Growing up in a single-parent family, Kwang Ho raised him and his four younger siblings on his own.
Quang Ho was born in Hue, Vietnam, in 1963 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He started painting at the age of 3 and has been drawing with joy and confidence. At the age of 16, while still in middle school, Guanghao was appreciated by a gallery owner who held a solo exhibition for him. This exhibition gave Guanghao great encouragement, and he wanted to become a painter.
But soon, Guanghao's mother died in a car accident, and the 18-year-old Guanghao took on the responsibility of taking care of his younger siblings.
Guanghao experimented with watercolor, gouache, printmaking, and oil painting, and his painting style followed the impressionism that was all the rage in the United States in the early 20th century, emphasizing the instantaneous impression of the figure in the natural light of the outside world.
Let the moment become eternal, let the beauty of the moment freeze on the canvas, without emphasizing the theme and content of the work, and even the appearance of the characters is only a vague shadow, the painter expresses inner emotions, a kind of emotional catharsis.
Most of Guanghao's early works are still life paintings and landscapes, and his still life paintings have oriental connotations, delicate and deep, with a sense of quiet time. Landscapes are sketches, improvisational scribbles of large brushstrokes. After middle age, his works are mainly figure paintings, including dancers, migrant workers in cafes, and girls who meditate alone.
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