Charoon Boonsuan at Silom Road
“The Splendor of Nature -Reflecting the Unforgettable Life of Charoon Boonsuan”
The Gallery at Silom Galleria, Silom Road
Bankok, Thailand SLIDESHOW
January 2009
The Bangkok Post is a great place to find “What’s On Real.Time” in Bangkok. It was through this newspaper that I found my way to the Art Exhibitions in the Silom Galleria Shopping Center. Several Art Galleries of contemporary art, as well as some studios of contemporary artists can be found on the first level (basement).
I share the images of some of the paintings on exhibit simply because they are difficult to find on the web while doing searches using our alphabet.
The following text is from the blog of John Irvin http://www.geocities.com/~johni32/art04.html
“Charoon grew up wanting to make art. As a boy in his small village in Singburi, he remembers drawing pictures in the dirt, when he was 5 years old. At the time he had no materials to draw with. He used to like to watch Leekay drama, a Thai art form which has costumes and painted backgrounds. In high school, his goal was to be a scenery painter for these shows. His interest in painting scenery became transformed into a career as a fine artist, specializing in landscapes. “I never reached my goal of being a scenery painter,” he laughs.
“He went to Silpakorn University in Bangkok, and afterward came to Chiang Mai to do his graduate study. It was here, at a friend’s pond, that he discovered the joy of painting flowers, in all their vivid color. ”
“I used to use dark colors, lots of browns,” Charoon said to me. “I didn’t think I could paint in bright colors.” But, when painting the lily pads in his friend’s pond, Charoon found brightly colored flowers mixed in with the darker colors. Being a good student, he reproduced what he saw accurately, and in the process the color seeped into his work. He found very quickly that he liked using bright colors.
“Painting dark colors used to make the sadness come out from me,” he told me. “Now, when I paint, I feel more happy.”
“Charoon admires the French impressionists of the 19th century, including Monet. These artists emphasized the use of color very strongly in their work, even favoring it over compositional elements like form and line. Monet in particular painted many studies of flowers and fields in which the forms of objects almost seemed to disintegrate into fields of color. Charoon owns many books on Monet, and has been to France to study his work in person. Viewing Charoon’s work, one can easily feel his admiration for Monet.”