Chen Yi - Chinese ink painting. Chinese Artists(Chinese Edition)

A monography of Mr. Chen Yi.

'What touches in Mr. Chen Yi's paintings is his inutitive "brush strokes". The richness of ink strokes covers the whole painitng, even when he is applying colours. He uses colors as if they are the variations and development of the ink which enables the colors to become

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calm [...]The figures in his painting are unique, different from the traditional classic Chinese flower-and-bird paintings, which are the static portray of real subjects in the world. The figures in hs paintings are very common, but exceptionally original.'

(Abstract from essay by Fan Di'an)

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