【Painter Profile】
She Yuqi was born in October 1964 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He is a director of the China Artists Association, an expert of the jury database of the China Artists Association, a member of the Art Committee of the China Artists Association, the vice president of the Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Society, the executive deputy secretary general of the Fifth Jiangsu Provincial Artists Association, the executive chairman and secretary general of the Sixth Member Congress of the Jiangsu Provincial Artists Association, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Expert Database, a recipient of the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Fund, a deputy director of the Landscape Painting Art Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Artists Association, and a member of the Jiangsu Writers Association. His works have been selected for many national and military calligraphy and painting exhibitions and won awards, and they have been presented to foreign dignitaries as a national gift. In 2016, the landscape painting "Spring Dawn of Taihu Lake", co-created with famous painters such as Song Yulin and Xue Liang, was unveiled in the Great Hall of the People as the theme work of the 10th China Literary Congress. In 2017, according to the creative arrangements of the China Artists Association, he cooperated with Zhang Jianhua, chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, to complete the landscape painting "Sunrise Zhengdongfeng" as a tribute to the 19th National Congress, and the works are now hanging in the Beijing Jingxi Hotel, an important meeting place of the party, government and army. On January 3, 2018, more than 300 people, including Xu Li, secretary of the party group of the China Artists Association, vice chairman and secretary general of the Association, and Zhang Jianhua, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, co-sponsored by the China Artists Association and the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, attended the opening ceremony. In May 16, 2020, the "This Heart Can Be Learned - She Yuqi Charity Purchase Painting Exhibition" sponsored by the Jiangsu Charity Federation was held in Nanjing, and Zhang Lianzhen, deputy director of the Education and Culture Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Gu Hao, Yu Xingde, Zhang Jiuhan, Lin Xiangguo, Wu Rong, veteran provincial leaders, Jin Jianming, deputy secretary general of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Li Guohua, executive deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Hu Wanjin, vice mayor of Nanjing, and other leaders attended the opening ceremony, lan Shaomin, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, and Yang Zhichun, director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Jiangsu Province, watched the exhibition. Wu Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the National Art Museum of China, delivered a video speech, Xu Lihexin Jiamian, secretary of the China Artists Association, and Gao Yun, vice president of the Chinese Painting Society, spoke highly of She Yuqi's righteous deeds, and Jiang Hongkun, former executive secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and president of the Provincial Charity Federation, accepted She Yuqi's donation of 2.09 million yuan and issued a certificate of commendation.
"Moonrise Higashiyama"
Absolutely loud and open
Kangning Ye /Ph.D. in Art, Professor of Southern Arts
As soon as we mention Jinling, we will immediately think of a city of Daisy Six Dynasties of Water, and think of the Qinhuai River in the shadow of the paddle sound and light. This city has nurtured a long and splendid culture. Chinese art blossoms here, and the long river of history from Gu Kaizhi and Wang Xizhi to jinling eight homes, but a nap, the old Wang Xietang Qianyan flew all the way, witnessing the page of glory. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the guidance of the literary and artistic policy of "a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending", the traditional Art of Chinese painting was also old and deeper, and the new Jinling school of painting, represented by Fu Baoshi and Qian Song Yawei, came out at the right time.
"There is a family in Baiyunsheng"
History is always saddled, with peaks and valleys. In the second half of the last century, several great masters of the New Jinling School passed away. After entering the new century, almost all people in the painting world can feel that there is no successor to the new Jinling school. Some people of insight were also quite anxious, and even at the high-level forum of the first Hundred Jinling Painting Exhibition, they violently attacked the phenomenon of "still those few people, or those few paintings". It is undeniable that since the 1990s, the New Jinling School has entered a period of dormancy, or a period of adjustment, and the New Jinling School, which has lost its leading figures, has seen the strange phenomenon of "no painters can produce works". Why? It is that new painters are emerging in an endless stream, but that kind of shocking works are rare to see.
