Beautiful and Elegant ── A Record of Wang Lin's Flower and Bird Paintings
Yu Shaoping.
Wang Lin is a very talented flower and bird painter. I remember when I first saw his flower-and-bird sketches in Beijing, I was deeply impressed by his elegant brushwork and natural painting style: light, peaceful and elegant, simple and elegant brushwork, natural and southern painting style.
In the long development process of Chinese painting, it has accumulated incomparably rich techniques and abstract pen and ink forms, and the masters of Chinese painting in past dynasties are struggling to find them. Master Huang Hongbin said: "Qi is in brushwork and rhyme is in ink." Pen and ink are the foundation and life of Chinese painting. Seeing nature with pen, feeling with ink can directly reflect the painter's taste and style. Wang Lin knows this very well. Ivy League, Eighth National Congress, Xugu, Baishi and other masters, pen and ink are neutral. From Wang Lin's flower-and-bird sketches, we can see that he has made great efforts in the pen and ink of Chinese painting. For him, the study and research of traditional pen and ink is equivalent to his examination of the beauty of China tradition.
Wang Lin draws easily and his works are natural. Attitude is a state, a natural expression of true feelings, dispersed, escaped and hidden. Pen and ink are in things, and everything is heart. He fused pen and ink between nature and mind, transcending the secular world, and made his works have a high standard, with both form and spirit within one inch. He has a good grasp of the artistic conception and image of traditional aesthetics, which fully embodies his talent. I would like to see the pen and ink images created in Wang Lin's flower-and-bird paintings, the melancholy and lonely flying birds, the semi-helpless folding of flowers, the unintentional interest in pen and ink, and the extremely broad artistic conception, all of which reveal elegance and rolling.
Wang Lin is good at using ink and wash, and the changes presented by ink and wash can be used freely, delicately and accurately in his works. Pen and ink are free, and the natural interest in their hearts fascinates and moves the viewers, which has a strong appeal. His works always show a kind of spirituality, conveying the spirit of reappearing nature through Mo Yun.
Xu Wei once said, "Don't look like a rhyme for survival." We expect him to carry forward this style.