Toonpool Interview with chinese artist
Queenio and YU Liang
Queenio
Could you tell us about the city and area where you are located?
Queenio: I live in HANG ZHOU at southern part of China, a romantic and old-age city where the legend of white snake comes from (a most romantic and well known legend over the nation).
Your pictures are fantastic professional artworks with philosophical stories. Are you selling your artworks to newspapers, magazines or other media? Or do you have another profession beyond art?
Q: Actually, I am still a second year student in China University of Art. I always do drawings at my own spare time after school. I use drawing as a way of entertaining myself and want to develop my own style. I have not sell any art works to newspapers, magazines or other media in the past. However, if you, any one or any organizations you know interest in buying my works, I am more than happy for you to contact me. I think it is a way to approve the value of my work in a more reality way. My works mainly exhibit on internet, such as DA exhibitions and has been exhibited in my school. Moreover, I have not published any book yet.
Are you able to live on producing artworks?
Q: I think I can ~
Could you tell us about your family?
Q: I have a simply family of three, me, mum and dad like most families in China result from China’s One Child Only Policy. They are great parents who help me explore my interest in drawing in my childhood and give me great support always.
Are you in contact with colleagues in your country and in other countries, too?
Q: Yes, as mentioned before I am still in the university.
Could you tell us about your way of education you have or have had?
Q:I started proper education on traditional art when I was 12 and start to interest in modern art in recent years. Besides on the study in the school, my curiousness on art drive me to start learning by myself through other various ways such as reading, internet and communication with other professors
Did you have had influences of traditional or modern art from
your own or other countries?
Q: Beijing is the place influences me mostly, where has the most strong art atmosphere in China in my opinion.
Which artists do you like most (your country and international)?
Q:Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Yayoi Kusama, Taiyo Matsumoto and Andy Warhol.
Where do you receive informations and inspiration from? Newspapers, radio/tv, Internet?
Q: Almost everything I get in touch with.
Which hobbies and interests do you have besides work?
Q: Watch movie, music, reading and dessert.
t: Do you spread your artworks over the Internet, how many
communities do you use?
Q: Yes,here is my BLOG: http://queenielh.blog.sohu.com/
What do you really hate?
Q: No movie+no music+ no dessert (LOL)
What are your 3 greatest wishes or dreams?
Q: Sun shines always, have plenty time to do everything I want to do, meet an alien.
What are your general interests in your artworks and coming projects?
Q: Most things are conceptual like, science , universe and old toys.
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YU Liang
Could you tell us about the city and area where you are located?
Yu Liang: I live in Maanshan,Anhui Province China, near Nanjing and Shanghai. It’s a rising industry city which has 12,000,000 population. It in sight of Yangzte River and near predominant area of Yangzte River delta. Maanshan harbor is inartificial. The level of industry in Maanshan is high, the farm produce is plentiful and substantial. It has plenty of natural resource.
Your cartoons are fantastic professional artworks with philosopical and political stories. Are you selling your artworks to newspapers, magazines or other media? Or do you have another profession beyond art? Do you have (or did you have had) exhibitions? Do you have published books?
Y: I don’t like to talk about politics, but I would like to reflect politics in my works. I am a illustrator of some the most famous newspapers (or magazines) in China. Such as : “Reader” ( circulation of over 10 millions), “Youth of Liaoning” ( circulation of 2.4 millions) etc. Over 3000 of my works has been published in Chinese newspapers ( or magazines) like “Satire and humor”, “Chinese cartoons”, “Master of humor”. I had won over 30 prizes from Chinese or international cartoons competitions and I have joined some cooperational exhibitions. I really want to hold a personal exhibition, however, I don’t have a well chance. Now, the periodical office of “Reader” arrange a personal iconographal collection of selected specimens for me, my cooperation assemble “pioneer of cartoons” has been published (with some famouse Chinese cartoonist).
Are you able to live on drawing cartoons?
Y: No. The remuneration of Chinese cartoonists is very low, I love drawing cartoons, but it’s just my sideline. My full-time job is as art editor in a newspaper office.
Could you tell us if you are married and have a family (kids)?
Y: I live with my wife and lovely daughter in harmony, my daughter is a freshman in college, she is a smart, healthy and sunny girl.
Are you in contact with colleagues in your country and in other countries, too?
Y: A majority of my friends in cartoon is Chinese because I hardly go abraod, it baffle me completely communicate with international famouse cartoonists. But I have contacted with Mordillo in Argentina, Julian Pena-Pai in Romania, Massoud Shojai in Iran, Ronald Libin in Belgium.
Could you tell us about your way of education you have had?
Y: I graduated from Fine Arts Department of Chinese Anhui Normal University.
Did you have had influences of traditional or modern art from your own or other countries?
Y: I have both traditional and modern consciousness, I like either the deeply ideology of East Europe or the way of humor of West Europe.
Which artists do you like most (your country and international)?
Y: Holland’s Rembrandt, Russia’s Repin, Sweden’s Zorn, United States’s Sagent.
Where do you receive informations and inspiration from? Newspapers, radio/tv, Internet?
Y: I get part of the informations from the E-mails and letters of my Chinese and other countrieds cartoonal friends, some from the Interner. Besides, newspaper, radio and TV can also bring me some effective informations.
Which hobbies and interests do you have besides work?
Y: I have some hobbies like reading, listening music, sometimes I chat with my friends or join some parties and tea time.
Do you spread your artworks over the Internet, how many communities do you use?
Y: Concerning your question, you may find the answers by inputing my Chinese name “喻梁” in internet.
What do you really hate?
Y: I hate somebody who is hypocritical. I love somebody who is pure-hearted.
What are your 3 greatest whishes or dreams?
Y: My greatest wishes are: First. I can go to Germany, France, Italy and some other countries, to communicate with the cartoonists there. Second, I hope my daughter can continue her studies in Europe colleges after graduate. Third, I hope I can make more progress in my works, through this, I can get more remuneration to make my family more affluent.
What are your general interests in your artworks and coming projects?
Y: I am trying to find a new way to represent the cartoon art, use the softwares like Photoshop and Painter to create cartoons, exhibit the cartoons through the digital form. I hope I can hold my personal exhibition in Europe to exhibit my works about this new subject if there is any likelihood.
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