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Art Connoisseur Magazine | 2006
January issue | By Jennifer King
The Chinese Academic Tradition
How and why China based its art academies on the Russian and French
traditions.
Po Pin Lin: From Taiwanese Farm Boy
To American City-Dweller
He may have grown up in the Taiwanese countryside, but he loves
his American city life now.
The Artist Magaine | 2003
September issue | By Po Pin Lin
Capture the Moment
Make your viewers feel as if they’re at the scene of your
landscape by paying attention to such details as mood and atmosphere
while you paint.
Go!
Magazine Monterey Country Herald | August
21, 2003 | By Lisa Crawford Watson
A whole new world opens up for a talented
artist from Taiwan
 Po
Pin Lin wakes early. Slips past his sleeping wife and into the nascent
light of a city just beginning to stir. Mere blocks from Union Square,
he wanders down to the closest Starbuck’s, where he orders
a regular coffee with sugar and half and half, remember a soy latté
for his bride, Ariel, and returns home to read the newspaper. Well,
the sports page. Well, anything he can find about the Giants.
By 10 a.m., he’s ready to paint. Having climbed certain streets
and braces his way down the other side, having noticed that every
corner, every scene, every moment presents a subject to paint, he
is inspired by the city he loves and the opportunity it has brought
him to paint award-winning landscapes in a now familiar land.
Lin paints with a mastery of composition and form, a keen sense
of color and light, and a genuine fascination for his subject, conveyed
not only in what he chooses to paint but how he decides to present
it. His perspective is conscious, is considered, is an indication
not only of what he sees but how he feels. He is grateful. Had he
remained in Taiwan where he was born 33 years ago, Lin is certain
his life would have yielded a painter. Simple a different one with
a different perspective, a different landscape, a different kind
of opportunity than those he encountered in San Francisco... continue
Southwest
Art Magazine | 2001 September issue |
By Norman Kolpas
Rising Star- Po Pin Lin, A Sense
of Wonderment
"Oil Painter Po Pin Lin applies a
love of nature fostered in his native Taiwan to the sights of North
California."
 About
two years ago, while on a skiing trip with friends in the High Sierra
town of Truckee, CA, Po Pin Lin looked up into the sky and beheld
a sight he had never before seen in his 28 years: falling snow.
"It was incredible," he says with a smile, the awe he
felt then still evident on his face.
Enthralled, Lin climbed a high hill that overlooked the community
of some 3,500 people on California's eastern border, just north
of Lake Tahoe. "I wanted so much to see the whole view,"
he says. The vantage point immersed him in the falling snowflakes
and blurred the contours of the late-19th-century buildings on Commercial
Row, Truckee’s historic main street, which stretched out blow
him.
Back home in his studio on San Francisco’s Sutter Street,
Lin pored over the photographs he has taken from that hilltop. He
recaptures his sense of wonder in an oil painting he titles Wintertime
Truckee, a work so faithfully rendered and yet so rich atmospheric
that, says Lin, “looking at it, I can still feel the coldness
and I can still smell the snow.”... continue
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Southwest Art Magazine |
2000 September issue | By Bonnie
Gangelhoff
21 Under 31- Meet
21 young artists with promising careers
Po Pin Lin, San Francisco
Born: Taiwan
Art education: Currently studying for a master's degree in fine
art at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, CA.
Style of work: Primarily an impressionistic landscape and cityscape
painter.
Second-choice career: "Being an artist is my dream. I don't
have a second career choice."
Favorite artist: "The Russian Impressionists inspire me."
Favorite subject: “I’m not afraid to paint anything.
I like figures, still lifes, and landscape, but landscape and city
scenes are my favorite.”
Other passions: Bowling and basketball.
Favorite studio music: Classical. “I particularly like Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony. I like to play it over and over again.
Best art trip: “I would like to go back to Taiwan because
I grew up there and it’s beautiful. After that, Canada and
Venice, Italy.”
Best advice received: “Keep your paintbrushes wet everyday.
A true artist is not about making his drawings look like the real
things but about expressing his inner- most feeling and emotions.
Next big goal: To travel the world and explore different countries,
cultures, and traditions. Through canvas, colors, and brushes he
wants to share what he sees.
Creative spark: Beautiful sights- including peaceful farms, fierce
ocean waves, changing skies, fragile street flowers, and colorful
city life.
Galleries: Howard Portnoy Gallerie, Carmel, CA; Lee Youngman galleries,
Calistoga, CA.
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