Text / Ye Lipin (from Quanzhou)
[Character card] Cai Yonghui
Now Chinese Artists Association member, director of Fujian Artists Association, and watercolor art committee, vice chairman of Quanzhou Artists Association, distinguished painter of Quanzhou painting academy, distinguished painter of Quanzhou CPPCC painting and calligraphy academy, member of South Fujian painting school, Quanzhou evening news of painting and calligraphy institute expert group members, professor of Quanzhou Normal University Institute of Fine Arts. In 2007, he was selected by the Fujian provincial government as a visiting scholar in Germany. He was a visiting scholar of Tsinghua University in 2008 and 2009.
Cai Yonghui | A Fang with fish | oil painting | 150×90cm | 2009
She can ride the electric car shuttle in the street and alley, she would be sitting in a beautiful life tavern on the bar, she also has to master Kung Fu in the Shaolin Temple...... She is Hui female A Fang, written by Professor Cai Yonghui, nausea work. To understand A Fang, you must first know Professor Cai Yonghui.
Cai Yonghui as a professional school scholar, suffering from art. Painting has become a favorite in his life for decades. On weekdays to visit the study, visit exchanges, love to the depths of every book. Cai Yonghui has been the author of "Chinese Contemporary Watercolor Painter - Cai Yonghui", "The Study of Oil Painting and Watercolor Painting of Cai Yonghui" and other personal Monographs, speaking of opinions on art, works of art road about all sorts of sincere feelings, who read all of the infection.
Cai Yonghui | Turn into a butterfly | oil painting | 150×90cm | 2012
Do not break not stand
In the early autumn of 2008, Cai Yonghui was riding the creaky old bicycle submerged in Tsinghua Campus bicycle tide. "Hey, did not expect that decades of riding skills also useful." With a little inexplicable moved, Cai Yonghui has back to his nine square meters bedroom and studio.
In this crowded studio space, Cai Yonghui completed a series of works of A Fang. At the end of the school, Tsinghua Academy of fine arts held the thematic exhibition for this group of works, "Hui Female A Fang" made its debut in Beijing, a large butterfly on the head, chin buckle a seashell, decorated with Hui female flower scarf, fantasy, sunny A Fang blowing on your face, the audience full of surprise, Hui women can be such a dream and fresh! At this time, Cai Yonghui had no time to think of A Fang, will be how to grow, with the birth of A Fang feeling relaxed. This kind of easy comes from the sublimation and symbol of the Minnan culture. Visit the school of Tsinghua University Academy of fine arts painting a full stop, and that is only the beginning of the story for Cai Yonghui and A Fang.
Cai Yonghui | Hui Woman A Fang’s sleep talking, birth 2 (2) | oil painting | 150×90cm | 2009
A Fang for Cai Yonghui is the art of big breakthrough and big standing. Look carefully at the A Fang, the proportion of the body, exaggerated ornaments let her somewhat personal independence of conduct. "Feudal head, democratic belly, save shirt, waste pants", in addition to the continuation of the basic characteristics of the traditional female clothing in Huian, A Fang of the interpretation of the fresh breath of the era is the most vividly, different from the previous rigorous objective modeling. "The highlight is the image of Hui'an women diligence, perseverance, inner beauty, with dreamy, romantic feelings." Cai Yonghui was touched when talking about A Fang.
Cai Yonghui | Hui Woman A Fang’s sleep talking, birth 2 (3) | oil painting | 150×90cm | 2009
A Fang's breakthrough is a part of Cai Yonghui's self reflection and transcendence. However, the breakthrough process is painful and tangled, in the eyes of outsiders and even absurd. Not as good as pulling back to 2007. That year, Cai Yonghui, as the representative of the art exchange of Fujian to Germany, spent a happy summer in the Rhine River. "Foreign art form pays more attention to humanistic care, natural care, and pays attention to the expression of the artist's own nature." However, Cai Yonghui's thought has been confronted with "turbulence", which makes him think about the value of artistic creation. Cai Yonghui decided to jump out of the existing rules of the game, to open up another piece of space to express cultural ideal, so they also have all the stories after A Fang falls, even makes more "A Fang" is coming.
Cai Yonghui | Hui Woman A Fang’s sleep talking, birth 2 (4) | oil painting | 150×90cm | 2009
Go back to the line
1997, Quanzhou is still in the old city. A girl sitting in Tianjin Huai street before a household window, with an easy grace, playing with origami aircraft. Cai Yonghui to show the scene with the painting, the picture is classical and beautiful. "The whole 90s oil painting is basically a classical aesthetic style." standing before the paintings look back the road, a thousand thoughts came into Cai Yonghui’s mind. A few years later, Wang Xinxin portrait of Nanyin artist push Cai Yonghui’s classical style to the school peak.
"Cai Yonghui's painting context is broad, broad vision, from watercolor to oil painting, from the characters to the landscape, with vigorous vitality, the performance of life style." Zheng Yiru, a professor at Tsinghua University, Academy of Fine Arts, evaluation of Cai Yonghui’s paintings.
Cai Yonghui | A gentle song (3) | watercolor | 160×80cm | 2010
But Cai Yonghui was not indulgence of the previous achievements. Through the 90s and the 00s, the classical artistic expression has not been able to satisfy Cai Yonghui's artistic appeal. About 2010 years later, his painting art began to return to the line. "Art came to a height, will come from the tedious to succinct, this is a natural law of artists." The return of Cai Yonghui refers to a kind of casual freehand style, highlighting the humanities leisure, comfort, quiet feelings.
Cai Yonghui | Cool song, the concept of heart | propylene | 100×100cm | 2015
"Draw relaxed, quiet painting style." watched the painting “Mountain Senerary” of this year, the creative material of master Hong Yi "Cool Songbook", Cai Yonghui with simple language to explain. "I love the natural realm of great master Hongyi, hoping to create an opportunity to filter out some objective things, try to show a simple heart." Cai Yonghui said that the art is the process of understanding ourselves, the process from the addition to subtraction.
Cai Yonghui found himself a new impulse moved and happy and pleased with oneself. Plain series creation is that made him very happy. "I think, I will consciously look for own human values and painting value, with their clear and simple language to express the nature of the pursuit of art."
Cai Yonghui | Cool song, mountain scenery | propylene | 100×100cm | 2014
Bend on Minnan Culture Communication
At this point, and then look back at A Fang, it was all natural and clear moving. Exploration and innovation of all regression, in Cai Yonghui's words, is "the pleasure after nirvana". "From the comic to the oil painting creation, I am now walking 'two legs'." To find my own direction and positioning, Cai Yonghui set sail again.
In the comic world, A Fang is particularly lively and concrete, both ordinary and extraordinary. Where did she go, with the story of the South Fujian legends and cultural atmosphere, carrying the memory of the people of Southern Fujian, but also reflects the cultural connotation of the opening of this era. "This one can bear the past, present and future, but also through the role of the carrier of history and culture, better integration of contemporary western culture, her growth is a shoulder of the responsibility of angel culture communication course." And now a strong atmosphere of Minnan culture is suitable for the lovely A Fang thrive.
Cai Yonghui | Enter the big city (1) | oil painting | 150×90cm | 2009
The day before, "Hui Female A Fang" comic series in "Shishi Daily" have been published over the one hundred period. "Through the way of art to create a character, and then a character as the axis, the use of the fulcrum of eastern and western culture to complete a cultural value system." Cai Yonghui’s A Fang plan is going on like a raging fire.