Female, pen name Huangmao girl, graduated from the Department of Arts and Technology of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. She is currently the director of the office and deputy secretary-general of the Shenzhen Artists Association, a director of the Shenzhen Artists Association, a member of the Guangdong Artists Association, a member of the China Women Painters Association, and a member of the China Artists Association. Influenced by his father since he was a child, he liked to paint, and his father was engaged in oil painting, and he followed his father's advice to apply for the craft department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and became particularly interested in line drawing. From arts and crafts design, line drawing, patterns, etc., to landscape painting, figure painting, read and appreciate many famous works from ancient times to the present, absorb a lot of artistic nutrients, and lay a solid foundation for their own landscape painting creation. His works have been published in Xi'an "Contemporary Youth" and "Workers' Daily" for many times.
In 1998, he was selected for the 7th National Book Stamp Exhibition, and his works were included in the Asian Book Stamp Collection in the same year.
In 1998, he served as the director of the office of the Shenzhen Artists Association;
In 2000, he was elected as the vice president of the Shenzhen Book Stamp Research Association. The book collection works were selected for the Taiwan International Book Collection Ticket AwardsExhibition, "Chinese Book Stamp Writers Series", the 7th National Book Stamp Exhibition;
In 2003, he was invited by the National Gallery in Paris, France to hold the "Shenzhen Three-Person Painting Exhibition" (Luo Wenguan, Guo WenguanGuang, Gao Wei);
Since 2004, his works have been published in "Fine Arts", "Hainan Daily" and "Shenzhen Special Zone Daily". Published the Shenzhen Artists Gallery "Gao Wei's Painting Collection";
In 2004, his work "Small Scene by the Lake" won the second Hainan Provincial Art Exhibition in the new century held by Hainan ProvinceAward of Excellence;
In 2004, his ink painting "Small Scene of a Mountain Village" was collected by Peking University;
From 2005 to 2010, he studied at Atlantic City College in the United States.
In 2012, his work "Mountain Dwelling" was selected for the Guangdong Provincial Art Exhibition;
In 2014, "Urban Impression No. 1" was selected for the 4th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urban Exchange Exhibition.
2015 "Urban Impression II" Our City - The 5th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urban Exchange Exhibition;
In 2016, "Sunset Red Rhyme" and "Wutong People" were selected for the 6th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urban Exchange Exhibition;
In 2017, "A River in Spring" was selected for the 7th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urban Exchange Exhibition;
In 2018, "Sycamore Rhyme No. 2" was selected for the 8th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urban Exchange Exhibition;
In 2019, "Lotus Pond" was selected for the 9th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urban Exchange Exhibition. "Huaxia Morning Glow" was selected
"Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" - Guangdong Provincial Art Exhibition (Gao Wei and Zang Guofu co-authored);
2020 "Morning Glory of China", Guangdong Museum of Art Collection (Gao Wei and Zang Guofu co-authored);
In 2021, "Untitled No. 2" was selected for the "17th Shenzhen Painters Painting Shenzhen-Times Picture Scroll" Art Exhibition;
In 2021, "Gou Ba Conference Site" was selected from the old area to the special zone - to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of ChinaZhen City Art Exhibition and Calligraphy and Photography Exhibition;
In 2021, "Wujiang Datangdu" was selected as the Shenzhen Art of Guangdong Province to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of ChinaExhibition.
Vigorous, simple and vigorous – I read Gao Wei's recent ink paintings
Text / You Jiang, Curator of Shenzhen Art Museum and Director of Public Education Department
Gao Wei is the director and deputy secretary general of the Office of the Shenzhen Artists Association.From what we have seen so far, she and her colleagues in the Artists Association are dedicated members, busy with work related to the brand exhibitions of the Association.However, I haven’t seen that she has focused on local creation, persistently developing her personal painting style.From depictions of people, objects, and landscapes to urban ink paintings, she has been borrowing and absorbing the excellent creative achievements of her peers.Through deep study of tradition, integrity, and innovation, she has produced many outstanding works in recent years, especially in terms of theme creation and exploration of Jiaomo language, which have caught the attention of the industry.
Looking back at her artistic journey, Gao Wei has moved from arts and crafts design to the creation of traditional Chinese painting.
In her early years, she trained in line drawing and other painting techniques in the Department of Arts and Crafts at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts.
This foundation laid the groundwork for her future creative work and directly influenced her artistic interests and style.
It’s worth mentioning that from 2005 to 2010, she studied in the United States, where, alongside appreciating the masterpieces of Western art masters, she explored Western painting techniques.
During this time, she felt the transmutation and expression of artistic concepts since modernism and began reflecting on the body of cultural and artistic traditions, ultimately establishing herself in figure and landscape painting.
Since the beginning of the new century, Gao Wei has been at the peak of her creative work.
She has not only immersed herself in the process of creation but has also produced a series of ink paintings with rich themes and varied styles.
She has participated in several national group exhibitions, and some of her works have won exhibition awards and have been specially collected by industrial institutions.
Works such as "Small Scenery by the Lake," "Small Scenery of Mountain Village," "Mountain Residence Map," "Hua Xia Chenhui," "Gou Ba Conference Site," and "Wujiang Datangdu" show that, in recent years, she has gradually shifted from the creation of figure paintings that focus on the beauty of line and ink forms to exploring traditional landscapes.
