Chinese Artistic Figure·Liu Jiaqin

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Art resume

Liu Jiaqin graduated from Guangxi University of Arts in 1982 and is a first-class artist. Oil painting works have participated in many domestic and foreign art exhibitions and won awards, and many works have been collected by art institutions and collectors.

From 1988 to 1992, he was invited by Beijing, Guangxi, Hong Kong, South Korea and other film studios to participate in the art design of 6 domestic and foreign films including "Eye of Dawn";

In 1989, 235 illustrations of 7 ethnic groups were drawn for the "Integration of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dances" jointly published by the Ministry of Culture, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Chinese Dancers Association. This book was listed as a key national art research project;

In 2010, the oil painting "Mother" won the special prize of the "110th French Louvre Painting Exhibition" in France;

In 2010, 6 oil paintings including "Zhuang Jiamei" participated in the "Thirteenth Beijing International Art Fair";

In 2011, the oil paintings "Sound of Reading Away From Afar" and "Miao Family Girl" participated in the "Dialogue between Art and Civilization" Sino-US Friendship Art Exchange Exhibition;

In 2015, went to France, Italy, Germany and other countries for investigation and study;

In 2017, participated in the "Sino-Russian Education, Science and Culture Friendship Exchange Investigation Group" and visited the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow State University and other exchanges and inspections;

In 2020, the oil painting of "Girl in Black" will participate in the "Seeing the Little Knowledge: Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Language Observation Exhibition" in Beijing;

In 2020, 4 oil paintings including "Left-behind Children", "Girl in Black", "Zhuang Family Girl" and "Miao Family Girl" participated in the "Breathe: 2020 Sino-Russian Art Exhibition" in Beijing and Russia, and won the "Sino-Russian Art Exchange Award" , The work was printed as a postcard by the State Ostrovsky Museum in Moscow, Russia;

In 2020, the oil painting works of "Zhuang Jiamei" participated in the "Pulse: Contemporary Chinese Painting Exhibition" at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, and won the "Fukuoka Mayor Award";

In 2020, he was nominated as the “Artist of the Year 2021” by “Contemporary Oil Painting”, and 13 oil painting works including “The Years” were selected as the “2021 Contemporary Master Appreciation Series Desk Calendar”;

In 2021, the oil paintings "Afternoon Sunshine" and "Miao Mei" will participate in the "Time: Contemporary Art Exhibition" in Beijing;

In 2021, the oil paintings of "Miao Family Girl" and "Miao Girl" will participate in the "Jingzhe: Contemporary Art Exhibition" in Beijing;

In 2021, the oil painting "Miao Mei" will participate in the "View: Contemporary Chinese Painting Art Exhibition" in the Russian National Museum of Decorative Arts;

In 2021, the oil paintings "Staring" and "Mountain Girl" will participate in the "Source: Contemporary Painting Exhibition" at the Art Palace (National) in Seogwipo City, South Korea;

In 2021, the oil paintings of "Zhuang Jiamei" and "Girl in Black" will participate in the "Collection: Contemporary Art Exhibition" in Beijing;

The works are reported in contemporary oil paintings, research on sketching works, international oil painting micro classics, art newspapers, Xinhuanet, today's headlines, art headlines, Beijing time, Tiantian Express, Yidian Information, Phoenix News, Sohu, Baidu, Tencent, Netease and other media;

The works are compiled into "Selected Works of Chinese Art", "Chinese Art", "Chinese Artists", "Chinese Oil Painting", "Contemporary Oil Painting", "Oil Painting Circle", "Pulse: Contemporary Chinese Painting Exhibition (Japanese Version)", "View: Contemporary Chinese Painting Art Exhibition" Chinese and Russian editions)" "Time: Contemporary Art Exhibition", "Making Nature-2020·2021 Research Yearbook of Sketching Works", "A Hundred Years of Ink and Ink Does Not Worry Danqing", "Chinese Folk Dance Collection", "World Chinese Painting, Calligraphy and Seal Carving Works" The World Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition of Original Works;

Personal art biographies are included in "Chinese Artists", "Family List of Contemporary Chinese Artists", "Who's Who in Contemporary Chinese Art Circles", "World Chinese Calligraphy and Seal Carving Masters Dictionary", "World Contemporary Calligraphy and Seal Carving Masters Dictionary" and so on.

