Forty Years on Intellectual Brush & Ink Painting

The contemporary meaning of scholar painting “文人畫” is "paintings of the intellectuals".
As a whole, this concept embraces humanism,non-conformity, and its direction is not solely market and trend oriented.   Its specific traditional Chinese features involve poetic natural landscapes, and exude a certain quality close the Tao of gentleman  “君子”.

1943, Yu Sai Kin was born in China during the Second World War.   He was active in the student literary circle in Hong Kong when he was young.   In the 60’s he participated in several important exhibitions in the New Art Movement in Hong Kong,Taiwan & overseas with Lu Sau Kuan and a few other contemporary artists.   In the 70’s, he studied painting in the United States and Canada, and started “Gallery 80’s” in the Major Gallery district in Toronto for the promotion of contemporary Chinese Art.  After 1982, he returned to China and Hong Kong and continued his work on brush and ink paintings.   His works were frequently shown in exhibitions held in Quandong, Beijing, Shanghai & Hong Kong.
  
In 1998, his painting was selected to the National Art Show, sponsored by the Ministry of
Culture.   In the year 2000, he was invited to the “30th Anniversary of China - Canada Diplomatic Relations Travelling Show” in Canton - Toronto.    In 2002, he was enrolled in “Who’s Who in the World”.   His paintings & poems were also selected by The Federation of Chinese Literature and Art Union into the China Bau website.   2004, Shanghai Spring Salon.   2006, one man show - Shanghai Top Floor Gallery, and also the “contemporary Chinese Art Show” in the Regis Center of Art of Minnesota University, U.S.A. in the same year.