She Yuqi, a military painter who was still little known ten years ago, immersed himself in his own fighting room, writing about the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and gradually appeared on the painting world. Domestic heavyweight critics have also noticed him one after another, and have written articles to introduce this excellent artist to the art world, he is not only the stamina of the New Jinling School, but also absorbed the strengths of many of the great masters of the New Jinling School. His persistence with Hua Tuo, Qin Jianming, Xu Jianming and others is undoubtedly a new hope for the new Jinling school to pass on the torch and spread its branches.
The integrators of history have a wide range of cultural qualities, and She Yuqi cannot be excluded.
《Gangnam Dynasty Picture》
Chinese painting has the heaviest charm, the paintings summarized by the Six Dynasties Sheikh, and the "Six Laws" that are not easy for thousands of years, with "vivid qi rhyme" in the first place. How to make a painting vivid? Zheng Yimei said: "Qi rhyme still has to be divided into two, qi is given by the pen, and the ink is stored, this realm, is only a basic skill, it is not difficult to achieve." As for rhyme, it is necessary to have a poetry book in the belly. Accumulated over the years, immersed in the Long and Short Sentences of the Dream Window Tuntian, from the Secret Chant, extracting its Qinghui Fangze, and then venting it in the ruler, it has a spring cloud curling shu, and the gossamer is self-inflicted, and there are unexpected people. "She Yuqi's landscape paintings also have extramural skills.
He was not only an outstanding painter, but also an excellent prose writer. Many years ago, he wrote many essays, one of which is particularly popular, called "Life is Like Tea". In the text, a small teacup is compared to the world, and a piece of tea is compared to the sentient beings in the rolling red dust. The text is timeless and fresh, and after reading it, it makes the people's tongues fragrant and endlessly reminiscent. There is poetry and bookishness in his belly, She Yuqi's pen and ink are more vibrant, and the magnificent great rivers and mountains are more vibrant in his pen.
"A Year of Good Luck"
A successful Chinese painter must "enter from the ancients and emerge from creation." Li Keyan said that Chinese painters "must use the greatest strength to fight in and with the greatest courage." The "greatest skill" is obviously the former sage of the teacher, but what does the "greatest courage" come from? I thought it was creation, that is, nature. The Ming Dynasty great Ru Mo Shilong said: "The painter takes the ancients as his teacher, he is already superior, and he should take heaven and earth as his teacher when he enters here." Tang Zhiqi, a painting theorist of his contemporary, also said: "Whoever learns to paint landscapes and rivers, sees the real mountains and real waters, has a very long learning, and then takes off the sleeve of the people in the pen of the time, and there is no writer's vulgarity." "A good landscape painter must not stay at home, but should go out of the studio and study to draw nourishment from the real mountains and real waters."
The New Jinling School of Painting is the most important school of painting, when Fu Baoshi also organized the older generation of painters of the New Jinling School to travel through the rivers and mountains of the motherland, proposing to "write the new style of mountains and rivers with traditional brush and ink". She Yuqi's paintings well inherit this fine tradition of the New Jinling School, and the biggest feature of his creation is sketching- sketches derived from the fact that life is higher than life. She Yuqi is well versed in painting theory and naturally understands the importance of taking creation as a teacher. He took advantage of holidays and time to go out to investigate, and has traveled to sketch many times, he has traveled to Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, and has swam through Huangshan, Laoshan, Fuchun Mountain... Looking at it, nature's Zhong Lingyuxiu drummed in his chest, inspiring his strong desire to create. His landscape paintings are not only ingeniously composed, but also have a quiet and ancient artistic conception. Although the use of traditional pen and ink, but can turn decay into magic, giving people a refreshing feeling.
