YD Photos
Master has many works for sale arranged in sections throughout the site. Please click on the portfolio link to view moe works.
About YD Photos
Master Simon Wong was born in a small village outside Shenzhen in the Guangdong province in southern China. When Master Simon Wong was only a few years old Master Simon Wong escaped from the People's Republic of China, with his family to live in Hong Kong during the Great Leap Forward.
To watch a beautiful representation of Master Simon Wong's music and art, Art Romance, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrMXtJh2EY
This was a time of great suffering for the Chinese people under an economic and social plan which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society. This era of change inspires his back to nature scenes and how pre-industrial landscapes felt.
This depravation in the early part of Master Simon Wong’s life motivated him to practice and perfect his martial arts to strengthen his poor health and artistically realize his full potential. Master Simon Wong started painting at 6 years old, regularly having his work displayed in school and winning competitions out of the whole school. At Art College Master Simon Wong trained in traditional oil painting and classical Chinese painting under Master Pang Jade-Sip who in turn trained under Master Jewe Siu-Ong who was the founder of the Southern Chinese painting style, turning professional after leaving college. Master Simon Wong sold paintings in Hong Kong prior to coming to England.
Master Simon Wong has been learning and developing his passion for Chinese Philosophy over 30 years and is now integrating this into his artwork. Master Simon Wong’s vibrant style comes from a deep spiritual tradition that evokes strong feelings of love and beauty and a sense of joy from nature. It is hard not to be inspired by the feelings that his paintings captivate and he truly believes in the artist’s duty to inspire the viewer. Re-emerging as an artist after spending so much time understanding compassion and wisdom gives Master Simon Wong a unique understanding and sensitivity to his art. Master Simon Wong uses the colours popular in the Tang Dynasty when the cultural and the spiritual arts were at their peak and the primary subject matter of Chinese painting was the landscape, known as shanshui (mountain-water) painting. In these landscapes, usually monochromatic and sparse, the purpose was not to reproduce exactly the appearance of nature but rather to grasp an emotion or atmosphere so as to catch the "rhythm" of nature. Then as now Master Simon Wong used brushes and bright green and blue paint to show high rocky mountains and cliffs, with rivers, rocks, and trees. Master Simon Wong is not interested in showing what nature really looks like, like a photograph. Instead, he conveys the spirit of that place - what it felt like to be there. Master Simon Wong does not put in all the details, just enough to give you the appropriate feeling and believes it is better art if you can express the same feeling with fewer lines. Master Simon Wong's qualities move freely between splash ink techniques, abstract and impressionist styles. Master Simon Wong's style is made all the more powerful when you consider his profound spiritual qualities and the vibrancy this brings to his work.
Master Simon Wong does not give names to his paintings. The Tao Te Ching states:
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
If you can't afford a painting get all Master Simon Wong's paintings in one beautiful book! http://www.yellowdragon.co.uk/store/unique-fine-art.htm
Master Simon Wong was born in a small village outside Shenzhen in the Guangdong province in southern China. When Master Simon Wong was only a few years old he escaped from the People's Republic of China, with his family to live in Hong Kong during the Great Leap Forward.
To watch a beautiful representation of Master Simon Wong's music and art, Art Romance, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrMXtJh2EY
This was a time of great suffering for the Chinese people under an economic and social plan which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society.
This era of change inspires his back to nature scenes and how pre-industrial landscapes felt.
Master Simon Wong has been a British resident since 1978. Master Simon Wong has taught Southern Praying Mantis kung fu (7th generation) Yellow Dragon fist kung fu (Founder), tai chi, chi kung, feng shui and meditation. Otherwise, Master Simon Wong is painting and producing music. Ultimately to help people achieve enlightenment through his painting.
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After perfecting his artistic style for the last 30 years Master Simon Wong is now exhibiting and selling his work, an artistic expression with spiritual resolve and self perfection, illustrating a Taoist artistic style which has inspired humanity over the last 1000 years, both culturally and spiritually, from the peak of the Tang Dynasty.
Master Simon Wong expresses the interrelationship between Taoism and Buddhism’s thoughts and ways of seeing reality. Master Simon Wong has intertwined his Yellow Dragon martial art with his creative philosophy. Master Simon Wong aims to combine the best of Eastern and Western philosophy in his artwork.
One main technique, that accentuates his Taoist artistic style is the splash ink method, originated from Wang Qia, the Tang Dynasty. The paint is spontaneously and subtly controlled: understood by the Taoist as a hypnotic state that highlights momentary existence and non existence - expressing the sentiment of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra that form is emptiness and emptiness is form, thus, depicting man’s relationship and interconnectedness with the cosmos.
Master Simon Wong developed his talents as an artist, into the spiritual realm by developing as a Taoist Master. When Master Simon Wong was a young artist he did not merely want to be an artist, but rather sought to develop a deeper state of consciousness from his life experiences, and so to create a deeper profundity in his artwork when returning to his practise.
“....spend ten years observing bamboo, become bamboo yourself, then forget everything and paint.” Martial arts, Taoism and Buddhist training for over 30 years has meant that Master Wong has come to the point of self realisation where he is satisfied to express himself as an artist.
Master Simon Wong’s Taoist view integrates imagination with actuality through the most intangible forms, such as clouds, trees, mountains, mist, ocean, waves and formless scenes of nature. Through these forms the viewer can be inspired to unlock and open their minds and hearts to an enlightened view of reality.
This contrasts the misinterpretation and misunderstanding by modern abstract artists who lack true spiritual understanding by expressing an outward inner urge that is more metaphysical angst, compared to the floating harmony of Master Simon Wong’s metaphysical certitude and direct existential grasp of reality. The purpose is to inspire and place the viewer in touch with their innate spiritual nature opening up their desire for knowledge and enlightenment.
There is no East and West in Master Simon Wong’s work: everything is part of nature, so, he uses the medium, the more Western tradition of oil and canvas in order to convey the artistic styles more akin to Chinese philosophy. Master Simon Wong’s sentiments of the universal philosophy of human nature should have no limit. It does not therefore matter if it is a Chinese or Western technique, these are merely tools and through the creative spirit this is what should unite not culturally divide people.
When the Master uses the finger to point at the moon the student should not just be looking at the finger. The finger is just a tool pointing to the direction. Painting is the same, the medium that is used is not important, it is the mental expression behind the art work that gives a picture its spirit.
As the Zen expression goes: “Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss the heavenly glory of the sky.”
If you can't afford a painting get all Master Simon Wong's paintings in one beautiful book! http://www.yellowdragon.co.uk/store/unique-fine-art.htm
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