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Preface
She draws flowers, hundreds of flowers in the world. For the blooming art career of Xu Yanting, flowers are her soul. She draws flowers no matter they are warm plum blossoms, cold lotus, arrogant chrysanthemums, sweet-scented osmanthus, poisonously beautiful poppies or anonymous little flowers. The heavy colours of the painting skills of the West and the poetic watery ink of the East demonstrate fully her wisdom, touching the hearts of all people.
Her studies at l' Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Kennedy-Western University in the United States had helped opening her eyes to explore the treasures of occidental arts, whilst her deep cultural connotation of the Orient – that charm of traditional culture influenced by her father, the master of the “Songs of the South”, Wen Huaisha - was not wiped away. Her oil paintings with characters of our nation, blended with expressions in occidental paintings and moods in national paintings, allow viewers to appreciate in detail with peaceful hearts.
She draws grasses, little grasses containing the qualities of big trees, just like what she is. Duties like being the Principal of the Hong Kong Art College and a member of the Institute Committee of the China Academy of Art, as well as other social activities, do not drown her out from her commitment to pursue painting arts, nor do they disturb her from the innocent exploration of the harmony of moods between human beings and paintings. “Human and nature” has been her consistent topic, as well as the eternal and co-ordinated melody of her paintings. Even little grasses have to set an example to purify the tired souls of modern people, using love to awaken the innate knowledge of the busy world, and using life to cry out the strongest tone of human and nature!
From the paintings all personally prepared by Xu Yanting, it is fortunate for us here in Macao, on 24 June, to feel the fragrance of the flowers and grasses, to listen to her refreshing melodies from her oil paintings, to see the dynamic profusion between the inks – not to mention to read the pure beauty, broadness, and peaceful heart lying deep from the colours.
Vitor Ng
President of the Administrative Council Macao Foundation
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