A world expressed in drops of ink and color
Poetry in a few traces of black
Jian
Chen
1984
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Central News
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A pair of young sisters, on hearing that there were many Chinese living in Los Angeles, and that there were some that might understand the ideas in their paintings, packed a small suitcase and flew here from Toronto to prepare an exhibition.
Younger sister Miao Lu, 27 years old, came a year earlier than her elder sister Jia Lu, soon to be 30, following close behind her. These two dark-eyed, round faced girls from Beijing, who always carry a slight smile on their lips, will hold an exhibition of more than 60 works at the Monterey Park Lincoln Hotel from August 25 to 30.
The two sisters were born in a typical artist family. Their father Lu Enyi is a painter known to every household mainland China, their mother a well-known designer, their elder brother a pianist, their elder sister a violinist. Their father used them as models in his studio since they were infants, and frequently painted scenes from their lives into his paintings. Before long, they too fell in love with painting and had their father pose for them as they began to learn drawing and sketching. Jia Lu’s painting had even been shown in an international exhibition of children’s art.
But these two young sisters never imagined they would inherit their father’s profession in the future. After Jia Lu graduated from high school she worked in the hospital operating room as a nurse for four years, and trained as a professional basketball player for one year, and even star in two movies. Miao Lu was a 100 and 200 meter sprinter and swimming champion, and dreamed of becoming a writer. But as time drew on the two both returned to the world of art.
Outgoing elder sister Jia Lu spent a year studying advanced techniques in thin-line ink painting with well-known Asian master of figure painting Fan Zeng. Master Fan Zeng’s painting is noted for the extremely delicate line he uses to delineate the face, while using a stronger, darker line for the more impressionistic body and clothes. Jia Lu took the highest marks in the Academy for her work, and was the first student Fan Zeng ever accepted as his disciple. She is to this day still his favorite student.
Among the fine line figure paintings Jia Lu will exhibit this time are poets and philosophers including Li Po, who raises his wine cup to the moon and recites, “Greet the moon with your wine/you gain the shadow of three men;” Lu Fang standing severe and solitary by a spray of plum blossoms; the famous woman poet surrounded by autumn leaves from her poem “A Cutting of Plum”. The painting of Li Po is Jia Lu’s favorite. . . .
Miao Lu has already held one exhibition in North America; and has held another together with her sister Jia. In the first exhibition, half of the work was sold, in the second more than two thirds. . . . We feel sure that in their upcoming show, they will do even better.