"Unintentionally revealing it, intentionally stealing it" is a sentence in Jiang Ji's "Passing on the Mystery". The original text is "Mortals intend to paint, and their gods have been rigid." I must steal the meaning of it from the side when it is not painted, and he will reveal it unintentionally, and I will steal it with intent. This passage points out in detail the core of the creation of Chinese paintings. But there are still many painters who have not been able to understand. When painting a person, I only know how to copy the shape and intuitive expression of the person I painted, I don't know how to capture the instant expression, and I don't know how to deeply dissect the inner changes of the character.
Yu Yonghua's works
In figure painting, God is greater than the shape, so the figure painting has the saying of "taking the shape of God". The transcendence of God overflows from the painter's micro-observation of the figure, which comes from the painter's deep analysis of the figure. Therefore, when the painter creates the theme of the character, he will spend a long time observing the character and understanding the identity, occupation, belief, ethnicity and so on of the character. Even the freehand figure paintings that are quickly expressed are made by the painter with his first-time understanding and from the micro-observations he conducts.
Painter Yu Yonghua is a representative painter in the field of figure painting, whose figure paintings have both gods and forms, and the characters painted in each work are from the soul of the characters, from the inside to the outside to express the demeanor of the characters. The dynamic expressions of the characters are also particularly subtlely captured. The eyes, movements, and state of the hair are all incredibly natural, and each painting is not painted for the sake of painting. Rather, it is to use art to interpret the natural form of the characters and the state of the mind. These are all derived from Mr. Yu Yonghua's micro-observation of the characters and scenes and his understanding of the living environment of the creative objects. Teacher Yu Yonghua's creative habits and methods are exactly as Jiang Ji said in "Passing on the Mysteries": "Mortals intend to paint pictures, and their gods have become rigid." I must steal the meaning of it from the side when it is not painted, and he will reveal it unintentionally, and I will steal it with intent. ”
The understanding of "unintentional disclosure, intentional theft" may be complicated by many people. In fact, it is very simple and clear, it is a kind of micro-observation. It is to enter the game to feel, and then to exit from the game, and then use the identity of a bystander to observe, to capture. Teacher Yu Yonghua's figure paintings are so evocative, and they also come from this.
Painter Yu Yonghua
Yu Yonghua: A native of Dalian, Liaoning Province, he currently lives in Beijing. He is a member of the China Artists Association, a tutor and professor of the Academy of Painting of Chinese Min University, the vice president of the China Academy of Arts, the director of the Chinese Painting Creation Center, and the winning author of major historical themes of the "Belt and Road" National Academy of Painting, and his works have been collected by the National Academy of Painting. Most of his works are large-scale themes of Chinese ink figures, and have been collected by many art museums, art institutions and private collections at home and abroad.