Yang Yunqi was born in 1954. A native of Nanchong, Sichuan, he is a military painter. He is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a member of the Beijing Artists Association, a national senior artist, an executive director of the Chengdu Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Painting and Calligraphy in 2021, and a people's artist of both virtue and art.
In recent years, Yang Yunqi has integrated the charm of Chinese painting with the color composition of Western painting, and he pursues heavy ink and color to highlight the visual impact of color. This creative philosophy has always prompted him to trek on the road of exploring the profound artistic conception of Chinese landscape painting, and he strives to pursue a spiritual atmosphere, and never gives up after ups and downs.
The studio of the military painter Mr. Yang Yunqi is hidden here. He had just returned from Tibet, holding an umbrella and carrying two umbrellas downstairs to greet a group of visitors who had braved the bleak autumn rain. The first time I met him was in the summer, at an exhibition in Shuchangxuan, Chengdu. He wasn't tall, but he was stocky and muscular. doesn't seem to like to laugh or talk, and the seriousness and calmness of his lifelong military service are highlighted on his face, and there is no trace of joy and anger. But these initial impressions, as the interview deepened, it turned out that they were only his appearance. Through the appearance, Yang Yunqi's heart is actually full of childlike idealistic fantasies many times. He is easy-going, talkative, honest and funny. His studio is colorful and messy, and the burning and wanton spirit of creation can be seen everywhere. He was supposed to be a painter who threw himself into his creations as he pleased. On the wall of the living room, there is a huge landscape oil painting. He said: "I am only halfway through this oil painting. On the case, he is stacked with his recently completed or unfinished ink landscape paintings, and there are two heavy color landscape banners on the ground, which he explains: I only painted it last night. There is obviously a simple confidence and optimism hidden in him. Outside the painting, there is a large balcony, standing on the balcony, looking into the distance, there is an endless high and low city buildings in front of you, in the hazy and dense rain curtain, the mirage is like a dream. I don't know if at some point, the painter Mr. Yang Yunqi will stand here, or sit on the balcony, quietly looking into the distance, thinking about something from the depths of his soul. In the silence and epiphany, he was looking for the direction of art. When it comes to painting creation, Yang Yunqi finally stopped being reserved and silent, and suddenly gushed endlessly, and a hearty smile gradually appeared on his face that was rarely smiling. At this time, he is real and transparent.
In 1954, Yang Yunqi was born in Gaoping District, Nanchong, Sichuan. His father is a famous artist in Nanchong, who is engaged in stage design work in the Nanchong Sichuan Opera Troupe, and is also good at Shu embroidery. The artistic cells in his father influenced Yang Yunqi when he was young. The family has complete pen, ink and paper, watching his father write and draw every day, and the young Yang Yunqi also learns from his father to write and draw at home. "Although I was scribbling, I was very interested in painting and calligraphy as a child. When he was in elementary school, in addition to painting, he also loved paper-cutting and puppetry. In addition to cutting and drawing, he made puppet shows with the children in the yard and showed them to other children. "When we were kids, we played puppet shows and we had to sell tickets, which were a penny or two a piece, which was fun. When he was 16 years old, the army went to Nanchong to recruit soldiers, and Yang Yunqi was specially recruited because of his talent for painting. He later graduated from the Chinese People's Liberation Army Art Academy. After graduation, he was assigned to the General Staff Department to engage in propaganda, and engaged in art work in the army for more than 40 years. The accumulation of years has made his pen vigorous and his ink relaxed, and the picture has both the ability to process the virtual and real with the focus of ink lines, and the free and easy to splash ink freehand. His works are full of the painter's agility and skillful passion, revealing the elegant taste of landscape painting, such as "Fishing Song After the Rain" and "Late Autumn in Shushan". In his innovative landscape works, he uses heavy color to express the verdant and lush nature of nature, and on the green plants on the surface of the mountain, his brushstrokes and color use are delicate and subtle, full of personality. For example, works such as "Silver Silk Drizzle Ascending the Light Mist" and "Crane Singing Praise the Wetland" can give a glimpse of its unique expression techniques. He has always strived to paint works with vitality, and the vast road of art has always spread under his feet.
