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Camellia
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Artist
Chao Shao-an
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Year
1960s
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Media
Album leaf, ink and colour on paper
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Dimensions
30 x 38 cm
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Museum No.
HM1998.102.28
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Artist Bio
Chao Shao-an (1905 – 1998), a native of Panyu, Guangdong province. He studied painting at the Gao Qifeng (1889 – 1933) Private College of Art. In 1930, he founded the Lingnan Art Studio in Guangzhou. In 1948, Chao settled in Hong Kong and re-established the Lingnan Art Studio to teach students. He excelled in painting landscapes, animals, flowers, insects and fish, and was particularly noted for painting cicadas. Chao is a representative painter of the second-generation artists of the Lingnan School. His works are widely exhibited in Hong Kong and overseas. He was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Hong Kong (1994).
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Description
This is an example of Chao’s “one brush stroke” technique. He also pointed out that when applying colours, it has to be “darker in the foreground but lighter in the background” in accordance with the principles of perspective. The flowers thus depicted seemed more brilliant and life-like. Chao is used to swift brush strokes, but in this case, he recommended that the brush stroke “have to be swift but not too swift, as camellia leaves are rather thick and tough.” His brush strokes as befit a master, is varied.
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—Collection of Hong Kong Heritage Museum
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