蓝调系列NO99 60X80cm 油画 叶向明 2010
蓝调系列NO91 60X75cm 油画 叶向明 2010
蓝调系列NO91 60X75cm 油画 叶向明 2010
蓝调系列No.15-Blue Tone Series No.15-122×92cm-2004-布面油画
蓝调系列NO77 60X70cm 油画 叶向明 2009
蓝调系列NO98 91X122cm 油画 叶向明 2010
蓝调系列NO84 180X200cm 油画 叶向明 2009
《吉祥中国之凤凰》 50.5x61cm 油画 叶向明 2013年
《悠悠岁月》106X78 获“首届广东省水彩画展”金奖
《吉祥》 油画 170X150cm
叶向明先生近影
艺术家小传——叶向明YE XIANGMING
1963年生于广东省
1986年毕业于广州美术学院
2006年广州美术学院客座教授
2010年成立北京宋庄叶向明工作室
2012年中国艺术研究院中国油画院访问学者
现任岭南画院院长、岭南美术馆馆长
主要个展：
2010年 “蓝调系列”叶向明艺术展（北京宋庄万盛园）
2011年 “梦之旅”叶向明油画展（北京宋庄国防艺术区）
2012年 “记忆的投影”叶向明油画作品展（古元美术馆/北山会馆）
2014年 “开放的毛孔”叶向明当代油画作品展（关山月美术馆）
主要群展：
1999年 “首届广东省水彩画展”金奖（广东美术馆）
2003年 “第二届广东省油画艺术大展”（广州艺术博物院）
2006年 “中国当代水彩画展”（广州美术学院美术馆）
2008年 “当代油画名家邀请展”（岭南美术馆、古元美术馆）
2009年 “肖像/反肖像”六人联展（广州扉艺画廊）
2010年 “传承与超越”中国水彩、水粉画展（岭南美术馆）；“硬质柔性”三人联展（珠海北山会馆）；“四人行”艺术展（澳门陆军俱乐部）
2011年 “声西击东”二人联展（珠海北山会馆）；“隽文不朽”艺术展览（澳门）
2012年 “寻源问道”研究课程作品展（北京中国油画院美术馆）
2013年 “异彩纷呈”作品展（西安美术学院美术馆）；“寻城记”珠澳当代艺术展（澳门牛房仓库） ；“回望涅瓦河”中国油画家13人作品展（关山月美术馆）；广州美术学院水彩60年研究展（莞城美术馆）；广州美术学院60年作品展（广州美术学院大学城美术馆）；“独立的当代精神”四人联展（广东画院美术馆）；“向王肇民致敬”作品展（广州菲艺廊）；“第六届广东省水彩画展”铜奖（江门美术馆）
2014年 “当代中国写意油画展”（澳门文化中心）；“写意江山---中国写意油画名家作品展”（岭南美术馆）
出 版：
2008年 《蓝调系列--叶向明油画作品集》（岭南美术出版社）；《女子·音乐系列 叶向明油画作品集》（岭南美术出版社）；《走向心象--龙虎 叶向明水彩集》（广西美术出版社）
2012年 《记忆的投影--叶向明油画作品集》（中国文艺出版社）
Born in Guangdong Province in 1963
Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1986
Guest Professor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2006
Established Beijing Songzhuang Ye Xiangming Studio in 2010
Visiting Scholar of Chinese Academy of Oil Painting of Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2012
At present, President of Lingnan Fine Arts Institute & Curator of Lingnan Art Gallery
Main Individual Exhibitions
In 2010, Blue Tone Series--Ye Xiangming Art Exhibition (Wanshengyuan, Songzhuang, Beijing)
In 2011, Dream Journey--Ye Xiangming Oil Painting Exhibition (National Defence Art District, Songzhuang, Beijing)
In 2012, Shadow of Memory--Ye Xiangming Oil Painting Exhibition (Guyuan Museum of Art / Beishan Guild Hall)
In 2014, Open Pores--Ye Xiangming’s Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition (Guan Shanyue Art Museum)
Main Selected Group Exhibitions
In 1999, gold award of the First Watercolor Exhibition of Guangdong Province (Guangdong Museum of Art)
In 2003, the Second Oil Painting Exhibition of Guangdong Province (Guangzhou Museum of Art)
In 2006, China Contemporary Watercolor Exhibition (the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts)
In 2008, Contemporary Famous Oil Painter Guest Exhibition (Lingnan Art Gallery, Guyuan Museum of Art)
In 2009, Portrait & Anti-Portrait 6 Painters Exhibition (Guangzhou Feiyi Art Gallery)
In 2010, Inheritance & Surpassing China Watercolor & Gouache Exhibition (Lingnan Art Gallery)
