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"A Breeze At Last"

Hand Signed by Doug Lew

Hand Signed and Numbered by the artist

"A Breeze At Last"

Unframed

Limited Edition Lithograph

Hand Signed by the artist

Size: 22" x 30"

Edition Number: 55/100

Condition is Excellent

Certificate of Authenticity is included

Gallery Retail: $465.00

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Doug Lew

I was born in Shanghai, China, and came to the United States with my parents at age 15, having completed all but the last year of high school in China. In those years, all school children, from about age six on, were required to do calligraphy every day in small and large characters as a daily exercise, somewhat similar to penmanship in the west. An average of one hour a day was spent copying past masters of calligraphy in several styles and sizes. By about age 12 most, if not all, were quite proficient in the handling of a brush, at least to the extent that handwriting could be legible throughout China. As in all endeavors, some excelled more than others but everyone understood the importance of calligraphy not only as means of communication but as an art form in the highest degree – equal to if not surpassing painting. In fact, one form of painting in China is traditionally referred to as "writing nature." Exposure to all things western was a unique advantage growing up in Shanghai in those years. The technological superiority of the west led most of us into a fascination of the west – movies, magazines, fashion, language, food, writings, music and art. I remembered in junior high school, art classes were given once a week for about two hours. We were given a choice of doing western art or traditional Chinese art. I chose western art. Oil was too expensive so we used watercolor instead, which, to me, felt like a natural extension of calligraphy . It was a very superficial orientation to watercolor. In the meantime, with a small circle of classmates, we competed with each other in copying the likeness of movie stars and other subjects in pencil and ink. The skill was further sharpened in life-drawing classes later. It remained a pleasurable and valuable skill in later years.

Any statement by a serious artist can only be the thoughts and ideas expressed at one particular time of his/her long development in art. Look at all the different periods Picasso went through, or the difference between Turner's official paintings and those he did on his own. Observe Goya's court paintin...

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