When I paint landscape paintings, my heart is very comfortable, and the breadth and profundity of Chinese landscapes encompass my whole body and mind. The essence of traditional Chinese culture is inseparable from the feelings of mountains and rivers, and it is a whole that blends and attracts each other. Although he graduated from the military art academy with a major in oil painting, Yang Yunqi did not focus on oil painting. He admits that in terms of his own spiritual dimension and aesthetic needs, he is more obsessed with Chinese landscape painting. The secluded life expressed in Chinese landscape painting is ethereal and dense in artistic conception, infinite profundity in the spatial dimension, and has an inexhaustible rhyme and literary atmosphere. Yang Yunqi has been looking for her own style on the road of art. He adheres to the foundation of traditional Chinese painting and explores the combination of Chinese and Western painting arts. Sketching and collecting wind is the inevitable way for him to get close to the natural landscape. Yang Yunqi, who likes to go out to sketch, has been to many places, such as Huya Grand Canyon, Qinling Mountains, Heishui County, Alxa and other mountains and valleys. "The mountains of the south are beautiful, with lush trees and moist soil and water; The mountains in the north, on the other hand, have little vegetation and the rocks are hard and straight, especially the stones, which are dark and magnificent. He even humorously compared: "The mountains of the south are like a beautiful girl dressed in a hazy veil; And the mountains in the north, like bare strong men, the mountains and rivers are exposed, and they can be seen at a glance. Since he painted oil paintings in the early days, he paid more attention to the texture effect of the picture, and used points, lines, and planes to deal with the majestic characteristics of the mountains. "When painting the mountains in the north, I like to paint them with splashed ink, so that the effect is majestic and majestic. In the southern mountains, I like to use a small brush to paint a large picture, and such delicate brushstrokes can express the small bridges, flowing waters, and thatched huts and tiled houses in the way of both work and writing. He insisted on writing boldly, tidying up carefully, and the external refinement and inner freedom were just right to show the soft and subtle feeling between the shade and the dampness. He pays attention to the process of painting in one go, and the rhyme is uninterrupted.
In order to learn the essence of traditional Chinese painting, he successively apprenticed to the famous landscape painter Mr. Bai Xueshi, the calligrapher of the China Military Museum, Mr. Li Duo, the professor of the Department of Military Art and Oil Painting, Mr. He Kongde, etc., and devoted himself to learning from the old gentlemen, hoping that his in-depth understanding of art would continue to improve. In 2002, he settled in Chengdu. The city in the southwest region, which is full of rich artistic atmosphere, and the surrounding mountains and rivers have given him more inspiration and inspiration. When painting has gradually become his spiritual support in the tempering of the years, no matter how many ups and downs and setbacks he encounters on the road of life, as long as he picks up the brush and enters the creation, Yang Yunqi will feel the selflessness from the depths of his soul.
