Throughout the history of the development of human civilization, artistic innovation and technological progress have always been mutually supported, perfectly integrated and complemented each other. Along with the tide of the times, they have shown great potential and broad space.
In the artistic practice of art integrating science and contemporary ink language innovation, Yin Yi has made unique explorations and presented a personalized artistic language.
Yin Yi began to focus on the exploration of ink painting in the mid-1980s. For decades, he persisted in the study of painting methods, techniques, materials and tools.
As the painter Yu Xining commented, Yin Yi's ink painting techniques are brand-new and changeable, and the artistic effects shown are rich and colorful. His works are rigorous in composition, unique in structure, fresh and elegant, empty and super dusty, Obscure and subtle, dreamlike and poetic.
Since entering the new century, Yin Yi has often been hidden in the "laboratory", immersed in the research of new materials for ink painting and the exploration of the contemporary and diversified nature of his works. The development of new ink painting techniques and the development of contemporary ink painting from a new perspective and new height of "art + technology".
In particular, the scientific research projects such as "Research on New Materials and New Techniques of Chinese Painting", "Research and Application of Key Technologies of Chinese Traditional Painting Materials" and other scientific research projects led by him as the project leader are aimed at enriching the artistic language of ink and wash, enhancing its expressive power, and improving the quality of ink and wash painting. contributed to the overall quality.
From the "creative studio" to the "laboratory", Yin Yi stepped into the unpopular area of art research, which is the optimization of painting species. He started thinking from painting methods and materials, and mobilized professional technical means such as optics, chemistry, and materials science. , conducted a large number of ink material characteristics demonstration and artistic effect analysis and comparison.
While optimizing painting pigments and their carriers, combined with personal creative practice, with the specific goals and classification of works such as "strange changes in brush and ink", "artistic ink charm", "beauty of texture", "beauty of space", and "beauty of light perception", the achievements have been made. A double harvest of scientific research and creation.
In particular, one of Yin Yi's innovative practices of artistic language: "Fuchun Mountain Residence Re-creation" series of works, including the completed ink scroll (length 17.4 meters), blue and white scrolls (length 13.5 meters), as well as spring rain scrolls, writing scrolls Other partial scrolls, as well as the upcoming summer night scroll, autumn color scroll, winter snow scroll, cloud mist scroll, abstract scroll, etc., is a big project, and the creation process of each scroll usually takes two or three years.
Each volume is "recreated" based on the basic schema of Huang Gongwang's "Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains", which changes the natural environment and humanistic mood in the picture from the perspective of different seasons and different times, and uses different painting materials. , techniques and artistic language style, depicting the colorful and changeable objective world, providing contemporary people with a perspective of "pen and ink should change with the times".
At the "Art + Science - Yin Yi's Painting and Scientific Research Works Exhibition" held by the National Museum of China, more than 100 different styles and styles were exhibited in five exhibition areas: Ink Change, Ink Rhythm in Art, Classic Remodeling, Beauty Innovation, and Scientific Research Achievements. In the exhibition of paintings and scientific research achievements, the audience can see the artist researching the language style and characteristics of contemporary ink painting, digging deeply into the resources of integrating science with art, infiltrating a variety of new materials and new painting methods, and expanding the creative forms of contemporary ink painting, He has made achievements in enriching the aesthetic connotation of ink art and creating a new artistic conception of the ink world. At the same time, we can also see his dedication to artistic ecological research and artwork identification and scientific research, and his dedication to "let the sunshine of science illuminate the world of art". effort.
Ma Fenghui, Secretary of the Party Group, Vice-President and Secretary-General of the China Artists Association, said that the combination of art and science presents great potential and broad prospects. Yin Yi is both an artist and an expert in art research. He has been in and out of the studio for a long time, In the two environments of the laboratory, creation and scientific research are carried out under the two-way drive of art and science, careful creation and study, continuous improvement of painting skills and artistic accomplishment, and combined with creative practice with scientific thinking mind, to create another way to create ink art.
Liu Wanming, deputy director of the National Museum of China, said that through Yin Yi's works, it can be seen that he did not deviate from the ontology language of Chinese painting, but he used a new material that was different from the ancients, and even some materials were made by himself. This is invaluable.
Among the current Chinese painters, Yin Yi has an exploratory nature, which serves the content more deeply and subtly, creating a new artistic realm under the action of new techniques, new materials and new ideas.
(Author: Yu Yuanyuan)