Pang Tseng Ying

TSENG-YING PANG, one of the great artists in all of the Orient’s long history, has defied Rudyard Kipling’s conviction that “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.”

The twain do meet – in Pang’s celebrated watercolors, which art experts throughout the world have described as an “occidental symphony with oriental indirection,” and with similar encomiums.

Born to a Chinese artist-mother in Japan, Pang at an early age exhibited talents usually displayed by adults. His art education is at roots Chinese. His initial studies were in Peking, China, where beginning in his youth he studied the various forms of Chinese art. After graduating from Chunghua College of Art, Peking, Pang was awarded a scholarship to Study art at Nippon University in Tokyo, Japan. There he received his M.A. degree in art. His amazing visionary powers, greatly influenced by the traditional Asiatic art and Western techniques soon established him as one of the Orient’s most esteemed contemporary watercolorists.

Gordon Brown, Senior Editor of ARTS magazine, whose enthusiasm for Pang’s work is unrestrained, wrote that “Pang brings his own version of Abstract Expressionism. His

mood is predominantly poetic and leads to philosophical meditation, It expresses grace, strength, elegance, abruptness, and freshness as the occasion may require. Through these qualities, that all nations can admire and understand, he has made a splendid contribution toward the internationalization of art while retaining rich values that are national and personal.”

In 1965 Pang was awarded Taiwan’s coveted President’s Award and came to the United States on a grant from the Asia Foundation. He has remained in this country and has received more than 200 awards for his watercolor paintings, many of which have become the proud possessions of museums, galleries and private collectors throughout the world.