Seminar Proceedings

With Buddha portrait masters—Mr. Xia Jing Shan, famous in China and Taiwan and his protégés: well-known Guanyin portraits painter in Taiwan—Mr. Chiang Hsiao Hung, “Xia Jing Shan Arts and Culture Foundation” and “Wuyo Art Limited Company” held a “Xia Jing-Shan and Chiang Hsiao-Hung Guanyin Buddhist Arts Forum.” This forum aimed to have an academic study on these two painters’ life goal in passing on the spirit of Buddha portraits art and their altruism.

The main subject of this forum was these two painters’ Buddha portrait works and was discussed from three different aspects: portrait works, culture art inheritance, and Buddha portrait art promotion. To enhance the quality of the forum and scope of the discussion, Li Zong Ren, the head of department of Painting and Calligraphy in National Taiwan University of Arts, Hong Chang Gu, the vice professor in department of Fine Arts in Chinese Culture university, and several artists were invited to participate in the forum for artistic and academic exchange. This activity fully showed the meaning of the classics inheritance and provided a better interpretation for Chinese Buddha portraits art.