Yan Xuezhang Tiger Year Celebration Zodiac Exhibition
(Multiple On Crab Pie)
Sun Ke (Secretary General of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association, Art Critic)
In the world of calligraphy and painting, Yan Xuezhang's pattern ink and ink zodiac sign can be described as unique. Relying on more than 40 years of calligraphy line skills, he has smelted the meaning of traditional literati painting, the interest of folk paper-cutting, the simplicity of ancient stone carvings, and the simplicity of modern cartoon paintings, and purified the ideological realm in the real life experience, constituting his schematized ink language. Simple but not simple, ridiculous and philosophical, superhuman but human, simple and spontaneous, indicating the aesthetic interest of his schema ink painting.
Xia Shuoqi (Former editor-in-chief of Fine Arts magazine and art critic)
The three characteristics of Yan Xuezhang's crab school art are fun, taste and wonder, just like his learning and open-mindedness, which is a manifestation of comprehensive quality, such as his people. A common phenomenon in the art world is that thousands of troops and horses cross the single wooden bridge, Mr. Yan does not have this problem, but goes alone, dares to think, is diligent in thinking, firmly follows his own path, and takes his own creative steps through independent thinking.
Xu Encun (Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Art, Art Critic)
The Chinese Crab School is an art genre advocated by Mr. Yan Xuezhang under the academic concept of "running amok and not being overbearing". Mr. Yan Xuezhang has jointly built the crab art system with three fulcrums: academic research, crab body calligraphy and pattern ink painting creation, and crab art creative industry. Crab art stands out, with originality, uniqueness, and scholarship, which is very rare.
Li Yi (Deputy Director and Secretary General of the Theoretical Committee of the China Artists Association, Editor-in-Chief of Art Observation Magazine, Director of the China Book Association)
Yan Xuezhang is such an artist, he is engaged in both creation and theory; he is engaged in both calligraphy and painting; he also compiles couplets and writes some essays, and is a generalist. He was accomplished in creation and theory, calligraphy and painting. He had some of his academic ideas and also founded the crab school of art. Mr. Yan is a very comprehensive talent, with very active thinking, sharp writing, unique views, unique perspectives, and distinctive personality of his works, forming a unique art system.
Yu Guangyuan (former member of the Central Advisory Committee and famous Chinese economist)
Mr. Xuezhang can combine art and industry, which is a good thing. For the economy to develop, it must be transformed, and for art to develop, it must be constantly innovating. Mr. Xuezhang has made great achievements in artistic innovation and cultural and creative industries, which is worthy of recognition.
Yan Zhentang (Former Deputy Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, President of the China Collectors Association)
For a calligraphy and painting work, there should generally be three conditions, one is historical value, the other is scientific value, and the third is artistic value, and only with these three values can the work itself be given economic value. Yan Xuezhang's "Chinese Family Portrait" has these three points, so it has artistic value and collection value.
Zhou Shaohua (famous painter and art critic)
Yan Xuezhang has romantic feelings, the academic concepts and innovative concepts he advocates have a unique ideological brilliance, and his paintings are full of whimsy, new consciousness, boldness, pen and ink, and have the courage and moral responsibility of critics.
Ah Lao (Former Vice President, Professor, Famous Painter of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts)
The characteristics of Yan Xuezhang's calligraphy and painting are very strong. Reading Yan Xuezhang's calligraphy, paintings and articles makes people's eyes light up and their spirits lift. Xuezhang treats people honestly, is talented, talented, thoughtful, learned, and very diligent. His paintings can reach this level, otherworldly and closely related to life, and it is a comprehensive factor at work. Xuezhang is a comprehensive talent, he has his own unique style language in literature, books and paintings, and the texts, books and paintings are unified, and they are very interesting, personality and creativity. He paints the zodiac, uses a zodiac sign every year to produce a book, poetry, calligraphy and painting as one, which is indeed not simple, is a rare talent.
Gao Hongbo (Vice Chairman of China Writers Association)
Yan Xuezhang created the art of the crab school, which was not overbearing. I studied him in depth, and finally found that the old crab's thoughts and art were all running rampant with the Chinese Fu culture, and the people who were bumped into across, that is, the "lucky fate", became the "Fu Nu" of the crab art. On the surface, he is rampant, but in his bones there is a word "fu", which is his strength. He puts China's fu culture closely to his own artistic creation on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is closely attached to the life of ordinary people. So he succeeded, the public liked his paintings, his paintings were auspicious and full of blessings, buying his paintings was to invite blessings to his home, sending his paintings was to send blessings to people, and hiding his paintings was to hide his blessings for the future. Seriously, I have not yet seen a calligrapher and painter who can integrate The Culture of Fu with his own art and the public so closely and seamlessly.
