Wen / Zheng Yi (professor of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts)
The painter Cai Yonghui's works, full of love and dedication, throughout his artistic growth process, from Fujian Normal University, Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an Academy of fine arts graduate class, the National Watercolor research class, German art visiting scholar and Tsinghua University art college visiting scholar, along the way, suffer all kinds of hardships, constantly the stories of exploration and innovation, he put the endless emotion into the artistic creation, and gradually formed a distinctive individual color symbol painting language, can touch and listen the voice of the heart.
Cai Yonghui | Xinxin | oil painting | 110×80cm | 1992
Cai Yonghui's painting has a wide range of context, broad vision, from watercolor to oil painting, from the characters to the landscape, with vigorous vitality, showing the style of life. Deep college education background, which works both figurative and impressionistic, can find the marks of the solid basic skills, this is the strict training results, whether it is reproduced or expressive theme, reflects the times thinking and exploring the academic spirit, also reveals the talent and unfamiliar, understanding and puzzled. Here we see not only a rich visual feast, but also the wisdom and determination for art. To feel the accumulation of art achievements in the history of art, find Chinese painting emotional world in oil painting creation, in the context of Chinese culture and historical context, establish own unique artistic status and significance.
Cai Yonghui | Easyfun | propylene | 50×50cm | 2012
Recently, a number of new Yonghui’s painting that I find everything fresh and new, Yonghui in his own way interpretation of traditional and contemporary aesthetic understanding, these static and refined works, give a person with strange and distant meaning, making people think and feel different. Works have accumulated sketch painting language, and strive to express the general rigid atmosphere, is a practice of language conversion coordination between visual art and reality images, is an attempt to purified sketch language, as a southerner, his works, both exquisite scenery, with the loose, and there is no lack of bold and resolute of the northern people.
Cai Yonghui | Hui village dawn | watercolor | 80×50cm | 2012
The hustle and bustle of contemporary painting circle occupy people's vision, material extrusion makes people become abnormal anxiety, alienation distortion, in reality and the spiritual space of people, we see the spiritual world a little decadent, spiritual world peace has become a extravagant hope, painting is our soul to rest in the world, make our soul more vivid, with a sense of life more.
Cai Yonghui | Amidst the Lijiang River | Propylene | 50×50cm | 2013
Looking at Yonghui’s works, like away from the noise of the earth, so that enter the clear spiritual world that the painter pursuits of it.
Art creation is a lifetime thing, it is an arduous and tortuous progress of the road. The works assembled into a book, revealing the great potential of Yonghui, is his another milepost, how much attention in the artistic creation, how much big is the stage, endless art. Yonghui’s perseverance will have his own piece of the sky.
Cai Yonghui | Galsang blossom | oil painting | 100×100cm | 2012