Works: "Prairie Sheep" Yin Baokang
Text/Hu Qing
In the vast grassland, strong men rode their horses to carry their "booty" and ran in the dust. In the distance, there were white ao bags in pairs, and cooking smoke was swirling. This is a panoramic depiction of the harvest scene of the grassland herders. The colors of the picture are contrasting, and the deep blue sky, the green grassland, and the yellow sand and dust form a unique landscape... In this work, the painter Mr. Yin Baokang uses a thick and powerful brush and a magnificent and harmonious color, and through the unity of people, animals, nature and scenes, the cheerfulness, ease and heroism of the nomadic people are presented to the viewer at a glance.
While teaching, Mr. Yin Baokang has always adhered to the creation and research of watercolor painting, and attaches great importance to the learning and reference of excellent painting techniques experience at home and abroad. His works are profoundly skilled, exquisitely skilled, intriguing, and appreciated in an elegant and popular manner. In the early years, Mr. Yin's footprints spread all over the Northwest Gobi and the north and south of the Great River, and his watercolor paintings in the Northwest Period mostly used the British watercolor method of overlapping after multi-layer drying; After returning to the south, his works often adopted the method of taking advantage of wet dot dyeing and overlapping similar to Chinese ink painting. Through the flexible use of different techniques, it truly and vividly expresses different regions, environments, tastes and feelings, giving people a special sense of artistic beauty and enjoyment.
Mr. Yin has always followed the ideological guidance of "life is the source of creation", insisted on going deep into life, discovering creative themes from real life, and using various means to depict the true feelings.
Painter introduction
Yin Baokang, born in 1936 in Hefei, Anhui Province, is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hunan Normal University, a member of the China Artists Association, a director of the China Watercolor Painters Society, and a consultant of the Hunan Watercolor Painting Society. In 1957, Yin Baokang graduated from the Art Department of Northwest Normal University and stayed on as a teacher, and successively served as an assistant professor for Mr. Lu Sibai, Chang Shuhong, and Mr. Liu Wenqing. In 1970, he was transferred to Hunan and taught in the Fine Arts Department of Hunan Normal University, and served as the head of the Fine Arts Department for many years. He is the author of "Watercolor Painting Teaching" and "New Compilation of Watercolor Painting Teaching", organized and participated in the compilation of "Sketch Preliminary", "National High School Art Professional Watercolor Painting Textbook", "Satellite TV Education Art Professional Gouache Painting Textbook", and published more than 10 personal painting books. His works have participated in many national art exhibitions, and dozens of works have participated in the "Chinese Watercolor Exhibition" to exhibit in Asia, Africa, Europe, the United States and other countries, and many works have won awards and been collected by Chinese and foreign art museums and collectors.
Works: "Evening Illumination of Xiangxi" Huang Tieshan
Cooking smoke is no more, and tired birds are thrown into the forest. The countryside is strange and the water is babbling. I saw three or two women, happily washing clothes in the stream, and a farmer humming a little tune comfortably, stepping on the sunset and walking home. His family may have been sitting around the table for a long time, waiting for him to return with a full load. Farmhouses are hidden next to green trees, and layers of mountain forests wind in the distance... In the painter Huang Tieshan's "Evening Photos of Xiangxi Province", it depicts a panoramic pastoral scenery of western Hunan, and it is a poetic space, which is not grand and not far away. Mr. Huang Tieshan truly expresses the mellow beauty and tranquility of nature. People only have the sigh of "the sunset is infinitely good", and there is no regret of "just near dusk".
Mr. Huang Tieshan is famous in the watercolor painting world for depicting the customs and customs of Hunan. He loves the local atmosphere of Hunan, loves the simple people who work and rest in the ordinary environment, and his watercolor paintings all depict his feelings about his homeland, and they are all simple and unpretentious true feelings.
