Abstract: On the morning of November 21, 2015, the opening ceremony of “ The Red of Fujian ---- Hong Ruisheng’s Oil Painting Exhibition” was held in Chinese Art Museum by Wu Zuoren International Art Foundation, Fujian Cultural Department, Fujian Artist Association,and Art College of Xiamen University. This exhibition displayed Mr.Hong’s 70 oil painting works.
The speech of Fan Dian
Hong Ruisheng
The director of oil painting department
The speech of Su Li
Zhang Xiong Art Net(Article/Wang Sanxiu) On the morning of November 21, 2015, the opening ceremony of “The Red of Fujian ---- Hong Ruisheng’s Oil Painting Exhibition” was held in Chinese Art Museum by Wu Zuoren International Art Foundation, Fujian Cultural Department, Fujian Artist Association,and Art College of Xiamen University. This exhibition displayed Mr.Hong’s 70 oil painting works. There were many famous painters and leaders participating the ceremony like Fan Dian, Hou Yimin, Zhan Jianjun, Su Li, Hong Ruisheng, etc.
Fan Dian and Hong Ruisheng
the opening ceremony
Zhan Jianjun
Hong Ruisheng, born in 1940 in Xiamen Gulangyu, graduated from oil painting department of The Central Academy Of Fine Arts. Living in a colorful place he had not the same feeling of color, the expression of different, for decades to explore enhance color value. He said: "I am home to Fujian and nurture to be the nourishing painter, a Fujian person, and to learn skills in Beijing - south north art, especially the aesthetic long nourish my studio Wu zuoren, naturally let me fuses the north-south cultural characteristics as a whole." Of the exhibition, exhibition of paintings of artists express the gulangyu mood in the heart, have a praise of minnan fishermen, also have a profound experience of life, all products.
Hong Ruisheng “The Winter of Gulangyu” cloth cover oil painting 160*122cm
Hong Ruisheng “Drinking Vessel and Fruit” 1996 cloth cover oil painting 51*41cm
As an influential painter, he also had a more profound emotion to his land. In the customs of Fujian province with advocate custom, red and sweet had a special meaning in people's eyes. Red represents respect and awe that represents the good vision for the future and people’s expect of a happy life; this kind of feeling is natural guileless. The exhibition named "Red of Min Nan" expressed his complex. Yi zhongtian once evaluated: "I am not an art critic, also don't understand the oil painting, so there is no qualification to comment. If openly in judgement, that will be a bristle. But I believe, mizuki his album and exhibition named" minnan red ", must have his idea. Moreover, it is the minnan red red up early." Mr.Hong was committed to the oil painting for Chinese feelings and Chinese art elements, he diligently the expressive painting color layer texture formation, meaning, character, color.
He has contributed into oil painting, teaching and academic research for 54 years. His oil painting is endowed with the artistic meaning and the loving to Fujian , which is full with the tradition and the creation. Owing to his character, he has his own unique feeling toward the art. And his painting is very infectious for his unconventionality. Professor Hong Ruisheng is a famous Chinese painter with profound artistic attainments, academic cultivation and rich experience in teaching.