——Jian Yi’s original Song Xue painting. One of the excellent traditions of Chinese landscape painting is to advocate "external learning from nature", taking nature as a teacher, observing natural phenomena in depth and meticulously, and expressing nature on the basis of full understanding. .
Truth is the life of art and the foundation of beauty. Art comes from life, and the beauty of art is the artist's true sublimation of life.
In the history of Chinese painting for thousands of years, the white mountains and black waters of the Northeast have always been a major theme that attracts attention, but there are no fine ice and snow paintings left for future generations to polish, so they have become a fascinating Secret Mirror and Holy Land.
The freehand brushwork and meticulous brushwork in Jian Yiyi's paintings are combined, opening and closing, virtual and real, using the concept of freehand brushwork to capture and grasp the object, and expressing the object in the form of pen and ink. In this way, the landscape imagery in the painting not only embodies symbolic meaning, but also embodies formal meaning.
The use of pen and ink based on the principle of freehand brushwork must be full of spirit and full of emotion. Only in this way can it be majestic, vivid and full of tension. Seen from a distance, the clear air is compelling, while up close, the inky charm is swaying. This is exactly the characteristic of Jian Yisong's snow paintings.
He boldly tried to use the pen to convey his thoughts, using wet ink to move the calligraphy freely.
Jianyi expresses the wildness, coldness, freshness and clarity of the Northeast. It conveys the poetry of the vast frost and snow and the spirit of life.
Unswervingly interpreting the white mountains and black waters of my hometown, looking for the source of life and vitality, and discovering the beauty generated by the fog and clear frost.
His works have initially formed an expression style with the theme of rime and snow scenes in Northeast China, and have made an evolution in the use of pen and ink language that is more in line with the meaning of the works, striving to be more creative with the brush and more innovative in the painting. , the pursuit of poetry and painting, which is a macroscopic way of observation and expression. In this way, the structure of the work naturally creates a grand scene, awe-inspiring momentum, cold and ferocious, and profound Weiwei.
He knows well that in artistic creation, it is not easy to form one's own style, appearance and expression techniques. "Three feet of ice does not freeze in a day." With his unique conditions, he absorbs the nourishment of the natural spirit of the North, making his art increasingly full and mature.
Article - Yu Zhixue
Jian Yi’s works