Mr. Huang firmly believes that "the charm of watercolor painting lies in authenticity and sincerity, and only by perfectly expressing the author's true feelings about nature and life can it resonate with the audience." He was a painter who was obsessed with watercolor art and had a unique style, and a painter who was resolutely opposed to catching up with the new trend and chasing the "avant-garde" toy with the form. He never sensationalizes with stunts or accidental effects, but infects the viewer with the charm of water and color. As an old painter who enjoys a good reputation in the art world, especially in the field of watercolor painting, Mr. Huang has been admired in many works, "the old man talks about the madness of the teenager", pushes out the old and pursues new changes. It is not easy to maintain a painting style, let alone re-examine the origin of art and re-examine the world of watercolor.
Huang Tieshan, born in 1939 in Dongkou County, Hunan Province, graduated from Hubei Academy of Arts in 1959, and is currently the honorary director of the Watercolor Art Committee of the China Artists Association, a librarian of the Hunan Provincial Museum of Literature and History, an honorary member of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, an honorary chairman of the Provincial Artists Association, a national first-class artist, and enjoys the special allowance of experts with outstanding contributions from the State Council. His major works include "Dongting Lake Group Painting", "Moroccan Town", "Levitan's Hometown", "Golden with Late Autumn", etc., all of which are collected by the National Art Museum of China, and have been selected as "Special Exhibition of Treasures collected by the 30th Anniversary of the Establishment of the National Art Museum of China". He has published "Huangtie Landscape Painting Collection", "Huangtieshan Works Selection", "Chinese Famous Huangtie Landscape Painting Linben", "Huangtie Landscape Painting Selection", "Huangtieshan Watercolor World", "Chinese Contemporary Watercolor Masterpiece Huangtieshan Works" and other works.
Works: "Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet" Li Jie
Text/Liu Yuqing
A cluster of green leaves hung softly on the branches, and a few rays of sunlight spilled through the treetops on the sparkling water, creating layers of ripples. The young ducks frolicking in the water, the enchanting spread of green algae, and even the wormholes of the larvae on the leaves all send out the message of spring in a vibrant posture: the ice and snow that has spanned the entire cold winter are melting into a river of spring water, flowing into the distance... The whole work shows a classical taste with smooth composition, harmonious colors and calm imagery, expressing a yearning for the beauty of quietness.
In the eyes of the painter Li Jie, the fast-paced life and highly industrialized and mechanized civilization are eroding the "self" of modern people, so people are always caught in the blind pursuit of identity and value. What the painting presents is a cultural pursuit that lurks in a corner of her heart, her admiration for traditional pastoral humor, her yearning for a peaceful and peaceful age, and a rebellion against the noisy and noisy modern society.
Recently, Ms. Li Jie is undergoing a transformation into a modern and contemporary painting style, although her brushstrokes have begun to shift to a large number of non-realistic dot dyeing, and the expression of imagery has also shifted from figurative to highly abstract and hazy, exploring the essence of "painterliness" in a distant and suspended way of defamiliarization. But Ms. Li Jie's paintings still always take those beautiful and harmonious images as the origin, through those superficial forms, we can still glimpse her classical core from her paintings, she has always done a silent confrontation with the accelerating world at a slowing speed, as the painting shows, this is her desire for spring, for warmth, for the future...
Jie Li is an associate professor at the School of Architecture, Changsha University of Science and Technology. He is a member of Hunan Artists Association, vice chairman of Hunan Female Painters Association, director of Hunan Watercolor Painting Society, member of China Popular Color Association, and member of Education Committee of China Popular Color Association. He has been engaged in the research and creation of art education and watercolor painting in colleges and universities for many years, and his works have participated in international, national and provincial art exhibitions and won awards for many times. Several works are collected by institutions and individuals. His professional papers have been published in magazines and journals such as Literary and Art Research, Chinese Watercolor, Grand View of Fine Arts, Fine Arts, Journal of Hunan Normal University, and Chinese Art. He is the chief editor of "Art Appreciation", "Modern Graphic Composition", "Design Sketch" and other textbooks. Published a monograph "Water Color Flower Shadow - Li Jie Watercolor Art".
