First, the artistic creativity of Yang Mingyi ink town.
The famous painter Yaming wrote an inscription: "Brother Yang loved Danqing since he was a child. He first grabbed a knife to draw, and later wrote Jiangnan with a brush, which became his own face. Then a group of painters wrote this. Also expensive, the name is also. " Yang Mingyi was a leading figure in Suzhou watermark woodcut, and later inherited the tradition of his predecessors, creating a new modern face of Wumen painting and a new style of ink painting.
Yang Mingyi was born in Suzhou, Zhong Ling, where there are a large number of scholars and writers, who are endowed with unique conditions for studying art. In his childhood, his extraordinary talent for painting has already appeared, and he won the first prize in the whole school painting competition in the fourth grade of primary school. 18 years old, studied at Suzhou Institute of Arts and Crafts, and studied under Wu and his teacher. Under the guidance of Wu, he delved into the tradition, painstakingly copied, studied and pondered the works of the ancients, and absorbed nutrition. Later, under the guidance of his tutor Xu Shiming, he learned how to experience the life from his hometown with his own artistic practice and sentiment, thus creating his own style in constant practice and injecting fresh blood into the traditional Chinese ink painting in China.
Yang Mingyi is rooted in tradition, but it is not bound by ancient laws, nor does it copy the style of the ancients. With his realistic and vivid aesthetic feelings, he kept going deep into small towns in the south of the Yangtze River to sketch, collect materials, try to explore new methods and experiment repeatedly, but failed to do so. Gradually, he took the black and white murals in the south of the Yangtze River as the architectural theme, creating a new formal language and a new picture structure. Yang Mingyi's ink painting is natural and fresh, magnificent, poetic and unique, which opens a new chapter in modern water town ink painting. In the early 1980s, this series of water town works came out. Wu Guanzhong took the initiative to praise him as an "innovative China painter", and Huang Yongyu compared him to "one of the few people who met Jin Lu in the forest of art".
Chen Chuanxi, a famous art critic, once wrote when commenting on Yang Mingyi's works: Yang Mingyi's paintings have influenced a group of people, and he created a new style with great influence, so Yang Mingyi's position in the history of painting is indelible.
The only preface written by Lu Sheng, the vice chairman of the famous writer Chinese Writers Association, to the painter before his death was the preface of Notes on the Golden Rilou, entitled "A Hundred Teachers Become a Family", which was fully praised; It's not easy to draw yourself, your own style, and Yang Mingyi of Wumen!
In the book "Journey of Ink and Wash" published in 2005, which recorded the artistic course of artist Yang Mingyi, 70 famous painters, art critics, writers and poets at home and abroad, including Wu Guanzhong, Wang, He Huaishuo, Cheng Shifa, Lu, Chen Yifei and Chen Danqing, all wrote articles praising the art, and each article was full of emotion and passion. Imagine that so many famous artists have affirmed and praised the originality and uniqueness of Yang Mingyi's works, which is undoubtedly a good reference and beneficial guidance for our collectors.
Second, the irreplaceability of Yang Mingyi's art.
After 1990s, the painting market is booming, and there are more and more works about water towns. Painting Jiangnan in the market seems to be a very fashionable thing. However, it can be said that Yang Mingyi took the lead in exploring and choosing this road to create works expressing water towns, and his artistic road was the earliest. His watermark woodcut of water town was created in 1960s, and won many awards at that time. In 1982, his ink paintings and prints have been selected for the first exhibition of French spring Sharon in China ... At that time, Liu Haisu, Wu Zuoren, Wu Guanzhong, Huang Yongyu and other leading figures in today's painting world were selected for this exhibition.
Yang Mingyi's contribution to art lies in that the theme of his life's creation has never left the water town. He turned his hometown into a language and then into a style, which will last for life. This is irreplaceable by anyone. When writing for Yang Mingyi's works, Cheng Dali wrote: When talking about Yang Mingyi, people will think of his ink paintings, the water town images that have become symbols.
In many exhibitions, works with fresh, unique, exquisite, clear, concise and modern ink and wash style are easily recognized by the audience from a distance. Painting comes from the heart, and these unique Yang works can't be replaced and imitated by anyone. Although Yang Mingyi's works have a very good market now, many people try their best to imitate his style for the sake of interests, but his changeable lines, unique ink charm, majestic momentum and open-minded spirit can't be imitated. His calligraphy is also full of exquisite spirit, which complements his paintings. It is also an original Yang style, and no one can imitate it. So this is a big advantage of Yang Mingyi's high competitiveness in the art market.
Thirdly, the academic value of Yang Mingyi water town art works.