Liu Yi (Consultant of China Book Association, Former Vice Chairman of China Book Association and Director of The Judging Committee)
I read Yan Xuezhang's crab school artwork, and there are two characteristics: one is that the concept is wonderful and unique, and the second is that the work has connotation and meaning. Many works have unique meanings, whether it is painting works or calligraphy works, they are not aimless and empty words. His literary attainments were indeed profound, not a writer, but a brilliant creator. His paintings are both a collectible and a cultural product, and can also be used as a consumer product, worthy of appreciation, collection and development.
Chen Zhenlian (Vice Chairman of China Book Association)
The book theory circles are keen to sort out the national history, there are few speculative articles, and it is difficult to have good works, and Yan Xuezhang's literary theory is accustomed to speculation, which is really the best of them. In general, Yan Xuezhang is a person who is "drunk and awake", and because of this, he will have more loneliness and pain than ordinary people.
Liu Hongbiao (Vice Chairman of China Book Association)
The painting style of Xuezhang is different, with thoughts, content, and a sense of humor, which can arouse people's associations and be shocked and inspired by them. Sometimes with harmonic culture, an idiom to change one or two words, with harmonics and paintings to express emotions and thoughts, with cultural support, he is a truly pioneering artist.
Meng Fanjin (President of China Association of Chinese Associations)
One of Xuezhang's works is philosophical and profound, beyond ordinary people, especially the small titles, which is the finishing touch. There is also a new meaning, the text, books, paintings have their own characteristics, have their own unique feelings. The third is the Single-Engine Crab Sect, who holds high the banner of the Crab Sect's rampant and overbearing behavior, and it is not easy to persist in this way, which shows that he has artistic courage and confidence. In the end, I think he's a contemporary prodigy. His artistic creations more comprehensively reflect the "odd", whether it is painting, calligraphy, poetry, Yang Lian, the level is very high, very strange, completely contemporary wizards.
Zhang Gaiqin (Vice Chairman of China Book Association)
Yan Xuezhang has always been a controversial figure in the Chinese painting and calligraphy industry. In the world of calligraphy and painting, he can always find and put forward some problems that others cannot find and cannot ask, and has a profound analysis of the problems, and the sharpness of his thinking and the sharpness of his tentacles are beyond the reach of ordinary people of my generation. In particular, his literary theory is not only about art, but also reflects a profound knowledge of philosophy, aesthetics and psychology, and reading his literary theory and watching his calligraphy and paintings always makes people reminisce and linger.
Hu Jun (Deputy Director, Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Doctoral Supervisor)
Yan Xuezhang is an artist with philosophical thinking. His art, whether elegant or vulgar, is very philosophical, so he has created his own artistic path. His paintings and calligraphy are very characteristic and personal. Artistic life lies in individuality, and without individuality there is no art. There were thousands of people in Shakespeare's day, but we only know Shakespeare because Shakespeare had a personality. We see that Mr. Yan's books, paintings and inscriptions are very personal, how to describe this? Mr. Yan himself expressed it as a crab pie, which is very good, crab flavor, crab fun, is the result of the guidance at the level of rampant and overbearing philosophy.
Zhang Wenhua (Director of China Artists Association, Vice President of Fine Arts Magazine)
Mr. Yan gave me the impression that he was very humble and very friendly. When I read his works, I found that his works were in great contrast with his human appearance. Rampant is to talk about style, not to be domineering is to talk about the mind, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign things can be absorbed, for my use to become crab pie, this is very valuable. His works are simple and not monotonous, they are very rich to read, and the reason why they are rich is given by his intellectual cultivation and skill.
Li Renyi (Editor-in-Chief, Painter, Writer, People's Fine Arts Network)
Crab art is an artistic practice under the guidance of theory. I attended the seminar of Yu Zhixue's Ice and Snow School in Harbin in 2005, and today I attended Yan Xuezhang's Crab School Seminar, and the two seminars met spatially. Yan Xuezhang's crab school art and Yu Zhixue's ice and snow painting art are similar. Mr. Yu's painting school is characterized by painting style and disciple inheritance, and the Crab School is a painting school with industrial support as the external characteristic and academic concept as the internal framework. I strongly feel that Crab Art has formed an artistic kingdom with systematic intellectual property protection.
Yan Xuezhang
Cultural scholar, calligrapher and painter
He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association
He is a member of the China Literary and Art Critics Association
He is a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association
President of China Academy of Art Creation
Creator of Chinese crab art
A master of contemporary zodiac art
Academic philosophy: run amok and not overbearing
Principles of dealing with the world: Ideological criticism and friendliness are separated