Xing-jian Gao said:” For artists, significance is not search self-identity, just for seek difference, creation only come from difference.” Yong-chao Lin in the creation, from color to subject, all along look for this difference, he is hoping to express the unique charm of the style of Minnan.
Yong-chao Lin bird-and-flower work: Morning Tune
Yong-chao Lin was born in Zhaoan Zhangzhou, after graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, living and teaching in beautiful coast city: Xiamen, he is a local Minnan people, Bamin land next to the mountains and rivers, often so-called “eight mountains one water one field”, because of location factor, in ancient time is quite block with outside of world, having strong local color from life style to society custom, obvious difference between south and north. However, in painting field, influenced by Zhejiang and Shanghai, but not formed the unique art style. “Our painters are very good whom went out, but the regional characteristic is not distinct.”Yong-chao Lin according to his experience of studied in Beijing to spoke, when he realized this point, in the artistic creation, he devote himself to blend Fujian feature into his works, from freehand brushwork figure Huian woman to typical animals and plants of claborate-style flower-and-bird. In his painting, the red phoenix flowers are bright and vivid, attracted people’s eyeball at the most, red is the lucky color, and is the typical representative of vulgar and elegant, but who can do it the color bright but not garish, elegant but not artificial, that’s surely experienced lots of practice from month to month, meanwhile, refer to particular Fujian local lacquer painting, use the typical red and black in the lacquer painting, in the process of painting permeating and blending, painted the red color is rich and gaudy, bright and vivid. On the selection of subject matter, for flowers he mainly paint phoenix flower、bougainvillaea、peony and Chinese redbud, for birds he mainly paint White Dew、parrot、magpie、golden pheasant and so on, the friends can be seen these typical flowers everywhere who have been to Gulangyu island, but if you want see these birds that you need some luck. He painted these scenery on the paper, water and shore, flower and bird, he poured out his love for this land, and his praise for the beauty and breeze of life. In the later 1980s, “Xiamen DaDa” made the culture information of this city is opening and blending, keep the realm of art is vivid and fresh, Yong-chao Lin in this very modern city, he is always scholar and painter, he teach in Xiamen university of arts and crafts more than ten years, he is teaching very earnest, claborate-style bird-and-flower painting according to Song dynasty mostly, he wants to search the masterly place of Song dynasty, he use exquisite painted, bright and natural color, and ornamental style to paint flowers and birds vividly, showed the vitality of nature on the paper.
Yong-chao Lin bird-and-flower painting: Blossom
Yong-chao Lin bird-and-flower painting: Beautiful sun
《Twenty-four moods of poetry》 has a sentence as “full of green peach on the tree, coast in the wind day”, its mean “Fine and delicate”, Yong-chao Lin’s claborate-style bird-and-flower painting has the same effect, richly and beautiful literature and art style, formed from plentiful self-cultivate and accumulation of technique practice, I have talked with him, not in a hurry is the deepest impression of teacher Yong-chao Lin, never skimps his work cause no time, he doesn’t like to start to painting in a hurry, he use the art manner of the traditional literati control himself, he is responsible for art and works, he hoping to keep every the most beautiful corner of Egret island, also eager to more people can known Bamin art again, after for a long time, it will be have so-called “Min style”.