On October 23, 2023, the "Danqing Huayu - Yu Renzhu Chinese Painting Exhibition" sponsored by the Weihai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Weihai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Propaganda Department of Weihai Wendeng District Party Committee, and Weihai Wendeng Technician College was launched at Weihai Art Museum, exhibiting more than 100 fine works created by painters over the years, which aroused strong social repercussions. These paintings cover a wide range of subjects, including landscapes, flowers and birdsThe form is diverse, there are fine brushwork, there are freehand;There are not only huge paintings, but also buckets and sketches. From this, the audience feels the great influence of the development of the times and the magnificence of the country on the painter. With new thinking that keeps pace with the times, Yu Renzhu seeks the most suitable aesthetic expression for his interests and temperament, and works hard to create a novel and profound painting appearance that combines self with realistic feelings and the spirit of the times. 
Yu Renzhu, the word Yongjian, the owner of the Yongfa Hall, a native of Wendeng, Shandong. He is a member of the China Zhi Gong Party, a tutor of the thematic creation seminar of the Freehand Painting Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, a director of the China Gongbi Painting Society, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, the vice president of the Shandong Gongbi Painting Society, the vice president of the Shandong Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting, a painter and a member of the Council of Weihai Painting Academy, the president of the Weihai Gongbi Painting Society, and the chairman of the Wendeng District Artists Association. 
Yu Renzhu has been fond of painting since childhood, and has studied under Mr. Wu Bingnian, Li Tiesheng, Jia Youfu, Wu Yueshi, and Fan Cungang. Through copying, he delved into the landscape tradition of the Song and Yuan dynasties to the present, understood its principles and methods, and took its charm, so as to truly understand the spiritual essence of the traditional "writing things to write the heart", and formed a considerable expressiveness of pen and ink. His "Soul of Tianfu Mountain" won the Outstanding Creation Award of the "Art Qilu 12th National Art Exhibition Shandong Exhibition" and was selected for the 12th National Art Exhibition. 
Yu Renzhu attaches great importance to in-depth life, is accustomed to understanding the mountains and rivers, broadens his mind between swimming and seeking seclusion, expands the accumulation of life in the mountains and rivers, not only collects materials for creation, but also figures out the craftsmen of the predecessors who turned life into art, and strives to explore the natural sense of subtle changes with spirit. In nature, he quietly and contemplats things with his heart and stones, and effectively implements the wonderful principle of his mentor Mr. Jia Youfu "macro exploration, micro exploration of truth" in the tireless practice and portrayal of Tianfu Mountain and Taihang Mountain and other mountains in his hometown. 
Taihang Iron Wall Reflects the Radiance".
The Great Gully Pine Breeze is so committed to the trinity of copying, sketching and creation, and Yu Renzhu's landscape paintings have a kind of artistic style of drawing from the past and writing the new, and creating an original and high-quality style. Judging from his meticulous creations in the past two years, such as "Iron Casting in the Mountains after the Rain", "The Great Gully Pine Wind", "The Iron Wall of Taihang Reflects the Sky", "The Sky and the Cloud and the Shadow Wander Together", he is able to properly handle the relationship between form and innovation, and is by no means blindly abiding by the procedural rules of traditional landscape painting, so that the brushstrokes stay in the visual realistic beauty and pleasure, but with the spirit of freehand as the purpose, so that the expression of brush and ink extends to the artistic treatment of the entire picture structure and overall form. The environment it creates is a whole, majestic and atmospheric, both the bone strength and the rhyme, in the rhythm of the painting in the overflow of the air machine, in the layers of accumulation of the solid and heavy to see the drumming of the wind, in the depth and lush space relationship to see an intriguing beauty of the void. It can be seen that he has long faced and tasted the excellence of the magnificent mountains and rivers in the north and the spiritual essence of each of his own, in terms of technique, his brushwork such as hooking, streaning, rubbing, rubbing, and dotting and baking, dyeing, breaking, accumulating, splashing, and other ink methods interact and blend, even if his pen power goes, the ink is mellow, and the mountain body is thick and the realm is profound, and it contains the wonder of painting to carry the Tao. This shows that the painter is good at modeling and figurative realism, but the focus of his creation is to express the spirit and freehand. He portrayed the mountains and rivers of the motherland on the basis of realism, and the pen was solid and then the pen was empty, and he was good at leaving blank space, so that the plugged place became more and more exquisite, and the atmosphere also had the subtlety of details. It can be said that the one who writes it, the mountains and mountains, the pile-up, the majestic;Those who are real, the walls are thousands of miles, the clouds are wandering, and the atmosphere is like that, which is unique in today's art world. 
