Text / Cui Jingwen
There is no art without moving. Zhao Guoyi's figure painting focuses on the value of human and the perception of human destiny, trying to find the spiritual home and soul fate in the puzzled life.
"People" is the core of his artistic creation, the destiny of human of joys and pains is to nourish inspiration and source of his painting language, is the motive power of his artistic talent and passion for creation.
Understanding of life thought art, put the understanding of life in his works, moved own at the same time moved audience, his paintings with artistic charm and strong impact.
Some people say that Zhao Guoyi is an idealistic and realistic figure painters, this is good, he felt that only pay attention to the earth and the reality of art has its value and strength, and this is his pursuit, because life is nutrition and source of all art.
Elements of Zhao Guoyi inherited the traditional painting techniques and theories from western painting creation actively at the same time, the research of Western painting sketch, color and composition, dedicated to the ancient and modern Chinese and Western harmony and wisdom through together, to find and establish his own art style in succession, exploration and innovation.
Chinese painting in the last century in 80s, learning from western modernism is the trend, the pursuit of fashion, avant-garde is fashionable.
Since 90s, to enter the art market has become a big trend, but based on the theory of brush and ink centered on the return to the traditional, and become a new fashion; in the new century, with the deepening of reform and the market economy culture, art creation is experiencing a hitherto unknown challenge.
The whole social of cultural atmosphere in the extreme impetuous constantly, has not someone willing to abandon the sacred art pursuit to lonely, but Zhao Guoyi is an exception, always adhere to the pursuit of their unwavering.
His works are used to show the joys and sorrows of ordinary people such as forestry workers, coal miners and migrant workers. They are concerned about their life and fate, reflecting strong sense of social age and social responsibility.
For this reason, for many years, he has unremittingly deep in the forest area, the countryside and the mine, and has accumulated a large amount of sketching material for his theme painting. The simple, pure and diligent workers in the work are filled with a strong breath of life and noble feelings.
In these works, we can see the painter's modeling and serious attitude; you can see the painter in the realistic premise, to maximize the brush and ink characteristics, especially in the very fruitful exploration of the relationship between form and structure into the relationship between brush and ink order.
In modeling, he conveys his artistic language and reveals his personality characteristics by depicting and grasping facial features, hands and body characteristics. In technique, he is good at using ink deposition method in the landscape painting, resulting in heavy volume sense, and the appropriate method of light and shade, and the Western sketch, make the picture level of rich, rich atmosphere, with simple and true and thick aesthetic trend knock the readers’ heart.
"The road ahead will be long, I will seek", I believe that as long as just keep going firmly, Zhao Guoyi will be out of their own unique artistic path in the exploration of art in the future.