-Gao Juhan (American art critic)
In his works, He Shiyang shows the form, state and posture of young ethnic groups in urban living space, and takes us into the sunshine zone with his eyes, seeing vivid pictures and feeling the pulse of the city. His paintings have direct visual response, lively mood and mental health. These seemingly uncomplicated features have jointly opened up his different faces from other urban painters. His paintings are an inspiration in the gloomy, obscure and lazy urban images.
—— Fan Dian (president, professor, doctor, art critic and former curator of China Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts).
He Shiyang's figure paintings, many of which focus on pens, pursue euphemistic, smooth and flexible lines, which are full and slender in simplicity, full of strength and very simple, and also publicize the charm of innocence and humor and return to primitive human feelings. Reading his paintings, with the rhythm of ink and wash, elegant colors and delicate lines, we can easily see that famous people in Wei and Jin dynasties hated evil and were extraordinary and refined, and they also had a different style of deep affection between father and son and teachers and students, which made them handsome, frank, lovely and amiable, full of interest and human touch. And the mother with ink painting, playing with her children, also has a lot of family fun. Even when riding a horse with high fitness, there is a sense of leisure and pleasure between the gestures and the ease of travel and the unity of nature and man. As for the lively scenes such as children setting off firecrackers, watching fish and skipping rope, they are full of enjoyment of folk life and self-entertainment, pinning the good wishes of ordinary people for peace and prosperity every year. These pictures of people's livelihood, which show the fireworks in the world, are affectionate, humorous and vivid, telling the truth that people yearn for peace, harmony, freedom and happiness, and also telling the painter's true understanding of simple human nature, which can be described as simple and elegant.
—— Ren Daobin (Dean, School of International Education, China Academy of Fine Arts, Ph.D., Department of Traditional Chinese Painting and Historical Theory)
Professor He Shiyang of China Academy of Fine Arts made some attempts in the research and teaching practice of art collection, which aroused my strong interest. I haven't listened to his class, but I have heard him tell me his thoughts, read his lesson plans, and read the results of "retro texts" and "retro practices" made by him and his students. I deeply feel that he is doing something very meaningful. He conducted in-depth cultural exploration and research on Four Treasures of the Study, framed and restored, painted modeling language, and sought clues and evidence. Their eyes turned to the Tang and Song Dynasties and even the Wei and Jin Dynasties, trying to understand how the ancients made pens, ink, paper and mounts, looking for them from ancient paintings and documents, and then trying to restore and imitate them. Not only in Four Treasures of the Study, but also in a wider field such as ancient costumes, ancient artifacts, ancient furniture and ancient architecture. His "retro" practice even extends to the fields of architecture, furniture and lighting. His restoration imitates Tang and Song style furniture, which brightens the eyes of people in the industry who are used to knowing Ming and Qing furniture. I admire and admire He Shiyang's way of restoring ancient ways, because I deeply feel that under the current situation of China's calligraphy, "restoring ancient ways" may be more important than "innovation", and "restoring ancient ways" is an important way to revive calligraphy.
-Si Shunwei (deputy curator of Zhejiang Art Museum, national first-class artist)
He Shiyang is a powerful figure painter who has risen in recent years. He has both solid skills and original spirit. His figure painting attaches importance to the experience of city life and makes a useful attempt in the exploration of Chinese painting.
-Li Yi (editor-in-chief of Art Watch, doctor, researcher)
He Shiyang's works not only inherit the tradition, but also pay attention to the aesthetic feeling of modern people. Relying on the principle of modern composition, he sought the modern expression of Chinese painting with completely personalized language. This exploration of a new interpretation of traditional culture has the significance of forward-looking experiments and self-reliance. The baby series he painted in ink is full of life interest, which makes people feel sorry and returns to childhood.
—— Wang Ping (researcher and doctor of China National Painting Academy)
The characters in He Shiyang's works can be said to directly reflect the current urban life. He paints both ancient people and modern people, observes real life with modern people's mood, pursues fresh and bright colors, and always reveals a kind of orthography in his bones.
—— Lv Kun (Professor of China Academy of Fine Arts and former curator of Pan Tianshou Memorial Hall)
He Shiyang's paintings have a distinct personal style. The first impression of his paintings is the bright colors in the bright sun. He integrated this technique from impressionism into ink painting, which no longer occupied a large area of the picture, but was decomposed into colors and melted into colors, and achieved good results.
Jia (art critic, professor)
He Shiyang's research on ancient brush and ink technology, his pursuit of traditional brush and ink culture spirit, and his teaching philosophy of paying equal attention to professional education and humanistic training in teaching are all "calm and dignified". It can be said that He Shiyang established the position of oriental art with contemporary cultural background with his own strength. The beauty of Four Treasures of the Study's sketch is a symbol of the beauty of China culture. It is the great crystallization of human spiritual civilization and the beauty of western painting. Pen, ink, paper, inkstone and Four Treasures of the Study are universal weapons of China culture, but He Shiyang branded them with a distinctive brand of the new era, thus outlining the spirit of oriental civilization.
-Gao Shixian (post-70 s poet, editor-in-chief of the New Book of Songs, editor-in-chief of selected poems in Weibo, China)
He Shiyang's modern ink figure painting has a unique style, which attracts people's attention in contemporary China figure painting circles. His works create a long and lasting flavor, which seems to be the flavor of Xiamen, a coastal city where he once lived, and always permeates the picture, making people chew it carefully and have endless aftertaste.
—— Mao Jianbo (professor, doctoral supervisor and art critic of China Academy of Fine Arts)