BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Vancouver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Vancouver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:347@westshorearts.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241108T190000 DTSTAMP:20241004T234538Z URL:https://westshorearts.org/events/summer-blue-series-watercolour-painti ngs-by-fucai-zhao/ SUMMARY:Summer Blue Series – Watercolour Paintings by Fucai Zhao DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\nSummer Blue Series – Watercolour Paintings by Fucai Zhao\nLipont Gallery is presenting dozens of Chinese artist Fucai Zhao's recent watercolour paintings to the audience in the Greater Vancou ver area for the first time. Zhao graduated from the China Academy of Art and is an art professor. He is an established watercolour painter. This ex hibition features works he created during his midsummer stay in Vancouver this year\, based on the city's characteristics\, cultural features\, and natural scenery.\n"Vancouver's pleasant climate and unique urban environme nt gave me the urge to paint. I painted several sketches of street scenes in Downtown Vancouver. Watercolour landscape sketches can free oneself\, a nd creation can allow artists to think more fully. My watercolour works sh ow the beauty in nature. People crave for beauty while being caught in the daily grind of the mundane. I just want to provide viewers with some beau tiful reverie and comfortable mood through the expression of poetic waterc olour paintings. Vancouver's public transportation system\, fire protecti on facilities\, road signs and traffic lights are its unique city symbols. "\nZhao's works absorb the composition form and meaning of Chinese paintin g and strive for realism in terms of expression techniques. This creative combination of Chinese and Western watercolour painting and the changes in modern people's aesthetic vision have made him begin to reconsider the ne w meaning of composition representation\, which has prompted him to presen t a more holistic\, simpler\, stronger and more concentrated aesthetic fea ture in the composition form\, which is pleasing to the eyes and heart of the viewer. The vivid and lively colours\, the hearty and relaxed pictures \, and the watercolour paintings that blend water and colour can be as obj ective and realistic as Western oil paintings and can also have the freeha nd and lyrical style of Chinese ink paintings.\nThe exhibition opens on Th ursday October 10th\, 2024\, between 7:00pm to 9:00pm to the public at Lip ont Gallery\, Rm218 (no elevator)\, 4211 No. 3 Road Richmond\, BC.\nThe ex hibition will be on view from October 10th to November 8th\, 2024\, Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm with extended hours to 8pm on Tuesdays. Free admiss ion.\n \;\n LOCATION:Lipont Gallery\, Richmond\, 4211 No. 3 Road \, Richmond\, BC\, V6X 2C3\, Canada GEO:49.183074;-123.137392 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=4211 No. 3 Road \, Richmond \, BC\, V6X 2C3\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Lipont Gallery\, Richm ond:geo:49.183074,-123.137392 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR