Artistic Stones

Ruler was born for convenience in communication. Ruler stands for levels of precision. Different attitudes towards precision divide Western and Eastern cultures: the West prospers in science with its seriousness about precision while the East makes light of it and achieves finest effects by suggestion. Art in the East is not simply visual presentation but the artist’s ability as well; so Eastern art is more about wisdom of life and experience of soul. Science represented by ruler has boundaries while expression of soul is eternal and infinite...

Hired by the Guangzhou Painting Institute, Chen is also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Guangzhou University. His work has been collected by various museums including the Great Hall of the People, the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as well as collectors from home and abroad.