technological, and Humanistic as well as the rallying slogan of “One World, One Dream”. They are preparing an extraordinary Festival of global proportion and participation, inviting all human beings to come together, hand in hand, heart to heart, to realize the athletic values of “excellence, friendship, and respect” as well as human value of “Harmony, Prosperity, and Peace.”
The outcome of the Beijing Olympics is a big success, even the most accomplished Event in the history of the Modern Olympic Games with more than 10 million athletes and visitors crowded to create the Occasion. As for Dr. Chen’s Beijing Olympics series, Lawrence Jeppson said: “As I study these paintings, I am stuck by their variety, esthetic marvels (the equestrian paintings), elegance (the discus thrower), and frequent complexity (the five rings superimposed on a Jackson Pollock Drip masterpiece, surrounded by Asiatic figures and French doves of peace), and cunning (the panel of Chinese calligraphic figures, many of which are actual depiction of Olympic sports).
- From Olympia to Beijing #08061 194×130 cm 畫布丙烯 Zeus, the father of Greek gods, had his temple in Olympia, so from 776 B.C. to 394 A.D., […]
- From Athens to Beijing #07039 130×194 cm 畫布丙烯 2008 Beginning in 1771, European archeologists began to excavate the ancient Olympics site, and a movement began […]
- Lighting the Sacred Fire #08002 194 X 130 cm 畫布丙烯 2008 Fire – as the symbol of the beginning of human civilization-has had a […]
- Olympics Coming, Flowers Blooming #08005 130 X 194 cm 畫布丙烯 2008 Quite simply, this Chinese title means: “as the Olympic Games approach, all the flowers in […]
- Five races racing in Harmony #07042 173 X 125.5 cm 畫布丙烯 2007 Here, Dr. Chen illustrates a message of cultural harmony for the upcoming […]
- Guardians of the Beijing Summer Olympics, 2008 130 X 194 cm 畫布丙烯 2007 In this painting, the Temple of Heaven and Tian’anmen Gate represent […]
- Fuwa , Chinese Olympic Mascot #07031 122 X 161 cm 畫布丙烯 One thousand days before the opening of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the […]
- Magnificent Olympic Sky, Beijing #07015 194 X 130 cm 畫布丙烯 The great richness of Chinese culture has been cultivated for thousands of years, yet remains […]
- Olympics in Chinese Characters #07018 194 X 130 cm 畫布丙烯 2007 Olympics in Chinese Characters In this painting, we find the calligraphic manifestation of the […]
- Enjoying The Race #08007 130 X 194 cm 畫布丙烯 2008 Here, we see an assumptive scenario, an imaginary scene of exciting races such as at […]
- Javelin throwing ＆ High Jumping #08033 155.45 X 130 cm 畫布綜合媒材 2001-2008
