A week ago, I also talked to him on the phone, he talked about the creative plan and artistic feelings, did not expect that after six days, he left us in a hurry, immediately went to the blue sky and white clouds, to be neighbors with green mountains and rivers, he bid farewell to the cruel facts of life, so that all the relatives and friends sighed! I am so sad!
(Right is oil painter Yi Taihua)
As a painter, Yi Taihua really achieved a weak fame and fortune, in the circle of painters, he did not hold a solo exhibition, did not publish a picture album, and few people wrote articles introducing him. He worked as a young intellectual, worked as a worker, resumed the college entrance examination and was admitted to the oil painting major of the former Hunan Normal College (now Hunan Normal University), and after graduation, he was sent to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in the former Soviet Union at public expense to study oil painting for two years. Over the years, he has been working tirelessly. When others introduce him, they will say, "This is the oil painter Yi Taihua." "And I've always called him "Brother Tai." I remember 3 years ago, I wrote an article about him, entitled "Tai Ge's Oil Painting", the leader of Hunan Daily called me the next day and said that Teacher Yi's deeds from the art were very touching, and the hit rate on the day exceeded 100,000 miles!
Oh brother! You are the same year as our great republic, you are a good painter who inherits art, a good leader with high moral standing, and a good friend who is sincere!
Looking back, the friendship forged thirty years ago is vividly remembered. You are the chief of the propaganda section of the Propaganda Department of the Lianshan Steel Party Committee, and I also happened to pass the public examination to enter the enterprise television station under the leadership of the Propaganda Department of the Lianshan Steel Party Committee, and I often have a handover with you in your work, your diligence and seriousness in your work, the hardship and simplicity in life, and the honesty and enthusiasm in friendship make me remember it vividly and vividly. The office building of the old party committee of Lianshan Steel still seems to flash your tireless work; As a vice president of the Loudi City Artists Association, you still echo your humorous and cheerful laughter in other painters' exhibitions; The landscapes of central and western Hunan still leave you with the footprints of sketching and walking; Thousands of your oil paintings document your painstaking creations.
Brother Tai, as a painter, your brush and ink follow the times and are full of enthusiasm in creating. Your passionate works fully sing the social changes, political and cultural values and ideological changes after the founding of New China, which have affected the artistic value orientation of our generation, and your art reflects the fiery era. You reflect all aspects of society with solid modeling skills and skilled pen and ink language. You have painted workers, factories and historical themes, you have always established your personal academic value status with the realistic art style that the public likes to hear, and you have penetrated the humanities and society, forming a complete and colorful oil painting world of the human system.
Everything makes me miss you and makes me proud to have a mentor like you!
Yueqin Mountain can testify, Lianshui River can testify, Ten Mile Gangcheng and Xiangzhong Loudi can witness, and the feelings between us are really deep and deep.
Tai Ge! There are still a lot of confidants between us who haven't said enough! But you went in such a hurry, leaving us with endless sorrows and thoughts, leaving us with too many regrets and worries.
If there really is a heaven, I believe that the sincere and kind Brother Tai must have arrived at that carefree, trouble-free place. He accompanies the oil painting, relies on the god of Dionysus, and continues to dedicate his good character and good works!
The length of life can be measured by time, and the quality of life cannot be measured by lifespan. The life of Elder Brother Yi Taihua is more like a bright and bright oil painting, drawing out one colorful color after another in the vast night sky, illuminating the artistic life of future generations...
All the way! Tai Ge!!