Yang Feiyun is one of the horizontal benchmarks of contemporary realistic oil painting, a member of the oil painting team, his artistic insights and artistic skills have had a great impact on the Chinese oil painting industry, but also attracted a lot of late students. It is worth mentioning that Yang Feiyun was also ridiculed by the industry as a painter who was "famous for painting his wife", and each of his paintings contained deep affection for his wife Tong Qianqian.
As the president of the China Oil Painting Academy, Yang Feiyun is the best at portraiture, and most of the faces in his works are the same girl, who is not someone else, but Yang Feiyun's wife. Whenever he mentions the love process with his wife Tong Qianpeng, Yang Feiyun will feel extremely happy, and in his heart, his wife is the muse in his mind.
In 1954, Yang Feiyun was born in a village in Inner Mongolia, where the vast expanse and the sky are high and the earth is thick, and growing up in such an environment, Yang Feiyun gradually developed a calm, stable, simple and generous character.
Yang Feiyun's father is a rural teacher, his mother is a highly skilled craftsman, under the influence of his parents, Yang Feiyun liked to draw from an early age. Although he did not take professional painting classes, in the haze, Yang Feiyun's painting skills became more and more exquisite and mature, and later he became a "painting master" in the school. ”
Although he already had a direction for development, yang Feiyun eventually bowed to reality, and after graduating from high school, he was assigned to the Inner Mongolia Railway Bureau and did a job that had nothing to do with painting. Although he has a stable income, for Yang Feiyun, who loves to paint, his only hobby has been deprived.
Fortunately, a few years later, he was transferred to the Cultural Center of the Railway Bureau, where he was responsible for painting, where he met his wife Tong Qianqian.
Recalling the scene when he first saw his wife, Yang Feiyun only remembered that it was a bright morning. At that time, his wife Tong Pengpeng was his student, 10 years younger than him. When his wife walked in from the outside of the painting room, she carried a ray of sunshine on her body, fresh and agile, and this picture made him unforgettable. Although there is a gap in age, the two are in love with each other in painting, and they have their own unique views, and gradually, the two become confidants.
Once, Yang Feiyun stared at Tong Qianpeng fascinated, and he felt that there was something very picturesque about this girl. In order to express this kind of thing in the form of art, Yang Feiyun asked Tong Qianpeng if he would like to become his model. Unexpectedly, Tong Qianqian agreed, and in this way, Yang Feiyun painted the first painting for his wife.
The artistic cooperation quickly narrowed the distance between the two, and the two became inseparable friends from teachers and students who kept their distance, and even yang Feiyun went to the Central Academy of Fine Arts for further study, and he never broke off contact.
With the encouragement of Yang Feiyun, Tong Qianpeng was also admitted to the Beijing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the two who had not seen each other for a long time met again in Beijing. At this time, Yang Feiyun has transformed from an ignorant teenager into a more mature and attractive man, and Tong Qianpeng is no longer the young girl, and love has pulled the two hearts together.
After several years of love running, Yang Feiyun and Tong Qianpeng finally married, and Tong Qianpeng became his exclusive model.
On the wedding night, looking at the particularly beautiful Tong Qianqian, Yang Feiyun's inspiration burst out continuously, and he immediately let his wife Tong Qianqian become a model again, painted a work, and named it "The Girl in Front of the Still Life".
This work is Yang Feiyun's masterpiece, and it is also the most special and artistic of his six paintings modeled by his wife. In 2021, at an auction site in Beijing, the work fetched a high price of 34.5 million yuan.
In the 40 years from acquaintance, newlywed, childbirth, middle age and old age, Yang Feiyun painted 6 paintings for the model with his wife Tong Pengqian, and later auctioned a total of 71.79 million yuan. For Yang Feiyun, these works are not a simple painting, but a great work of art, he condensed the most precious moments of his life in these works, from his works we can read his deep love for his wife.
In Yang Feiyun's eyes, his wife is the most beautiful woman in the world, not only can take care of him in life, but also help him in painting, and it is precisely because of his wife's support for his career that he can write with divine help.
Yang Feiyun once said that "his wife and painting are an indispensable part of his life", and he himself has always maintained a deep sense of gratitude and awe in his treatment of art and painting, and constantly strives to learn and progress.
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Still, questions have been expressed about his work, with some calling him "a painter who relies on his wife's hype." In the face of these criticisms, Yang Feiyun did not say anything, because art is a kind of opinion-seeing thing, too much pursuit of other people's sense of identity, on the contrary, contrary to the original intention.