Observing the Growth of Life – Art by Shuyu Yin
Curator: Tiehan Wu
Opening Reception: Saturday January 13th, 3-5pm
Curator Talk (in Mandarin): January 13th, 2-3pm
Exhibition: January 8 – February 29, 2024
Presented by Lipont Gallery and curated by scholar Wu Tiehan, the Observing the Growth of Life – Art by Shuyu Yin Exhibition will open on January 13, 2024. This exhibition will display over ten exquisite flower and bird ink-on-rice paper prints by Yin. The famous art critic Mr. Yongnian Xue commented: Shuyu Yin’s freehand flower and bird paintings are very good at expressing inner beauty. This kind of inner beauty is nothing more than two things: one is the touching poetic feeling of dialogue with nature, and the other is the tranquil and peaceful feelings rich in cultural accomplishment. His inheritance and development of the freehand tradition lies not only in the form of the brush and ink structure, but especially in the freehand concept and cultural spirit.
Yin was born in Hebei, China. He studied at the China Academy of Art by the West Lake, and later studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts under Mr. Lichen Zhang, a famous contemporary flower and bird ink painter. Yin later received his master’s and doctorate degrees. After graduation, he worked at the China Academy of Art and became deeply involved in creation. He is good at freehand flowers and birds and has meticulous theoretical thinking. He is a distinctive young artist.
In addition, Yin has a unique understanding of pen and ink sketching. This exhibition is named Observing the Growth of Life based on this. Sketching in modern art education refers to sketching of objects. Sketching in ancient flower and bird history refers to “moving animals” to express the characteristics and life status of flowers and birds. Yin’s sketches have two outstanding characteristics. First, they are free and casual, without any trace of deliberate workmanship. The second is to imitate while sketching, combining imitation, and sketching into one.
In freehand flower-and-bird ink painting, it is not only inseparable from the generalization and refinement of objects, but also must be achieved through the operation of brush and ink. Sticking to the ancient schemas of refining objects will obscure individuality and fresh feelings. If you blindly use your brush and ink based on your personality without paying attention to the details of the depiction, it will also weaken the expressive power of art. Yin is not only good at expressing the most significant features of objects with concise, free and controlled brush and ink, but also notices that the various contrasting and unified relationships of brush and ink forms conform to the laws of formal beauty, just like calligraphy. Through the combination and separation of the brush that dominates the ink and the images extracted from the objects, he maximizes the “image-external meaning” and “brush-external interest” of brush and ink-like objects to write the heart.
As a representative young flower-and-bird ink painter born in the 1970s, Yin’s growth and creation in the art process are exemplary. The images of his hometown are becoming more concise and concise through the communication of brush and ink. In the traditional Based on the foundation, it shows the interest of the times. The moving part and contemporary value of Yin freehand flowers and birds lies in its creative inheritance of the essence of freehand brushwork.
Among the prints on display, four of them of flowers and birds are accompanied by poems and calligraphy by Xuefeng Yi, which complement each other interestingly.
The exhibition will open on Saturday, January 13th at 3:00 pm to the public. At 2:00 pm on the same day, curator Tiehan Wu will give a talk in Mandarin to explain the meaning of Yin’s works in detail.
Shuyu Yin
Shuyu Yin, a native of Bazhou, Hebei, China was born in Xianghe, Hebei in 1974. He is currently a Tier One Artist, doctoral advisor, and director of the Art and Calligraphy Department of the Graduate School of the Chinese Painting Institute, China Academy of Arts. He is the host of the Art Observation column and a member of the Chinese Artists Association. He graduated from Hebei Light Industry School majoring in ceramic art in 1994. In 2000, he graduated from the Flower and Bird Painting Major of the Chinese Painting Department in China Academy of Art with a bachelor’s degree. In 2005, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree. In 2011, he graduated from the Institute of Formative Arts of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a doctorate.
Tiehan Wu
Curator Tiehan Wu, born in 1976, is the director and curator of Beijing Shuyu Painting Gallery. He graduated from the Environmental Art Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University in 2004, the Philosophy Department of Peking University in 2017, and the TWU University in Canada in 2023. He is currently studying for a PhD in philosophy at GETS Theological Seminary in Los Angeles. The art exhibitions he curated include Youth Companion in 2013, The Life of Observation in 2014, Academic Qingzhou in 2015, A Rain Makes Autumn in 2017, and Fun among Flowers in 2019.
【观物之生 – 阴澍雨绘画展】
策展人：吴铁汉
开幕：2024年1月13日星期六3-5pm
策展人讲座（汉语）：2024年1月13日星期六2-3pm
展览：2024年1月8日至2月29日
由温哥华力邦美术馆主办、学者吴铁汉策展的【观物之生——阴澍雨作品展】将于2024年1月13日，在温哥华温哥华力邦美术馆开幕。此次展览将展出阴澍雨十余幅精品花鸟画限量版作品。著名美术评论家薛永年先生评价道：阴澍雨的写意花鸟画，很善于表现内美。这种内美不外两点，一是与自然对话的动人诗情，二是富于文化修养的恬淡平和情怀。可见，他对写意传统的继承发扬，不仅在于笔墨结构的形态，尤其在于写意观念与文化精神。
阴澍雨生于河北，曾游学西子湖畔中国美院，后在中央美院师从当代花鸟画名家张立辰先生，获得硕士及博士学位，毕业后于中国艺术研究院工作并深入创作。他擅长写意花鸟，理论思考细微，是一位极有特点的年轻画家。
另外，阴澍雨对笔墨写生有着独特理解，此次展览取名“观物之生”正基于此。近代美术教育中的写生，指对物写生。古代花鸟史论中的写生，指“移生动质”，表现花鸟的特质与生命状态。阴澍雨写生的作品有两个特点较为突出，一是自由随意，毫无刻意求工的痕迹。二是在写生中临仿，把临仿与写生结合为一。
在写意花鸟画中，既离不开对象的概括与提炼，又必须通过笔墨的运行来实现。拘泥于古人提炼对象的图式，会遮蔽个性与新鲜感受。一味依着个性发挥笔墨，不顾描绘表现的真放在精微，也会减弱艺术的表现力。阴澍雨不但善于以精简自由而有控制的笔墨表现对象最显著的特点，而且注意到有如书法一样笔墨形态的各种对比统一关系符合形式美的规律。他通过主导笔墨的笔与从物象提炼出的意象的合与离，最大地发挥笔墨状物写心的“象外意”与“笔外趣”。
作为七零一代具有代表性的青年花鸟画家，阴澍雨在艺术之途中的成长与创作都堪称范例，而他笔下的故园物象，也于笔墨的传达间愈趋松灵简括，在传统根基之上呈现出时代趣味。阴澍雨写意花鸟的动人之处与当代价值，正在于其创造性地承继了写意性笔墨精义。
本次展出的十余幅作品中的四幅花鸟限量版作品中，配有衣雪峰书法的题诗，相映成趣。
阴澍雨
阴澍雨，河北霸州人，1974 年生于河北香河。现为中国艺术研究院国画院一级美术师、博士生导师、研究生院美术与书法系主任，《美术观察》栏目主持，中国美术家协会会员。1994年毕业于河北轻工业学校陶瓷美术专业。2000 年毕业于中国美术学院中国画系花鸟专业，获学士学位。 2005 年毕业于中央美术学院中国画系，获硕士学位。2011 年毕业于中央美术学院造型艺术研究所，获博士学位。
策展人
策展人吴铁汉,1976年出生,北京澍雨画馆馆长,策展人。2004年毕业于清华大学美术学院环艺系,2017年毕业于北京大学哲学系,2023毕业于加拿大TWU大学,美国洛杉矶GETS神学院哲学博士在读。策划的艺术展览有2013年《青春作伴》2014年《观物之生》,2015年《学术青州》,2017年《一雨成秋》2019年《花间逸趣》。
