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Shuangxi
Wang Wensheng's works based on the
scenery and characters of the seaside break the dividing line between
traditional figure painting and landscape painting, and express people in the
natural scenery space with a strong sense of composition. The open space with
profound attention, the horizon has become an important factor in the picture
ofthe balance, the layout design in the pure pursuit of subtlety. The outline
of the image is not clear, but in the gradual transition of color into the
landscape.
The characters in the picture do not
have a clear identity, the movement is natural, relaxed and leisurelyin the sun, with a strong sense of the times. The
tone of color adopts a relatively soft bright gray tone. The excellent color
block strokes are quite prudent, showing the simple and implicit arrangement,
and showing a gentle mind in the rigorous inner abstract structure.
Wang Wensheng's work is the traditional
landscape painting Chinese edifying function, although he portrays life in a
modern city atmosphere, but still has traditional Chinese painting in the
natural scenery of the quiet and leisurely. Wang Wensheng is not a painter who
good at displaying great social themes and literary plots. He is a lyrical
painter who focuses on oil painting language charm and respects his own
painting feelings.
In his works, we can see Barr Thys,
later impressionist, Picasso and other artistic masters’ research, and see his
respect for the history of oil painting, the perception and the sensitivity to
the change of oil painting language. This makes his works with more oil
painting context atmosphere, in the overall atmospheric summary, maintain the
level of local delicate taste and imagination space.
The era of image based on replicating
images is an era of erosive and challenging traditional vision. In such an era,
the achievement and duty of painting is to resist the image and art stylization
of the world. I hope that artists will face the world again in a modest manner,
and get close to things in plain work. Only in this simple creative work, we
are expected to cut into the secular image of the flamboyant and enter the real
realm of cultural diversity of visual experience.
Wang Wensheng's paintings let us return
to the visual experience and return to the intuitive experience. This is not
only a return to the homeland in physical space and time, but also a return
journey of the humanistic spirit. It shows the creative will and the strange
vision in the conjunction of the eye and the hand, the heart and the object.