On the evening of February 20, with the romantic end of the story of a snowflake, the 2022 Beijing 24th Winter Olympic Games came to a successful end. The Chinese team won the best result of all time with 9 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze. More than a hundred years ago, patriotic educator Zhang Boling predicted: "The day the Olympic Games are held, it will be the time when China will take off!" From the "Three Questions of the Olympic Games" to the "Hundred Years of Realizing the Dream", from the first city of the Two Olympic Games in history to the sports power that shines on the world stage, the Chinese nation has made the world re-understand China!
Works by Xin Jiafeng
At an important historical moment that hundreds of millions of Chinese people will never forget, artist Xin Jiafeng poured his excitement into his pen, waved every piece of paper, and remembered this glorious glory with calligraphy and painting works! Inspired by the "Great Wall of Ice and Snow" with chinese elements on the Winter Olympic circuit, he created "100 Snow Pictures of the Great Wall".
The Great Wall is China's business card, which embodies the wisdom and strength of the Chinese nation for thousands of years and the indestructible national spirit of unity of purpose. In 1987, the Great Wall was designated as a World Heritage Site. The flying snow adds a different style to the majestic Great Wall, with thousands of miles of snow drifting, mountain dancing silver snakes, and so many delicate rivers and mountains!
Xin Jiafeng was with his teacher Cui Ruzhuo
Ice and snow elements have been a common subject of singing and expressing by literati and inkers since ancient times, but the artist Xin Jiafeng inherited the mantle of his master Chinese painting Master Cui Ru and kept up with the pulse of the times, creating a unique new style of calligraphy and painting. Cui Ruzhuo, born in Beijing in 1944, studied painting under Li Kuchan, a master of modern and contemporary Chinese freehand flower and bird painting.
Cui Ruzhuo's 19 works of more than 100 million
Today, Cui Ruzhuo leads the world art market with 19 works with a total turnover of more than 100 million yuan and nearly 6 billion yuan, becoming a veritable richest artist. According to the official data of the Hurun Art List, the 78-year-old Cui Ruzhuo has been shortlisted for the Hurun Art List for eleven consecutive years and has topped the Hurun Art List for seven consecutive years. Became the rich list of Hurun Art, the only chinese painting master in history who has won seven consecutive championships.
The price of Cui Ruzhuo's "Flying Snow with Spring" is HK$307 million
In Cui Ruzhuo's nearly 200 million works, there are many works with ice and snow themes. On April 7, 2014, the work "Danfeng White Snow Hand Scroll" fell hammer for HK$184 million, the 2015 Poly Hong Kong Spring Auction "Wei Rui Xue Yi Jiangnan" sold for HK$236 million, and the Poly Hong Kong Spring Auction "Flying Snow with Spring" on April 4, 2016 set a new record of HK$307 million.
Xia Sijun, Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Expo (second from the right)
Visit Cui Ruzhuo's mansion to appreciate Cui Ruzhuo's snow scenes
Cui Tianyi, the founder of Providence Culture, and Cui Ruzhuo, a master of Chinese paintings, appreciate huge snow scenes
Cui Ruzhuo's ice and snow works are magnificent and simple, which not only highlights his profound traditional skills, but also presents his unique artistic personality and the innovative consciousness of "pen and ink when the times are contemporary". The Providence Cultural Delegation, together with Xia Sijun, Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Expo, visited Cui Ruzhuo's mansion to appreciate the snowy art works.
In February 2016, Cui Ruzhuo donated 100 million yuan to the Forbidden City Cultural Relics Conservation Foundation for cultural heritage protection, becoming the largest personal cash donation received by the foundation.
Cui Ruzhuo, a master of Chinese painting, has devoted his life to contributing to the excellent traditional culture and the development of Chinese painting and calligraphy. He has sponsored many public welfare undertakings related to traditional culture. In the artistic judgment led by Western values, Cui Ruzhuo actively expands the influence of Chinese art from both theory and practice, and strives for the evaluation and status that China deserves. It was in the influence of his teacher's cultural vision, open-mindedness and boldness that Cui Ruzhuo's closed disciple Xin Jiafeng took over the baton and immersed himself in exploring the inheritance and development of Chinese painting and innovating the old.
Xin Jiafeng's ice and snow Great Wall works presented for the Winter Olympics are contrary to the steep feeling of winter mountains and rivers, and contain vitality. Plum blossoms bloom around the city walls, adding to the atmosphere of tranquility. Through the artist's superb pen and ink treatment, the building contains a magnificent spirit. In terms of pen and ink techniques, snow scenes, city walls, and scenery adopt different brushwork, rubbing, pointing, and dyeing, rendering from thick to light layers, making the overall deep and misty, and the thick ink moss points at the key points use the original new ink accumulation method to dye layer by layer, making the building more spiritual. The pen is broken, the qi pulse is in chapters, it seems that the hills are in the chest, and the heart is at will.
Xin Jiafeng's calligraphy and painting works not only carry forward the advantages of Cui Ruzhuo, the master of Chinese painting, but also give full play to the skills of oil painting. In the use of color, it integrates Chinese and Western styles, introduces the old and the new, and integrates the poetry of the East with the spirit of realism as one of the ice and snow Great Wall works, showing us the style of contemporary Chinese painting, which is deeply favored by collectors and investors.
Chronology of Xin Jiafeng's art:
In May 2021, the solo exhibition 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Chen Lu International Ice Center in Beijing.
In November 2016, the "Xin Jiafeng Chinese Painting Exhibition" was held in Weifang, Shandong.
In October 2016, the "Xin Jiafeng Chinese Painting Exhibition" was held at the Jiuzhou Art Museum in Qingzhou, Shandong.
In 2017, he participated in the first "Painting and Embroidery" charity auction.
In December 2016, "Contemporaries" Chinese Ink Art Invitation Exhibition
In 2015, 21 works of landscape, flowers and birds, including "The First Sunshine of Mountain Rain", participated in the "Art Sea Treasures" auction held by "Beijing Guantang Haoyu International Auction Co., Ltd." 20 works sold.
In 2008, he began to follow Mr. Cui Ruzhuo in the research and creation of Chinese painting.
From 2003 to 2007, he participated in the "Oil Painting Exhibition on the Same Road" for many consecutive years, and his works have been published in domestic and foreign art newspapers and periodicals for many times.
In 2001, he held the "Xin Jiafeng Oil Painting Solo Exhibition" in Taipei.