Chinese Painting with Foreign Language - Interview with Yu Guohong, a famous Macao painter

Zhuhai (Reporter Su Xiaoqi Huang Yuqing), as the superstructure's culture and art, has always been deeply affected by the rise and fall of economic and social. Since the 1980s, with the reform and opening up in China and the economic development in Macao, local arts and culture have also enjoyed unprecedented prosperity. In particular, a group of well-trained and educated academics and artists have taken a broad view of the world and made full use of Macao's international cultural ties. Work hard to develop, and strive to create a cultural image of Macao, in a silent but effective way to refute the "Macao is a desert culture" argument. Macao's cultural community friends proposed the establishment of a long time ago the image of Macao literature. Coincidentally, Macau art circles also called for the establishment of the "Macau School of Painting." Yu Guohong is a Macau artist who insists on exploring the particularity of Macao and pursuing its localization. His pursuit of exploration, by all sectors of society agree. (Yu Guohong personal home page: http://yugh.china9986.com/) Hong Kong famous artist Yu Guohong and the site reporter Su Xiaoqi (Huang Yuqing photo) deeply affected by the influence of the father and painting and amateur Yu teacher was born in the Han Mohist family, his father is good at poetry calligraphy , Brothers are also good at poetry, calligraphy and painting. He is influenced by his father and his brother and has long been associated with painting. He is educated in formal higher oil painting in mainland China. I studied oil painting profession, but after graduation has always been paint and ink go hand in hand. In the mid-seventies and Tang Jixiang oil painting "Genghai" to lead the Chinese painting trendy teacher and Tang Jixiang "Genghai" In October 1, 1974 the opening of the China Art Museum "to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Art Exhibition "has aroused strong concern and controversy. The theme of "cultivating the sea" is to show the socialist construction in the reclamation of the sea. Although a very revolutionary theme has been chosen, it clearly shows the tendency of seeking lyricism and aesthetic appeal. At the time of the politicization of the world, the painting was almost objected to by some competent leaders at that time and was almost unsuccessful. Later, it was widely known for proclaiming the posters. Since then, the painting has been published in The People's Pictorial, People's China (English version) Guangdong Pictorial "and many other newspapers and magazines published at home and abroad to study the art history of New China and Cultural Revolution also many quotes. The work swept the country, became the star of the new trend of Chinese painting at that time, and was of special value in the history of fine arts in New China. When I first arrived in Macau, I picked up a piece of splint to create a painting for teacher Yu to Macao. Painting became a spiritual pursuit for survival. When you first arrive in Macau, when life is tight, pick up the three plywoods and draw them up. His first works in Macao were created in this way, and there are many excellent works, such as Chinese dramas drawn with expressive brushwork and later with a series of amorphous abstract paintings, all of which Many places in the Mainland have been exhibited and published. However, Yu did not meet the original achievements of teachers, he is determined to innovate, both in content and form have made a series of exploration. Careful study of a variety of art schools to absorb foreign culture Yu teacher painstaking efforts in this special art soil, careful study of traditional Chinese painting and Western art schools. Prior to the 1980s, he was mainly influenced by culture in the Mainland and laid solid foundation for traditional culture and settled in Macao as a supplement to absorb the culture in different places. The most ordinary Chinese-Portuguese contrasts lead to the creation of works with foreign Chinese painters Yu dedicated to exploring the regional art style blending the Chinese and Western cultures in Macao and "repeatedly weighing between tradition and anti-tradition." From the most ordinary Chinese and Portuguese around, triggering the creation of Chinese painting with foreign languages. He wrote the foreign language on the screen of the Xuan paper as his initial attempt. At the same time, he applied the theory of painting to his practice of painting and calligraphy, drawing lessons from the calligraphy of Japanese modern calligraphy and changing the development and development of the traditional calligraphic art Into a new musical style with a sense of rhythm. Ink Painting Has Both Tradition and Innovation Critics at home and abroad think that the series of ink paintings by Yu is a combination of tradition and innovation. The synthesis and variation of water and ink, pen and form, Chinese and foreign languages ​​constitute thinking and a The pursuit of vision is also a kind of visual migration. It is a variation of the art form and the transformation of the traditional art style into the modern art concept, embodying the humanistic ecological phenomenon in Macao. That is an art phenomenon peculiar to the history of Macao for centuries. It is a harmony of beauty, an expression of beauty, and a beautiful appearance. Please enjoy the famous Macao painter Yu Guohong 50's to 90's works: