Microcosmic Conceptual Art of Living Systems
Over the past decade, insightful scholars have advocated the integration of science and art, because the world needs innovation.
But how to combine medical science and painting? Since 2007, it has been my great honor to be an apprentice to Mr. Zhu Pu, a painting master at the Chinese Painting Institute of Shanghai. Ever since then, I have used the idiom of traditional Chinese painting to portray the images, shapes, and organization of cells and tissues that I have observed under the microscope over the past fifty years. I call this unique union “Microcosmic Conceptual Art of Living Systems”. My works have been showcased in roving exhibitions in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
My painting style is neither Western oil painting, nor abstract expressionism, nor traditional Chinese ink paintings of landscapes, flowers, still lives, or figures. Instead, the cells and tissues of the human body have been my model, in painting images in between similar and dissimilar.
In “Common Forms of the Universe” the paintings evoke metaphorical connections between physiological structures and celestial bodies. I believe this view point can expand people’s hearts and minds.
Kuang Diaoyuan