What I Can See: Wang Yanwen Oil Painting Exhibition.

In the development of Chinese oil painting in the 20th century, the expressiveness and imagery of artistic language, and the exploration of the attributes of oil painting itself, have always been one of the core topics of contemporary Chinese oil painting creation and research. Oil painter Wang Yanwen is a painter and traveler who has been persistent on this road. As an artist who has worked hard on the road of oil painting creation, Wang Yanwen graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in his early years and studied under many teachers of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In his later creative career, he traveled to Germany, Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, Russia and other countries for art exchanges, lectures and sketching activities, and many European oil painters who had close exchanges with him became friends with him. This can be felt from the portraits he painted for these exotic peers, which are full of intimacy and humor. In the course of many years of oil painting creation and research, he has taken the freehand style of oil painting and the imagery expression of artistic language as a consistent theme, which also makes the oil painting imagery characters and landscapes under his brush always full of pure and pure "writing" taste, immersed in a warm and sunny feeling. In his works, whether it is lush woods or vicissitudes of ancient castles, whether it is a clear blue sky or a gloomy dusk, between the figurative "form" and the invisible "meaning", he integrates the expression of light and color into the expression form of large color blocks and large brush strokes and the bold use of pure colors, and strengthens the texture and thickness of oil painting language with the stacking and smearing of jumping brush strokes, while also showing a unique thickness, roughness and heat of Northeast regional culture.