The Beautiful Humanity of Yang Hui

 It was with great pleasure that I received a request to write a few words about the art of Yang Hui. I have long admired the masterful paintings of a man I am privileged to call my friend of many years.

He creates powerful compositions using the ?gure from various perspectives where his art employs the human form as an actual artistic language making images of great emotional and visual impact. It is with a skilled and sure hand that paint is applied by brush and Fingers,?rst thicker then removed and then replied. Manipulating pigment thinly exposing the white of the hard slick paper beneath that gives a glowing life to the subtle and sometimes delicate shapes o?ering a multiplicity of possibilities for the viewer of how to see something familiar with new eyes.

Gestural and energetic depictions of mankind painted with deep humanity and insight into simple daily life are juxtaposed by other works that are grand compositional views where the ?gure is reduced to only the element used to dramatic e?ect forming vistas and shapes- almost abstract.  It is between these two points of view that Yang Hui delights the eye of the fortunate appreciator.

He has spent years mastering his medium to make the di?cult appear simple and e?ortless. All the better that a viewer can become part of the humanity contained within this artist’s vision of a world of poetic beauty and strength.

Gary Bukovnik

10 November, 2019

 

譯文：

      他從不同的角度來創(chuàng)作強有力的藝術作品，他的繪畫藝術將人形作為一種真實的藝術語言，使畫像具有強大的情感和視覺沖擊。只有手法熟練而精準的人，才會用刷子和手指涂顏料，先涂厚一些，然后抹掉，然后再涂。通過對顏料的巧妙處理，露出下面的白色硬紙，賦予微小的、時而精致的人物鮮活的生命力，為觀者提供了多種可能性，讓他們能夠以新的眼光來看待熟悉的事物。

       以濃厚的人文色彩和對簡單的日常生活的洞察力描繪出的姿態(tài)豐富、充滿活力的人物作品，可與其他采用宏大的構(gòu)圖視角的作品相媲美，而在后者中人物被簡化為僅用于形成遠景和形狀的戲劇效果元素，幾乎是抽象的。正是介于這兩種觀點之間，陽輝給有幸欣賞其作品的鑒賞家創(chuàng)造一種視覺享受。 

      他花了數(shù)年時間來掌握他的繪畫方法，使困難的事情看起來簡單而輕松。更重要的是，觀者可以成為這位藝術家眼中充滿詩意美和力量的世界所展現(xiàn)出的人性的一部分。

 

蓋瑞·布科夫尼克

2019 年 11 月 10 日

（注：Gary Bukovnik為美國當代著名水彩畫家）