The persistence and refinement of art - Jia Wenguang's oil painting outline
Wen 丨 Deng Pingxiang
In the Hunan oil painting world, Jia Wenguang is a young oil painter who is getting more and more attention, not only that, his name and works have also emerged in national exhibitions beyond the region, and people will stop to remember.
Young artist Jia Wenguang
From an academic point of view, the evaluation and analysis of Jia Wenguang's achievements in oil painting art can be cut from many angles, such as the artistic characteristics of the work, the aesthetic style, or the language form of oil painting, etc. In these respects his work has something to argue about.
Jia Wenguang, Chasing Dreams, 150cm,160cm.Oil on canvas, 2021
As far as the author's interests are concerned, what I value most is his adherence to the traditional aesthetic value of oil painting art, as well as the pure pursuit of the expressive value of oil painting language. Nowadays, the trend of art and the indiscriminate pursuit of modern and contemporary main texts are extreme manifestations of making the modern and contemporary development of art deviate from the essence of spiritual culture, thus fashioning. I always remember a sentence of Chen Danqing that I quoted when I wrote "On Chen Danqing": "The times pursue fashion, and I don't think so much when there are more people." This is Chen Danqing's thinking when choosing the theme of graduate school graduation, and he has achieved great success in choosing "Tibetan Group Painting" against the trend. Why is chen Danqing's superficially "out of date" works unanimously recommended by the art world in the context of the modern and contemporary tide?
Jia Wenguang, Snowy Majestic Wind, 150cm,160cm.Oil on canvas, 2021
So far, Chinese art historians have not given a positive and profound theoretical question on this question. Here I would like to take the opportunity to write a short review of Jia Wenguang's art to express my own views.
Jia Wenguang, Snowy Majestic Wind 2, 150cm,160cm.Oil on canvas, 2021
The first is "truth", Chen Danqing's "Tibetan Group Paintings" profoundly reveals the "truth" of human nature, which is the primary meaning of aesthetics. The second is the aesthetic context, Chen Danqing's "Tibetan Group Paintings" conforms to the spiritual and cultural context of China at that time.
Jia Wenguang, Wind of the Central Axis, 180cm,190cm.Oil on canvas, 2021
In a specific sense, Jia Wenguang's oil painting exploration path is similar to Chen Danqing at that time. If we define oil painting as a science, then the first thing should be "learning", the so-called way of learning, that is, inheritance and tradition, and for a student, the first thing is to adhere to it - adhere to the traditional way. The path taken by Jia Wenguang is first of all to learn and inherit traditions, a way of perseverance that is particularly valuable for young people, which is something that some young art students can easily ignore.
Jia Wenguang, climber, 120cm,150cm, oil on canvas, 2021
The oil painting language of Jia Wenguang's works is the realistic language of the classical oil painting he has diligently pursued. He is not satisfied with the general resemblance, but pursues the inner reality of the unity of form and god, which is a kind of "new realism" and "new classicism", which are new to the ancient and open up a new generation.
Jia Wenguang, Climber 2, 150cm,160cm.Oil on canvas, 2021
Jia Wenguang is committed to classical realism language, exploring polytheistic forms in style styles, realism, classicism, symbolic surrealism, portraiture, historical themes, etc... He has been involved in the hunt, and all of his successful works have been selected for the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh National Academy of Fine Arts Exhibitions, the First and Second Spiritual And Schematic Oil Painting Biennale and other national and provincial exhibitions dozens of times, the award-winning works are not in the minority, Jia Wenguang himself is the project responsible person of the National Art Fund, the representative of the national and provincial literary and artistic congresses, the industry's leading talents and top-notch talents. These selected works and the honors won show that Jia Wenguang is an oil painter with artistic and creative strength and language skills, he is in the period of wealth and prosperity, as long as he unremittingly adheres to and improves, I believe he can go further on the artistic road of oil painting.
Jia Wenguang, City Night Rose, 150cm,160cm, oil on canvas, 2021