Regarding the innovation of China's ink painting, there is a school worthy of our attention, that is, Lin Fengmian's ink painting, a modern art form based on China folk art and European modern painting. Through the exploration and innovation of Lin Fengmian, Huang Yongyu, Wu Guanzhong, Yang Mingyi and others, modernist ink painting has been greatly developed. But obviously different from several predecessors, "Yang Mingyi creatively applied the deboning method and water method to his works. It appropriately shows the blurred smoke and dense water vapor in the south of the Yangtze River. " This kind of painting was very bold and unusual at that time, which caused great controversy in the art world, because there was no such painting before, but there was a saying that it occupied the market half a step ahead. No, it led a large number of painters to use this technique to paint the south of the Yangtze River to express the water town, which was inspired and influenced by Yang Mingyi.
Yang Mingyi is an academic painter. His paintings are complacent, unadorned, simple and natural. With ink as its true color, supplemented by light color, ink is divided into five colors, blending scenes. Have great flexibility, imagination and creativity. It has high academic value in academic circles. He not only paints landscapes, but also people and flowers. From his nearly ten thousand sketches and sketches in the United States and around the world, we can see that a good artist must have profound modeling ability and sensitivity to new things. From his works, we can see his great potential for future artistic development.
As Chen Danqing said, "If a painter really wants to stay in history, there are two conditions: first, he must immerse himself in this language for a long time and truly become his own language, not just tools and skills. Second, we should have a certain humanistic background and depth. I believe that in different times, Yang Mingyi's ink water town will have different effects.
As early as the early 1970s, he sketched in various water towns and discovered Zhouzhuang, a remote ancient town, so he introduced it to his peers and led Hua, Wu Guanzhong and Chen Yifei to sketch here. Chen Yifei's "Memories of Hometown" depicts the double bridges in Zhouzhuang, and makes the world know about Zhouzhuang, a beautiful water town in China, which is famous far and near. Yang Mingyi is also known as "the first person discovered in Zhouzhuang". In 2000, the exhibition "Yang Mingyi Painting Zhouzhuang" was held in Hong Kong, with an inscription by Wu Guanzhong, which concentrated on expressing his feelings for the water town. The exhibition was a great success. After studying in the United States from 65438 to 0987, Yang Mingyi still held nearly 30 solo exhibitions around the world. In these exhibitions, he persistently expressed the beauty of his hometown and devoted himself to promoting the culture of water towns to the people of the world. All these show the humanistic depth of an excellent painter.
Fourth, the historical and forward-looking art market in Yang Mingyi.
Throughout the world of painting, all outstanding artists will occupy a place in the art market, such as Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi, Lin Fengmian,
Wu Guanzhong and others have achieved good results in auctions many times. Therefore, Yang Mingyi's works have entered the world-class auctions of Sotheby's and Christie's in new york, London and Hongkong as early as 1980s, and achieved good auction results.
As early as the end of 1970s and the beginning of 1980s, Yang Mingyi's ink and wash water town was well-known in the painting world, and his works were introduced by various art magazines at that time. Yang Mingyi created a kind of water town works with both oriental aesthetic connotation and western aesthetic interest in ink and wash style, which not only maintained the figurative framework, but also contained strong abstract meaning, with both aesthetic color and vivid pen and ink charm; It has both traditional spirit and modern aesthetic taste. Therefore, his works have a group of fans and followers, whether in the East or in the West, whether in the face of modern orientals or post-modern westerners.
1989, his ink painting West Lake in Hangzhou was selected as a special stamp sheetlet and distributed at the 20th World Postal Congress in Washington, USA. The moonlit ancient bridge was collected by former US President George W. Bush. In 2002, his work "Spring is always there" was presented to Prince Sihanouk and his wife as a national gift during Premier Zhu Rongji's visit to Cambodia. On April 15, 2006, at the opening ceremony of "Paris-China Art Week" held at the Rambouillet Museum in Paris, France, Yang Mingyi's works of water villages were presented as gifts to the mayor of Rambouillet, Paris on behalf of China painters.
After returning to China from 1999, he gradually completed a number of fine works representing water towns with his latest feelings and solid realistic skills. Through the successful cooperation of auction companies, galleries and major media, he penetrated into all levels of the market with different tentacles and completed the organic combination with the vast number of collectors.