Stiff Softness 3-Painter Group Exhibition (Beishan Guild Hall of Zhuhai)
4-People Art Exhibition (Military Club of Macau)
In 2011, Look One Way and Row Another 2-Painter Group Exhibition (Beishan Guild Hall of Zhuhai)
Immortal Words Art Exhibition (Macau)
In 2012, Source Searching Research Course Works Exhibition (the Art Gallery of Chhina Academy of Oil Painting in Beijing)
In 2013, Various--Artworks Exhibition (the Art Gallery of Xi An Academy of Fine Arts)
Biography of City Searching--Zhuhai & Macao Contemporary Art Exhibition (Ox Warehouse, Macau)
Look Back to River Nieva--Chinese 13-Oil Painter Works Exhibition (Guan Shan Yue Art Museum)
Research Exhibition on 60 Years of Watercolor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (Guancheng Art Museum)
Exhibition on 60 Years of Artworks of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (the Art Gallery of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts)
Independent Contemporary Spirit 4-People Group Exhibition (the Art Galley of Guangdong Drawing Academy)
Salution to Wang Zhaomin Artworks Exhibition (Guangzhou Feiyi Art Gallery)
The copper award of the 6th Watercolor Exhibition of Guangdong Province (Jiangmen Art Museum)
In 2014, Contemporary China Freehand Oil Painting Exhibition (Cultural Center of Macau)
Chinese famous Artists Impressionist Oil Painting Exhibition (Lingnan Art Gallery)
Publication
In 2008, Blue Tone Series--Ye Xiangming’s Oil Painting Collection, Lingnan Fine Arts Press
Woman·Music Series--Ye Xiangming’s Oil Painting Collection, Lingnan Fine Arts Press
Walk into Heart, Dragon & Tiger--Ye Xiangming’s Watercolor Collection, Guangxi Fine Arts Press
In 2012, Shadow of Memory--Ye Xiangming’s Oil Painting Collection, China Literature & Art Publishing House
学者评价：
叶向明的绘画，并非是一种单纯的抽象主义艺术。以他的绘画整体面貌而言，乃是寓形象与抽象概念之中。它有新表现主义的狂躁郁结，亦有一点超现实主义的梦魇意象。它以线条结构为经纬去营造画面的肌理，以靛蓝与玫瑰红为基调衬托出画面一种忧郁不安的气氛。
叶向明的作品，有时又呈现了另一种较为安详的面貌，那是以玫瑰红和橙红为主色调的，靛蓝则是退居次要之地位，但线条仍以深色为之，不脱蓝调本色。这一类的作品揭示了另一种意象，线条肌理较为匀称，比较强调一种平面性的画面效果。
如果说，叶向明的艺术仅是一种半抽象的作品，那我以为它更接近一种新意象（New lmage）的风格。它的创意背景是抽象的，它从一个虚构的空间去营造画境。其梦魇般的纷乱影象，以粗而短促的曲线逐次铺排，让形象与肌理复叠交融，达至有象而无形，或有形而无象的双重意象。至于另一组色调温暖，气象祥和之作，则较接近图案绘画（Pattern Painting）一类。固然，无论是图案绘画或新意象的风格，它们都以抽象构成之理念去统率画面。——钟耕略（美籍华人艺术家）
叶向明以细腻而写实的少数民族风情著称，甚至获过大奖。但是，因为梦的需要，他舍弃了这一条平坦顺利并为常人所欣赏的道路，而固执地回到自我，回到内心，回到梦境之中，结果是，其画风大变，变成今天人们所看到的样子：飘逸、忧郁、怀旧，像独自出门的长吟者，行走在无人去过的野径中，而毅然走向了终极，在那里，依稀中有一少女，沉思着，正伤感地等待最后的来者。
叶向明一直沉浸在一种没有止境的记忆中，他的作品，那些蓝调，以及蓝调之后的中性调子，作品中那隐隐约约的女性符号，只是其记忆的一道投影而已，长长的，延伸到画面上，再从画面延伸到现实中，而合成了一组乐曲，缓慢，悠远，走向生命的深处，绝不回头。
记忆就停在这投影中，注视着突然的外来者与怀疑者，没有解释，也不需要解释。——杨小彦（中山大学传播与设计学院教授、博士生导师、副院长）
