ENJOYING ¡°SCENERY¡±
These oil paintings are created by several teachers who teach in university, with different style and direction. However, the painting itself is siginificant as every artist paints it from Nature.
Painting from Nature, so painting right in front of the scenery; eveytime Nature changes tremendously and always gives us surprise everyday. With the abundance of Nature, we open our heart to learn desperately from it with curiousity. Whenever we set up the easel, we expect the new theme appeared in front of our eyes, sometimes obscure or difficult to explore. We do not want to repeat, neither expect all the same scene occurred from Nature. We witness its glory that Nature is generous to demonstrate us its endless variation. Thanks to Life, that we feel grateful because we are able to discover and cultivate our heart, which is enriched by Nature.
Keep up painting from Nature, love Nature forever, and establish a solid connection with Nature. Hence,our brush can be endowed by the river and mountain. With the wings of imagination flying higher by its dense feather, each creation has its foundation of water and earth; therefore our future is limitless.
By Dai Shihe, the professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts
Dec. of 2010.
PREFACE
I was the professor of Huangyi when he studied in Central Academy of Fine Arts as a visiting scholar. I learnt that he would have a solo exhibition soon and I would like to write something especially for it.
I had known Huangyi earlier as a painter before his study in CAFA. As his colleague and professor, he seems to me as an artist who concentrates on consistenly improving self-quality academically, with much of self reflection and practice. As for his painting, I am more preferred to his own choice and judgement. Recently he completes a series of oil painting entitled Mountain Sea, Back Mountain Scenery etc., consisting of 100 pieces, with abundant harvest. You may discover a kind of rational working attitude behind the enthusiasm of each work, where it reflects his down-to earth lifestyle and sincerity towards art.
As a teacher in university, he adapts himself in understanding the contemporary painting development in China, while he contemplates how to improve the education for contemporary art. Through his consistent efforts, he is able to comprehend, and grasp the connection between the language of oil painting and the realistic life, therefore he dedicates himself in creating the artwork with a mature and stable attitude, with non-stop experimenting on canvas; meanwhile he gains the inspiration from both folk and traditional art. His recent painting works show a tremendous interest in conveying the imaginery scenery by his own painting language, with different media and structure trials. After numerous experimentations, he ponders to explore the best method of expressing what he would like to deliver exactly in his work. Furthermore, he finds how to interprete the spirit, energy and soul deep inside the heart. His latest sketch works express more conciously than ever the truth of life by employing his simple artistic language; it links all the feeling, imagination and ration of the artist together, emphasizing on a kind of vanity or simplicity of an illusionary scene. As a result, the artist¡¯s fine painting intuition, as well as a matured painting language appears in his work naturally.
I sincerely wish that his painting career be more fruitful through his own experience in the future.
By Jia Difei, professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts
