Illusionary Ink Painting - Research on Liu Youju's Illusionist Painting (Part 16) Author:Xin Min   Part 16 Essays on Reading Paintings (Four Articles)   (1) Innovation "is almost the most frequently used keyword in modern and contemporary art, and no one has doubted the revolutionary significance of innovation. The government is also calling for "independent innovation". But the attitude of the Chinese art community towards innovation is quite interesting.     On the one hand, we Chinese people are no longer accustomed to innovation and prefer to follow the trend. We are accustomed to letting foreigners innovate, while we follow the trend. Of course, we never claim to follow the trend, we call it "borrowing". We have the right to "learn from" because Chinese people are not qualified to innovate because we are still in a "pre modern" or "pre...

Illusionary Ink Painting - Research on Liu Youju's Illusionist Painting (Part 15) Author:Xin Min   Part 15 Color Representation of Illusionary Painting   Traditional Chinese painting stands tall among the world's painting arts with its unique freehand brushwork and ink colors. Compared to tradition, illusion painting has broken through the constraints of traditional ink color concepts in terms of color expression, presenting a colorful situation.         (1) Western painting was introduced to China during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Western missionaries hung "painted holy images" in small churches in coastal cities for worshippers, marking the beginning of the introduction of Western painting to China. By the Qing Dynasty, with the use of Western missionary painters by Chinese emperors, Western painting gained...

Illusionary Ink Painting - Research on Liu Youju's Illusionist Painting (Part 14) Author:Xin Min   Part 14 Illusionist Painting in the Era of Globalization     (1) In Chinese history, there has never been an era where China is so closely connected and integrated with the world as it is today. The transformation of China is a historical trend and an inseparable process from the international community. In the current context of globalization, how should Chinese painting face such complex, diverse, and even contradictory artistic phenomena, works, and practices? In this era, what will Chinese art look like to adapt to the international context?     Wang Chunchen proposed: firstly, can one agree that Chinese art is a fact that occurs in China; The second is to directly face the art in the scene (i.e. new and unfamiliar artistic creatio...

Illusionary Ink Painting - Research on Liu Youju's Illusionist Painting (Part 13) Author:Xin Min   Part 13 Illusionist Painting and Western Abstract Painting     Liu Youju's first exhibition of illusionist paintings (held at the Kennedy Museum of Art in the United States in November 2014) has caused a strong response in the Western art community, and he is therefore known by Western scholars as a master of Eastern abstract painting art.     Liu Youju's illusionist painting is not simply explained clearly using abstract painting concepts. Although his works possess certain visual features of abstract paintings, he also emphasizes that "form" is more important than "content", and is an artistic creation that uses color and form rather than using themes to express thoughts and emotions.     At the same time, Liu Youju's i...

  Illusionary Ink Painting: Research on Liu Youju's Illusionist Painting (Part 12) Author:Xin Min   Part 12 The Abstract Essence of Painting     Whether it is landscape painting since the Sui and Tang dynasties in China or landscape painting that only emerged in the 16th century in the West, their initial form is the background of narrative images. Since it is the background of the narrative image, its cultural intention is to specify the time and space in which the event unfolds, that is, to visualize the concept of "time and space". Extracting the image descriptions of time and space from narrative images and becoming independent themes is the landscape and landscape painting that is still popular among artists until contemporary times.     Since the second half of the 19th century, painting has successively been seized as a u...

Illusionary Ink Painting - Research on Liu Youju's Illusionist Painting (Part 11) Author:Xin Min   Part 11 Phantom Painting and the Development of Nationalization in Oil Painting     Since the 20th century, after the introduction of Western oil painting to China, Chinese oil painting landscapes have borrowed the imagery of traditional landscape painting in their creation, forming unique landscapes. Especially after the arduous exploration of old artists such as Lin Fengmian, Wu Guanzhong, and Su Tianci, oil painting landscapes have developed to a very high level and have a profound cultural heritage. The innovation of Chinese painting, especially the development of modern painting, has played an important role.         (1) Oil painting is a type of painting developed based on Western cultural heritage. Chinese people c...