Oil painting from the direction of classicism to contemporary hyper-realism, there are many hyper-realistic oil painters, but it is difficult to say that this is the accurate direction of oil painting development, because hyper-realism with "technology" as the main form of expression of production methods are more, and the creative realm with "culture" as the core is rare. How does oil painting develop, and where is the more relevant direction? The new inheritance of oil painting advocated by the famous contemporary oil painter Yang Xingya is refreshing and eye-catching! It should be a new idea of oil painting and a new direction of development!
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The core value of oil painting new inheritance is still the essence of "oil painting", and the modeling of classicism still holds the core inheritance duty, so his oil painting will not be disordered or derailed on the path of innovation. Using a paintbrush to paint wild roads other than oil paintings, painting Fauvism that people can't understand, this is not Yang Xingya's choice. He consciously draws a clear line with the creation of non-sequential oil paintings, so he is the inheritor of the quality of oil paintings, and the inheritance is still the thematic value.
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"New" is the creation of his cultural wisdom in the process of oil painting inheritance. Where's new? I have to say that his traditional cultural cultivation is profound. Although he is holding the brush of oil painting in his hand, the technical cultivation is the west, the traditional culture is the core of the heart cultivation, and the quality cultivation is the east. Therefore, in his oil painting creation, it will obviously gradually spread into the charm and vividness of Chinese painting, and oil painting not only uses block light and shadow to shape, but also intersperses into the agility of the line pen! Oil painting techniques and Chinese painting methods can be very harmoniously unified together, not violating harmony, and not being rigid and rigid! In his creation, the techniques of oil painting and Chinese painting have absolutely no tear scars after the collision, and they are completely in a state of perfect integration. Of course, he has a deep grasp of Eastern and Western cultures. Without the ultimate height of cultural cultivation, it is difficult to have a high-skilled cultural integration operation. Therefore, looking at his oil paintings, he is looking up at the wonderful cultural cultivation! Painting like his people, in the practice of his new oil painting inheritanceism, has also been confirmed by the side!
The shape is the foundation of Mr. Yang Xingya's oil painting, no matter how the oil painting is inherited, if it loses its form, it must be the root cause. Therefore, his oil painting is a superb paradigm of professional modeling, whether it is landscape scenery or characters are the beauty of form. It is real and impressive, and it is the expressiveness of the best art, which is his kung fu undertone. If the previous oil painters tried to make oil painting influence Chinese painting, then the current Yang Xingya has opened a new journey to let Chinese painting influence oil painting. Using the image charm of Chinese painting to influence the creation of oil painting, correcting the disordered impressionism of oil painting to the beauty of the imagery with aesthetic rhyme in Chinese painting, can be seen and understood, moving and pleasing to the eye, and absolutely successful from the perspective of the shaping of the result!
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Fa tong east and west innovation skills, unique show wind flow. The successful practice of his new oil painting inheritance doctrine is just a model of chinese oil painters who should have traditional cultural self-confidence! In this sense, the new inheritance of oil painting is exactly the artistic prelude to the cultural soft power that we have and is gradually flourishing on the world stage!
(Text/Shi Feng)
Artist Bio:
Yang Xingya, born in 1946 in Dandong, Liaoning Province, graduated from Dandong Art School in 1964. Creator of the new inheritance of Chinese oil painting.