Since the Tang Dynasty's concept of "painting in the Tao, ink is supreme" has been breeding, the atmosphere has gradually changed, almost irrepressible, and the aesthetic taste of Chinese painting has gradually been reduced to one statue, emphasizing a single color. Everything must be painted with ink, and the peony must also be painted as an ink peony, as if this is elegant and unworldly. Looking at the root cause, this understanding is really a great fallacy. First, elegance must not be judged by hue. Ya custom is the realm of man, and under the pen of the layman, the ink will also be the devil; in the hands of the yashi, the color will also become the elegant color. The so-called magic of application is one heart. We must not blindly pursue elegance and avoid vulgarity and make Chinese painting lose its bright color. Second, the vitality of art lies in the pluralism of creative ideas, and one-sided emphasis on unity is harmful to the development of Chinese painting. A nostril out of the air, a brain to think of problems, the things drawn out are naturally the same, no business. Third, the Sheikh of the Southern Dynasty put forward the "Six Laws" of Chinese painting that is "not easy in the world", one of which is "color with the class". His contemporary, Zong Bing, also proposed "color by color".
This shows that "ink painting is supreme" is not an ancient tradition of Chinese painting, but an aesthetic concept that has gradually formed later. The great painter Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty emphasized "ancient meaning" in his paintings, and his famous work "Quehua Qiu Shitu" was uniquely high-level because of the practice of "color with class". She Yuqi has read a lot of painting theories of past dynasties, is familiar with the history of painting and painting theory, and naturally knows this truth. Another more prominent feature of his landscape paintings is that he breaks through the concept of "ink painting is supreme", dares to use "vulgar colors" and "dry colors" such as big red and green, and is fresh and elegant, with a high temperament, which can be described as an outlier and wonder in today's painting world. His "East Wind Returns with Spring" and "Qingyuan Map of Xishan Mountain" not only depict the beauty and beauty of the mountains and rivers of the motherland, but also avoid soft and sweet customs, clean and simple, calm and thick. The ink color shines, the water and milk blend, and the moist and rhyme of the great rivers and mountains are vividly depicted. The ancient method of "coloring with the class" has been reborn after a thousand years of silence.
Why does this mean that She Yuqi was the founder of the Post-Jinling School? In the second half of the last century, due to the death of Mr. Lu Yushao and Mr. Li Keyan, the creation of landscape painting entered the post-master era, leaving a gap that no one could fill for the time being. At that time, there were especially many people who wanted to move, and there were not a few people who tried to open up the sect, but most of them lacked a deep understanding of the tradition, blindly seeking new standards and seeking differences, and there were strange scenes in the painting world of "changing the banner of the king at the head of the city" and "each leading the way for two or three days". I think that everyone who has always founded a sect must first have two aspects of literacy, one can wrap the front, eat the tradition thoroughly, have a clear understanding of the pen and ink programs of the predecessors and can be transformed into their own creative vocabulary; the second can be contained, have a greater impact on the later Yan, so that their own painting style can be inherited and carried forward by the later scholars, and a number of tributaries with similarities and differences can be derived. Only in this way can the energy flow for a long time, and it can be said that the founding sect is established.
"The Green Mountains on Both Sides of the Strait"
The reason why She Yuqi was able to create and lay the foundation for the Houjinling School of painting was first of all due to his familiarity with tradition and his familiarity with existing pen and ink programs. In his early years, he followed the famous painter Mr. Song Yulin, feasted on the famous deeds of the former sages, far away from Jingguan, near Huang Zhang, Song Yuanming and Qing All the way, studied and read, immersed in a long time. He is also diligent in creation, and every time he has experience, he will test it on paper and silk, waste pen into a tomb, and waste paintings will not only be three thousand! Meritorious service is not worth donating. A point of hard work brings a harvest, and a piece of hard work is exchanged for a talent. In the end, he broke out of the cocoon like a pupa butterfly. The hardships experienced during this period are difficult for ordinary people to reach and imagine, and can only be like people drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge. Secondly, it is thanks to his simplicity and modesty. Although he has a far more prominent social status than the average painter, everyone who has come into contact with him can feel that he is a kind gentleman, making people feel like sitting in the spring breeze.
Mencius said, "He who is an adult will have the heart of a pure child." She Yuqi's pure heart can also be seen in si in the tube. It is precisely because of this that many post-scholars with similar aesthetic orientations have gathered around him. This was undoubtedly crucial to the eventual formation of the post-Jinling school.
