Text / Qiu Yongpei
Finding beauty in the ordinary, showing a "healthy" beauty, has been the main theme of my works in creation. In my eyes, a really good painter must be a good man. He has a full range of artistic accomplishment, keen eyes, a rich life honed, and perseverance. In the life of every tree and bush he can be moved.
Qiu Yongpei | Seeking | gold colors | sector | 62x30cm | 2007
For my picture, I always pursuing freehand brushwork, a kind of "meaning" of using brush, not only understood as a kind of calligraphy style, it must reflect a national spirit.
Line modeling is the main means of my works in creation. In my picture, everywhere is the lines, they or thick or thin, or dry or wet, or hide or reveal, or fast, or center, or side front and so on, these lines are clarified by the author's body and mind.
Qiu Yongpei | Visiting Friends | gold colors | 68x68cm | 2007
Chinese paintings should exude literati atmosphere, but it needs comprehensive accomplishment and personal talent. the essence of using ink of Chinese painting is using brush, using ink is the use of color, the relationship between ink and color should have a degree, grasp this degree of the picture is essential.
Qiu Yongpei | Night Talk at Hanjiang | paper colors | 34x34cm | 2011
I never emphasize the skill and the casual texture, each of strokes is the way I paint. Whether the object is a landscape, figures, or flowers and birds, in my opinion, the mountains are people, people are mountains; people are birds, birds are people. In real life the specific image of the existence of these is only a "type" of my works, type can be like this, also can be like that, but the "type" although changing essence is the same, I passed the picture information with the help of the "type", and the audience interaction.
Qiu Yongpei | Red Landscape | paper colors | 97x97cm | 2010