Yu Wenjiang is a famous contemporary Chinese painter. He is currently the vice president of the China National Academy of Painting, the deputy director of the Art Committee of the Academy, the deputy director of the Chinese Painting Committee, the national first-class artist, the honorary president of the Ningxia Academy of Fine Arts, the outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the member of the National Major Theme Art Creation Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, the researcher of the Chinese Painting Academy of the Chinese Academy of Arts, the director of the Chinese Painting Society, the doctoral supervisor of the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of Macau University of Science and Technology, the visiting professor and graduate tutor of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and the tutor of Yu Wenjiang Studio.
Yu Wenjiang is an accomplished artist in the contemporary Chinese painting world, for decades, he insisted on going deep into life, feeling the times, devoting himself to sketching and creation with sincere emotions, expressing rich real life with a large number of exquisite works, portraying the spiritual outlook of the people, especially in the creation of thematic Chinese painting, is a rare and valuable high-yield painter. He has carefully studied the excellent tradition of Chinese painting for a long time, adhered to integrity and innovation, and made in-depth and solid explorations in the study of the cultural connotation and the language of brush and ink in Chinese painting, forming a distinctive innovative style. The idea of the work, the management of the picture, the portrayal of the image and the form of the brush and ink all show profound humanistic accomplishment and academic attainment, which is full of bright, fresh and elegant style of the times.
Yu Wenjiang summed up his artistic path in one sentence: "When I was a child, I dreamed of being a painter, but when I grew up, I really became a painter." In order to get out of the tradition and find an artistic style that suits the aesthetic needs of contemporary people, Yu Wenjiang spent a lot of time and meticulously studied the historical evolution of painting techniques and expressive language along the context of the development history of Chinese painting, and finally realized that "freehand is the spiritual connotation of Chinese painting, and gongbi painting is also rich in freehand".
"Art needs to be expressed through skill, but art is not skill." Looking back on his own artistic exploration, Yu Wenjiang concluded: "No matter how history develops and society changes, emotion and spirit are the state and way of life of people. In "Prairie Pastoral" (2004), "What I See in Egypt" (2005), "Mother and Child in the Snow Field" (2007), "Migration" (2010), "Homecoming" (2011) and the huge Chinese painting "Blood Pain - Chinese Women Suffering in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", which took three years to create for China's major historical projects, the picture is more broad and comfortable artistic temperament. Perfection to the next level.