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"Your work is exciting to me, first because of the impact of the unusual combination of colour and medium. Then, with the nudes, I feel moved by the feeling of unity between the body and the surrounding environment. At the same time each woman is unique especially in her facial expression. I could go on and on in a positive way about the work." Artist Arlene Nesbitt - Collective Works Gallery
Comments from the Guest's Book
“Sensitive, obsessive, dynamic - the cosmic moods of nature and creation are expressed in your impressions of the female form. You've truly created bodies filled with a sense and sensation that transcends time and place, making the definite infinite”.
Paul Scrivener, Film Maker/Artist/Curator/ED- CAC Gallery.
"Great! vibrant & expressive".
Sully Challenger
"Beautiful concept, wonderful colors".
Glenn Dunks, New York
“Extremely imaginative…Wonderful”.
Brian Pinto .
Artist Kaye Collins
Paul Scrivener, Film Maker/Artist/Curator/ED- CAC Gallery.
"Great! vibrant & expressive".
Sully Challenger
"Beautiful concept, wonderful colors".
Glenn Dunks, New York
“Extremely imaginative…Wonderful”.
Brian Pinto .
"Wondeful colours and shapes and concepts - anbd talent - very special".
Artist Sheila Walker
Artist Kaye Collins
"Wondeful colours - vibrant art".
HP
“These are wonderful! I am very impressed with the detail of all those small ripped pieces of magazine papers. Fascinating & Awesome”.
Pat Johnston
“Quite the stroke!”
Jane of Art
“Unique, subtle shading and lights, fascinating”.
Dorothy Curtiss
"The variety in colour, texture, and depth is amazing. Your creativity is truly unique".
Artist Lana Gray
“Lovely the way the details come into focus as I stood and enjoyed each piece”.
Blanche Black
“What can I say?...? This is so amazing; To bring the complete abstraction to create a concrete image. And then, here and there, Viet Tran uses some specific images from the magazines to accentuate the location of the nude. Fantastic. Brilliant!”.
Daniel Lafeur
Abstractions which “snap” into figurative paintings as you back away…a “two-for-one” depending upon your distance from the work. It is amazing how the medium doesn’t have to dictate the nature of art. Collage is a mixture of “found art” or at least “found color” to create mosaic".
Photographer/Artist Art Ethel -New York
“Beautiful work - It resonates within the chambers of my heart. Some of it seem very sorrowful – a celebration of sorrow”.
Unsigned viewer
“Even the humor show through”
Another signed viewer (name illegible)
"Beautiful & Shocking".
Sukhmeet Grewal.
Viewers’ Favorite Pieces from the Guest Book
“I like your “Ying-Yang” for its reflection and reversal of red/blue in that mirror. Element Earth (Tho) gives a sense of motion toward a point in mid-collage,”.
Peter R. Wheeler
“They are all very beautiful. Red Heart is my favorite”.
Kristina Meszaros.
“The blue and clay coloured nudes are my favorites, but what I enjoy most is the awe I feel when looking at your works”.
Film Maker/Artist Paul Scrivener.
"The ladies are beautiful. I love Reflection".
Artist Linh Truong.
The nude in Blue Rose & Polluted City is just stunning. She just evaporates into the sky.”
Sarah-Joy Kallos.
Peter R. Wheeler
“They are all very beautiful. Red Heart is my favorite”.
Kristina Meszaros.
“The blue and clay coloured nudes are my favorites, but what I enjoy most is the awe I feel when looking at your works”.
Film Maker/Artist Paul Scrivener.
"The ladies are beautiful. I love Reflection".
Artist Linh Truong.
The nude in Blue Rose & Polluted City is just stunning. She just evaporates into the sky.”
Sarah-Joy Kallos.
"The bodies I find very expressive, saucy, confident, timid. Wow. My favorites are the Reflection and the Green Nude (TimberWest Forest Goddess )”.
Lynn Brochu.
"I like your Elements Tho (Earth) & Fire (Hoa). They make me think of “Mother Earth” and “Volcanic forces”.
Artist Anna Mah.
“A very rich and profound experience - solid and fragmented, emerging and receding. Earth is my favorite, shows the ‘oneness of all’”.
Artist Arlene Nesbitt.
"Inspirational visions! I really enjoyed the textures and details and of course the colours. Earth especially".