In the crowded and bustling painting world, She Yuqi is undoubtedly the one who bears the greatest expectations in the sea, because he is the new hope of the new Jinling school. In the important posts of the Jiangsu Artists Association, there is a strong ability to coordinate and integrate, and the development of landscape painting in Jiangsu will surely usher in a new dawn.
Famous people talk about She Yuqi
The composition is full and firm, and the pen and ink are thick and heavy.
His composition is full and firm. He has made great efforts to traditional techniques, which are more solid, thick in pen and ink, compatible with some characteristics of the Northern School of landscapes, and use such an expression of a very rich situation, which is undoubtedly a work with strong visual impact.
——Feng Yuan, Honorary Chairman of the China Artists Association
"Sunshine New Snow Purple Smoke"
Let people feel the beauty of Gangnam.
Yu Qi's works, from life to life, have both the majesty of famous mountains and rivers and the haze of jiangnan smoke and rain. His landscape makes people feel the beauty of Jiangnan and the paradise on earth.
——Xu Li Secretary of the Party Group of the China Artists Association and Vice Chairman of the Association
The realm of elegance, sensitivity, and huazi.
In Yuqi's works, we feel a realm of elegance, sensitivity and huazi. This elegance and sensitivity is the best sustenance of his soul and the best expression of his poetry. This kind of Huazi is a realm in which technology and art and Tao are integrated through the practice of bending down and practicing, after he grasped the language of pen and ink and color, and grasped the multiple relationships between moisture and rice paper, and it is also a manifestation of his long-term personality cultivation.
——Wu Weishan, Director of the National Art Museum of China, Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association
Formed their own unique schema.
She Yuqi's paintings belong to the Jiangnan landscape, but they are not exactly the same as the New Jinling School, his mountain structure, as well as the backlit painting method of the trees, obviously have the characteristics of the Northern School of landscapes, his clouds are very flexible and transparent, and his water is very textured. Yuqi is a successful one who combines various techniques and styles to form his own style. Yuqi can be imposing and exquisite, under the control of the great momentum, step by step into the part, one by one to solve the subtle themes, not ordinary people can do, this is the embodiment of his pen and ink skills, but also the highlight of his cultural accomplishment.
——Yuan Yunfu, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University
It represents the level of Jiangsu landscape painting.
This time, I took a closer look at Yuqi's paintings. He is typical of Jiangsu painting style. He pays attention to life, and has both a heroic and magnificent atmosphere and a beautiful and elegant temperament. He pursues the ancient law, which belongs to the typical Jinling Eight Families, for example, from the Falun Gong can see the shadow of Gong Xian's creation. He is very particular about using ink, and the green landscape is also very good. On the basis of tradition, at the level of life, the landscapes around Jiangsu are vividly reflected. The whole breath of Yuqi's paintings is smooth and smooth, representing the highest level of landscape painting in Jiangsu.
——Chen Ping, President of the Chinese Academy of Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts
It is very particular about pen and ink.
The thickness and emptiness of the pen and ink, the rigidity and softness of the lines, the weight, resulting in a kind of ups and downs, resulting in a rhythm. She Yuqi's pen strength is very strong, and the combination of rigidity and softness is very good. Painting water is also very distinctive, waterfalls, clouds have their own techniques, which is the most brilliant place in his works.
——Shao Dazhen, Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, former director of the Theoretical Committee of the China Artists Association
As a painter in Jiangsu, he also occupies the position of the whole country.
Yuqi is not only an art creation, but also a good performance of literature and other aspects. In the creation of the Grand Canal, he was also involved in the work of hosting and organizing. Jiangsu Artists Association's "Painting and Talking about the Canal" documentary, the text script was written by him, and it was commended by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, which shows his literary skills. The cultural heritage and traditions of Jiangsu are continued in his creations and well interpreted. As a figure painter, I look at his landscape paintings, and I think what is very important is the feeling.
——Liu Jian, Deputy Director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association
Free and heavy.
