Chen Yifei's Landscape Paintings

In Chinese art circle, whenever people mention the name of the artist, Chen Yifei, the image of the watery region in South will spring to mind immediately. Chen's works including Ancient Bridge (1983), Where I played as a Child (1984), The Quiet Canal (1985), depict the eye-catching scenery of the south of Yangtze River.

Looking at these landscape paintings, we can feel the deepest tranquility which is fascinating and intoxicating. Under this otherworldly silence, an atmosphere of exoticism and eastern mysticism will arise spontaneously. Based on westerners' imagination, understanding and demand of the East, the watery region in South in Chen's paintings is subjective and romanticized. This is the typical feature of Orientalism, which allows western people to have a look at the ancient, mysterious and peaceful eastern world. It is an eastern world that is completely different from the West and that westerners are able to comprehend and imagine.

The Jiangnan landscape in Chen's paintings shows viewers a solemn spirituality, without any feminine delicacy. Through acutely dealing with light, this incredible spirituality is expressed exquisitely. Chen Yifei absorbed Rembrandt's technique in dealing with light. In his paintings, he used sophisticated skills of frosting and delicate strokes to unfold early morning hours in late autumn. The dim light of the morning sun breaks through thin mist and becomes complicate and vague. Early morning is the most silent moment in a day. The Quiet Canal shows the tranquility of the watery region, in contrast to busy and bustle scene --- small wooden boats are shuttling in the canal. The scenery is evocative and beautiful. On either side of the canal lie hovels, built of mud bricks, which set this long canal off beautifully. The artist tried to reduce complexity into simplicity. Scattered hovels with black tiles and white walls form rhythmically horizontal, vertical and oblique lines, which present aesthetic feeling of lines. There are two trees beside the boat. One of them lost all leaves, leaving only branches bare, which shows romantic scene of late autumn. However, there are several red leaves on the other tree. Arc-shaped branches add a sense of motion to the whole scene. Combining soft lines with dark color brings viewers impressive visual effect. Furthermore, it touches people's heart, refreshes people's mind and enchant people in tranquility.

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