Cai Yunfei
Chinese color ink landscape pioneer
A disciple of Guan Shanyue and Master Li Xiongcai of the Lingnan School
Vice President of China Academy of Chinese Painting
National first-class artist
He is a member of Zhejiang Artists Association
Director of Beijing Tongzhou District Artists Association
He is a member of the Chinese Collectors Association
Rong Baozhai (Tianjin) special painter
Honorary President of the Australian Chinese Art Exchange Association and President of the Zhejiang Branch
President of shaoxing branch of China Academy of Chinese Painting
President of Baoyunxuan Calligraphy and Painting Institute of Shaoxing City
His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, RongBaozhai, Renmei Publishing House, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Japan-China Friendship Association, Osaka Museum of Art, etc.
Sun Ke (Member of the Theoretical Committee of the China Artists Association, Founding Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Chinese Painting Society)
I watched the exhibition of Mr. Cai Yunfei's works, and I think that his hills and valleys, pen and ink are handled very wonderfully, and the royal blue splashes in it are also very beautiful, he is not casually splashed, it is purposeful, there are shades, there are discrepancies, there are light and dark feelings, and this aspect is handled quite well. I think Cai Yunfei is a very talented and capable painter, who can paint any subject, flower and bird paintings are also very interesting, and landscape paintings are also very good. His work is relatively good, and the basic skills of painting are very good, including modeling ability, imagination, pen and ink processing ability and so on. His exploration of the application of color is mainly valuable to me.
Fu Tongxian (Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zhejiang Daily, Former President of Fine Arts Daily)
Mr. Cai Yunfei and I are old friends, and eight years ago I read his long volume of "The Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang", and I was very excited and admired, and immediately wrote a review article and published it in the "Fine Arts Newspaper". Eight years later, looking at his paintings, I feel that the artistic talents of my old friends have been given greater play, and the level of painting has developed by leaps and bounds, giving people a refreshing feeling.
I think that Cai Yunfei can succeed, it is very important to absorb the artistic essence of the ancients and modern times, including their artistic connotation and expression techniques, while absorbing some of the Western realistic techniques and light and shadow art, coupled with his personal talent and diligence, melting the past and casting the present, which is the fundamental reason for Cai Yunfei's achievements.
Wang Zhong (Former Editor-in-Chief of Fine Arts Magazine)
In our traditional literati paintings, the color is a supporting role, and a little pastel can be applied. Mr. Cai wants to put the color problem in the same position as pen and ink, which requires courage. In the past, Zhang Daqian did this, and the splash of color made the Chinese painting circle have a great shock. In a sense, Mr. Cai also went forward on Zhang Daqian's splash. Look at your paintings are very rich, and there are specific portrayals of the skill, and there are vivid things in the details of the big strokes; there are splashes of color, and there are textured things in the back, so I think his landscape is still very accomplished.
Chen Chuanxi (Professor of Chinese Min University, Deputy Director of the Theoretical Committee of the China Artists Association)
I just looked at Mr. Cai's painting and looked at it very seriously. In general there is tradition, there is innovation. I think Mr. Cai's tradition is better grasped. Then there is tradition, not innovation. In the history of painting, it is difficult to highlight, there must be something new, and from this exhibition, we can see that Mr. Cai has something new about him.
He this new thing I see he tried a lot, all kinds of splashes, not necessarily to learn Zhang Daqian, and Zhang Daqian's is not the same. In fact, each person has his own approach, and Mr. Cai's method of splashing is also different from Zhang Daqian's, and he has new ideas, which is very good.
Li Yi (Researcher of the Institute of Fine Arts, China Academy of Arts, Former Editor-in-Chief of Art Observation Magazine)
Mr. Cai Yunfei's paintings are wide and the subject matter is wide, and great efforts have been made in the works of brushwork and freehand, ink and green, large and small pieces, landscapes and flowers and birds, figures and animals, and calligraphy works. Reading the works on display and the works in the album, I feel that the author is an artist who has cultivated in an all-round way, an artist who has worked hard, an artist who does not stop forging ahead and constantly changes the law, and an artist who has achieved many achievements.
Cai Yunfei's landscape paintings are rich in materials and diverse in techniques. Not only does it use traditional brushwork, ink methods, and wrinkles to paint landscapes, but also absorbs and borrows the expression methods of Western watercolor gouache. The fusion of East and West, the combination of ancient and modern. His paintings have both chinese brush and ink and watercolor gouache techniques. What is valuable is that it is good at the integration of East and West, and the integration is seamless.
