In this era, the prosperity of the country promoted the unprecedented development of the art of painting, showing a diversified pattern. These works of Cai Yunfei inherit the tradition, but also are full of innovation and pioneering. Not bound by the ancients, nor bound by convention. From the law to the inability, do as you please. Take your own artistic path and create your own "fresh and bright, thick and broad" color ink style.
His works have a distinct and personalized painting language, which not only presents the beauty of nature's texture, but also shows the true color and aura of nature, and is an aesthetic exploration and practice of using the state of mind of heaven and earth alone. In recent years, the color ink mountain stone he created has fully demonstrated the beauty of nature's texture, which makes people tireless and has a great visual impact.
When it comes to the origin of creating this kind of color ink landscape painting, we have to start from its transformation method that began in 2015. This change of law is a new process that began on the basis of his imitation of traditional landscape paintings over the years. Inspired by the scenery of the "Tang Poetry Road" in eastern Zhejiang, he felt the colorful colors in nature, and his creation should not be limited to traditional single colors such as green and green, but should have a richer form of expression.
He finally found the highly decorative heavy color as the direction of exploration from the Dunhuang murals, from figurative to semi-imagery, to imagery, which opened the way of subjective consciousness and emotional imagery exploration in the form of splashing ink and splashing color. Along the way, he has repeatedly won awards in national art exhibitions, and the recognition of experts and judges at national art exhibitions has also enhanced his confidence and motivation for his continuous exploration of color ink landscapes.
Cai Yunfei's artistic road is quite arduous and bumpy, which can be described as a hard journey, and he has explored more than a whole piece of art. Born in February 1946 in the ancient city of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, he was influenced by his family and loved traditional arts such as calligraphy and painting from an early age. In the 1960s, he studied at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. In the 1970s, he was engaged in propaganda posters, murals, and police drawings related to fine arts.
In the path of exploring traditional Chinese landscape paintings along the way, in 1978, Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai and others were instructed and inspired. Later, he went to Xinjiang, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places to sketch and create, and had a new understanding of the inheritance and creation of landscape painting. After years of hard work, his creation is quite fruitful.
During this period, Xiao Feng, former vice chairman of the China Artists Association and former president of the China Academy of Fine Arts, spoke highly of him: "Mr. Cai is not satisfied with the inheritance of traditional techniques, but always persistently studies and pursues a new expression method, a new meaning, and pursues his own personalized language, and opens up a new realm."
After nearly 6 years of "hunger-style" creation, repeated experimentation, the continuity of the tradition and the pioneering nature of innovation, these works with a beautiful natural texture cannot be imitated by anyone, and even the painter himself cannot do anything, which is the value of the work. In 2007, Xiling Printing Press published "Cai Yunfei Calligraphy and Painting Collection" for it. Then, in 2015, Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House published "Cai Yunfei's Collection of Fine Calligraphy and Paintings".
Mr. Cai now lives in Beijing and has been guided by many famous artists, and with his diligent efforts, his splashed ink and colorful landscape paintings have gradually been praised and recognized by many famous artists in the art world. For example, Xu Dingyi, a famous art theorist and vice president of Rongbaozhai Publishing House, after reading more than 100 of his new works, commented that he "can be described as an ascetic in the art world, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign, Hong Slender and small all want to smelt in one furnace, accumulate decades of skill, and become a family." Seventy-six years old this year, but the spirit has not diminished, and the improvement is endless, which is admirable. ”
2021 is also a bumper harvest year for his artistic creation, with bittersweet and good news, following the selection of the work "Cuiling People's Home" in September 2020 into the "Rainy Flowers and Flowers" National Landscape Painting Exhibition (sponsored by the China Artists Association); In 2021, his work "Danshan Qinghui" was selected for the "Damei Zhangzhou" National Exhibition of Chinese Paintings (sponsored by the China Artists Association); the work "Ma to Success" was qualified for the "Second National Arts and Crafts Exhibition" (sponsored by the China Artists Association); the work "Green Mountains and Green Water Map" was selected for the "Third Jingshang Danqing" National Chinese Painting Exhibition (sponsored by the China Artists Association); the work "Shaft Series" was qualified to join the 5th Loudong (Taicang) National Landscape Painting Biennale (Sponsored by the China Artists Association) (Revisiting the Classics" The Fifth Loudong (Taicang) National Landscape Painting Biennale ( Sponsored by the China Artists Association).
Western landscape painting pays attention to the expression of natural reality, multi-figurative modeling, advocating color visual presentation. Commonly used inherent colors, light source colors, environmental colors, etc. to express the light and shadow gradients in the same environment, using focus perspective, truly reproduce the light and shadow changes in nature. Representative painters such as Monet's lotus pond and so on. Cai Yunfei was inspired by the artistic view of his compatriot Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty who "gave up the shape and enjoyed the shadow".
No longer obsessed with the external form of a mountain and a stone, a tree and a house in landscape painting, it pays more attention to the creation of the breath and atmosphere of the overall picture. For example, Wang Guowei proposed, "There is my realm, and I look at things, so everything is my color."
He is good at the fusion of ink and color, and his paintings are based on the research and grasp of splashing ink, splashing color, accumulating ink and breaking ink, skillfully sprinkling multi-level colors on rice paper, and carefully cleaning up the natural texture effect formed by splashing, and achieving a pleasing visual realm, and guiding the viewer from the aesthetic level to the spiritual level.
Its splash of color splashing ink is characterized by bold sprinkling and careful cleaning.
Its picture is colorful and the texture effect is rich, but its local details are very impressive.
Among its ink paintings, there are some more Western painting light and shadow effects, which are more holistic, but its tone is warm and poetic.
This style of Chinese painting is still under exploration, just as Mr. Huang Binhong's ink scorched black decades later is respected, this innovative exploration deserves the continuous attention of art theory researchers and collectors.
Cai Yunfei, who has been an artist for many years, has formed a distinct artistic personality with his cultivation, temperament, knowledge and tenacious creative spirit. While inheriting the spirit of traditional landscape painting and pen and ink techniques in the mainland, it creates brilliant and colorful landscape pictures, expresses the spiritual outlook of the times in the real life experience, and dissolves the noble sentiments and good wishes of loving life and nature into the color ink landscape painting, based on the spirit of Chinese culture, and reconstructing the era of landscape painting.
Over the years, he has adhered to the ancient precept of "foreign teacher creation, middle-aged source", and strives to complete the transformation of Chinese painting from traditional brush and ink to modern color ink under the premise of fully embodying the lyrical character of natural poetry and painting.
Cai Yunfei depicts the true color of nature with the momentum of "a thousand mountains and wetness", and his color ink painting language will surely become more colorful, colorful and colorful, and better and better.