Text / Wang Laiwen | director of Chinese Artists Association
Write a small article to Luo Yanjuan, long promised. Many years ago, in a provincial exhibition selection of Luo Yanjuan's works were found, impressive. from the works I think she is very rare artistic talent, will be outstanding. After many inquiries about her, shortly after the introduction of friends, then know her. The painting is the same as herself, does not fall secular as the same. In recent years, more contact with her, she will take some photos of the latest works from time to time to discuss with me, I also occasionally talk on oil painting art for her personal reference. It can be said that, in recent years, I am aware of the state of her oil painting creation. I think, for my provincial rare and very rich potential younger painter to write an article, recommend the art, is also a great pleasure and joy, especially the outstanding young female painters are very few.
Recently, I wrote an article for a very good paintress Mo Ye, titled "Beauty as poem, works such as weaves", I talk about moved by Mo Ye’s works. Mo Ye is Luo Yanjuan's teacher, write in this article of Mo Ye, I pay attention to their works of teachers and students, also thought from the context of retrospective projects. I often say that the art of "Apprentice" as breast milk is the key. An artist, the "Apprentice" factors often affect the creation orientation and aesthetic direction.
Luo Yanjuan | Photosynthesis | 140x90cm 2011 selected into the first session Art Phoenix contemporary youth oil painting works exhibition (Chinese Artists Association)
The inheritance of Luo Yanjuan's oil painting art and art gene both from colleges. She was admitted to Xiamen University Art Institute with excellent ranking, has enrolled undergraduate and graduate student, learn from Mo Ye and Zhang Liping and other oil painting masters. Xiamen University School of art founded by the famous painter and educator professor Wei Chuanyi, the beginning of the founding of key teachers engaged in oil painting teaching, a part of them from Sichuan Academy of fine arts, Mo Ye was transferred in that moment. Wei Chuanyi is deeply affected by the Russian oil painting art, he was a student of Maximov oil painting training class, and Jin Shangyi, Zhan Jianjun and other famous painters were in this class, they are the new Chinese oil painting and teaching athletes. Wei Chuanyi is the teacher of Luo Zhongli, He Duoling, Cheng Conglin, Zhou Chunya, Mo Ye, when he taught in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, he was the academic guidance of Sichuan local art, oil painting creation of scar art. He was led by Xiamen University School of art teaching system, especially the system of oil painting teaching, with the quality of Sichuan Academy of fine arts oil painting virtually, with the Russian oil painting aristocratic and classical atmosphere. However, the character of this teaching system has a direct and profound influence on Luo Yanjuan, who has graduated from the school, especially the aesthetic character, the creative thought and the expression of the oil painting language. In addition, Zhang Liping, Zhao Jiujie and other oil painting teacher's expression of color and strokes, the impact is not small for her. The impact and influence of the days and months multiplying laid a foundation of aesthetic though for her oil painting creation, aesthetic thought. It can be said that the system of school source inheritance factors, Luo Yanjuan paved the road to highlight the art of painting color and brushwork.
Luo Yanjuan | The season of pomegranate | 150x160cm | 2015 selected into “The Spirit of China – the 4th session Chinese oil painting exhibition” (Chinese Artists Association)| won the first prize of “the 7th session Fujian Youth Fine Arts Works Exhibition” (Fujian Artists Association)
The famous painter Chen Danqing once said: there is no male painter, no female painter, only a good painter. This is true of academic standards. However, from the artistic temperament, some of the characteristics of the female painter, the male painter is not having. This made a rare special artistic quality and artistic works of female painters, it is a special aesthetic charm in the works. As a female artist for the scenery around the initiation and expression of exquisite emotions; naturally compassion in the heart; there is a famine in the boudoir, natural gentle and quiet beauty, innate Baddha air and pure-mind of closing to religion. Whether the western Waladong, Kollwitz, or in the Republic of China Guan Zilan, Qiudi, Pan Yuliang, or contemporary female painters Yu Hong, Xia Junna, and Mo Ye, etc. , can realize the temperament, the emotion, the beauty of their works----the feminine in the paintings. The feminine refers to the artistic temperament and artistic quality, is a kind of aesthetic breath, has nothing to do with the woman's feminine, not about skill. Their techniques and artistic expression are mellow and elegant like male painters. As a young female painter, Luo Yanjuan’s works with the unique aesthetic temperament in quality, and therefore works filled with a warm affection, amiable and touching.
Dean of China Academy of fine arts Xu Jiang once said, the basic style of oil painting in Fujian has attach importance to sketch, focus on the performance and style of study modest, I agree with it very much. The oil painting character of Xiamen University School of art, except has the basic style, due to context effects of Sichuan Academy of fine arts painting system, but also a more attention to inner feelings of quality, pay attention to pursuit and expression about inner emotional world. Whether Wei Chuanyi of noble character and high prestige, or the middle age of Mo Ye and Yuan Min from the Sichuan Academy of fine arts, artists have this trait, this trait makes their works add a touch of warmth, a force of infection. Luo Yanjuan inherited the tradition well.