Tang Hui (Deputy General Manager of Rong Baozhai and Vice President of Chinese Painting Society)
As an artist, Cai Yunfei dabbles in landscapes, flowers, birds, and figures. Of course, I think his highest achievement may still be the landscape. Looking at his paintings, I feel that the qi is particularly strong, the qi rhyme is very sufficient, unlike a person in his 70s who painted, like the state of creation of a young painter in his thirties and forties, I feel that this state is a very good state of painting.
His works embody a word of energy, this ability is particularly strong ability, I mean the ability to use pen and ink, and the ability to shape, including the ability to create the environment. The sense of picture he shows in each painting is not the same, it is very rich, he is from the rich to show the charm of Chinese painting, there are many paintings I think after reading it is very classic, the sense of picture is very impressive.
Xu Dingyi (Vice President of RongBaozhai Publishing House)
Cai Yunfei was born in Shaoxing, the ancient city of Wuyue, which is a place with a strong cultural atmosphere of ancient and modern times. Looking at the ancient and modern, integrating The Chinese and the West, combining color ink, striving for a new road, and opening up a new face. His color ink works, there are traditional trees, mountains, houses, but also the fusion of color, ink natural flow to produce an indescribable texture effect, the formation of figurative and abstract contrast, clear and blurry contrast, black ink and color contrast, cold and warm contrast, tight and empty contrast, clear and mysterious contrast, man and me and nature contrast, many elements of a map, then a map has a lot of interest, this is his years of intensive practice and exploration of the realm.
Yu Yang (Professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Deputy Director of the National Thematic Art Creation Research Center)
I'll talk about my feelings from two perspectives, or two key words, the first word is "north and south.". Teacher Cai came to Beijing from the south to the north and came to Beijing in his middle and late years, which I think fully reflects the fusion of north-south meteorology, and there is indeed this kind of diversified meteorology in his paintings.
The second key word is "color ink". Traditional painting theory used to say that "color does not hinder ink, ink does not hinder color", in Cai Yunfei's creation, he also likes to use ink and very beating colors, some are very pretty, very bright colors and ink matching. Therefore, I think that his green ink is a variation of the green landscape, or it has shown the characteristics of the color ink landscape. Some of his large-scale works are wonderful, and small and medium-scale works also have individual characteristics.
Wang Ping (Researcher of National Academy of Painting of China, President and Editor-in-Chief of China Art News)
I think that such a practice of his is very worthy of encouragement, because he is today's splash of color, because it is built on the basis of so many years of pen and ink cultivation, so it will be handy to do, will be more mature, will be more natural to put the artistic conception in the first place, you see these things he splashed, will not let us feel that it is a trick, or a very trendy other painting, it is still a fusion of chinese traditional emphasis on the artistic conception, emphasis on the style of landscape painting creation.
When I came back to see Mr. Cai's paintings, I could see that there was a romantic and novel side, and there was also a gentle side; in his paintings, I could see the grand atmosphere, and I could also see some interesting things, such as the literary atmosphere of our southerners, so I think this is a valuable place in his paintings.
Ren Junwei (Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Magazine)
What impressed me most about his work was the color in his work. Mr. Cai studied and created Chinese painting in a traditional cultural background and historical stage, and gradually formed his own aesthetic vision and artistic pursuit on this basis. At the same time, his dialysis of the abstract colors and textures of Western painting, combined with his own reference to the language and artistic conception of Chinese brush and ink, has enabled him to recrystallize the two art systems of Chinese and Western art into his artworks, forming the aesthetic image of color fantasy in his exhibition hall today.
Li Xiangyang (Head of Journal Center of Rongbaozhai Publishing House, Editor-in-Chief of Rongbaozhai Journal)
Comparing the works of the two periods before and after, it was found that the pattern and style of Teacher Cai's works were purer than before, with the atmosphere of the northerners, and the warmth of the southerners was not lost. This is where Teacher Cai makes our young post-learning very worth learning. The splash of his works in this exhibition today is built on the basis of years of pen and ink cultivation, so it will be handy, more mature, and more natural to put the artistic conception first. When you look at his splash, you will not feel that it is a trick, or a very trendy other painting, it still integrates the traditional Chinese brush and ink, emphasizing the artistic conception and emphasizing the style.