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Lot Essay
In the 1980s, Chinese contemporary experienced an intense period of change. "Stars Exhibition", "85 New Wave", and "Modern Art Exhibition" of the Art Museum of China in 1989, recorded the invaluable contribution and achievement of the Chinese artists to the exploration of Chinese art form. 1989, while the avantgrade art became more and more popular in China, Hong Ling was admitted to the seminar of the Central Academy of Fine Art, and created plenty of modern oil paintings, including a series of women portraits that with exaggerated image and wild stroke, and mysterious landscape paintings in a gray tone. In 1998, Hong organized "1st Chinese Human Art Exhibition", in the same year, he created Seated Nude (Lot 1134), whose style belonged to expressionism in early years. The painting depicted the naked figure with rough black lines, using strong colors to interweave a visual shock, whereas the thick painted muscle texture presented the background and subject. Another painting named Artist Studio (Lot 1135) also contained extraordinary expressive power, though the palette was not bold and eye-catching as the former painting, the use of lines was more direct and powerful, the strokes of the background were pragmatic but unyielding, forming a weight contrast with the lines of the human body, showing the overall flow and rhythm. In these two works, Hong used human body as the subject, but he was not focusing on the objective image, instead, he emphasized the persuasive of painting language itself, by freehand brushstrokes and use of colors, making the image hanging between figurative and abstract.
In 1990s, Hong's art creation came to a refreshing stage, he set up his studio in Huangshan, leaving the hustle and bustle in the city and intoxicating in the landscape which belonged to the ancient Chinese literati artists, and determined to present the Chinese traditional sentiment and spiritual regression towards the landscape using the oil painting techniques. After years of practice and improvement, Hong showed the ink artistically on the canvas, expressing a remarkable style of the great mountains and water. Hazy Morning Frost (Lot 1136), a masterpiece banner which was created in 2000, showed Hong's outstanding success in landscape painting and transition to a mature stage to express the landscape nature. The composition of this painting heritage the scroll form of the tradition Chinese landscape painting, the horizontally extended screen and multi-point perspective on the spatial arrangement created the order of reading, letting the audience experiencing a visual tour under the guidance of the artist.
In order to present the fairy-like beauty among the mountains in the early morning, Hong deliberately reduced the description using clear lines, painted with delicate and transparent brush strokes to draw large areas of rocks and trees among frost and mist, and sprinkled color dots to achieve the role of "break", leveling and spacing, the mutual penetration of paints cleverly demonstrated the abstract momentum and realm of ink splash. Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter (Lot 1137) applied the long piece form of tradition landscape painting, apart from the traditional technique "blank", this work formed a strict structure with thick paint texture and the crossing of lines, the vast momentum of the mountains endlessly surged towards the audiences. The artist goes beyond an objective description of nature, making use of colors to express his own subject feeling about landscapes in four seasons. He merged the images of mountains, rivers, trees and rocks, eliminating the effect of light towards the figure, turning the memory of that single moment into an eternal impression, revealing the good nature of the landscape.
Hong said, "Western and Eastern have their own different ways to express subjective feeling by making use of objective scenery. In general, meditation is common in the East, blending the human emotions with the natural landscape, presenting the unity of human and the nature. In the West, people spread the spiritual seeds in nature, they spiritually sieged the nature, showing the domination of human. Comparing these two cultural, I am more willing to accept the Eastern way, to implant a seed of nature into my heart, and to experience a harmony of sharing among every life in the world."
In 1990s, Hong's art creation came to a refreshing stage, he set up his studio in Huangshan, leaving the hustle and bustle in the city and intoxicating in the landscape which belonged to the ancient Chinese literati artists, and determined to present the Chinese traditional sentiment and spiritual regression towards the landscape using the oil painting techniques. After years of practice and improvement, Hong showed the ink artistically on the canvas, expressing a remarkable style of the great mountains and water. Hazy Morning Frost (Lot 1136), a masterpiece banner which was created in 2000, showed Hong's outstanding success in landscape painting and transition to a mature stage to express the landscape nature. The composition of this painting heritage the scroll form of the tradition Chinese landscape painting, the horizontally extended screen and multi-point perspective on the spatial arrangement created the order of reading, letting the audience experiencing a visual tour under the guidance of the artist.
In order to present the fairy-like beauty among the mountains in the early morning, Hong deliberately reduced the description using clear lines, painted with delicate and transparent brush strokes to draw large areas of rocks and trees among frost and mist, and sprinkled color dots to achieve the role of "break", leveling and spacing, the mutual penetration of paints cleverly demonstrated the abstract momentum and realm of ink splash. Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter (Lot 1137) applied the long piece form of tradition landscape painting, apart from the traditional technique "blank", this work formed a strict structure with thick paint texture and the crossing of lines, the vast momentum of the mountains endlessly surged towards the audiences. The artist goes beyond an objective description of nature, making use of colors to express his own subject feeling about landscapes in four seasons. He merged the images of mountains, rivers, trees and rocks, eliminating the effect of light towards the figure, turning the memory of that single moment into an eternal impression, revealing the good nature of the landscape.
Hong said, "Western and Eastern have their own different ways to express subjective feeling by making use of objective scenery. In general, meditation is common in the East, blending the human emotions with the natural landscape, presenting the unity of human and the nature. In the West, people spread the spiritual seeds in nature, they spiritually sieged the nature, showing the domination of human. Comparing these two cultural, I am more willing to accept the Eastern way, to implant a seed of nature into my heart, and to experience a harmony of sharing among every life in the world."