客观而言，如果一个艺术家很真诚地进行创作的话，那么他的作品就是他的自传，就凝聚着他的个人经验，反映着他的生活方式和思想方式。叶向明亦是这样的例子。当他蓝调系列作品中表现出那类苦闷忧郁的主题时，实际上他也经历了自己内心痛苦的裂变；当他的情绪趋向平缓时，其蓝调抽象作品中亦显然流露出安详平静的气氛。尤为值得注意的是，隐约可辨的心形、花形、小天使等形象是叶向明在寻求作画时的个人情感的象征表露，其带有隐藏的象征性，那种梦幻般的单纯与平静是对成人世界的一种否定和逃避，也正如他作画时的态度一样，在一种超然的心态中向人的本性回归。
假设我们把叶向明的蓝调系列简单地归纳为表现的抽象，又未免过于单一化和模式化，尽管叶向明也较为注重抽象表现画面的张力和情绪的表达，但对于其蓝调系列而言，重要的不是类型的划分，关键的是把握视觉张力与生理乃至心理的对应关系，体会到抽象语言与意象的结合，心灵与艺术的契合。
但客观上，叶向明的蓝调系列却又具有典型的范例意义：即不仅要关注抽象艺术自身的叙事语言，更要注意如何以独特的艺术形式表现出现代人的精神状态，从心理上而不仅是视觉上传达现代意味。——陈国辉（策展人、中国艺术研究院博士）
画家在早期绘画中对人物形体的素描关系极尽描摹，得益于其钟情古典主义的情结，他试图从中世纪艺术大师的作品中获得灵感，并将人物所处环境以观念化的抽象背景代替，使人物虽动犹静，将时光在此刻霎时定格，与古典主义精神追求崇高与安谧之感不谋而合。
作品《悠悠岁月》获“首届广东省水彩画展”金奖，它是叶向明向古典主义致敬的经典作品，虽然是水彩，构图上却有类似马萨乔作品的图式，人物造型亦有文艺复兴之始乔托笔下的坚实感。即使是水彩，却有提香之油画般反复叠加十数遍绘制的层层深入，亦有以素描关系主导色彩关系的新古典主义创作程式。正如安格尔对素描的极其重视——“除了色彩，素描包含一切”——素描线条处理所能达到的表现力，也是画家叶向明后期作品在艺术上诉求。
叶向明从水彩朝油画的转型，也是一个由具象朝抽象转变的过程，然而，即便画面给予观者的视觉感受变化如此之大，画家笔下一个个人物的神情却一如既往，他们醉心于各自的精神世界，没有人可以望向画外，寻求与观者对视，而是垂首低眉，若有所思，流露着心无旁好骛的专注或坦然，他们与画家一样，借由无止境的记忆，到达永恒的彼岸。——薛军 邬梦姝（策展人、评论家）
叶向明的水彩表现出轻松、柔和、古雅、流畅，时而沉浸于抽象表现，时而兴趣盎然地重新迷恋上带写生性的生动描绘。不过，意趣的表现则是他试图寻找属于自己的艺术语言。叶向明多年来沉湎于艺术创作之中，追求个人精神自由的无限乐趣。——张幼云（博士、广州美术学院教授）
我以为，画家是用特殊方式进行的一次心像的披露。这一心像是与信仰和追求联系在一起的。这就是说，画家把自己从事的艺术创作视为生命，把对高境界的艺术追求做为信仰的皈依。
这是开拓型的中国艺术家将音乐与绘画交融探索的历程的见证，是一个有着历史责任感充满着哲理思考的画家，用苦涩的心灵去触摸爱的路途的行程，抵达新的彼岸的个案。——李人毅（评论家）
叶向明有着深入而精细的写实功底，自2003年投入抽象画创作以来，他完成了从学院主义、写实主义到抽象表现主义的转型。他的“蓝调系列”“梦之旅系列”很好的提供了这样的案例意义：即不仅关注抽象艺术自身的叙事语言，更注意如何以独特的艺术形式表现出现代人的精神状态，从心理上而不仅是视觉上传达现代意味。他用新的表现形式去探索艺术与社会以及情感的关系，他的画面具有音乐性，展现了硬质和柔性相冲相融的美感。——杭间（中国美术学院教授）
Ye Xiangming’s painting is not a simple abstract art. As for the overall appearance of his painting, it exhibits abstract concept through realistic image. It shows both the manic depression of the new expressionism and the nightmare imagery of the super-realism. It composes the painting texture with lines, and sets off a kind of depression and uneasy feeling with keynotes of indigo blue and rose-bengal.
Sometimes, Ye Xiangming’s artworks show another kind of peaceful feeling, with keynotes of rose-bengal and orange red, while indigo blue is secondary note, but the lines are mainly in deep tones, on the base of Blue Tone. This kind of artworks shows another kind of imagery, with even texture emphasizing a flat-surface effect.
If Ye Xiangming’s artworks are ever a kind of sub-abstract works, I think they are more New-Image-Style. The background of creativity is abstract and the picturesque scene is built in a fabled space. The nightmare-like chaotic images are laid by short and thick curves, while the images and the textures are overlapped, intangibly. The other series with warm tones and peaceful feeling is a kind of Pattern Painting. Of course, no matter the New Image style or the Pattern Painting is composed mainly by the abstract concept.
