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Lao Dan
 

Born in Ellezelles, Belgium in 1951.

I had the exceptional chance to have the great WATKINE as master in my teens. He taught me the love of nature and also the freedom to play with colors.

By the time I attended university in Brussels, as young provincial, I was attracted by SOMVILLE and attended some of his classes at the Boitsfort Academy of Arts. The following decade has been the most influential in my life. It has been a kind of jumping out or perhaps of dropout of society's conventions, seeing with CASTANEDA's Don Juan and learning with KRISHNAMURTI to appreciate the higher plane of harmony's perpetual change.

JIPI, the Flemish shaman, showed me how to let lines and colors go where they want free of interference from our will. It also was a time of group painting with PIERROT, STEURS and others culminating with free expression at the "BRASSERIE" that in the end pitifully fell in Walloon pessimism.

This is when I quit the maelstrom and tried to immerse myself in Belgian society's decision making. But this proved to be too much for me and I left a few years later to land in China in 1986 where I stayed 17 years digesting the philosophical pleasures of insipidity, learning the taste of water and its natural movement down the slopes. During those years, oh irony, XIAOHONG taught me the roots of European classicism and helped me to appreciate technical rigor which I discovered "en masse" at the hands of Chinese painters.
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About the Artist

Today I appreciate a work well done technically but I believe that technique and art remain two different things. You need indeed to master the technique in which you express yourself but this technique does not transform automatically what you express into art.

Without technique what you express seems unfinished and without intellectual content it is as if what you express were shallow.
 
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Artsense n#34

2006
Acrylic on paper glued on hard wooden panel.
Size: 17" x 22" (43 x 56 cm)


Artsense n#33

2007
Acrylic on canvas
Size: 24" x 30" (61 x 76.5 cm)

Artsense n#33

Artsense n#35

2006
Acrylic on canvas.
Size: 20" x 24" (50.5 x 61 cm)

Artsense n#35

Artsense n# 31

Acrylic on paper glued on hard wooden panel.
Size: 17" x 22" (43 x 59 cm)

Artsense n# 31

Artsense n# 25

2005
Acrylic on paper glued on hard wooden panel.
Size: 17

Artsense n# 25
I wanted to convey this idea that today visual art can only be about the representation of the complexity of reality seen through the prism of knowledge. Thousands of ideas interconnecting among themselves and in finale generating an ordered assembling that represents nothing else than the new worldview of the men of knowledge of the day.

Artsense n#21. bestowed with grace

2004
Acrylic on paper glued on hard wooden panel.
Size: 17

Artsense n#21. bestowed with grace
The idea that we could reach the starting and ending point of the observable seems like an illusion of our self-importance or of our eternity. By comparison, philosophical wisdom along human history remains constant: humanity is seen as passing, humanity's vision is seen as limited and only meditation is seen as reaching out to the whole, to the one. In "bestowed with grace" I give my vision about the pattern of life that I best see as grace in movement.

Artsense n# 13. Competitive growth.

2004
Acrylic on paper glued on hard wooden panel.
Size: 17 x 22"

Artsense n# 13. Competitive growth.
Life survival is based on the tactical principle of competitive growth and its development is based on the strategic principle of complexification.

Terry praying

2001
Gouache on paper
55 x 80 cm.

The great harmony is what all great religions and philosophies of humankind pointed to as being where we come from at birth and where we return at death. The great harmony just can't be deranged, whatever happens in the cosmos, in our personal lives or in our human societies harmony is always resulting... Disharmony is an impossibility, it is a creation of our egos.

Emergence of life. Ac02-06

2004
Print on paper
20 x 25 cm

Emergence of life. Ac02-06
- Limited Edition print: 01/25 - Variation 06 of acrylic painting Ac02. - Framed: 50 x 55 cm - Shipment cost depending on where to ship. Withing continental US and Canada: $US 20.00

Ac02-09

2004
20 x 25 cm

Ac02-09
- Digital Variation 09 of my Acrylic painting Ac02. - Limited Edition: 01/25 - Size: 20 x 25 cm. - Frame size: 50 x 55 cm

Turbulence. Ac03-07

2004
20 x 25 cm

Turbulence. Ac03-07
- Digital Variation 07 of my Acrylic painting Ac03. - Limited Edition: 01/25 - Size: 20 x 25 cm. - Frame size: 50 x 55 cm - Shipment: Depending to where. Continental US and Canada: $US 20.00.

Coming out of 6 month writing. Ac25-11

2004
20 x 25 cm

Coming out of 6 month writing. Ac25-11
- Digital Variation 11 of my Acrylic painting Ac25. - Limited Edition: 01/25 - Size: 20 x 25 cm. - Frame size: 50 x 55 cm - Shipment: Depending to where. Continental US and Canada: $US 20.00.
 
Education and biography
- Watkine as professor of "plastic arts" in middle and high school.
- Brussels Free University.
Some encounters with Somville at the Boitforts Academy of Fine Arts.
- The Brasserie in Ellezelles.
- The encounter of Chinese painters in Beijing from 1986 till today.
- Exhibitions:
...CHICAGO, NO PLACE LIKE: Tapestries. October 2003.
...CHICAGO DESIGNER SHOW: Tapestries. October 2003.
...MILWAUKEE SHARP FLATS: Tapestries & prints. October-November 2003.
...BEIJING, VINCILAND: Paintings. September-October 2005.
...MADISON-WI: State Street Gallery. Group exhibition. paintings. July 2006.
...CHICAGO: Leigh Gallery. Group exhibition. paintings. July 2006.
 
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