Jin Rui, the art recycler.
Text/Hu Jianjun
Jin Rui is an artist I am familiar with. He was born in Dongyang, Zhejiang and grew up in Shanghai. He benefited from the army, universities, and the culture of Jiangnan has always influenced him.
During his time in the army, he moved to Jiaxing. Jiaxing, located in Taihu Lake Basin, is a water country. It not only has the legacy of Wu's Taibo Ci, but also has Leisure Learning. It is a city that respects literature and is eager to learn. Since ancient times, "few people have joined the army, especially those who admire scholars", "Literati care for each other, before and after the prosperous times" and "Song Dynasty is a country of cultural relics. Today, many scholars are eager to learn, and those who are embarrassed are also prosperous. " What's in the clothes is impressive. ""Good reading, although there are classics in Miyake village ","Everyone in the field teaches his children to read ".
Jin Rui is good at poetry, calligraphy, painting, printing, hiding and music. The comprehensiveness of his art is rare among contemporary artists. Based on China's traditional culture, he constantly explores new creative ideas. His series "Peony in Water Town" is very popular and is the darling of collectors of calligraphy and painting. His paintings are often formed in one stroke, pursuing interest and far-reaching artistic conception. Try different art forms, such as "Immersing in Ink with Heavy Colors", "Acrylic Colored Ink", "Acrylic Hemp Black", "Immersing in Ink with Heavy Colors" and Jiao Mo, and eulogize the beauty of life and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland with the brush in your hand. On the basis of the essence of tradition, he discovered the law that had not been discovered before, and with his own spiritual personality, he observed nature again and again, gained unique feelings, and sought new artistic language to express it, forming his own personalized style. Just like a pioneer, on the basis of his own temperament, life experience and personal understanding, he grasped the spiritual realm of solipsism, explored his own symbolic language, showed perseverance, and also showed the spring-like thinking and talent of generate. On the basis of inheriting the traditional experience of using a pen to transport ink, he felt things with his heart and moved with his heart, so that artistic creation randomly produced a variety of pen and ink forms, pen and ink beauty and pen and ink quality in his wonderful imagination, and moved closer to landscape ontology and artistic ontology, paying special attention to the promotion from object image to image, the transformation from material level to spiritual level, and the transcendence from natural landscape to artistic situation. From this, his works can see the origin of tradition and the vitality and creativity that stand out from the crowd.
His calligraphy is also very unique. After decades of careful study of Zhejiang officials, his calligraphy has gradually formed its own exquisite and elegant style, combining the swallow-tailed silkworm head with the new clear ink rhyme. He knows very well that learning books is the first step to be a man, and Mao Ye is based on deep-rooted principles. He fully absorbed the essence of famous calligraphy, eagerly absorbed the nutrients in the book, and made the calligraphy fluent and coherent.
Jin Rui not only pays attention to artistic accomplishment, but also serves as a member of the Musicians Association and the China Poetry Couplet Society. He has profound attainments in music and poetry couplets, which greatly enriches his artistic creation. He is also the painter of Jiaxing Painting Academy and the president of Lingguang Painting and Calligraphy Institute of Jingyan Temple. However, he is very low-key, does not seek fame, and devoted his life to the research and development of calligraphy and painting art, which has won unanimous praise from the masses. He has made great achievements in poetry, calligraphy, painting, printing, music, etc. He devoted himself to studying, swimming in the ocean of art and enjoying it.
In his own artistic practice, Jin Rui has added new connotation and vitality to the historical accumulation of China's paintings, so that tradition and innovation can be harmoniously and perfectly combined in practice. It is in this sense that we can understand the aesthetic value of artists' artistic exploration in the transformation to modern forms.