Fuzhong and chasing west to pure true colors

——Liu Jiaqin's oil painting art

As early as 2010, Mr. Liu Jiaqin's oil painting "Mother" attracted the attention of the art world with its distinctive national flavor and classical and quiet artistic appearance. It was awarded the special prize of "The 110th French Louvre Painting Exhibition" in France. Although he has already gained fame in the art world, Mr. Liu Jiaqin is a low-key person. Compared with the uproar after winning the award, he is more determined to stay in his homeland of national spirit. Life experience has shaped his simple and steady character, but his artistic endeavour is beyond negligible. In 1978, Mr. Liu Jiaqin entered the Guangxi Academy of Arts and was carefully guided by Zhou Kai and other teachers. His vision was wide-open, but he also realized that the colorful and endless urban life is not a paradise in his heart. Not in line with the pursuit of a Zhuangxiang child like him who is not good at talking. The teacher's instruction: "If Miller did not leave Paris and return to the countryside, then he would not be what he is today", which made Mr. Liu more determined to explore the path of his creation of national works.

▲"The Strong Girl", oil on canvas 61cm×50cm, 2009

In fact, the creation of fine arts on Chinese ethnic minorities began in the 1930s and 1940s. A large number of intellectuals and artists came to the southwest and northwest frontiers due to the War of Resistance. Zhao Wangyun, Situ Qiao, Wu Zuoren, Sun Zongwei, Zhang Daqian, Guan Shanyue, Dong Xiwen, and Chang A group of art masters such as Shuhong were deeply attracted by the vastly different styles of the border areas and the inland areas. Some artists have conducted surveys and sketches in ethnic minority areas for many times, and some even lived in these places for a long time and created a number of expressions of the minority. The huge system of national folk customs and customs has become a unique and brilliant section in the history of modern Chinese art. However, Mr. Liu Jiaqin's artistic creations on ethnic minorities are different from these masters in that his blood is flowing and beating in the genes of the Zhuang ethnic group. Mr. Fan Di'an once said: “Thinking and trying to promote the progress of contemporary oil painting are self-examination of self-identity and cognition.” It can be seen that the identity of self-identity is crucial to the artist's creation.

▲ "Girl in Black" Oil on canvas 100cm×81cm 2014

Mr. Liu Jiaqin has lived in the Zhuang Township since he was a child, and the national imprint engraved in his heart cannot be erased. His origin directly provides his oil painting art with natural painting materials and personal examination and observation. The mystery and agility of Guangxi ethnic minorities, the perse and complex ethnic customs and traditions, and the various natural landscapes have become the source of inspiration for Mr. Liu’s works. Coupled with the cultural identity of the ethnic minorities, he naturally incorporates ethnic elements into his art. Vision. Not only that, the indifferent, beautiful, distant and magnificent Zhuang Country's terroir gave birth to his most pure personal temperament. For decades, Mr. Liu Jiaqin insisted on measuring the land in Zhuang Township with his feet. He walked all over the stockades of Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong, Yi and other ethnic minorities with his painting box on his back, eating and living with the ethnic compatriots. Such a profound artistic life experience makes his works not only take the customs and customs of ethnic minorities as a kind of cultural interpretation, nor are they not only the infinite curiosity or wonder for the uniqueness of ethnic minorities, but also his This side is the expression of sincere emotion that nurtures its own soil and water. Therefore, the viewer can clearly feel the rich, earthy sense of reality from his works.

▲ "Left-behind Children" Oil on canvas 120cm×90cm 2016

As a professional painter, Mr. Liu naturally pays attention to the beauty of form conveyed by the language of oil painting from the West, but he puts his focus on the works to present the oriental life and emotional care, with his unremitting, deep and dedicated art. Spiritual, immersed in the depth of painting work, paintings show amazing purity and nationality, giving people a quiet look and feel like Western classical oil paintings. It is this kind of purity that makes Mr. Liu’s works unique The contemporary oil painting industry is unique for a while.

