Chinese abstract artist Chen Danyang
Chen Danyang, a well-known abstract artist in China, his work “Bach’s Equal Temperance” series embodies the mythological temperament of Hesiod’s other poems “Work and Time” over the years,. His works are musical. It is compatible with Pythagoras’ insights into the structured world of music as number.
Bach’s twelve equal temperament comes from the musician’s transcendental perception of the order of the universe.
Religious mysticism and enlightenment rationalism are like two chromosomes of genes, which constitute the endless rhythm of Bach music. It is a surging passion implied in order and structure.
Therefore, it is this tension structure between rationality and sensibility that has inspired Chen Danyang’s artistic creation and brought us the Gestalt psychology-style perceptual experience.
In German, the word “Gestalt” represents the overall form, emphasizing the overall grasp and perception, rather than partial analysis and superposition.
When the viewer is immersed in the rhythms, levels and laws of the “Bach’s Equal Temperance” series，when you trying to find a rational focus in the seemingly infinite color square, you will find that you have been integrated into a field of mind and matter. Under the extremely regular and rational appearance of the picture, the structure and order have rotated and collapsed. It creates a kind of vertigo, in which reason reaches a state of ecstasy and trance, and thus obtains a short-term transcendental perception in this state.
