On Visual Arts Of Chen Yifei "Big Art" Category

There is no doubt that Chen Yifei is an important figure worthy of record in the Chisese painting history of the twentieth century ,he was the first Asian artist who signed the world's most authoritative Mabo Luo gallery; He was also an cultural businessman of film,magazine,clothing,and other two major areas,he was the first man who proposed the"visual industry"slogan, and he actively introduced the concept of"Big Vision","Big Art"into cerative practice and the"visual industry",he found a new path in the field of art for successors,which made him a great visual artist.He created a symbol of an era,made the world aware of perfect fusion of the Chinese tradition and the Western culture with his painting.Fron the period of sixties to seventies, Chen created the paintings Ode to the Yellow River, occupation of the Presidential Office, pace and a series of revolutionary theme of outstanding oil paintings, using the techniques of realism, reflected the strong feeling of heroism,opened a large chapter of depicting major historical events and scenes, and he got the access to the social and widespread recognition.He went to the United States to strdy in 1980 and got master's degree in 1984.He cereated the oil painting of memories of home– Double Bridge in 1985,which was sent to Deng Xiaoping as a gift by Dr.Hammer, the chailman of Occidental Petroleum of United States,in his visit to China,and Chen rose to fame by it .After that, he engaged in painting in New York and held personal exhibitions in New York,Washington and Tokyo.His Words joined in Oil Painting Auction in Hong Kong and mainland China,their price reached new highs in Chinese oil paintings in Oil Painting Auction and were collected by the China Art Gallery, Museum of the Chinese Peoples's Revolution and collectors of domestic and abroad..In his late time,he created a series of water landscape works such as Old such as Xunyang Rhyme, Poppy,Waiting for the Moon in Western Room and so on,using romantic approach, showed the typical"Orientalism"feature, having superb artistic level and high artistic value. He believed that valuable arts should not only left in the surface but also should reach people's hearts. So he was not content to remain a layman, he extended his arts ideas of Big vision to film, clothing, model and other industries, he created the Yifei Group visual industry chain.He had film works such as sea dreams– Chen Yifei personal Wandering(1993),an autobiographical film, Renyuehanghun(1995),reflecting the thirties Shanghai's feature,art film fled to Shanghai(1999), TV Documentary Shanghai's Ark(1999),and personal film Barber. These all reflected the complex of Chen Yifei of Shanghai, giving the film"poeticlanguage"and witnessed great ability to create as a visual worker. He put art into business, created a parfect combination of art and commerce. Not only was he able to show the artistic value with his paintings and write his life history of visual art ,but also could integrate the concept of Big Vision art perfectly into film,magazines,models and other commercial activities, interpreted his beautiful life of the visual arts to people with action and impressive results.