My Grandfather

I had stumbled upon a blog written in Chinese while surfing the webs and saw the name of my Grandfather, I read the article and then searched with Google using his name in Chinese and I was amazed that there are so many people had written about him from China.

My Grandfather’s name is Huang Shao Qiang who was born in 1901 and passed away in 1942. Huang Shao Qiang was one of the most talented and acclaimed contemporary artist from China and that his paintings style belonged to the Lingnan (south of the mountains) painting school of China.

Talent, skill and originality were my Grandfather’s virtuoso, unlike most of Chinese artists at his time who specialized in landscape scenery, flowers, birds or by miming styles of early artists and paintings, which would make the artworks diverted away from reality, Huang Shao Qiang originated his paintings on real people especially the poor, in anatomical details, his idea is to let the people aware of the down and outs through his paintings. Huang Shao Qiang had built a style of his own by combing the fine quality of Chinese arts with the reality characteristic of western painting skills. Sotheby Hong Kong had used one of my Grandfather’s painting for front cover in one of the auctions in 2005.

I will write more about my Grandfather, his paintings and his poems on and off in my blog here, on top is a painting of his from the collection of The Guangdong Museum of Art.