Chi Jiahong's Freehand Landscape - Research on the Art of Famous Chinese Painters

Author: Jia Dejiang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: The landscape paintings of the author are characterized by rolling mountains, surging clouds, vast and majestic, and a myriad of atmospheres. Whether depicting the southern mountains of Longnan or the depths of Taihang, the artist infuses strong subjective colors while perceiving the objective world. Everything in the paintings is both natural landscapes and not like any specific place; they are actually reflections of the artist's inner landscape and spirit, expressing the objective world through a subjective artistic form after refinement and processing. His paintings embody a unity of subject and object, drawing their source from this unity, capturing the ever-changing, vivid, and extraordinary forms of mountains and rivers through his perception of nature. His brushwork is flexible and diverse, powerful and unrestrained, with a balance of strength and gentleness; his inkwork is rich, vast, and profound, with alternating shades of light and dark, and full of artistic vitality. From a distance, his paintings are awe-inspiring, and up close, they are breathtaking, presenting a grand landscape that stretches to the farthest corners of the world and fills the sky with its power. Cai Jiahong's landscape paintings, with a "borrowing from the past to open the present" approach, have created a unique brushwork language with his own distinctive features. Within a certain formal structure, he creates an irresistible tension to embody the construction of grandeur and the exquisite expression of technique.