Most of the work in four seasons painting exhibition was all about homeland, homeland to the sweetness and quietness. From the composition and atmosphere of the ink work, it can be seen as artists’ investment in natural vegetation, water, insects, fish, goose, cloud water, pontoon, house; it is love came from heart. Ink, brushwork, image are pure, fresh, simple and elegant.Pure, is no longer an aesthetic characteristics, is more a state of mind. It expresses a kind of Mountain Park, people living on the riverside in modern rural pleasures.
The reason China paintings difficulty of breakthrough may often lies in attaching too much importance on the painters, they forget the meaning, truth and method. Although it is difficult to say "the four seasons" ink painting exhibition works is a big breakthrough in its text, but at least it can be said as expressing the artist's ink work and painted environment created a harmony. The ink, rendering, layout, texturing methods are the continuation of the traditional pen and ink work, but mostly on how to describe the "home", especially the "pure home" on the most effective way. Therefore, the ink is no longer confined to the form and stylized, composition methods of some traditional landscape paintings. These appear to be "outdated" pen and ink composition which began to have "human factors live". Here the "live" refers to the contemporary human nature.
The ancient landscapes are very heavy on pure environment expression. However, their living environment and the natural environment is around the community development. Therefore, the harmonious aspects of their contemplation of aesthetics in man and nature does not split, although their life’s personality is connection to the common society more or less. However, pure natural identity of the witness is born.
However, that kind of purity for the twenty-first Century China painters becomes isolated from their life. Because natural as reference become part of their life does not often existence anymore. The environment is disturbed by the noisy city, rushing for practical interests. Farm life became far beyond one's reach of “the Peach Garden”. How can anyone remains within door,or in a villa, that he or she can enjoy the pure natural environment? Hence the desire: wormwood is wild duck with Wu, view clouds sunrise, renewal. Today's landscape painter, although they don’t experience the ancients kind of "banquet hall, sat the poor spring gully" grand narrative of the mind, but they have the feeling of nostalgic.
It is not difficult to understand, in the "four seasons" riverside pontoon bridge ink works, the Peach Garden, become a kind of Utopian narrative. The four seasons "ink" is undoubtedly a good exhibition concept and theme. And if we take this as a breakthrough point, may inject fresh vigor into the development in contemporary ink painting. Of course, in the final analysis, is a realm of pure environment problem, namely the painting as the person of the problem. Pure environment are not simply the present creativity moods problems, it is all about the ideal sentiment, and how it reflects on their own and their present.