Seven Stars Along The Moon - Print

Du Lundi au Samedi de 11h à 20h Métro Louvre-Rivoli (ligne 1) Tik Ka’s early work infused the Japanese “Kawaii” style into traditional Chinese new year paintings – creating the “So Ha” (infant) series. The subject and tone illustrate a colorful, artless utopia as a way to explore humanity through the eyes of a child. Continuing to explore his boundaries, Tik Ka incorporated Chinese and Western influences and aesthetics, developing the series “ChiZi”. The dreamy, soft colors used in “ChiZi” – its subtle, muted tones contrast with the vibrant and luxuriant “So Ha” series. It is Tik Ka’s hope to share with the world "ChiZi’s" innocence, and undamaged essence of humanity. The work of Tik Ka combines classical Chinese painting, his tales and legends with cartoony characters and smiling faces of children with angelic, the "So Ha". These characters come to life through paintings and three-dimensional creations that highlight bright colors dear to the Asian pictorial tradition. Tik Ka tries to deliver an optimistic thinking, positive, easy and free to the public through stories and characters of his tires wonderful world, particularly tries to build bridges between traditional Chinese culture and younger generations. He hopes to continue the legacy of myths and traditional Chinese folklore. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.