Text / Wang Xiaoping | Taichung city bamboo culture and art promote association secretary general.
Landscape painter Mr. Liao Wentan inherits traditional style, combined claborate-style with freehand brushwork——his works character with boldness of free sketch and delicate beauty of claborate-style painting. Thus, his work is so called fine lined landscape painting.
Liao Wentan | 《The afternoon smoke wind blow Khe sanh》| landscape painting
Even though He inherits the traditional painting techniques, Liao Wentan has his own incisive insights on creative ideas and techniques change, he does not care neither traditional nor modern fashion, not affected by the social values, let alone the trivialities concept, seeking a beloved painting style. He doesn’t play for the limitation of tradition, combining well versed in both ancient and modern, forming his own unique style. Directed break traditional limitation and open new modern concept, his style is peculiar. He masters a good control of traditional technique and not contrary to the testimonies, inheritance of traditional style but create new style. Therefore, he make this painting problem been solved. He totally enjoys himself in the landscape world, do and think whatever he wants like nature itself. The painting is not only a space imagery in art, both feeling and thought, highly display the beauty of the eastern traditional culture and art.
Liao Wentan | 《Product trickle into river》| landscape painting
1. Taiwan mountain as material
For long-term observed Taiwan forest ecological characteristic as material, expressed with fine lined landscape style. his paintings are thick or thin, vain or spiritual, empty or wonderful, he depicts detail carefully, manage forest deep thick layers of trees and waterfall perfectly well, with dense style of writing, paint the quality of rack and mountain. Close to watch his style of writing, like entering Taiwan mountain forests, the stream is at hand, as the ancients said: painting is exquisite and unpredictable. View his paintings in the distance, thousands of brush strokes in harmony for whole, such as hills form Taiwan, hazy mist, smoky gathered, floating through the hills. Taiwan mountain is he beloved, he painted true mountain and true water with traditional landscape style in his life, with design processing means, clipping, exaggeration, organization, develop the quintessence and discard the dross in the choices, make the ordinary scenery, appearing the essence of spiritual and simple, add life and moved to work.
Liao Wentan | 《Shochiku Merle》|landscape painting
2. Traditional style for performance
Use the traditional style strong or weak, use ink think or thin, lined false or true, expressed fully and delightfully, full of sense of rhythm. Expressed the dense mountains and rivers, ink line is the actual condition of use and change, an outlet with feelings, aftertaste and connotation are rich. He use the ink painting methods varied, ink color is the most beautiful and pure, on the basis of the traditional style, add ink dye form the surface, greatly enriched the technique of expression of the picture. Wet ink color overlay, section play sharp, clear context. Using line blot, complementary space method, miscellaneous wood forest formed against each other in the picture, mountains or rocks, running water or gas figures, to describe the ink line of each items, soft hard thick dry wet, because of different change and unexplainable, wide world in black ink, as the painter himself saying, appreciate his works like to drink black coffee , more drink more relish.
The view of lake and hill
3. In pursuit of pure oriental
Persist in the pure oriental painting form, ink and brush, not just the traditional materials, but the characteristics of the Chinese culture, the western world haven’t. Ink is a product of nature, can render random change the shade of ink, without ink shaped for what? Brush and ink achieve mastery through a comprehensive, bring out the best in each other, and cooperate with each other in the picture, an integral whole, showed artistically vivid effect.
Painter also used Zhang Daqian also used Japanese Jianqian paper, opposition from delicate elegance and ink landscape, more simple and elegant and delicate feeling.
High mountain and quiet waterfall
4. The composition of mind natural
Also, painter, from the heart. Applied to the creation of the purity of sublimation to inject the figurative expression of emotional thought, empathy show, borrowed lyric as the objects, is no longer a facsimile and representation of objective truth, but communication with painter, borrow painter’s brush and ink embodied. His creative works has own incisive view, in addition to inherit the traditional style techniques, also form the spiritual and philosophical, experience the secrets of heaven and earth in meditation, landscape is in the nature of heaven and earth, human and nature blend into a whole, two become one, like taichi Yin and Yang, mutual penetration. Watch everything, realize self complete, South dynasty Zongbing thought that landscape painting “into practice of type”, is a reflection of the natural landscape of the realistic and aesthetic.
Liao Wentan|《Pine-soughing and birdsongs》| landscape painting
When we appreciate the paintings, and make contact with painter’s life, his works show a kind of pure feeling and easy ecstasy border, and there is a kind of thick zen, we can find ourselves in them.
The mountain of the mind
Recluse Liao Wentan
Everyone has a piece of pure land in the heart
When you alone quiet to look inside
Can go within the pure land of his mind
I called myself——recluse mountain
And you?
There is fantastic scenery in recluse mountain,
It’s my dwelling place
You can find me there
Can also find your Peach Garden
Liao Wentan |《Pine-soughing and valleys》| landscape painting