YU ZHAO
Tempera

COURSE AND ARTISTIC APPROACH

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Yu Zhao is a painter specializing in abstraction. His painting aims to be a pre-historic field of writing. Yu Zhao turns back to capture the source image of the brush art.

Born in Beijing and based in France for 20 years, Yu Zhao received dual training in Western and Chinese arts. Her approach is inspired by contemporary dance and its philosophy. At the same time, the artist carried out passionate research into writings in pictorial art in ancient China. His thoughts became the sources of truth for his creation.

According to ancient Chinese masters, each calligraphic stroke was compared to a “surreal” image. His painting is thus a place of experimentation and meditation.

In an identical style, each painting reveals a unique universe.

Yu Zhao's main medium is tempera (egg painting), an ancestral technique of the West, used in particular in the art of icons, by Italian artists of the Renaissance, but which is also found by great artists. modern masters (Klee, Picasso Rothko...).

Close to wash, tempera gives transparent and luminous shine.

Mythical and spiritual, it is also one of the most solid and durable paintings. Yu Zhao paints on thick watercolor or design paper, then mounted on canvas.

TECHNIQUE

Tempera on paper mounted on canvas.

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