Wilma Honey.
“Awesome nudes. My favorites: Reflection, Roses & Blue Nude, Nude in the Afternoon Garden. They are all wonderful".
a unsigned viewer.
“Fantastic – Reflection’s great".
Unsigned viewer.
Artist's Statement
As art viewers normally get lost in abstract paintings in general, figures/objects in Tran’s collages were intended to serve as a focus point to lead viewers to a broad and uncluttered perspective of the chaotic and abstract background of these collages. Tran tried to generate viewers’ curiosity, feelings, and interpretation about movements and activities from these collages.
Tran’s collages give viewers an illusion that they were painted in oil or acrylic. Unlike painters who have total freedom of selecting and creating colour palette for their paintings, Tran does not apply any type of paint on his collage. Therefore, he depends strictly on colours from magazines. Tran enjoys the unconventional process of manipulating colour and unpredictable outcome. Each collage is unique, because it can neither be cloned nor recreated even by the artist himself.
Tran’s art reflects his confusion from dualistic concept of Yin and Yang, Dream and Reality, Sanity and Insanity, Suffering and Happiness, etc.
It is considered a success if art viewers of Tran’s collages can detect chaos and orders, and yin and yang by themselves without asking any clarification or question(s) from the artist.
Tran himself enjoyed the creative process of making these collages. Now, the artist hopes that the viewers can enjoy the same process with their own imagination and creation.
Tran’s collages give viewers an illusion that they were painted in oil or acrylic. Unlike painters who have total freedom of selecting and creating colour palette for their paintings, Tran does not apply any type of paint on his collage. Therefore, he depends strictly on colours from magazines. Tran enjoys the unconventional process of manipulating colour and unpredictable outcome. Each collage is unique, because it can neither be cloned nor recreated even by the artist himself.
Tran’s art reflects his confusion from dualistic concept of Yin and Yang, Dream and Reality, Sanity and Insanity, Suffering and Happiness, etc.
It is considered a success if art viewers of Tran’s collages can detect chaos and orders, and yin and yang by themselves without asking any clarification or question(s) from the artist.
Tran himself enjoyed the creative process of making these collages. Now, the artist hopes that the viewers can enjoy the same process with their own imagination and creation.
Five Movements: Wu Xing - Ngũ Hành
In traditional Chinese & Vietnamese philosophy, natural phenomena can be classified into the Wu Xing (Chinese), Ngũ Hành (Vietnamese) or the Five Movements, usually translated as five elements, five phases or five steps.
Note that the five elements are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device for dynamic relation systems between 5 elements; hence the preferred translation of "Movement" over "Element".
The elements are:
metal (Chinese: 金, pinyin: jīn, Vietnamese: Kim)
wood (Chinese: 木, pinyin: mù, Vietnamese: Môc)
water (Chinese: 水, pinyin: shuǐ, Vietnamese: Thuy)
fire (Chinese: 火, pinyin: huǒ, Vietnamese: Hoa) , and
earth (Chinese: 土, pinyin: tǔ, Vietnamese:Tho).
The system of five movements was used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena. It was employed as a device in many fields of early Chinese /Vietnamese thought, including seemingly disparate fields such as geomancy or Feng shui, astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, music, military strategy and martial arts.
Generating Cycle:
Wood feeds Fire
Fire creates Earth (ash)
Earth bears Metal
Metal attracts Water
Water nourishes Wood
Note that the five elements are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device for dynamic relation systems between 5 elements; hence the preferred translation of "Movement" over "Element".
The elements are:
metal (Chinese: 金, pinyin: jīn, Vietnamese: Kim)
wood (Chinese: 木, pinyin: mù, Vietnamese: Môc)
water (Chinese: 水, pinyin: shuǐ, Vietnamese: Thuy)
fire (Chinese: 火, pinyin: huǒ, Vietnamese: Hoa) , and
earth (Chinese: 土, pinyin: tǔ, Vietnamese:Tho).
The system of five movements was used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena. It was employed as a device in many fields of early Chinese /Vietnamese thought, including seemingly disparate fields such as geomancy or Feng shui, astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, music, military strategy and martial arts.
Generating Cycle:
Wood feeds Fire
Fire creates Earth (ash)
Earth bears Metal
Metal attracts Water
Water nourishes Wood
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