Although her direction has shifted, her use of line, ink, and artistic conception in creation still highlights her personal style and characteristics.
"Gou Ba Conference Site" / 68cm× 136cm / 2021
Specifically, in terms of urban ink painting, Gao Wei has participated in many sessions of the "DeepZhen Painters Painting Shenzhen" and "Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urban Ink" series of exhibitions.
Many of her works, like those of a practitioner of urban ink painting, focus on the expression of urban experience.
From the ontological perspective, she continues to explore the possibilities of ink painting in visual expression.
For example, in "Huaqiang Night", a piece that depicts the city's night scene, she avoids using color. Instead, she utilizes the richness of ink's own language and the unique material characteristics of vellum paper.
This allows the ink to fully express its qualities, with the well-known electronics hub in Shenzhen artistically rendered through the night-time atmosphere of the business district, all conveyed with dripping ink.
Another example is "Street View", where she abandons the traditional spatial perspective method in painting.
Instead, she adopts a technique of simplicity and contrast, conveying the real visual experience of contemporary urban dwellers.
The image’s composition—brushed with intertwined ink—both objectively depicts the cityscape, with high-rise buildings in the distance, and reveals the psychological feelings of individuals in the concrete jungle of the modern urban forest.
In the creation of themes, through the accumulation of perennial style collection, in the specific creation, the integration of Chinese and Western expression techniques, the vigorous brush and ink and the meticulous depiction of monumental objects combined, such a series of works not only show a positive atmosphere, tell the memory of the nation, but also reflect the humanistic feelings of a contemporary painter. Such as "Breakthrough Wujiang", "Wujiang Datangdu", "Gou Ba Conference Site" and other works. In the creation of landscape painting, she combines sketching and creation, pays attention to the fun of brush and ink, uses the pen to be free and easy without losing the rules, complicated but not chaotic, thick but not greasy, in addition to focusing on individual feelings and feelings to express, using the language of painting to transform the scene in front of her into the scene in her heart through ink and wash. For example, in the "Red Shek Estate" series, she expresses her individual thoughts on time and life through the changes of the four seasons of the same landscape.
Autumn in the Qinling Mountains/ 68cm× 136cm / 2022
The creation of Chinese painting is not only the artist's inheritance and expansion of tradition, but also the comprehensive embodiment of the painter's personal emotions, thoughts, realm and character. Painting is like a person, and a painter's control and performance in the language of brush and ink often show his personal temperament. We can see from Gao Wei's works that her works are atmospheric and magnificent, and her brushwork does not drag mud and water, and the composition of the brush and form is simplified. In particular, a batch of charred ink landscapes created by her in recent years use only a single thick ink to achieve rich layered changes such as the shade of the picture, dryness, fiction and reality, which are unique and distinctive. In my opinion, her creative direction is directly related to the foundation of line drawing in her early years, the creation of decorative painting, and the later training of Western painting modeling. From "There Are Homes in the Depths of White Clouds" and "Impressions of Western Sichuan" to "Streams and Mountains", her scorched ink landscapes and brushwork are all integrated, and the vast, atmospheric, thick and simple atmosphere jumps on the paper, creating a sense of vastness, clarity and purity.
"Impression of Taihang Mountain"/ 68cm× 136cm / 2022
In general, Gao Wei has been exploring and experimenting with her creation.
Not only has she studied tradition, brushing, and ink to keep up with the times, but she also faces life directly in her works.
Her style is characterized by rough lines, bold brushwork, vigorous momentum, simplicity, and vigor, showcasing her unique artistic characteristics and position among contemporary ink painters in Shenzhen.
In his "Philosophy of Art", Danner argues that the nature and appearance of material civilization and spiritual civilization depend on three major factors: race, environment, and era.
The production of works, in turn, depends on the spirit of the times and the surrounding trends.
Looking at Gao Wei’s case as an artist, we can see that her earlier works were influenced by the regional painting school of Shaanxi.
After she moved to Shenzhen, however, her perspective—shaped by the feelings of a new immigrant—has driven her to explore urban ink painting over the years.
A series of her ink works reflect the spirit of the new era.
Since the start of the new century, Gao Wei has reflected on and compared Chinese and Western cultures.
She has used this insight to return to her own traditions, responding to the inspiration of the times with her works and recording the changes of the era with a brush.
Regardless of how her language transforms, we can still sense her creative attitude of seeking innovation and change, continually expanding the creative directions of both the past and present.
Thus, today, we see these works as a reflection and summary of her artistic journey at this stage.
In the future, we may witness her expressing life in more diverse ways, reflecting the times, and producing exceptional works that continue to rebel against and transcend her own limits through artistic language.
Breaking through the Wujiang River/ 120cm× 180cm / 2021
"The Wind Blows"/ 145cm× 368cm / 2022
"Taihang Summer"/ 136cm× 68cm / 2022
《Waterfall view》/ 183cm×97cm / 2022
Impression of Qiaotou Village/ 97cm× 183cm / 2022
(The work information is sorted from left to right)
Source: Dafen Fine Arts 2022 No. 04 Total No. 54
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