肖映川 Xiaoyinchun
2018-10-08

Xiao Yingchuan (former vice chairman of Guangdong Provincial Artists Association, former associate dean of Shantou Painting Academy)

    

    I just read a paragraph of her article and what she said really makes sense. It is hard to paint with green tone because the painting may become tacky if it is being mishandled. However, her paintings still look very elegant. She is separated from the perplexity of being tacky with green toneand able to paint green with the feeling of vitality and youthfulness. It is not easy.

    She is a modern youth and she paints with modern taste. What she draws is with some of her father's shadow. Her father is very good at combining the big picture of nature and small details. Her father paints plum blossoms. The daughter also has a shadow on this area. She changes to paint a very large pond. What she depicts is a very grand scene with subtle things. It is quite worth to see every small detail all in one world. There are some things that I really like and they can be absorbed to my own creation of painting. For example, I don't know exactly what she is drawing in this painting, but it just looks pretty. I like it very much from the sense of form, color contrast, various aspects of processing, and color composition. I can't tell where she is good at but her painting looks very comfortable to me.

(Media interview at the venue of "Step by Step - The Lotus Pond Series Oil Paintings Exhibition of Siu Fun Kee" at January 13, 2018)

肖映川(廣東省美協原副主席、汕頭畫院原副院長)




        我剛剛看了她的一段文字,覺得說得很有道理。綠色的調子畫不好就變得很俗氣,但是她這些畫看起來還是很高雅的感覺。她脫離了畫綠色很俗氣的那種困惑,把綠色畫得很有生命力,有青春萌動的感覺,也不容易。

        她是一位現代青年,畫得很有現代的趣味。畫的東西有點她父親的影子。她父親很善於把大自然的大景象和細微的東西結合起來。她父親畫的是梅花,她女兒也有這方面的影子。她換了很宏大的池塘。畫很宏大的場面,裡面很細微的東西,細微的東西都是一個世界,還是蠻有看頭的。有些東西我還是挺喜歡的,也覺得可以吸納到我自己的創作裡面。比如這個我也不知道她在畫什麼,就是覺得很好看。從形式感、從色彩的對比、從各種方面的處理、構圖色彩各種方面,我都是挺喜歡的。我也說不出她好在哪裡。但是看著很舒服。

(2018年1月13“步步蓮花——蕭芬琪油畫習作展”展場媒體採訪)