Yu Qi's painting spirit is free and not lacking in vigor and thickness. His paintings pay special attention to the composition of the artistic conception, especially in the structure of the overall picture. His color is also very light and elegant, and the transparency rendered by the New Jiangsu School is particularly well represented in his works. Yu Qi is a representative of the New Jiangsu School of Painting, and his works bring us a kind of surprise.
——Shang Hui Director of the Theoretical Art Committee of the China Artists Association and Editor-in-Chief of Fine Arts Magazine
On the basis of the New Jinling School, he did a lot of pushing and pushing forward.
Yuqi and the New Jinling School of painting also opened a certain distance, his paintings in addition to the clear and beautiful run more majestic, he also has a unique point in the treatment of clouds and water outlets, on the basis of the New Jinling School, he did a lot of pushing, moving forward. The painter's creation is individual labor, individual labor is also involved in a region, involving a society, and now many people are interested in his works, which proves that he has played an active role in this region.
——Zhang Daoxing, Vice President of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Fine Arts, Calligraphy and Painting, Deputy Director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association
Quiet and relaxed, long and subtle.
She Yuqi's paintings are quiet, and quiet is a very high realm of landscape painting. The works are the painter's inner contemplation and the reflection of his education, and it is not difficult to see from She Yuqi's paintings that the humanistic feelings of the ancient scholar-doctor and the pursuit of the realm of quiet and elegant poetry and painting revealed in his bones.
——Zhang Jiangzhou, Vice President of the National Academy of Painting of China
Everyone in the art world recognized him very much.
Yu Qi read a lot of books and walked a lot of roads, so he had talent. His works are very contemporary, fresh and elegant, and he is the best in our generation. His character is good and his paintings are high, so in the art circle, everyone recognizes him very much.
——Ding Jie, former deputy director of the Art Committee of the China Artists Association, former director of the Creation Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles
The charm is beautiful, and the situation is profound.
Yu Qi's painting "Tranquility and Void Harmony". Yuqi painting is not today's scenery, boats, pavilions have a certain sense of age, just the quiet mentality that modern people need, but also everyone's desire to return to the pastoral feeling. His paintings, which people today will like more, and can get a kind of spiritual comfort from them, are very suitable for modern people to appreciate.
——Miao Zaixin, director of the China Artists Association, executive director of the Chinese Painting Society, former director of the Literary and Art Creation Office of the Headquarters of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force
It's completely self-contained.
Mr. She's paintings are very good, his methods are taken from the Song Dynasty, his pen and ink come from the Yuan Dynasty, and as for the Ming and Qing dynasties, one of his views is that there is a new creation brewing on reality. I believe that his changes in a period of time, like the "change" in the "I Ching", he is now "simple", simple change, he will soon "change", there will be a new leap. By then, he would be able to make his own family.
——Huang Guangnan, former president of the Taiwan Museum and president of The National Taiwan University of the Arts
The pursuit of beauty is the same all over the world.
Mr. She's paintings are different from other people's paintings, which not only have the charm of the East, but also integrate the elements of Western painting, which is very textured and brings me a strong visual impact. Different regions and different types of paintings do not necessarily have the same judgment of art, but the pursuit of beauty is the same all over the world.
——Baron, Professor of Art, University of Paris, France
Absorbed elements of the color block surface of Western painting.
Mr. She's paintings embody the characteristics of Chinese painting, but also absorb the elements of Western painting, his technique makes the picture texture very strong, and many of the landscapes he paints are particularly beautiful. How to combine Western painting with the spirit of the East is the question I have thought about the most since I have seen Mr. She's exhibition.
--Pakrishia. Ellis, British art critic
It has a reference effect on the creation of Western painting.
Mr. She's ink painting gives me a very strong feeling, this black and white contrast, the proportion relationship of composition, and the scenery under the clouds and clouds, the picture is very bright, which has a reference effect on Western painting creation. After I go back, I will study it carefully and integrate the elements of Chinese ink painting into the creation of Western painting.
——Ouyang Ge, Secretary General of the Berlin Artists Association, Germany
Secretary General of the Artists Association