谢常青 | Xie ChangQing

谢常青早在1990年移居到加利福尼亚，居住在加州菲利蒙特。年轻时喜欢画画。到美国后他到加州奥隆利艺术学院进修三年油画艺术，对欧美艺术史进行研究学习，对西洋油画古典与现代的演进进行了综合体系的探索观摩。在西方油画风格的熏陶下，他的作品已经展示在奥隆利艺术学院画廊，并在弗里蒙特Olive Hyde 艺术协会成员Juried Show和Go Figure拉古纳Plein Air画家协会的人像油画展览。他的人物作品还在国家油画和丙烯酸画家协会的2016年春季国际展览上展出，有来自亚美尼亚、加拿大、德国、以色列、马来西亚、俄罗斯、特立尼达和多巴哥与美国的艺术家。目前是加州艺术俱乐部、国家油画和丙烯酸画家协会的会员和美国油画家协会成员。

Changqing Xie immigrated to California as early as 1990 and lived in Fremont, California. Like to paint when he was young. After arriving in the United States, he went to Ohlone College California to study oil painting art for three years, studied the history of European and American art, and carried out a comprehensive system of exploration and observation of the evolution of  oil painting classical and modern . Under the influence of Europe and America oil painting style, his Artworks has been displayed in the Ohlone College Art Gallery, and in the portrait oil painting exhibitions of the members of the Olive Hyde Art Association in Fremont Juried Show and the Go Figure Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. His portrait works were also exhibited at the 2016 Spring International Exhibition of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Association, featuring artists from Armenia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Malaysia, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. He is currently a member of the California Art Club, the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Association, and the American Oil Painters Association.

Artist's statement

艺术家声明

I like to travel to many places to inspire my paintings. I always capture the very moment and inspired by the colors and textures of the beautifulness of the natural world. I am interested in representational images from the nature, such slandscapes and seascapes. Particularly, I love paint portrait, I live to catch the beauty of people's features. I love trying out new techniques and applying them to images that I find interesting. I really like to show the high quality technique in all my paintings. Each pieces of paintings I stress on the focus point to catch reader's eyes, the representative method emphasize between the loose and tight, also the certain brush strokes.    

我喜欢去许多地方旅游来启发我的绘画。我总是抓住这一刻，并受到自然世界美丽的颜色和纹理的启发。我感兴趣的是来自大自然的代表性图像，比如风景和海景。特别是，我喜欢画肖像，我活着是为了抓住人们的美丽特征，我喜欢尝试新的技术，并将它们应用到我觉得有趣的图像中，我真的很喜欢在我所有的画中展示高质量的技术，每一幅画我都强调重点抓住读者眼睛，代表方法强调松散与紧密之间，也一定的笔画。

My paintings are my impressions of the subject matter rather than exact copies of photographs. I always have my sketchbook and camera close by to help me take picture notes of where I have been working on developing my skill in the painting mediums. I like to show the magnificent sight and far-reaching scene in my landscape paintings, and I like to express the exact structure in my portrait and figure paintings.   

我的画是我对题材的印象，而不是照片的确切副本。我总是让我的素描本和相机靠近，以帮助我拍摄照片笔记，我一直在努力发展我的技能在绘画媒介，我喜欢在我的山水画中表现壮丽的景象和深远的景象，我喜欢在我的肖像画和人物画中表达确切的结构。

鲜活而真实 宁静而致远

——谢常青笔下的怡人风景

面对大自然中丰富多彩的物象，知名油画家谢常青的内心涌动着不可言喻的艺术创作激情，以西方油彩呈现心中的怡人风景。

谢常青《加州的海岸》Coast of California

50x60cm 2019年

谢常青忘情行走在自然天地间，沙滩边、山谷间、小河旁总能见到谢常青的身影。忘却身体的疲惫，修炼内心的境界，谢常青以实际行动探寻着自然造化的天成之趣，追求自然光线下丰富的色彩变化。

谢常青《班夫的山河》

The Banff's Mountain and River

100x150cm 2020年

历经多年的艺术实践，谢常青早已形成自己独特的油画艺术语言。观赏其笔下之风景，总能让人敏锐捕捉到画面光感的迷离、笔触的律动及色彩的多变，这些艺术符号皆是画者多年内在学养及艺术情怀的外化。

谢常青《深邃的大峡谷》

The Deep Grand Canyon

60x90cm 2020年

随着谢常青画笔的挥动，一曲无言的自然赞歌就这样缓缓奏响，他将内在意蕴直抒于画布，鲜活而真实地再现大自然的美好，宁静而致远，看不到丝毫的刻意和矫作，直接而纯粹的天地之美就这样直击人心……

作品欣赏

《威尼斯水城》The Water City of Venice 

50x60cm 2020年

《檀香山的海》The Sea of Honolulu

50x60cm 2019年

《山和小河》Mountain and Creek

50x60cm 2020年

《Waiheke岛上的阳光》

Sunshine on the Waiheke Island

30x40cm 2020年

《Zion的山》The Mountain of Zion

40x50cm 2020年

《秋天的大提顿山》Grand Teton in Autumn

30x40cm 2020年

《海浪的声音》The Sound of waves 

60x90cm 2020年

《锡安山》The Mountain of Zion

60x90cm 2020年

《湖中的小岛》The Small Island in the Lake

90x122cm 2020年

《Mission山上的阳光》

Sunlight on the Mission Hills 

40x50cm 2019年