Person, 2016

Dongyao Liu  

Exclusively and direclty avaialbe at Art Yi gallery in BrusselsA large Chinese character of “人 Rén"meaning “person" is in the center of the painting represented as the main body. It is densely populated with various desires and emotions written in large and small Chinese words on the right side. While it forms a clear contrast with the blank spaces on the left side to be as simple as possible, giving people a strong visual impact and reflection on who we want to be.•  “Integrating Calligraphy with Painting, and renew the images and spirits of Chinese characters. " This is the original creative concept that Liu Dongyao explored. The artist learned to paint at the age of 7 and calligraphy at the age of 10. He has been absorbing nourishment in Chinese and Japanese art, and visual arts for many years. He is constantly creating contemporary scenes of traditional calligraphy, and intergrating other modern arts like freehand ink experimentation, ink painting and graphic design.• In the work of Liu Dongyao, he pays attention not only exquisite visual composition aesthetics, but also the profound meanings and literary artistic conceptions of Chinese characters, e.g. the Taoist philosophical significance behind the spirit of calligraphy.• Liu Dongyao has a meticulous observation of nature and sensitive experience of life. A stone lying on the roadside, a falling flower, a flowing river, all make Liu Dongyao feel the meaning of life all the time; also the complicated interpersonal relations and social issues, which constantly arouse the artist's perception and drive him to express his inner heart into his painting. Each piece of work of Liu Dongyao translates the freedom,  the momentary change and flow happened in the nature, and transmits into an own story and emotions that are poetic and profound... He is convinced that the integration of emotion is the life and soul given to the artwork, and only in this way can the work truly "alive".