拍品 116THE SANYA COLLECTION
YE YONGQING (B. 1958)
Untitled (Bird)
已结束2016年5月13日
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USD 5,000
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In 2007, the art historian and curator Lu Peng invited a group of Chinese contemporary artists including Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhou Chunya, Ye Yongqing, Yue Minjun, Wang Guangyi, Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, and Zhang Peili to gather at a resort of Sanya for a ‘brush event’. The artists were asked to explore traditional medium of ink and color using brush on rice paper in reinterpreting the most recognizable themes and imageries within their oeuvre. Like the Orchid Pavilion gathering organized by Wang Xizhi in the Six Dynasties, the Sanya gathering after 1600 years brought contemporary artists together for mutual inspiration and artist creation, reviving the great literati traditional in the Chinese history.
Ye Yongqing entered the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute shortly after the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution, a nation-wide campaign that engulfed China’s youth and funneled all artistic activities towards serving the state. As formerly forbidden western art and ideas gradually trickled into China, artists such as Ye were influenced by the styles of famous western painters such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Yet, he draws inspiration from the bio- and ethnic multiplicity and richness in southwest China, where he lives and works today.
In Untitled, two birds perch at the top of a rock, which appears as an element of traditional Chinese scenery. This is one of the most representative subject matters from traditional Chinese ink paintings, symbolizing aspiration, determination, and wisdom. This work meticulously links to the theme of Sanya gathering as a revitalization of literati tradition, yet his techniques of thick brushstrokes differs from the Chinese tradition and visually modernized. In a conversation with curator and critic Li Xianting in 2001, Li commented that Ye’s body of work is ‘trying to bring together the ancient and modern, like the literary aspects of Chinese scholarly painting, the feel of oil painting strokes, the printed feel of woodblocks and the serendipity of scribbling together on one path.’
Ye Yongqing entered the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute shortly after the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution, a nation-wide campaign that engulfed China’s youth and funneled all artistic activities towards serving the state. As formerly forbidden western art and ideas gradually trickled into China, artists such as Ye were influenced by the styles of famous western painters such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Yet, he draws inspiration from the bio- and ethnic multiplicity and richness in southwest China, where he lives and works today.
In Untitled, two birds perch at the top of a rock, which appears as an element of traditional Chinese scenery. This is one of the most representative subject matters from traditional Chinese ink paintings, symbolizing aspiration, determination, and wisdom. This work meticulously links to the theme of Sanya gathering as a revitalization of literati tradition, yet his techniques of thick brushstrokes differs from the Chinese tradition and visually modernized. In a conversation with curator and critic Li Xianting in 2001, Li commented that Ye’s body of work is ‘trying to bring together the ancient and modern, like the literary aspects of Chinese scholarly painting, the feel of oil painting strokes, the printed feel of woodblocks and the serendipity of scribbling together on one path.’