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The high reputation of silence

Mr. Shen Mo is good at figure sculpture. His works are good at capturing the morphological characteristics of different figures, and use a combination of rough and delicate artistic expression techniques to make the figures lifelike and ready to be seen. He has profound artistic skills and extreme His delicate realistic style enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. He is known as "the disciple of Rodin who retains the spirit of life" and is also known as the "Little Rodin of the East". Mr. Silence's character works have a wide range of materials, among which the most famous ones are numerous statues of celebrities. He has been invited to serve as writers Ba Jin, Ke Ling; Bai Hua; painters Liu Haisu, Yan Wenliang, Zhu Qizhan, Tang Yun, Zhang Leping, Xie Zhiguang, Qian Jungou, Guan Liang; musician He Luting; singer Gao Zhilan; dramatist Yu Zhenfei ; Statues of scientist Tan Jiazhen and others. Because of his exquisite plastic arts, he was invited by the Buddhist Association of China to the Longhua Ancient Temple to create a statue of Vairocana Buddha. At the end of 1982, Shen Mo went to settle in Hong Kong. He was successively invited by Hong Kong Lingnan painters Zhao Shaoang and Situ Qi; famous photographers. Jian Jian Qingfu; Justice of the Peace Yang Yongxiu; Yongan Consortium Guo Linshan, and Hong Kong Governor Youde and many other famous foreign figures. At the request of Taiwan, he sculpted a statue of Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo and became a representative figure of Hong Kong realist sculptors. In 1991, it was created by The Shanghai Foreign Cultural Exchange Association sat in the Shangri-La Hall of the Portman Hotel in Shanghai to celebrate his 60th birthday and 40 years of his artistic career. Mr. Shen Mo returned to Shanghai to attend the celebration and exhibited more than 30 of his new works. In 1989, Mr. Shen Mo was invited to visit Taiwan twice. Taiwan's "Times" published a long newsletter titled "Rodin's disciples who retained the vitality of life - the outstanding mainland sculptor is silent"; Taiwan's "China Times" held a press conference for him and issued an exclusive interview.

In 2000, Shanghai's "Xinmin Evening News" serialized Mr. Shen Mo's biography "Sculpture Life", and the legendary artistic career of "Oriental Little Rodin" was widely circulated.

Recently, at the request of the Teresa Teng Foundation of Taiwan and Teresa Teng’s brother, we built a statue of the late singer Teresa Teng. Currently, Mr. Shen Mo is a member of Hong Kong Artists Alliance, Hong Kong Writers Association, Shanghai Artists Association, Shanghai Arts and Crafts Association, Hong Kong (Overseas) Literary Artists Association and other art groups, and was awarded the title of Honorary Academician of the Royal Union Academy of Sciences. His name and artistic experience have been included in many international and domestic dictionaries such as "Who's Who in the World" and "Dictionary of Chinese Figures". In 1998, he won the "Golden Dragon Award for Chinese Literary Artists" awarded by the Hong Kong (Overseas) Literary Artists Association at the same time as Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Jin Yong, I.M. Pei, Xie Jin and other more than 20 cultural celebrities.