George Chann moved to California of the United States with family in 1925 after graduating from high school. He later studied painting at Otis College of Art and Design in 1953 and was the minority as a Chinese student. His work could be traced back to the early 1940. It realistically depicted the life of middle-lower class or underprivileged groups by using Post-impressionism and expressed the care of humanism. In 1950s, Abstractionism became the main stream of art in the U.S. and Chann also wondered the next direction of the style of his art work and started exploring the rich cultural sources of his motherland. He adopted black and white as the base colors in the beginning and combined the theory of Abstractionism with the style and beauty of Chinese calligraphy. During 1960 to 1970, more colors and textures were introduced gradually to the experiment of his abstract art work. The artist uses the rubbing from ancient bamboo books, silk books or inscription on the stele as the base in Multi-Media Calligraphy Abstract (Lot 2187) and Calligraphy Abstract in Red (Lot 2186) and cuts the papers into wracks to collage on the canvas. By applying various materials such as ink, water color and pastel and writing with calligraphic strokes, he piles the pictures with complicated, exquisite and rich visual layers. Haze (Lot2188), created during 1970 to 1980, places the colors smoothly on the canvas by using the strokes of Dian (dot), Heng (horizontal), Shu (vertical), Pie (Throw away) and Na (press down) from calligraphy and stacks antique-like texture by having oil painting to establish the time sense suggested by the oldness of the traces. Chann relies on the verve of Chinese calligraphy and the beauty of antiquity in a seemingly random filtrating and re-constructing process to re-define the words and symbols, releasing the pure aesthetics and power of calligraphy, and forming the individual Chinese abstract style of thinking and painting.