The Poetics of De Hui Wang's Paintings
by Dr. Lien Chao

De Hui Wang is a well-established professional artist in mainland China, whose former training contains both Western oil and Chinese brush painting. Thus he mingles Western style and accuracy with Eastern sentiments in his brush paintings. His bold expressions are vividly underlined by his sophisticated brush skills and strong emotional discharge of colours.

The six paintings exhibited here illustrate De Hui's landscape and flower/bird paintings. In "Spring Shower over the Li River" and "A Mountain Temple in Fall," the artist uses such unusual, grand brush lines to paint the mountains that they look almost like abstract paintings. The only figurative images in the paintings are the sails and the temple which in a way back up the meaning of the titles in the traditional sense.

In the second group of paintings, De Hui depicts nature in a process of seeking love. With loud and yet economic brush strokes, he puts this natural world on paper. "A Dragonfly Playing with a Young Lotus," "Autumn Delight," "Under the Lotus Leaves," and "White Herons" present the beauty of love and the harmonious relationship between insects and plants, between the frogs and herons as well as their existence in the natural world. The emotional tone of the paintings is further highlighted by the intimacy of the depicted objects, thus the paintings communicate to the audience both graphically and psychologically. Technically, when De Hui casts ink and colour on paper, he also does his own emotions. His work manifests his strong personality and distinctive art.