In September, 2005, Rongbao Auction Company, Rong Baozhai Painting Academy and Rong Baozhai magazine launched this academic painter with both strength and huge market potential, and successfully held "Jiangnan Poetry and Painting-Yang Mingyi Exhibition" and "Yang Mingyi Painting Art Seminar". At the meeting, many experts, scholars and peers spoke highly of Yang Mingyi's artistic creation of Jiangnan ink painting. He spoke highly of his artistic achievements. The exhibition lasts for four days, and all works in this exhibition are priced at the same price. Both are 1.2 million yuan per square foot. Visitors came to visit the exhibition in an endless stream. They stopped in front of the painting for a long time, pondered carefully and evaluated each other. On the day of the exhibition, most of the works are scheduled to be sold out and others are ordered one after another. All the works were sold out on the day of the exhibition.
Since 1989, Yang Mingyi's works have been auctioned at Sotheby's and Christie's in new york, which has a certain influence on the international art market. During 65438-0999 China's rising art auction, Yang Mingyi's works often participated in the spring and autumn auctions in Guardian, Hanhai, Rongbao, Zhongmao Shengjia, Huachen and Christie's, and achieved excellent results. The auction price has steadily increased from 1989 to 2006. From several thousand yuan per square foot to fifteen thousand yuan. There is no situation where the increase is particularly exaggerated.
Since 2003, his price has been soaring, and people come to buy and order paintings in an endless stream. For a time, "Luoyang's paper is expensive, which has formed a unique group of Yang Mingyi's works and a collection craze in his hometown of Suzhou and even the whole country. Since 2005, Yang Mingyi's works have been represented by Rongbao Auction Company, which is a century-old high-end platform. And always operate in front of market rules with an open and transparent price tag, and hold a just, fair and open attitude towards every collector. Because the painter has spent more than ten years studying and living abroad, and the painter himself is very serious about each of his works, so his entertainment paintings are few. And insist on not going to all parts of the country for petty gain, and resolutely fight against traditional bad habits. Therefore, all these are beneficial to the implementation of the whole art market strategy in Yang Mingyi. And make collectors always maintain great confidence in the collection of Yang Mingyi's works and the artist's artistic development.
Fifth, the painter Yang Mingyi's persistence and potential in art.
Yang Mingyi's friends, family members, or people who have come into contact with him, the first and most profound evaluation of him is the word "hard work". No matter in his youth or in the heyday of his artistic fame, he maintained a sincere heart for art, modest and prudent, and never satisfied. Whenever and wherever, he is always accompanied by his sketch book and camera. Painting has become the most important part of his life wherever he goes. He often said that painting is my greatest interest in my life, and I only do one thing in my life. I must do it well. As Mr. Yuan Yunfu, a close friend of Tsinghua University, said: "Yi Ming has no selfishness in art, but works for art's sake. That's how his life came about. In art, he is not afraid of suffering any more. No matter how it changes, the ultimate goal of his art will never change. "
No matter in life, work or travel, he will seize all his free time to sketch and take pictures. Always like a tireless warrior, always in a state of nervous preparation. This is the portrayal of a real artist. This makes a real artist have a valuable contribution to art and career.
Now he is relying on this stupidity and hard work to treat art, putting everything down, rushing around to collect materials in every corner of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and tirelessly completing his long-planned "Hundred Bridges in the South of the Yangtze River", and his creative ideas are one after another. Some people say that his art has now reached its peak. Huang Yongyu recently read his new creation and said sincerely, "Yi Ming, you really painted Jiangnan thoroughly and well." Faced with the teacher's encouragement, he was not satisfied, nor did he stop there because he created a program. He still wants to constantly surpass himself and constantly challenge himself. Every year, he has an annual artistic creation plan and progress. Every year, there will be annual fine works of art.
After more than 40 years of artistic training, as Mr. Lu wrote, "His diligence, sincerity, training, and near-pious seeking advice from teachers and friends, learning from others' strengths, listening to harsh advice and realizing the true meaning of art ...". The painter Yang Mingyi is at the peak of his life. He has the training of life, abundant energy, endless artistic pursuit and superb painting, and has a new understanding of life every day. He also plans to travel around the world to collect wind and sketches. Therefore, Yang Mingyi will certainly give us a batch after batch of fine products and surprises.
Yang Mingyi's artistic path can be roughly summarized as "broadening knowledge-studying-discovering-creating characteristics-sublimating the realm". When it comes to water towns, people will think of Yang Mingyi. The water town has made life in Yang Mingyi, and so has Yang Mingyi. His distinctive "Young's" style and the context of his artistic journey are also very clear, and there are rules to follow. It is easy for collectors to have a clear understanding of Yang Mingyi's artistic road, which is well documented and justified. I believe that Yang Mingyi's works will become an important hot spot for the vast number of calligraphy and painting collectors in China.