Video: Miniature drawings on rice grains by Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-Shean
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It would seem that what is common between ordinary rice grains and high art? At first glance, absolutely nothing, however Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-Shean knows how to turn grains into a "canvas" for paintings. The self-taught artist creates amazing miniatures, painstakingly working for several months with a magnifying glass on each image.
Despite the fact that 58-year-old Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-Shean today gained worldwide fame thanks to miniatures, he did not receive special art education to create tiny drawings. Chen Forng-Shean was fond of creativity since childhood, was engaged in drawing and calligraphy, but never seriously devoted time to this. After the army, Chen Forng-Shean worked for a long time in the engraving department of the central bank of China. Of course, this work was not at all what he dreamed of, but he managed to master various tools for engraving. This helped him in the future to create real mini-masterpieces.
For 10 years, after work, Chen Forng-Shean came to his tiny workshop located in the attic of his house, and there he painstakingly worked on creating drawings on rice grains. There was no one to turn to for advice, so the artist developed his own unique style, as well as the technique of drawing. Gradually, the works of Chen Forng-Shean started talking all over the world.
Chen Forng-Shean admits that each miniature for him is akin to a boundless Universe, and compares his work to an adventure, during which he becomes wiser. And of course, no amount of money can compare with the pleasure that a master experiences when he manages to finish another portrait or an unpretentious landscape. The process of creating a miniature requires not only a high level of concentration, but also good physical fitness, since endurance is very important here. The Taiwanese master has mastered the practice of qigong, so he often holds his breath, and also controls the muscles of the hands so that they do not tremble and ruin the picture.
In addition to rice grains, the master also uses sesame seeds. Chen Forng-Shean also worked with pitch and even thin noodles, but made sure that the carvings on the rice grains looked the most impressive. The detail in the artist's drawings is simply amazing, because the average grain length is 0.5 cm, and the width is 0.3 cm. By the way, the finely detailed work of the Taiwanese master can be compared with the micropainting of our compatriot Andrei Rykovanov, who also "transforms" rice grains.
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