Ye Xiaoxia: A native of Yuxi, Yunnan. He is a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the Yunnan Chinese Painting Art Committee, and a specially hired young painter of the Yunnan Academy of Painting. His works have been selected for the 13th National Art Exhibition, the 6th National Youth Art Exhibition, the 6th and 7th National Academy of Painting Biennale, participated in the "Deep Life, Rooted in the People, 30 Young and Middle-Aged Painters Across the Country Theme Practice Activity Exhibition", and published in journals such as "Fine Arts" and "Calligraphy and Painting Research" for many times.
Jinling Dream | 196cm×180cm was selected for the 100 Years of Brilliant 2021 China 100 Jinling Painting Exhibition
Monologue-style lyrical painting
Text/Zhu Tieli
One of the reasons why the painter Ye Xiaoxia can attract attention lies in the personality and value of the brush and ink shown in her paintings. As a way of expressing nature, painting emphasizes the expression of subjective feelings in pen and ink, pays attention to freehand in the pen and ink interest, and pays attention to the touching power of the form itself and the artistic conception of the work. Therefore, the painter does not take the depiction of objective nature as the ultimate goal, but to paint affection and pursue exquisite brush and ink, so as to reflect the unique value of Chinese painting.
Home Fuxian Lakeside 180cmx180cm
As a female painter, Ye Xiaoxia has her own delicate aesthetic method, most of her works do not win with bold axes and layers, but with static allegory, from movement to static, let her knowledge and experience as the source, and create a lyrical work that is smooth, quiet and distant.
Fuxian Lake is my home 195cmx240cm
Her landscape paintings are characterized by lushness, which are complex but not chaotic, dense and ethereal, and illustrate the old and the new. Taking works such as "Nanguo Garden Fun" and "Purple Qi Ming auspicious" as examples, the scratch dot dyeing full of paper jumping, the thick and light laying of loose and flexible movement, and the ancient and simple mountain stones are all expressions of a strong sense of subjectivity, a natural expression of the painter's thoughts, a unique language method, and a special carrier of thought and meaning.
Auspicious Community | 230x195cm | 2018
This is all supported by pen and ink, with ink accumulation as the characteristic, and the dense brushwork conveys the rich cultural connotation of traditional pen and ink. In short, the vast brushwork and warm ink meaning, derived from the vivid mood of life and the intellectual connotation of the literati, are Ye Xiaoxia's landscape paintings that integrate a variety of aesthetic interests.
Sail on Fuxian Lake | 230 x 145cm | 2019
The Taoist concept of "interacting with the spirit of heaven and earth alone" is not intended to be a landscape painting, but this idea of perfection has had a profound impact on the development of Chinese landscapes, which also gives Ye Xiaoxia a profound inspiration for how to understand the way of art. Her other type of "Dream Home" series of works shows an idyllic Zen, the picture is quiet and dust-free, and time seems to stand still, making people feel the sense of return away from the noisy city.
In the South of the Clouds | 230 x 195cm | 2019
This is neither an objective realism of natural landscapes nor an independent embodiment of the painter's subjective feelings. She presents to contemporary people a beautiful and quiet spiritual home that can be visited and lived. Here, the painter freely uses pen and ink, and uses pen and ink to dialogue with nature, so that readers can taste the painter's spiritual perception from the picture. This is a kind of innovation relative to traditional landscapes, and this is the important point where Ye Xiaoxia's works are full of vitality.
In other words, it is how to absorb, learn and introduce the best parts of traditional pen and ink and the factors suitable for modernity and self to contemporary aesthetics, and enrich and improve their own pen and ink resources.
Another feature of this type of work is the attempt to create a pattern that can integrate the block structure into the color and composition of pen and ink, which is not a disassembly of traditional pen and ink language, but the construction of traditional pen and ink, which is pregnant with the contemporary aesthetic factors of Chinese culture. In this sense, it is based on the pen and ink of the ancients, with the teacher's creation as a reference, trying to reinterpret the tradition and enter the process of creation, and obtaining the possibility of re-innovation of the traditional landscape.
The lyrical painting, which is almost monologue- style, is the overall impression of Ye Xiaoxia's works and the deep connotation of her landscape works. The painter uses his own language and textual structure, based on traditional aesthetics, from a newer modern perspective, and quiet thinking, through the object, to depict the spiritual world at the bottom of his heart.
Ye Xiaoxia, "Spring Rain Run Home", 178cm×96cm, 2021
Green flowers falling on the water's edge 145cmX260cm
Garden Dawn 180cmX180cm
At that time one of the Moon Ming series 34x136cm 2020
At that time, the third | of the Moon Ming series was 34x136cm | 2020