Works: "Xiangzhong Pastoral Song" Chen Feihu
Text/Liu Hui
Enjoying the work "Xiangzhong Pastoral Song", it is as if you can touch the humid and full of rural air, smell the aroma of rice and firewood coming from afar, see the farmer's feet covered with dirt walking on the field, and hear the melodious call of the old cow to the distance, the sound penetrates the layers of mountains, but also penetrates our thoughts... As Su Dongpo said: "Quiet group movement, empty old na wanjing."
In "Xiangzhong Pastoral Song", the painter Mr. Chen Feihu made full use of the basic elements of watercolor painting and the basic technique of drying and wetting, so that the mountains, rivers, grasses and trees and clouds and smoke in objective nature were blended with the subjective life mood under the author's free and elegant brush and ink, and the exuberant and endless inspiration and thousands of manners in his mind were pinned on the ultra-open and ethereal and deep and distant rural spiritual realm in the picture. The painter vividly expresses the charm of the picture, and the volume, space and realm that should be there are all revealed in these few brushstrokes. "Xiangzhong Pastoral Song" is the ideal country of poetry in the author's heart, pinning on the nostalgia in the depths of his memory, and also awakening the fading memories of urban life.
Mr. Chen Feihu has always adhered to the concept that the work is "painted" and emphasized that the work should be composed of "feeling". A work has no "feelings", it is always just a technical study, the picture without "feelings" is only an empty shell of matter and structure, only by investing their own emotions in the work can we paint the essence of the object, paint the nature of the sentient and powerful, and achieve the fusion of scenes. Because of this, we can always feel the depth, height and breadth of Mr. Chen Feihu's watercolor art world, and feel the infinite expansion of time and space in the picture.
Chen Feihu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Hunan University. He is the vice chairman of Hunan Artists Association, a member of China Artists Association, and a member of national institute of architects. He has long adhered to the research of art theory and art practice, published twelve monographs and textbooks, published more than one million words of papers, and served as the editor-in-chief of Architectural Color. He has carried out cultural exchanges and artistic visits to more than 40 countries, and his works of art have participated in more than 50 domestic and foreign art exhibitions, and in 2011, his fine art works won the gold medal of the Paris Cultural and Arts Festival in France. In 2012 and 2013, his works were selected for the Shanghai Watercolor International Biennale and the Shenzhen Watercolor International Biennale, and in October 2016, the watercolor works were selected for the Venice Biennale. In his teaching, he was awarded the title of "The Most Beloved Teacher in My Heart" by Hunan University. He has presided over more than 100 architectural and environmental art designs.
Works: "Prairie Horse Racing" Yin Jun
The grassland was gray-yellow, interspersed with sporadic greenery, swaying shallowly with the breeze. The distant mountains were gray-blue, and some restrained folds were faintly revealed in the hazy dust fog. And between heaven and earth is a slender straight line, this straight line is known as the world, among which are galloping horses, riders on horseback and herders sitting on grass stacks, these pulsating color points add a sense of movement to the picture. Under the large seascape-style composition, three bright flags are unfurled at the focus of the line of sight, calling for tourists and returnees, and also calling the viewer's eyes to cross this shuttle wooden door and enter the world in the painting...
Blue belongs to the distant mountains and the sky, while yellow belongs to the grassland and the land, these two high-contrast colors do not appear to be ostentatious under this "symbolic" expression, but together with the creatures in the picture, forming a kind of "unity of heaven and man" of the harmonious realm, appearing far away and appearing broad. In this painting, we can also glimpse the painter Yin Jun's desire to touch the entity in the grand vision, that is, a desire to put the body and mind, and a desire to entrust the value of life.
