During my research, paintings from a Chinese female artist Cai Jin (蔡锦， 1965－) attracted my attention. I am not a pro in artwork evaluation at all; her works draw me in with the fascinating colors and the marvelous way she applied it. Cai Jin’s series of Dried Canna Lily reminds me of a great female artist Georgia O’keefe. On the similar topic of flower but with completed different approaches/technics that each creates its own unique feeling on their viewers. It seems to me that today’s painters, unlike other artists dealing with art forms other than drawings, have the most difficult time since almost all the high points in every directions in drawings have been reached by all the great masters in the recent history. When everything has been done, one needs some serious talent to break through.
Another Chinese female artist Pan YuLiang (潘玉良，1895-1977) is considered as a female pioneer painter of west style in the recent art history in China. Her real life story was so legend, so tale like that it has been turned into films lately. Click here to read Pan’s story with some of her paintings.
PS: photos from Cai Jin’s website, click here to see more her paintings and artworks.
A Chinese Docent 