2017) "Towering Tianfu Kunyu Reflecting the Morning Glow", 384x255
2019) "Laoshan Pine Rhyme", 200x150
Yu Renzhu's landscape creation, with his ingenuity, gathers and uses a variety of expressive techniques, he is not limited to traditional techniques, but also pays attention to the interactive exploration of modern media, subject matter and content, borrowing and using visual techniques such as color, composition, light and shadow and elements of sculpture art. In particular, he skillfully absorbs modern geometric composition elements and traditional brushwork to connect and blend with each other, highlighting the blocky sense of the painting, adding to the bright, upright and elegant atmosphere of the picture. On the whole, he depicts the environment with unique skills and full of spirit, and in the artistic conception of the coexistence of the virtual and the real, he can see the painter's essence of expressing his soul and singing about the form. His landscape paintings, into his heart, just like his kind, simple, enthusiastic, kind, decisive, fearless temperament. From this, it can be said that he also painted himself. 
2017) "After the Rain, the Mountain is Cast of Iron".
It can be seen that Yu Renzhu's landscape paintings have a strong sense of modern aesthetics, and he carries out research and development with academic consciousness, not conservative, not attacked, brave to create, and has a breakthrough in traditional aesthetics. His paintings can be included in the aesthetic category of the new landscape painting of the times, with new contexts, many inner beauty, and taste, and its connotation and extension contain the beauty and meaning of being appreciable, swimmering and living, without the disadvantages of traditional desolation, loneliness, dullness, monotony, and equal average. 
2018) "Oriental Desire".
Sketching of the valley.
At the opening ceremony of the exhibition, the chairman of the Weihai Chinese Culture Promotion Association and the lifelong honorary chairman of the Weihai Writers Association and the Poetry Association pointed out: "Mr. Yu Renzhu is a scholar of the ancients but not the ancients, and has always sought his own artistic skills and developed his own artistic path under the artistic framework and theoretical beliefs of his predecessors. He has always been constantly exploring, taking root in the fertile soil of life to excavate, turning it into his own thinking and forming his own artistic outlook. Wang Huanbo, a researcher at the Institute of Traditional Arts and Culture of Peking University and a member of the Chinese Artists Association, said in an interview: "Teacher Yu Renzhu and I are classmates, the next and last sessions, so I am very familiar with him, and now we often paint together for 40 years. I was very shaken by this progress. He has been engaged in art teaching for many years, and has gone to Jia Youfu's studio for three years of arduous and rigorous training, so that he has both talent and basic skills, and the combination of these two has formed his very strong ability to express himself in language, and also formed his own very distinctive personal style. Zou Benhong, director of Weihai Art Museum and president of Weihai Painting Institute, told **: Mr. Yu is an old friend of our painting world, and this exhibition, he is also 60 years old to do such a comprehensive exhibition, the results of the past few decades are displayed here, about more than 100 pieces. In my opinion, Chinese painting has come out of his own kind of appearance so far, it is particularly exquisite, and the content and brush and ink are very rich, that is to say, Chinese painting seems to have a vivid feeling of charm in him. ”
Yu Renzhu believes: "Living in such a beautiful era of rapid development and prosperity, I feel that as a painter, our brush and ink should keep up with this era, and we should create more fine works to reflect the extraordinary spiritual atmosphere of the new era." "Yu Renzhu's landscape art texts not only have their own aesthetic personality and style, but also conform to the spirit of the times, carry forward the freehand spirit of Chinese painting, show a beautiful and broad prospects for artistic development, and will surely create more landscape masterpieces for our era!(Shangguan Juewen).