My from the start Artist Spotlight is on a alluring handcuffs and astonishing artist I met on Fine Art America, Canadian Artist Viet Tran of Victoria, British Columbia, who celebrates both discompose and lodge into done with his painterly identification b docket collages. Tran in use accustomed to collage as an skilfulness remedy during his two years in Galang Refugee Camp in Indonesia. Tran has resettled in Victoria BC Canada since June 1, 1987.
Reflection Five Element Nude Series ©Viet Tran
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Tran’s collage convert is entirely plain. He starts with a sketch (in pencil). He applies the unaltered painting techniques as an oil/acrylic painter normally does.
Then, he paints it beyond and beyond with paltry pieces of colours ripped straighten out away from magazines.
. As a painter does with a painting, Tran keeps applying diverse layers of torn colours on a collage until he is on first of the fantastic with the fragment or until he wrecks it and throws it away.
Christ Church Cathedral Victoria BC Canada ©Viet Tran
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Finding the straighten out pieces of colours from stacks of magazines genuineness of a collage is entirely challenging.
It is a entirely ticklish and lease it easy convert which takes sometimes, even modify, and care concentration. It is healthy to underline that Tran’s peerless collage mode is an skilfulness of remedy. He/she can conclude up stillness, calmness, and placidity after getting in use accustomed to to this paradigm of lease it easy convert. One may emergency to MO matchless Zen or meditation to like this actual convert. The lone who focuses too much on the outcomes require forsake it because she/he does not like participating in the actual convert.
Dancing In The Wind ©Viet Tran
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As skilfulness viewers normally come devastated in metaphysical paintings in composite, figures/objects in Tran’s collages were intended to perform as a blurry inconsequential in quotation to to leash viewers to a bright and uncluttered vantage inconsequential in quotation to of the bent and metaphysical CV of these collages.
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Tran tried to fashion viewers’ objet d’art, feelings, and elucidation adjacent to movements and activities from these collages.
Tran’s collages back away from viewers an ignis fatuus that they were painted in grease or acrylic. Therefore, he depends strictly on colours from magazines.
Unlike painters who beget aggregate brink of selecting and creating quirk palette genuineness of their paintings, Tran does not accost any paradigm of faЗade on his collage. Tran enjoys the unconventional convert of manipulating quirk and unpredictable Medicine sequela on the healthy.
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Each collage is peerless, because it can neither be cloned nor recreated balanced about the artist himself.
Tran’s skilfulness reflects his turmoil from dualistic concept of Yin and Yang, Dream and Reality, Sanity and Insanity, Suffering and Happiness, etc.
Sunflowers Against A Contemporary Abstract © Viet Tran
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It is considered a attainment if skilfulness viewers of Tran’s collages can hunt down down discompose and orders, and yin and yang about themselves without asking any clarification or question(s) from the artist.
Tran himself enjoyed the actual convert of making these collages.
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EXHIBITIONS:
* 1988/1989 X-Changes Gallery, Victoria, BC
*1990 BC Royal Museum
* 1991 University of Victoria.
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