The timeless treasures in the modern world -- A life's path in paintings March 22, 2008

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Google Tech Talks
March, 20 2008

ABSTRACT

In the beginning of the 80s, compelled by the responsibilities to
history, Mr.Chunming Yu tried to save Chinese ancient folk houses with
his painting
brush. These houses stood on China's soil for thousands of years and
hosted families from all dynasties. They are the witnesses of Chinese
history.
In the search for folk houses, he spent more than ten years to travel
across China's villages. During those years, Mr.Yu painted thousands
of watercolors
and countless sketches. After coming to America in 1997, he was till
trying to express my feelings toward Chinese folk houses through
painting.

At the age of globalization and information technology, Mr.Yu found
that most people have a hard time to appreciate the traditional
Chinese culture he fought
to preserve. Not only Americans don't understand it, even Chinese
people have changed dramatically. So Mr.Yu began to look for a
universal language that all people can understand something that we
all value as human beings.

Mr. Yu's talk will focus on his search of an unique painting style of
his own over the years. It takes approximately 30 to 40 minutes
including
Chinese/English interpretation. Mr.Yu would like to answer questions
from audience after his speech.

Speaker: Mr Chunming Yu
Chuming is famous for his work in 80s-90s, when he visited Chinese
folk villages across China and painted more than 3000 paintings and
sketches. He graduated from China Academy of Art, and was a Professor
of Nanchang University in China, and a visiting scholar to UCLA.
1982. He is a member of Chinese Fine Artists' Association, and Chinese
National Association for Painters & Calligraphers. His paintings and
watercolors was collected by many institutes and individuals including
China Art Museum, Former British prime minister Baroness Margaret
Thatcher, Stanford University East Asia Library, and Dharma Realm
Buddhist Association.