Artist Sharing Talk
Landscape and Life: Contemporary Expressions in Ink Art
- Date: 18 November (Tue)
- Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm
- Venue: Library LG4 Multi-Function Room
- Speaker: Shum Kwan Yi, Sim
- Language: Putonghua
- Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/11014
- Moderator: Prof. Flora Fu, Division of Humanities, HKUST
The lecture begins with traditional Chinese landscape painting, exploring how contemporary artists employ this aged-old language to respond to rapidly changing urban landscapes, social issues, and the expression of personal emotions. It will spotlight several ink artists who take landscape as their core creative practice, using their representative works to help the audience quickly grasp the context and framework of how tradition is reinterpreted and transformed. The speaker will then share her own creative journey: using landscape as a vehicle of expression to reflect social change and individual emotions, while probing how “landscape” evolves from a classical symbol into a medium for dialogue with the contemporary world. In the latter half of the session, the speaker will conduct a demonstration of the basic techniques for drawing trees, rocks, clouds, and steams in traditional landscape painting.
Depicting Mountains and Seas in Ink: Baimiao, Nature, and the Everyday
- Date: 20 November (Thu)
- Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm
- Venue: Library LG4 Multi-Function Room
- Speaker: Chan Kwan Lok
- Language: Putonghua
- Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/11015
- Moderator: Prof. Flora Fu, Division of Humanities, HKUST
Hong Kong artist Chan Kwan Lok will share his creative journey of observing nature and everyday life through ink lines, presenting paintings from different periods and demonstrating baimiao techniques. His works range from underwater scenes to mountain hiking experiences, using brush and ink to explore the expressive possibilities of traditional baimiao.