——Zhong Genglue (Chinese American Artist)
Ye Xiangming is famous for subtle and realistic minority national feelings that made him awarded. However, he gave up the smoothly common road and insisted on his dream. He came back to himself, his heart and his dream. Thus his drawing style changed much: elegant, depressed, recollecting, as a lonely chanter walking in a field resolutely to the end, where there is a girl thinking and waiting for the final visitor sadly.
Ye Xiangming is always deep in a kind of endless memory. His artworks, those of the Blue Tone and the Middle Tone after the Blue Tone, including the female signs in his artworks, just reflect some of his memory, which is expressed on paintings and showing the reality, as a musical composition, being slow and profound, leading to the far end of life without return.
The memory stops at the paintings, looking at the visitors and the skeptics. Without explanation. No need for explanation.
——Yang Xiaoyan (Professor of the College of Communication and Design of the Sun Yat-Sen University, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice President)
Objectively, if an artwork is composed sincerely, it shows the autobiography of the artist, telling his own experience, his lifestyle and his manner of thought. So is Ye Xiangming’s. The depressed and dejected themes of his Blue Tone Series showed the grief of his inner heart, while it became peaceful, the Blue Tone Series of artworks also look unruffled. Noteworthily, the faintly visible heart, flower and small angel are Ye Xiangming’s expression of individual emotion. The dreamy purity and the calmness is a kind of denial and avoidance to the world of adults. As the detached attitude of his composition, there is a kind of recurrence to natural instincts of human being.
If we just sum up the Blue Tone Series of Ye Xiangming with abstract expression, it might be simplified and modeled. Thought Ye Xiangming quite pays attention to the abstract expression of tension and emotion, as for the Blue Tone Series, it is more than the division of types. The key is to grasp the tension of visual sense and the correspondence of physiology and even the psychology, and to realize the combination of abstract language and image, the art and the soul.
Objectively, the Blue Tone Series of Ye Xiangming is something representative leading to a good significance: not only attention to narrating language of nonobjectivism, but also attention to expression of mental status of modern people by unique forms of art, passing on the implication of modernism not only visually but also psychologically.
——Chen Guohui (Exhibition Planner, Doctor of Chinese National Academy of Arts)
The artist has been dedicated in sketching description of the characters in early painting. Due to deep love in classicalism, he tried to be inspired by the artworks of the artists in the Middle Ages and replace the environment of the characters by abstract background of idealization, to capture the characters and the time in picture, which showed a mere coincidence with the classicalism on pursuit of sublime and peace.
The Yeas Behind, the gold award of the First Watercolor Exhibition of Guangdong Province, is a classical artwork of Ye Xiangming with salution to classicalism. The watercolor shows a kind of Masaccio-like composition and the Giotto-like firmness of character modeling. Though it is a watercolor, the progressively deepening as oil painting shows a kind of new classicalism with sketching leading color relationship. Just as Angle’s attention to sketching (who said sketching is everything except colors), the expressive force of line treatment of sketching is also Ye Xiangming’s goal at artworks in later period.
The transition from watercolor to oil painting of Ye Xiangming is also a process of concretization transit to abstraction. Though the visual change is so much, the figure expression is the same as before. Nobody looks out of the painting or looks at the peopleoutside. They are bent on spiritual world. Some people drop the heads as if deep in thought without distraction. Being absorbed and unperturbed as the artist, the people in pictures are in pursuit of eternity with endless memory.
——Xue Jun, Wu Mengshu (Exhibition Planners, Critics)
The watercolors of Ye Xiangming are relaxed, soft, classic & elegant, easy & smooth. He threw himself into the abstract expression sometimes and active sketch from nature sometimes. However, the expression of interest and charm shows his seek of own artistic language. Given to artwork composition for years, Ye Xiangming has been in pursuit of the freedom of the individual spiritual freedom.
——Zhang Youyun (Doctor, Professor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts)
I have thought that the artists are publicizing their imagoes by particular forms, which are something related to belief and pursuit. Namely, the artists regard the artwork composition as life, and the pursuit of high-end art as belief.
It is a witness of the searching of the combination of music and painting of a pioneering Chinese artist. An artist with strong sense of historical responsibility and thought of philosophy is touching the love with the agonized heart to reach a new goal.
——Li Renyi (Critic)
Ye Xiangming has a firm and subtle basic training of realistic writing. He has threw himself into composition of abstract painting since 2003 and finished the transition from academism, realism to abstract expressionism. His Blue Tone Series and Dream Journey Series led to a good significance: not only attention to narrating language of nonobjectivism, but also attention to expression of mental status of modern people by unique forms of art, passing on the implication of modernism not only visually but also psychologically. In quest for relationship between art, society and emotion by new expression form, his painting is musical, to show the aesthetic perception of combination of hardness and softness.
——Hangjian (Professor of the China Academy of Art)