Chen Mengxin, President of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, Director of the Chinese Artists Association, Deputy Director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee and Member of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Artists Association, Vice President of the Chinese Painting Society, Vice President of the China Ink Painting Academy, Vice President of the Modern Gongbi Painting Academy, etc. He is currently a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Academy of Arts, and a distinguished researcher of the China National Academy of Painting.
Chen Mengxin is an important representative of contemporary middle-aged painters who have regarded "big painting" as their academic work from the beginning. In the process of reform and opening up, the artistic growth and artistic outlook of his generation were established, and the thinkers and practitioners who faced some basic issues of Chinese art given by the times and handed over their own answers formed the modeling ability commonly known as the "academic school", which is not only limited to the shaping of the human image, but also has the overall comprehensive modeling ability, which can control and control the elements of the large-scale picture, and organically process and integrate them. He dares to transcend stereotypes and make bold innovations in techniques and language, forming a pattern of large-scale brushwork with strong momentum and rich meanings in his works.
From freehand to gongbi, and then from gongbi to freehand, Chen Mengxin innovatively integrated the two, so as to achieve his vivid shape and strong color of the "big gongbi" paradigm. "A Side of Water and Soil" created in 94 is a testimony to the maturity of his personal style. More than 100 Miao mountain people with regional characteristics are densely arranged in the painting, not shaped by light and shadow, nor divided by lines, but skillfully using clouds, vegetation and other objects to tell the relationship between man and nature, showing the harmony of the unity of nature and man.
Chen Mengxin has strong artistic skills and the accumulation of solid artistic accomplishment, the so-called skills are the ability to shape, composition, color control and create artistic conception, which are the basic abilities of his artistic style and artistic characteristics. His ability to sketch and sketch is very strong; The artistic conception of his poetic dwelling is born by his aesthetic education; His works are neat and delicate, large and unbroken, the picture is blurry from a distance, wonderful at close view, and full of meaning; Because of his ability to write, the picture is vivid and expressive, and so on integrates the basic characteristics of his fine brush painting. His paintings have reached the realm of elegance and common appreciation that painters appreciate and the common people like.