So far, he is very satisfied with the free and easy flow of his paintings, and also pays attention to the transparency and smoothness of the picture. "I like my landscape paintings to be very moist and wet, and a good landscape painting, even if more than ten years have passed, it is very good to take it out and enjoy it, and still maintain the fullness and moistness of the brush and ink. He paints with a "self-entertaining" dissipation, and also has many of his own original skills. For example, he likes to spray water on rice paper while painting to keep the picture moisturized, and he is often excited by the constant penetration of ink on the rice paper and the subtle changes it produces. In addition, he also likes to repeat the color, cover and cover, so that the color of the picture has both a sense of heaviness and the antiquity of mineral pigments. He pays attention to the combination of painting and calligraphy, through the bone painting method, double-sided coloring, is Yang Yunqi in the decades of painting landscape works continue to explore and create an original painting technique, "with a soft brush, light ink draft, the pen is accurate, the pen is steady, the pen is accurate." "Chinese landscape painting was the most prosperous in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the painting realm paid attention to the "elegance of forests and springs". Whether it is green or ink, there are various genres and lush. There are not only wild and wanton wild tastes, but also elegant, Shenxiong, and the freshness of Wenxiu, all of which are written with landscapes, and through landscape paintings, they appreciate the beautiful artistic conception, the pride of springs and stones, and the handsomeness of streams and mountains that can be comprehended even if "not going to the pond feast, sitting on the poor springs". Yang Yunqi admires the far-reaching and profound feelings of ancient paintings, "That is the spiritual source that I have never learned all my life." He particularly admired the landscape paintings of Ni Zhan, one of the "Four Yuan Families". Ni Zhan's landscape paintings are simple and simple, simple and elegant, and most of the paintings do not depict people, but are elaborated in regular script with long inscriptions, so the picture exudes a sense of extreme loneliness. This feeling made Yang Yunqi sigh deeply. He constantly comprehends the essence of traditional Chinese painting, and realizes the "mastery and essence of what he sees" that a landscape painter should have. He is constantly learning and changing, so in some of his landscape paintings, it is obvious that you can feel the breath of some of his works, with a light ink and a deep and beautiful taste. In terms of creation, Yang Yunqi creates according to his heart, sometimes quite passionately. His landscape paintings, left an impression on me, such as "Ink Fun Writing Southern Sichuan", "Morning Mist Fishing Song", "Secluded Residence at the Foot of the Big Tree", "High Mountains and Smoke and Cloud Peaks after the Rain", etc., the clouds and clouds exuded by the picture are as wet as autumn, the old trees are rickety, the stream is murmuring, and the quiet feeling of the moss and rust Zen wall contains a deep and far-reaching atmosphere. "Painting ink landscapes, I pursue black and white, and there is a spirit in it. Some of his ink landscape paintings also contain the cold shadows of swords and stones, and the majestic grandeur of mountains and tiger hills, such as "Midsummer Valley" and "The Light Boat Has Passed Ten Thousand Mountains" and so on. He is good at splashing ink, freehand and other symbolic techniques, painting ink-filled, empty and vigorous landscape works, although the subject matter and composition are never the same, but there is still infinite space for further deepening and breakthrough in terms of charm, meaning, and expanseness. In the past two years, Yang Yunqi has gradually focused on the exploration of landscape works with heavy color and ink. In his early years, Yang Yunqi was fascinated by color. He studied the fusion of Chinese painting pigments and mineral pigments, that is, the "focal perspective" of Western painting and the "scattered perspective" of Chinese painting. The esoteric and transcendent concepts of Chinese and Western painting art are topics that he needs to further study. His state, in the eyes of many people, is actually not like a person who has already reached the age of sixty-five, and his heart does not seem to have anything to do with the vast years. Regarding art, he said that he is always on the road, and the artistic paradigm he pursues is still far away. Perhaps, when the sassy west wind is planted in the courtyard, will he suddenly have an epiphany and paint the landscape and autumn colors that are eye-catching, the brushwork is vigorous, and has a remarkable painting language? That kind of thing that comes from the painter's individual spiritual atmosphere should be through the painter's quiet and precipitated state of mind, through the dense and comfortable brushstrokes, the vigorous and lofty artistic conception. Masterpieces of art require the tempering of the mind and the years, and more importantly, the accumulation of the painter's own artistic accomplishment and the unique richness of thinking. Even in some periods, wandering away from the vast emotional territory of mountains and rivers, you can let your complex spread the charm of ink and wash in it, just "Providence pities the grass, and the world is sunny at night". It is expected that Yang Yunqi, a painter with the pen name Mo Shi, will be as solid as a rock in the real silence and silence of his heart in the future, not changing his original intention, and creating a wealth of good works with significant personality characteristics.