Splash-Ink Painting Master: Shen Yun Is the Art of Arts

Cai Xuezhen, a renowned painter, watched the second show of the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts in Tainan, together with her husband Principal Lin Caiyuan. (Su Yufen/The Epoch Times)


TAINAN, Taiwan—Cai Xuezhen, a renowned painter who fuses Western and Eastern painting skills to create “Cai Splash-ink Painting,” watched the second show of the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts in Tainan, together with her husband Principal Lin Caiyuan. She was so moved that she felt like shedding tears. Unable to describe her feelings in words, she could only say, “Shen Yun is art! The art of arts! It symbolizes art!”

With passion for art, Cai Xuezhen had attended numerous international performances. She reiterated, “Shen Yun is art! The art of arts! It symbolizes art! True! You will be so moved that you feel like shedding tears. It’s beyond description. Look at the plentiful young and innocent dancers. So innocent and so peaceful! Their dancing movements are extensive, but you will not consider them exaggerating. Instead, you feel inner peace, feeling that the world is beautiful.”

“It’s so strange! When I watched a show before, I had neither deep feelings nor reflections. But today when I look at the dancers and their beautiful movements, I really feel touched. My husband and I had our hands tightly joined, unable to express how much we were moved.” Cai Xuezhen thought that the Shen Yun dancers must have possessed profundity; they were never ordinary ones.

Cai Xuezhen, who had made frequent visits to China, particularly mentioned the programs Nothing Can Block the Divine Path, and Astounding Conviction. “It really happens this way. Much of what happens around me is exactly like the plot. You can be arrested or even imprisoned for no particular reason. Therefore, this world needs someone to come out and do something to pacify worried crowds, just as what Shen Yun on tour is doing.”

Cai Xuezhen felt thankful to her friends for highly recommending Shen Yun to her. Without their recommendation, she would have missed such a beautiful experience.

At an early age, Cai Xuezhen learned oil painting and splash-ink painting from her mother. Absorbing the essence of painting masters, she applied splash-ink to traditional Chinese painting as well as to oil painting. Meanwhile, she infused colors of Western painting into traditional Chinese painting to make her painting vivid, brilliant and full of life. Her exhibitions always win praise from celebrity guests.