Luo Yanjuan | So young |160x120cm | 2014 selected into the 12th session National Fine Arts Works Exhibition Oil Painting Exhibition (China Ministry of Culture, China Federation of Literature and art, Chinese Artists Association)
In Luo Yanjuan's figure paintings, as a female painter, Luo Yanjuan played a unique and sensitive of the female. The theme and the events in her painting does not attempt to depict the grand historical epic, but in the form of self portrait, from the perspective of women shallow told himself of the thinking of life, memorial to the youth, to explore the beauty. She boldly absorb the advantages of the teacher Mo Ye’s figure paintings, with reclining composition shows the characters of lazy posture, bold stokes fusion of color and shape, light and shadow, contains the tension, the inner tension and static characters lazy posture form a contrast. Through this contrast, can let the audience clearly feel the artist artistic passion in the screen of the subtle fragrance floating, and lazy quiet, is the heart of the painter for leisurely, the gentle state and quiet life of longing and reflect. She did not make more description in the facial expression, but through body language, to express the rich and full of the rich inner world, this is the personality charm of Luo Yanjuan oil painting works. An extraordinary move, a daily pleasure, an intimate warmth, a real romance, a sultry style.
Luo Yanjuan | Si Yu | 120x80cm | oil painting ·landscape theme | 2016
In Luo Yanjuan's landscape painting series, is inhabited by a common word, that is lane affection. Her hometown Shanghang is lane township, and this life brings beautiful childhood memories, eventually become a kind of aesthetic pursuit and aesthetic memories, and never talk up, unable to meet, to form a kind of touching aesthetic feeling. Luo Yanjuan's recent sketch creation of old Fuzhou lane Shang Xia Hang series of works, "Shanghang Old Street• East" , "Shanghang Old Street• West", the native land series, or in the field of the sketch creation "Quangang Old Street" "Zhangzhou Old Street" series of works, tells the nostalgia feeling of Luo Yanjuan, the local feeling of sorrow, this such as the first love of lane affection. The prosecution makes her landscape works has a touch of beauty, let the audience moved to chase ancient nostalgia.
Luo Yanjuan | Shanghang old street ·Dongmen | oil painting ·old street of hometown series | 60x70cm | 2011
Luo Yanjuan | Rongcheng impression ·Houyangli | 60x70cm | 2014
Luo Yanjuan's still life paintings, although there are not many, the basic sketching works, mainly from the other side to embody her perceptions and preferences of young women. A woman is like a poem, women love poems; flowery women, women love flowers. Luo Yanjua loves flowers, she use color to express in the painting, she did not give them too much symbolism, however, with her pen, painting her loving objects, borrow to draw her to the experience and feeling of life -- a motherly love gentle emotion.
Luo Yanjuan | Youga fruit | oil painting ·still life | 60x70cm | 2016
Luo Yanjuan | Red rose | oil painting ·still life 50x50cm | 2016
I often think that artists can cultivate and can not cultivate, can be taught and can not be taught, can be taught the art skills and methods, can not to teach is a unique form and cognition of artistic ideas and thinking, is the thought and emotion of the artist, because this artistic gene depends on the nature of art and the enlightenment. One of the artists whose art level can go farther and higher, towards the good, this part can not be taught is an important element. The key point is focused on the feeling of authenticity and emotion quality, and delicacy and perfect of the skill is no longer tempted heart, love transfer is the essence of art, so called: it is a "love" word. As a young artist, Luo Yanjuan has very good artistic qualities, she has other solid modeling basic skills, both good and a keen sense of color, and a rare artistic talent, this is the basic conditions to become an excellent painter. What I value is Luo Yanjuan's focus on the feelings of art life and the emotion of art, an early heart for art, which is a rare quality among young painters. Her life seems to has nothing to do with timely winds, more utilitarian isolation, a pure heart filled with the seed of art, the light and with the feelings of art is only know art is life, as the life is art. It can be said that art is life, life is the art, has nothing to do with the fame and benefit, just an art state of life. And it is precisely this pure and simple, this simple and focused, so that the feelings of the world of cognitive and thinking has a unique emotional freedom. This makes her works like herself, have a simple and elegant character, a quiet temperament, no modification and not rendering, natural and casual, elegant and bland, filling the elegant quality, will overflow to be a feminine.
Of course, I think Luo Yanjuan is a very rare female painter, and in the young generation has come to the fore, but I'm not saying that her art is now mature. Just want to say is that she is just flying artistic journey, her artistic development space is still very large, I am full of hope for her, hoping that she doesn’t forget the original intention, believe that her oil painting art will shine the light which belongs to her and on behalf of her generation.
Expecting……
The summer of 2016 in south of Minjiang, the north window of Wenxintang
(The author is the director of Chinese Artists Association, vice chairman of Fujian Province Federation of Literature and Arts, party secretary, vice chairman of Fujian Artists Association)