Nie Yanfeng's green landscape paintings and freehand paintings of flowers and birds have a faint literati artistic conception, and the picture scenery is like a lake and a mountain, qingyuan, clean and clear. His series of works of flowers and birds have their own elegance, each with its own interest, and there is also a realm of ancient meaning, so that the artistic realm and aesthetic realm of the whole picture can be in line with the high antiquity.
Nie Yanfeng: Born in January 1979, from Zibo, Shandong Province. He is currently a lecturer at the School of Fine Arts of Shandong University of Technology. In 2001, he graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in Chinese painting. In 2014, he graduated from the postgraduate class of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree. In 2015, he was a doctoral student majoring in gongbi and heavy color at Tianjin University. He has long been committed to the teaching, research and creation of landscape painting and art theory.
Review and Outlook
2020 is destined to be an extraordinary year. In the first half of the year, due to the epidemic, the school did not start until September, although staying at home and teaching through the Internet, on the other hand, it also made my heart sink.
In these nine months, I painted a lot of works, and at the beginning I couldn't calm down, and I slowly got used to this quiet feeling, so that when I looked back at the end of the year, I found that I had painted a lot of paintings, which was very gratifying. It involves landscapes, flowers, birds, and characters, so it feels very fulfilling and full of happiness.
When painting together, for a painter, it is like accompanying a child: sometimes happy, sometimes annoyed, sometimes painful... But overall I've always felt very satisfied. If you look closely at nearly 80 of this year's works, they vary in size and size. And these more than 80 paintings, on the whole, are very satisfied, are their own painstaking works, are created in a quiet state, without too much irritability, which makes me very pleased.
In addition to creation, it is teaching work, and in terms of teaching, this semester is eight classes from beginning to end, although it is very intense, but the teaching is very good. Basically dabbling in all the subjects that Chinese painting can dabble in, from landscape to flowers and birds, from freehand to brushwork, this helped me a lot.
When I was with my classmates, I often had some unexpected surprises, so I was very grateful to them. I think this is the happiest thing for a teacher, so I wish these students can go further and further on the road of art in the future.
At the same time, I participated in many social activities, and as the doctoral studies progressed, more and more art institutions extended an olive branch to me. Counting down, every month there is basically an activity about the exchange of works of art, in the process of meeting a lot of good friends, including my teacher, there are good friends in our doctoral circle... And the closer we get, the better we get, and when we are with them, we can learn a lot from their works and their people, so it hurts and we are happy.
——Nie Yanfeng's self-description