He Wenqing's Classical Passion

Qiu Caizhen

Wenqing's paintings mainly portray different people. From time to time, he also draws landscape and still life. Generally speaking, his talents are more easily expressed in figure portraits. The strict professional training and his honest character, guide his pursuit for refinement. He also searches serenity and harmony in the landscape paintings. His personality and his work are both without ostentation. By studying the classical techniques of Western masters, he has input his works with the charm of delicacy, elegance and gentleness. A sort of brilliance is shining around his works, taking the viewers breath away.

He is pursuing a kind of classical spirit. He works hard on the painting as a industrious farmer on his farmland. The exquisite brushwork makes people ignore that it is merely a painting. The background is simple and the character looks quiet. Wenqing
seems like painting small pictures and prefers a cross composition, which matches with the stability he inclines to.
Figure painting can adopt a wide variety of media. Many painters are using photos now.

But Wenqing insists on painting, portraying the fascination of the breath of life conducted by light and shadow. Abstract and symbolic rhetoric are popular, especially valued by young painters,who are anxious to create individual vocabulary. Thus some people get distinctive characteristics while others only wear such a mask.

Whether a painter can achieve success depends most on whether his pursuit accords with his style.
Wenqing seems not so anxious to possess his own style but is willing to build it gradually. Such manner is not fashionable but quite painstaking. while he is quite happy to do so.

Wenqing's pursuit to art is just a spirit exceeding material symbols and a process from knowing to believing. On such a road he walks like a pilgrim, leaving solid traces behind.

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