Sun JingHui
Sun Jinghui, painter of Chinese traditional
painting and fine arts educator, was graduated from Central
Arts and Crafts Academy in the 1963 and attended the advance
studies in Beijing Drawing Academy. In 1981, He was invited to
participate in the creative activity held by the Traditional
Chinese Painting Group of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Research Institute. Now, he is a professor of Shan Dong Art
College, Supervisor of graduate student of Chinese Traditional
painting, member of Research Institute of Culture and History
of Shan Dong province and member of Chinese Artist
Association.
The Freehand brushwork painting attaches
great value to the spirit. Mr. Sun’s freehand character
painting reflexes his unique tastes and aesthetics. He’s very
good at grasping opportunities from the complex phenomena in
life. And at the same time he is such an artist that he will
paint and express the theme with vivid images and with his
great passions. He has received long, strict, regular
professional training, which helps him lay down solid
designing foundation. He draws the merits of the character
painters like shi Ke, Liang Kai, Chen Hongshou and Ren Bonian.
Therefore, he can create his own style in freehand character
painting. His works, with splash-ink (a technique of Chinese
ink-painting) pursuits an aesthetic standard of conciseness
and thoroughness. The pictures are full of emotion, tense and
preciseness, sometimes are full of humor and wit. One can
occasionally see some exquisite painting. Mr. Huang Zhou once
said his painting is strict in personal integrity but with
passions.
Chinese painting is closely related with
literature, especially to the Chinese character painting. Mr.
Sun’s paintings are mostly from the literature. He always
selects his favorite historical characters and the characters
and events in the literary work as themes. The typical
situation drawing and the figure features such as the facial
expression and the postures are all the description of
character’s spiritual world. Li Bai, Su Shi, Fan Zhongyan, Pu
Songling and Li Qingzhao are drew repeatedly from different
angles. He always draws characters in specific surroundings,
take Pu Songling’s Early Departure for example, it
tells the early departure of Pu Songling by donkey at dawn. It
is deep fall, the scenery is desolate. Pu Songling is ridding
a donkey and disappears into the frost while the moon is still
in the sky. The characters drew by Mr. Sun carry his
subjective emotion, so they have their own individuality and
beautiful temperament. These works reflex his understanding
and experience of traditional culture and history.
In addition, he also draws some pictures
which reflex the social life. For example, the reputable
paintings like Premier Zhou Enlai and Qi Baishi and
the Miner Brothers. These works mostly belong to freehand
painting. He draws the characters in the empty and pale
background with the technique of splash-ink and reducing
brushes. The drawing of the face is exquisite; the facial
expressions are very natural and vivid. The major part and the
minor one, the detailed part and the concise one, the dense
colors part and the light part, the linear structure and the
wash painting clusters compare strongly with each other and at
the same time, they fuse and echo with each other perfectly.
It really is an excellent works with the painter emotions.
What impresses people is his impromptu
character painting. Three-color glazed pottery Impression
is one of his impromptu drawings after having visited the
pottery figurines of Tang Dynasty exhibited in Xi’an Museum.
The whole picture is easy, happy and somewhat humor. Though
seeing the picture creates a certain distance between the real
objects and the appreciators, it shortens the mental states of
the drawers and those of the appreciators.
Mr. Sun Jinghui refines and develops the
traditional arts. Of course, he gets nutrition from the
western arts, for example, the focus perspective and
techniques of choosing the colors. These techniques enrich the
expressive force. However he still sticks to the tradition
Chinese designing principles like lines, colors and ink. He
draws with Chinese calligraphy and enrich the works expressive
function by using lines. Through the swift, hovering use of
the brush to make the ink dry or wet, dark or light on the
paper, he endows the whole picture a kind of space feeling.
The appropriate control of the brush and the ink expresses his
vivid painting style.
He shows deep research in the character painting. And he
writes many books such as Techniques of Freehand Character
Paining.