▲"Whisper", oil on canvas, 70cm×100cm, 1982

Looking at the sequence of Liu Jiaqin’s creation, the first ten years of the twentieth century can be described as a watershed. Not only was the work "Mother" awarded at the Louvre Exhibition in France in 2010, and many works appeared at the Beijing International Art Fair. The art works clearly show a period of reform. Before the reform, a group of works represented by "The Rural Female Teacher" focused on the description and expression of ethnic minorities' customs and features. From this we can see Mr. Liu's solid and skillful basic skills in oil painting, as well as the expression of modern oil painting techniques. The linguistic characteristics of folk cultural materials. After graduating from university in 1982, Mr. Liu Jiaqin created the work "Whispering". In the picture, two girls in rich cobalt blue costumes and red and yellow in the background complement each other. The smiles on the faces of the characters and the strong colors of the costumes show a positive and energetic atmosphere and attitude, which is unique to the Zhuang nationality. The unwavering strength of the paintings overflows the picture, clearly showing Mr. Liu Jiaqin's painting experiment of exploring the national spirit by relying on the power of color.

▲ "The Rural Female Teacher" Oil on canvas 150cm×120cm, 1985

"The Rural Female Teacher", created in 1985, shows the scene of young women of the Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi buying books for their children at the market, reflecting the vigorous atmosphere and thriving spirit of ethnic minority areas. Gray and yellow are the main colors in the picture, and the blue ethnic costumes worn by the female teachers reflect each other. Mr. Liu uses simple and simple painting language to truly and implicitly express his profound experience of the spiritual characteristics of the Zhuang Country. Mr. Liu Jiaqin’s painting creation at the previous stage of the reform melted all the details into the expression of color, and the simple and clear figures of the characters are shining under the background of color. Color is no longer an ordinary painting concept, but a transformation. For the expression of emotion.

▲"Yao Family Girl" Oil on canvas 55cm×46cm 2010

Perhaps due to the state of mind or the natural emergence after accumulation and tempering of artistic practice, Mr. Liu Jiaqin's creation has gradually moved to a deeper and more introverted stage. At this stage, compared with the strong sense of color and decoration in his paintings before the reform, it gradually internalized into the calm and harmonious visual and technical aspects, which made the painting unexpectedly appealing. Although the themes and themes of the works did not depart from the category of ethnic minorities in Guangxi, Mr. Liu Jiaqin consciously changed the techniques and forms of oil painting, and used a broader vision and mind to comprehend art and experience life, so as to create a more touching and exciting creation. A charming style of work. "Mother" is the representative work of Mr. Liu Jiaqin after the reform, and won the special prize of the "110th French Louvre Painting Exhibition" in France. In the work, Mr. Liu Jiaqin transforms the strong emotions expressed by the previous colors into the portrayal of the characters more introvertedly. With the help of light and shadow and a simplified background, the viewer's attention is transferred to the screen. The characters have no exaggerated body language. , Emphasizes the shaping of the characters' spiritual characteristics and visual orientation. A lasting and stable force is entrenched in the picture, allowing viewers to feel the light of humanity and the beauty of humanity embodied in the deep spiritual realm of the ethnic minority compatriots.

▲ "Mountain Girl" oil on canvas 132cm×102cm, 1988

"Zhuang Jiamei" is another proud work of Mr. Liu Jiaqin after the reform. It participated in the "Thirteenth Beijing International Art Fair in 2010", "Breath: 2020 Sino-Russian Art Exhibition", and was exhibited at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan His "Mai-Chinese Contemporary Painting Exhibition" was selected as "2021 Contemporary Master Appreciation Series Calendar", and published in "Chinese Art", "Chinese Oil Painting", "Contemporary Oil Painting" and other national professional publications. The strong girl in the work can't help but think of the quiet smile in "Mona Lisa" and the common character gestures in classical oil paintings. Through Mr. Liu’s brush, you can hear what the girl is saying. The light perception of the character’s face and the quiet strokes make people feel like a dream. The contrast between the simple and simple background and the delicate depiction of the foreground characters makes the overall picture look more Stable, unified and compact, even if the picture is shrouded in deep tones, the viewer can be moved by the powerful vitality and sincere emotional communication contained in it. Mr. Liu Jiaqin tried to deliberately slow down the tone of the painting, and through subtle language, as if to let the people in the painting narrate their own stories, and also let the viewer step into the classical pure and silent world, and listen to their own inner repercussions.

▲"Miao Family Girl" oil on canvas 80cm×65cm 2009

In the current practice and exploration of oil painting, the artist seems to be less interested in the simple depiction of real objects, and emphasizes the reconstruction of new visual modes and ways of understanding. Mr. Liu Jiaqin seems to be unmoved by the turbulent and ever-changing art scene. With his obsession like a monk, he continues to work hard in the artistic exploration of minority-themed paintings. I hope he can always keep this pure and pure land of art.

Sheikh/Author