Text / Duan Jun
Wang Shimin once said: "recently, the painting skills and ancient technologies gradually forgotten, new ideas come from the peoples, fallacy is spreading, can not saved." Qiu Yongpei had studied Wang Shimin carefully, he studied the essence of Huang Gongwang, Li Cheng and Guo Xi, and a glimpse of his painting, quite old-fashioned, such as "Unvoiced Sound in Mountains and Rivers", and "Silent Water". Qiu Yongpei in the painting "Green Around Houses and Clear Clouds” said:” "Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang good at calligraphy and poetry, painting into the original work, or ink or light purple, chase Tai Chi Road, try to escape with the writing, I know Huang gong." Qiu Yongpei absorbed essence from the predecessors and gradually formed its own fine complex and neat delicate painting style.
Qiu Yongpei | water silent | paper colors 72cmx45cm | 2011
As a native of Shishi, Qiu Yongpei has a deep affection for the Minnan culture, and his works draw the scenery of the south Fujian, especially the trees in the south of Fujian and the buildings in the south of fujian. Qiu Yongpei is good at the object form, such as the tree branches in his painting, is not only realistic foliage, Qiu usually put the leaves into form sense lines, as if the leaves can freely stretch in the works. Qiu Yongpei had made “Wither bark cold forest" with the imitation of Li Yingqiu, the painting of the branches of the trees like Li Cheng, Guo Xi's crab sticks. Qiu Yongpei has the individuality in his landscape painting developed with brush, cirrus cracked, long and short pimacun alternate. The art of calligraphy can not be ignored, and if the strict in discipline, according to local conditions, the arrangement of words to the picture of the ups and downs, the calligraphy from the whole picture is composed of an organic.
Qiu Yongpei | "Deadwood Cold Forest" | paper colors | 68x68cm | 2011
Qiu Yongpei's character style, obtain the essence of the Northern Song Dynasty painter Li Gonglin Taoism paintings, focusing on shaping characters of the solid sense in texture, and often exaggerated characters, sometimes even make real people lose a real atmosphere, such as the old week he painted, the last character is processed into non realistic image of taoism. Another example "Watchmen", in full of rain and wind along the southeast coast of Fujian woman, because of hard work, bent terrible hand deep folds, women features of the face has been lost, but in Qiu Yongpei's paintings, hard rise for the eternal image of woman.
Qiu Yongpei | "Watchmen" | paper colors | 68x68cm | 2007
In addition to the traditional fisherman, makes friends in snow, Qiu Yongpei has modern figure paintings, such as women play in the landscape, dressed in colorful clothes, and the same bright color umbrella. Qiu Yongpei can operate a leisurely fun in the picture, although occasionally revealed a hint of lazy, but always full of vitality.
Qiu Yongpei | "Flowers blossom and fade" | paper colors | 144x122cm | 2008
Qiu Yongpei served in the Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Art Award three years observation Fu ink painting, through the door of ancient Chinese wall, feeling deeply, after the painting, the trees and the walls of ancient walls like nature itself in the picture, the doorway seems someone to be out of it, as if that author to explore his own way in the profound traditional art, I believe, Qiu Yongpei day after day the art of future will be bright.
August 2012 in Beijing
Duan Jun: Doctor of visual arts, Tsinghua University, art critic and curator