Yang Yan Plum Blossom Painting Collection".
Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House In May 2011, Dajue (Yang Yan) painted plums, which is nothing new, but he has never dabbled in anything that can be painted. This time it was so "deliberately" painted plum. It will be published in a collection. As mentioned earlier, it is not "in response to the situation", and it should have a deep meaning.
Starting from the plum blossoms, Dajue (Yang Yan) may have to consciously "review", he said that he will comb through the past thinking and exploration, take stock, and extract the creative means that can most directly reflect the height of his brushwork, especially the aesthetic orientation is becoming clearer, in a word, he wants to deduce the form that can best express his aesthetic concept and brushwork expression (rather than the sense of form) from the disordered "original" creative form, of course, painting plum blossoms may only be a process of his "tentative".
The Poetry of the Song People" If such an act will become an important topic for Yang Yan in recent years, then he will summarize the results of his artistic attempts over the years from various angles. For him, some may become an attraction "here", and it will undoubtedly inspire more seekers. 
More than 40 plum blossoms have been painted, he said, quite relieved, trance, seems to have an epiphany. I even feel that it is not easy to paint plums. From the encounter of "plum blossoms", we can see the current situation of Chinese painting. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, the literati painting was at the end of the stream and the rivers and lakes were opened.
Plum Blossom Scroll".
Plum Blossom Long Scroll" detail.
Dongpo Poetry" for a while, the evil pen wild fox Zen is rampant, with its "Yibi grass" and "Zen flavor" Yunyun as the "talisman", far away from the pen and ink of the right vein, lost soul, wandering in the wilderness, but thought that he had found the "kingdom of freedom". This kind of "pseudo-style" has a lot of room for survival. There is also a disadvantage of "Meiya", and it is also harmful to "Mei". The "Four Gentlemen" are elegant and vulgar, from literati to senior universities, they are all "Four Gentlemen". Dajue (Yang Yan) painted plum, first must be beyond the flow of time, close to him only allowed Liu Haisu and other one or two people, how can Hai Lao not be an "old" word, where people make flowers to lose more "thin" also.
Xuefeng Plum Dream "His plum blossoms with the brushwork of the landscape, the temperament of the gold and stone, swept away the "literati last stream" without disease moaning, between the brush and ink, permeated with a vast and vigorous atmosphere, this is the help of painting landscapes. Saying that "old" has been pushed for nearly a hundred years, and it is also because of the landscape brushwork and gold and stone gas. This point may be something for thought for those flower and bird painters who are blindly obsessed with "style".
Dongpo Poetic "old" may not be all the flowers, old and quiet, the ink color is moist, fresh and tender, and the people who have some wonderful realms are not old, not Baishi, Daqian, but Huang Binhong!In this way, I coincide with Yang Yan. In the past, Huang Binhong vigorously promoted the paintings of the Jin Shi family, and there was a mellow and vast quality between his brushwork and ink.
Four Seasons Flowers and Birds" long scroll
Four Seasons Flowers and Birds" long scroll and partial "Fragrant Snow".
As a landscape painter, he uses the quality of mountains and rivers and hills to be reckless, the atmosphere of smoke and haze, and the demeanor of plum blossoms, and his creation is far-reaching, and the rich brush and ink expression wants to overflow the beauty of Huazi in the vigorous, and the charm of the ancient and steep is ethereal, and the ineffable natural vitality is drummed. In Da Jue's (Yang Yan) paintings, I seem to see that he attributes plum blossoms to nature and to the nature of plum blossoms.
For many years, those pretentious coats attached to plum blossoms have been taken off, allowing us to see the living plum blossom carcass. It turns out that it is so charming, amorous, coquettish, wild, and has a great opportunity to liberate the plum blossoms.
Wang Anshi's Poetry
Liu Haisu's long-term outline, Lai Shaoqi's method of focusing ink and heavy color, is the aesthetic reference of Dajue (Yang Yan), but Yang Yan's mode of thinking seems to be by no means only in the "plum blossom", he tries to solve the "simple" and "old" expression thinking of flower and bird painting in this form of plum blossoms, regardless of the wonderful creation of chapter composition, the richness of pen and ink modeling, all see its ingenuity, with the wonder of landscape creation to correct the "schematization" of the "modern configuration" thinking mode of its simple and natural aesthetic realm is undoubtedly derived from the expressiveness of pen and ink, a "write" Words, so that the flower and bird painting "thin" disease is both dispelled and vigorous. In a sense, the plum blossoms of Dajue (Yang Yan) may bring the current flower and bird painting into a new realm.
The original text of "The Poetry of the Qing People" is quoted in: "The First Branch of the East Wind - Feeling Yang Yan's Painting of Plums" (with modifications) by Xu Hongquan in 2011.
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Dongpo Poetic Handscroll, 68, 3714cm
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Material: ink and color on paperShape: hand-rolledTitle: Style: Dongpo Poetry. In the plum blossom village at the foot of Luofu Mountain, the jade snow is the bone ice and the soul. They all suspected that the moon was hanging on the tree, and Geng Geng was alone and dusk. In the spring moon of Xinyou, Yu went to the Huairou Mountains to sketch in Dadi Village, obtained a number of ancient plum trees, wild and interesting, and participated in the bone method to use the pen to turn iron into gold. Record Dongpo sentences to add sound and color. degree one. Seal: Yang Yan, really like Bai Ding, Yang Yan seals the letterBibliography: 1. Yang Yan, Collection of Chinese Contemporary Artists, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, February 2003, p172-174. 2. Yang Yan, Collection of Paintings of Chinese Modern and Modern Masters, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, January 2003, p172-174. 3. Yang Yan's Plum Blossom Painting Collection, Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House, May 2011, p153-156. 4. Yang Yan's Paintings, Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House, January 2008, p195-198.
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