Appreciate Mr. Liao Wentan works by accident, let me think over, my heart was touched and attracted deeply. His works full of vigorous and energetic in the inky, moved the viewers, the vivid and rich emotion, does not reveal himself wonderful works of painting language shows its weight and the spirit of the individual orientation. Through the reconstruction of art, for the present the spirit of tired and vacant modern people, provides habitat condition of mind!
Read Mr. Liao Wentan’s works, not hard to find a painter work’s inner conception and content in the boundless reclusion, continuously to establish the realm of art of their own, and then let the viewers get more fully affirmation and praise, and for their own art to self-awareness and hard work, keep moving, no hesitate.
Liao Wentan |《Old trees hovering between the clouds, galloping springs sometimes by stone block, or bypass continue to flow》| 100 x 150cm
Self artistic works close to the reality and life, traditional essence and the unity of modern spirit, and he has conducted in-depth study of generations of painters such as sages, and often walk in the hills and villages, use eyes to observe, use heart to taste, use brush and ink to depict, to explore life and inheritance of intersection, and then to the deep realm of ink painting art, in his landscape painting, feeling the imagery and lyrical beauty.
In his works, both self aesthetic aspect, and artistic sublimation, achieve a dreamlike wonderland effect, went into his landscape paintings, enjoy the painting ink reflected by the attractive and endlessly vast. Those rapid waterfalls, mountains, cliffs spring of living among the mountains, from his paintings volatile out the magic of nature, as a unity of mental state, also fully embodies the painter in creation, to devote to emotion harmonious compatibility state with brush and ink.
Liao Wentan |《Heavy smoke in the evening》| 62 x 100cm
Reread Mr. Liao Wentan’s works, felt his art pursuit of potential energy and the unique aesthetic qualities, looms clearly in his works, make the feeling of the viewers soar with the movement of painting language! The spirit of his work, ink color vivid, handle them very well, subtle in broad, boldness with delicate. Painter construct inner spirit with his own painting language, his landscape pattern of the recluse mountain of the mind, properly also derive the traditional culture of harmony, the concept of living water and spirit mountain, performance mind pure land position with brush and ink, and strive to achieve local delicacy and vigorous the perfect integration of the whole.
Painter use to the actual situation and white, layer upon layer rendering with the processing of leave a note, brush and ink to produce new form of ink painting, which has a unique and special significance. In his works you can feel that he pursues a kind of ancient freshness and boundless, not just pure painting landscape, novel and peculiar thinking, the performance of traditional Chinese landscape painting and the painting forms harmonious context of the times, the formation of complete personal artistic style, is the spiritual realm of delivery.
Liao Wentan |《Sparse plum tree branches are tilted, petals reflected glory》| Bird-and-flower painting
His paintings of house, jungle, gully are the scenery of nature in our real life, by artistic exaggeration clipping made of the sublimation, tonal changes in temperature in the images of the deep and quiet atmosphere, works with tranquil poetry, simple and elegant and feeling refreshed, enjoyed his works full of flavor, mountains and streams are endowed with romantic and lyric, clever mind created by brush and ink on paper, from the border of his painting style to the landscape painting to form his personalized distinctive characteristics, gully in jungle mountain, strewn at random peaks, appearing the nature and smoke around in the pale and moist, make the picture more vivid, show the universe and life of endless mysterious force stretching, deep and quiet situation in the painting, seems to have the voice of the outer space traveling long time, is the painter’s personality!
Painter’s endless pursuit and constantly transcend self, description of the physical landscape and develop inner view of the mind, the traditional spirit and the integration of inner wisdom, to create a spirit of work, this is the pursuit of the idea of Mr. Liao Wentan’s goals.
Xu Tianfu, director of the national museum of history research
Liao Wentan |《Green pines and quiet birds》| bird-and-flower painting