Young's Art Criticism

Text/Wang Xiaokuan (editor of Guangming Hall of Fame). Com) Young is a contemporary strength painter in China. In recent years, his work style has undergone new changes, mainly in the following aspects:

First, there has been a combination of Chinese and western characteristics. He creatively combined the traditional perspective of Chinese painting with the western focus perspective, and explored a creative path suitable for himself. Draw many beautiful, vivid and touching works. Take Hundred Donkeys Map, Donkeys Map, Eighteen Horses Map and Six Shun Maps as examples, the painting techniques are skillful, the modeling is rigorous and changeable, the composition is unique, and the pictures are smart and natural.

Second, calligraphy is integrated into painting with pens. "Writing" is the most representative of the spirit of Chinese painting, and it is a unique cultural aesthetic and concept of China. His long-term rest and recuperation in flowers, birds, animals and calligraphy, once released in this fusion of Chinese and western, has produced a free and rich vitality of pen and ink, which has become the characteristics of his works.

Third, the flowers and birds in the works are simple. This is in line with his character. Pay attention to in-depth life and sketch in Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Beijing suburbs many times. Most of his sketches are based on scenes, so they have a simple and touching charm.

Fourthly, he is good at absorbing artistic nutrients from many aspects in his creation, which can be seen from his works in recent years. For example, his reference to the perspective and plane composition of western art, his thinking about the interest of western painting modeling, and his understanding of the spirit of pen and ink of Ma Nanpo, Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Li Keran, Huang Zhou, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo and Huang were all transformed into his works through his own understanding. Whether it is flowers and birds, animals, landscapes, realistic creative attitudes and methods, explore the integration of traditional pen and ink and freehand brushwork modeling; It not only pays attention to the independent value orientation of pen and ink itself, but also emphasizes not to be divorced from the description of objective objects. In creation, by injecting realistic techniques, we make up for the weakness of traditional painting and calligraphy and the tendency of conceptualization and stylization, and integrate the new creative method of precise modeling into our own creative ideas without losing the charm of pen and ink. In view of this concept, Yang Ge does not choose people's eyes by abstraction and deformation, but honestly expresses his value judgment and aesthetic concept by his own induction of the spirit of the times and real experience of life.

Young is on his own creative road, and the personality characteristics revealed in his works are simplicity, sincerity and integrity. The realistic technique of further study in the Academy of Fine Arts has realized the truth of "shape", and the freehand brushwork of calligraphy embodies the depth of "emotion". Realism and freehand brushwork complement each other, which constitutes the spiritual quality of Yang Ge's paintings and calligraphy works. Young is an explorer and practitioner, and a painter who follows his own ideas and understanding. He focused on the depth of life and explored the development law of art with a peaceful heart.