Our predecessor Wang Wenfang was a man who regarded art as his life. Every time I look at his paintings, I think of The Journey to the West in Fan Kuan in the Northern Song Dynasty, and I can't help but feel awe from my heart and a lofty feeling of stopping at the top of the mountain. Since the new period, the outstanding achievements of Chinese painting, including the renewal of language style, are not limited to artistic language and style skills, but are highlighted in the broadening and deepening of spiritual connotation, that is, to find back the great beauty and sublimity of several generations of landscape paintings invited by Yuan and Ming Dynasties. In his later years, Li Keran began this kind of effort. Wang Wenfang expanded his vision to the Silk Road of cultural exchange between China and the West and the mysterious snowy area, praising the sacredness of Jiangshan and the sublimity of ancient pioneers, and further expanded the field of spiritual expression of landscape painting. These commemorative landscape paintings have swept away the softness of the coquettish moon and fully demonstrated the magnificence of the magnificent mountains and rivers with a broad mind, which can be said to be the development of Li Keran's "courage is the most important, soul is the desire" in the new period. However, this kind of courage is not possessed by the ancients and foreigners, and this kind of soul is to recreate the brilliant male soul of our country.
Liu Longting Editor-in-Chief China Fine Arts Publishing House
The painter injects his own spiritual character and cultural connotation on the basis of realistic scenery, which makes his works not only surpass the conventional paradigm of traditional literati painting, but also surpass the creative routines of some landscape painters in modern times aimed at eulogizing the beautiful scenery of the motherland. What Wang Wenfang endowed in his works was a modern consciousness, and what he pursued was a grand pattern that was both ancient and modern. This should be regarded as Wang Wenfang's creation and achievement in the field of landscape painting. Wang Wenfang has also made many unprecedented attempts in exploring the theme and color application of landscape painting, especially the painting method of alternating dry and wet, and the creative painting method of splashing color on a large area first, and then scraping while wetting, all of which make his landscape painting have distinct personality and unique style. In today's landscape painting circles in China, Wang Wenfang occupies its due position with his achievements and talents.
Song Li, former deputy editor of Fine Arts.
After watching the teacher-student exhibition in Wang Wenfang, I said, "From this collective creative activity, I feel that a same-sex artistic style is taking shape." Unexpectedly, Wang Wenfang said, "Too bad!" He is afraid that "style" will become a stylized creative mode. Wang Wenfang pays more attention to and emphasizes the painter's strong feelings inspired by the natural landscape and humanistic connotation of the object in the process of going deep into life. This is the spiritual connotation that Wang Wenfang specially experienced and grasped in his works, a sublime beauty beyond concrete images.
Li Baotang is a famous painter and critic in Gansu.
Wang Wenfang is one of the painters who advocate change in contemporary China painting circle, and also the main pioneer representative of "Northwest Wind" in landscape painting. He realized the mission of artistic creation in the new period from the overall observation of the historical origin of Chinese painting and the trend of western art. I hate Chinese painting, especially literati painting, which has been closed for a long time. Chen and Chen are soft and weak, and fall in love with the beauty of the northwest. He regards the mountains and rivers in the northwest as the soul, as the possession of temperament, as the entrustment of emotion, as the desire of art, and as his personal experience. This paper attempts to attack the femininity of literati painting with the masculine beauty and vigorous style of western painting, and seek new changes in the creation and exploration of western painting.
Wang Wenfang's creation is successful. He not only moved the beauty of the west, which was rarely shown by his predecessors, to the art palace earlier, but also refreshed the ever-changing landscape paintings, and influenced many young and middle-aged painters, and even formed a group of "Northwest Wind" painters. Moreover, his works have already surpassed the traditional landscape painting and landscaping, emphasizing "the nature of the teacher" and "the source of the heart". His works are full of strong subjective aesthetic consciousness and expressive factors that traditional landscape painting does not have. He pursues what belongs to the artistic soul with modern aesthetic psychology and passionate feelings. With the pursuit of this soul, the picture will come alive, with spirituality, spirituality and mystery, which is called metaphysics.
Xia Shuoqi, former deputy editor of Fine Arts
Wang Wenfang's creation has stepped into this internalized state and entered the creative field based on fictional images. He used a specific combination of forms to construct the latent image in his chest, and used a specific pen and ink language to reveal a specific spiritual concept. In his landscape paintings, he shows the wonder of the universe, which contains piety to God and religion in a mixed and invisible painting environment. In a series of works, he shows vicissitudes of life, religious sense and profound subjective aesthetic experience. His successful works no longer stop at describing the natural appearance, but show the spiritual depth in the "harmony between man and nature". For this reason, he has made many explorations in artistic language and expression forms. He integrated the forms and components of western modern art into his works, which strengthened the visual effect and language power. "Open to the East" also shows the momentum of the Yellow River in the nine songs with diagonal composition, which is extremely open and closed in composition and sings the mighty song of "River of No Return". These paintings all show the national style and everyone's demeanor. Wang Wenfang's landscape painting pursues three beauties: the beauty of pen and ink, the beauty of form and the beauty of artistic conception. His creation expresses his feelings for the barren land, which is connected with the god of heaven and earth, generous in pen and ink, generous in spirit, aboveboard, magnificent in weather, rich and rough, and forms his outstanding aesthetic character. Wang Wenfang's landscape paintings embody modern aesthetic consciousness. With his own creative practice, he promoted the transformation of China landscape painting from traditional form to modern form.
Zhang, former president and associate professor of Central Academy of Arts and Crafts.
Wang Wenfang has traveled in the northwest and southwest of China for more than ten years, and he is looking forward to the desolate Gobi. His pictures show the wildness and brilliance of the ancient Silk Road, and every picture is pursuing a sense of form that is tacit with the theme. A Wild Soul adopts a symmetrical composition, with houses and temples in the center of the picture, which embodies a solemn religious concept. Layers of upward arcs push the line of sight to the sky, making the picture form an open and boundless sense of tension, forming the overall momentum of the picture. Close-up birds lead people's eyes to the left of the picture, which helps to break the sense of rigidity brought by composition. Open to the East, The Devil Sends the Sunset to Chengtou and other works also show the author's painstaking pursuit of a sense of form. How to use various forms of Chinese painting and give it new meaning is an important task for painters. How to deal with symmetrical composition depends on the painter's understanding, cultivation and treatment of formal beauty. His paintings always emphasize the sense of form, rhythm and rhythm, as well as the composition and strength of the whole picture, which also includes the decoration written by the painter. "
Sun Ke, art critic of Beijing Painting Academy.
For more than ten years, various arguments in the art world, such as the future of Chinese painting, the influence of commodity economy on art, or who bought a car and who bought a villa, never seem to interfere with him. He never stopped on the road he chose. Over the years, when many people toss and turn on the two issues of "what to draw and how to draw", from one extreme to the other, and when some rational people (because they are not confused) sing "form decision", "self-expression" and "deconstruction" to guide young people, Wang Wenfang is still drawing his own paintings and teaching students in his own way. Not long ago, Wang Wenfang teachers and students held a large-scale art exhibition, which was a collective exhibition. Painters from all over China have displayed their works with different styles and colorful colors in different personal living environments and artistic backgrounds. "