The painter Yin Jun inherited the English watercolor painting method of her father Yin Baokang, using multi-layered overlapping techniques to depict mountains and rivers, to perceive the spirit of nature, to explore the essence of appearances, to touch the entities of all things. Compared with his father's thickness, the painter Yin Jun showed a kind of feminine agility, fashion and charm. In addition to rationally perceiving the "spirit" of nature, the painter Yin Jun also hopes to feel the natural "expression" and "emotion" in perceptuality, so the landscape in the painting has a turbulent sense of flow, a sense of openness, and a touch of fluttering bright colors in addition to the sense of solidity.
Yin Jun, female, ancestral home of Hefei, Anhui. Graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Hunan Normal University, he is now an associate professor of the School of Architecture of Changsha University of Science and Technology, a member of the Hunan Artists Association, a director of the Hunan Provincial Women Painters Association, and a director of the Hunan Provincial Watercolor Painting Society. His works "Dongting Fishing Song" won the gold medal of the Hunan Provincial Women's Watercolor Painters Exhibition, "The Charm of the Flower Series I" won the Excellence Award of the Fifth Hunan Provincial Women's Watercolor Painters Exhibition, "The Morning of the Sri Lankan Fish Market" won the 8th International Landscape Grand Prix in France and exhibited, participated in the exhibition "Change 1949-2019" series (1) "The Smile of the Motherland is So Beautiful", "Datang Style Series" Painted and Colored - Changsha and Dongguan Women Painters Exhibition, the 4th Italian Urbino International Watercolor Exhibition.
Works: "He Rong" Zhang Xiaogang
The new leaves are full of ponds, poetic and quiet. In the huge lotus plate, I only saw a lotus bud with buds waiting to be released, the sun fell from the sky, and the silent ripples were hidden under the lotus leaves, quietly listening to the silent flower language... Painter Zhang Xiaogang's new watercolor painting "Lotus Rong", the picture is clear and unworldly, the tone is bright and elegant, and the poetic hazy and decisive brushstrokes are integrated, all of which are permeated with an invisible and perceptible light Zen.
The Zen meaning in painting generally refers to the illusion and dilution of the painter and the super-easy ethereal spirit of the picture, especially the intention that is intended to be outside the words and the mood of the scattered detachment, which often arouses people's reverie and makes people think deeply and enlighten people. In recent years, Mr. Zhang Xiaogang has devoted himself to creating the "Lotus" series. Reading his paintings, he only feels that the breeze is blowing, the dust is not stained, and the soul is purified by the lotus rhyme, whether it is a bright red flower or a high branch and young leaves, or a scattered red of the shadow of the lost han, which always brings the viewer a sense of leisurely understanding, thus giving birth to the interrogation of life and the introspection of the soul, which is nothing more than the supreme realm that Zhang Xiaogang aspires to achieve.
On the road of artistic life, Mr. Zhang Xiaogang has never stopped flinching. After he achieved fame, he surpassed himself again and again, and bravely went to the south in a year of confusion. For decades, Mr. Zhang Xiaogang has walked in his hometown and other places, immersed in the selflessness of teaching and creation, lingering in the vast wilderness and subtle still life, experimenting between the ontology of watercolor and the tradition of ink painting... Mr. Zhang Xiaogang used his brush to realize the transformation and sublimation of his soul and art, and produced a batch of fruitful results.
Zhang Xiaogang, born in Changsha in 1955, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Hunan Normal University in 1982, is a professor, a national first-class artist, a member of the China Artists Association, and a contracted painter of the Shenzhen Academy of Painting. Zhang Xiaogang has been engaged in the teaching, creation and research of watercolor painting for a long time, and his works have been selected into the "National Fine Arts Exhibition", "China Watercolor Centennial Exhibition", "Italian International Watercolor Exhibition", "Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennale", etc., and have won many awards. He has held more than 30 solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, and his representative works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, the Shenzhen Art Museum, the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, the Liu Haisu Art Museum, the Guan Shanyue Art Museum and the collection institutions at home and abroad. His major works have been published in professional journals such as Fine Arts, Fine Arts Research, Decoration, and INTENATIONAL ARTIST, and he has published ten monographs and painting collections.
(Source: Huasheng Wencui, Issue 1-6, 2021)