Du Xiyun
To the acute person who are sharp on the sense and discernment, the rich and subtle show in the posture, expression, tone and the action ect, is the port of leaking. For the eagle-eyed psychoanalyst, is much easier to perceive. Eyes is like the spout which is hard to cover up. To the people who can veil their eyes successfully means they have the strong controlling and defense consciousness. But this kind of personality we don't know it is joyful or mournful for the freedom, harmonious and clear which the people expect.
As an artist born in 1980s and live in the Guangdong where is flourishing for the amusement, Han Jianyu didn’t curry with the artist standard frame which the critic and cultural businessmen try their best to packing up , that make him to be special. In the cultural description, these words such as ahistoric, irresoponsibility, no broad vision appear frequently and rule them with vulgar sociology, historical decision and biology reductionism which make them become legality of the 80s culture pattern.
In fact, the living condition, the cultural background, the cognize diversity and the value judgment is absolutely different for the 80s generation. Furthermore, it is immature art with the laddish and superficial which need to grow and develop in diversity and temper by the time. Determine the nature too early is like the spoil things by excessive enthusiasm will make bad result.So the 80s’conception is the feint and the cultural opportunistic. Because it is not comparative with the extent and depth, it is just from the difference of the surface. It is not analytic from the individual, it is just from the groups.
The recent artworks of Han Jianyu is concerned the politic star in the world which the important character in the turbulence situation chosen by him. (The nowadays, the old; the lucky, the unlucky)He describes image from the mass media (they are iconicity and reconstituted by the diversified cultural discourse) and strives to present their portrait in the different situation and tries his best to show their enchantment through his understanding and technique. In the media, there is much symbolization for the political person, but most of them have been rewritten and unable to decide which is right in the different cultural context. HanJianyu tries to do his judgment and explanation. His attitude and position shows on the choosing for the copy firstly. He chooses that picture with the little ornament and beautify because they are more close to the real state and represents them by the oil painting to sink himself trace on the composition, color and brushwork and processes them according to his judge on the expression to revert their psychology. The technique is based on his experiece and grew by the cultural impulse. Moreover, the relative profundity and the exertion of the painting trait will naturally distinguish the contemporary symbolization which been popular for many years.
Concretely speaking, firstly he choosed the intercept composition and magnified the part of the person. So in the effect of the vision redeeming, these person who are reachless in the masses mind now can blow on the face and scan carefully by the audience. Secondly, according to his understanding, he uses the color with the emotionality to lay on the face and make them more individual. But the point can’t be show just by the complexion so he douses on their face with the sadness, broken to embody the advantage and reveal the complex psychology (such as perplexed, anxiety, hesitate, secretive, alert, toughness, bloat, stubborn, distressed, decadent).But the most different is that he paints the eyes which reveal their inner by rhetorical vision of the Pop culture. That various eyes with the emotionality depict in slick lovely technique to make the mystery disappear. This kind of mockery shorten the distance between the ordinary people and the political star and get back to the masses.
As a young artist born in 1980s, Han Jianyu’s artwork reveal the culture view and history consciousness and emit metaphysics in some degree, which make him forward to his personality. He expresses his feeling quiet though the understanding to the society and culture is limited because of the age, but have got better steadily. He wrote his own worries calmly, although there is the limited of the cognition to society and the culture in the age, which cannot avoid the sentimental and the simple, anyway, already entering the most pleasant stage steadily. Only on the base of the individualism to consider and create, he could outstand from the subordinative culture so we expect his realization and experience more deeply. Only in this his wit to be more excellent and is same with all the artists.