Modern Express News (reporter Wang Fei) In order to pay tribute to the Chinese Police Day, from January 10 to January 18, the exhibition of Yu Guocheng's Chinese paintings sponsored by the Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Society and other units will be exhibited at the Yancheng Art Museum. The Modern Express reporter learned that the exhibition exhibited a total of 60 Chinese paintings in Guocheng, mainly with tigers, Yellow Sea wetlands, water towns and other themes.
Born in 1963, Yu Guocheng is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a director of the Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Society, the vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Art Association, a director of the Jiangsu Provincial Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, graduated from the Chinese Painting Advanced Research Class of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and served as the director of the Stability Maintenance Office of Yandu District of Yancheng City and the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau. His works have been published by many mainstream media such as People's Daily, Fine Arts, Chinese Painters, and China Painting and Calligraphy.
"As a well-known painter in the police circles, I deliberately chose to hold my first solo exhibition on the occasion of the second Chinese Police Festival, and this year is the Year of the Tiger, so I took out some tiger paintings for exhibition." Yu Guocheng told the Modern Express reporter.
Yu Guocheng likes to graffiti since childhood, when he saw Su Embroidered Tiger when he was a child, he drew the tiger he drew, and was taken by adults and neighbors to the town house in the hall house to ward off evil spirits, which was a great encouragement to him when he was young.
"There is a tiger in the heart, and a fine sniff of the roses." After going to college in Nanjing, he collected books and videos of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign tiger paintings, and watched exhibitions, constantly "digging wells", refining his own tiger painting style and techniques, and eventually becoming a generation of tiger painters. In 2010, the China Artists Association held the "100 Years of 100 Tigers Chinese Painting Exhibition" at the National Art Museum of China, and Yu Guocheng's work "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was recorded together with Xu Beihong, He Xiangning and other contemporary masters.
After mastering the shape and technique of painting tigers, Yu Guocheng returned to Yancheng to engage in police occupation, and often went to the Yellow Sea wetlands, the Great Longitudinal Lake and other places to collect wind, and painted a series of flower and bird paintings such as elk, cranes, and reed geese. At the 12th National Art Exhibition, Yu Guocheng's work "There is a Sound of Geese in the Depths of The Reed Flowers" won the nomination award and won the praise of many experts and scholars.
Gao Yun, vice president of the Chinese Painting Society, president of the Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Society, and former deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture, believes that Yu Guocheng's paintings followed the Song and Yuan dynasties, and then studied Lin Liang and Lü Ji in the Ming Dynasty, Nantian and Shi Tao in the Qing Dynasty, and also made some hard work for Fu Baoshi and Pan Tianshou. He has formed his own unique expression of tiger painting, from materials to shapes, from pictures to artistic conceptions, with a distinct degree of recognition. He also has unusual talents and talents in the creation of flower and bird paintings. The Reed Goose series, whether sleeping or flying, or singing or chirping, handles the virtual reality appropriately and skillfully.
"Painting is not only my hobby, but also the makeup of my life. Painting has achieved my 'peaceful mentality of not being sophisticated, not being dignified, not being bullied.' Yu Guocheng said that now, he wants to use the brush in his hand to record this beautiful era, praise the lovely hometown, explore the expression method of wetland themes, and render the dreamy wetland with pen and ink to render the appearance of his heart.