Written on the front
Yao Yuan's paintings, like dreams, render a layer of sultry gold powder of the Six Dynasties, as if it is the artistic conception of Guqin Jiangnan Spring or Kun Peony Pavilion. Her technique can be called a generation of Danqing hand, flowers and birds and characters landscape calmly opened, freehand freehand arbitrary vertical and horizontal, connected to the Ming and Qing Dynasty boneless methods, today open Xiaoxian's own painting style. In today's Jinling and even the national painting world, Yao Yuan is an extremely rare example of a person who can follow the traditional Chinese painting creation based on calligraphy and create a new style on his own.
—— Excerpt from Li Anyuan's "Preface to the Meilan Bamboo Chrysanthemum Painting Exhibition"
On the afternoon of January 7, 2024, "Flying Immortals - Yao Yuan's Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition" was exhibited at Aitao Gallery, through the presentation of more than 30 works, to meet friends with paintings. Jiang Hongwei, Liu Canming, Shen Qin, Yu Liang, Luo Jie and other artists and art lovers came to congratulate the visit.
Three-path incense
33cm×45cm
2021
Smoky cold
33cm×45cm
2021
Luo Fu Twilight
33cm×130cm
2022
Knowing the ancients
Yao Yuan's pen has many objects that are not originally in the painting, and after she is at the mercy of the combination, the ordinary daily life will intercept the poems of time with different images.
In addition to the artist's innate vision, the artist's intuition is also undeniable. The peach blossom outside the bamboo is the spring river water of Huichong; in front of the peony column, it is the lake stone where the willow is born; a morning cloud is the clear summer when the early sun is dry and the rain is on the leaves; and a branch of horizontal snow is the "Yao Xiaoxian" written by Hengyue Shamen.
The work of poetry lies not in the poem, but in the mood of the poem. Just as the success of painting is not only limited to the picture, but also to the speculation and refinement of "style is people", the ability to no longer accept the shackles of reality with the miraculous technique of piercing through the wall.
Sharp turns ahead
95cm×176cm
In Yao Yuan's paintings, signal lights and zebra crossings are nothing more than simple materials for organizing the picture. And the atmosphere she created really pointed to these new objects pointing to the tradition of lonely lamps and fishing fires, sunny mountains and Xiao Temples, flat boats and leaves, and the wind and wind.
Yao Yuan is knowledgeable, not just on paper. Predicting its "opening up" should be taken a look at first.
Open new
There are always people who want to make a transcendent interpretation of a work of art or an artist, but in the end they return to the original point in vain: art is based on the spiritual existence of man, art is man, or man is art. Yao Yuan is a painter with a pure spirit, and there are no too many complicated mysteries, which is precisely the essential difference between a good painter, a true painter and an ordinary painter.
Unlike many painters in Vanity Fair, Yao Yuan's artistic pursuit is particularly simple, she is just a person who constantly paints aesthetic images in the chaotic world. In the moment of repetition of the depiction, he confronts the soul directly, and guards the path of loneliness in the mill of life for several years.
The cold sound of dead wood
32cm×66cm
2023
蒹葭
27cm×24cm
2022
Yao Yuan's beautiful and peaceful pictures not only comfort themselves, but also give the public a profound visual aesthetic and emotional touch. She never deliberately creates personal schemas or gets involved in all kinds of meaningless artistic disputes, but she always inadvertently enters the contemporary or returns to tradition, which is due to her return to the origin of painting. Since painting is nothing more than a process of poetic pursuit of "playing in art", how to advertise oneself is redundant.
Yao Yuan brings people a sense of amazement in at least two aspects: first, she does not carve anything and insists on the natural creation of contemporary imagery. In recent years, Yao Yuan's classical connotations often appear in the scenes of contemporary life that are familiar to the public, consciously or unconsciously, and these objects are skillful and natural in the expression of classical meanings. His classical and aesthetic dialogue tradition is undoubtedly a spiritual expression that listens to the call of the heart. Since entering the art world, the classical complex in Yao Yuan's paintings has never been lost, and even has a tendency to be renewed for a long time. This kind of complex shows its painstaking management and persistence in the past, and it also shows its future worth looking forward to.
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展览概况 | Overview
Flying Immortals - Yao Yuan's Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition
Host
Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Modern Art
undertaker
Aitao Gallery
Opening hours:
2024.1.7-2024.1.17
10:00-16:30
Venue address
Aitao Gallery
23rd Floor, Block A, Aitao Cultural and Creative Park, No. 199 Tianyuan West Road, Jiangning District