The painter Shi Qi’s work has new cubism characteristics, both has profound skill of brush and ink of Chinese painting, and has modern art elements. He is a international culture type ink painter, is a model and wind vane of innovative type painter of Chinese contemporary ink painting. Chinese traditional ink is actually a kind of product of native agriculture civilization, he break up the shackle of thousands of years agriculture civilization, the connection of world civilization and modern civilization, formed a form of recognition in both Chinese and western, the production of this achievement and culture orientation are different from Li Ke-ran, judge a person’s value must look at what the historical significance he has, the historical significance is bound to original significance, and Shi Qi’s works are having great original significance.
Shi Qi Chinese painting
Shi Qi’s work full of power, in these works, Shi Qi used a lot of urgent and intense cambered lines, this kind of lines sometimes use color line, sometimes use ink line, the character of the lines are different from Huang Zhou’s sketch line, also different from Mirro’s interest line, but this is Shi Qi style lines, the lines like ghost in Shi Qi’s painting, to bright picture and the effect of blocking block, the irregular lines and solid blocks formed confrontation and conflict, the lines has become a visual style that prompted Shi Qi’s visual style characteristic, Shi Qi’s white gold lines, just like the big black mountain crowd white waterfall and white house in the image of Li Ke-ran, as a different style of visual style.
Shi Qi learned from Wu Chang-shuo、Li Ke-ran and Huang zhou, but created his own style brush and ink, Shi Qi’s temperament makes his brush and ink style showing the characteristics of male and spicy and wild. Shi Qi after the accumulation of ink culture in last century 70s, 80s, entered a comprehensive period in 90s, also known as the integration period, is the configuration period of polyphonic elements. When Li Ke-ran praised the performance with a variety of language in Shi Qi’s painting, this shows that Li Ke-ran had a vision to see the art features of Shi Qi flash superman.
Shi Qi like Picasso changing and loving new, we throughout the creation of 30 years from 1970 to 3000, we can see his art character, this is also explain he is a brave exploration, he is a person of loving adventure of art but loathe changeless, in this point, he is different from Li Ke-ran at all. Li Ke-ran is a very stable artist, when he found a style of painting and modeling after come to stay, but the emotions and mentalities are very different in each one of Shi Qi’s painting, this is the art nature of expressionist.
The spatial pattern of Shi Qi’s work is very magnificent, gas moved unobstructed in his space constitutes, in his painting left right eyelet, this makes his work full but not inflexible, abundant and transparent. He used the square block both increase hard feeling in the picture, and makes the space to permeate deeper. Shi Qi used some irregular symbols to break square and hard block, Shi Qi in space structure of virtual and real, loose and solid, the different tendency of symbol in the compression of confrontation and collision control.
Shi Qi Chinese painting
Shi Qi treats rice paper is different attitude before and after, in his early days brush and ink as the main body, the ink and rice paper are consistency, the last century in 90s, basically ignore the nature of the rice paper, it can be said that in the destruction of paper. This trend of expressionism trampled on rice paper, completely disregard the tradition and permeability of the rice paper. The relationship between traditional culture and media material is soft and gentle, but Shi Qi has changed, he was hard pressed soft, hard crushed soft, hard rushed hard, of course it’s all for the sake of his own feelings, his heart and his life.
Along with the changes of the times, all of the auras outside of the body of the art are being diluted, the academic value of art itself will be the only standard to judge the artistic achievement, I think the creation of Shi Qi’s three images (figurativeness、impression、abstract), it will radiate more brilliant art auras with the change of the times.