My artistic practice is rooted in a continuous self-inquiry: Where should the contemporary brushstroke land after the vast tradition of Chinese ink painting?
The “Fantasy-Color Freehand” style I founded is my answer. It is not a departure from tradition, but a profound “internal revolution.” I regard the brushwork, ink tonalities, and philosophy of blank space in millennia of ink art as an irreplaceable gene pool and spiritual summit. What I strive for is to re-activate this heritage with the universal language of the contemporary world—color and light—allowing it to burst forth with new life in today’s cultural soil.
Technically, I have constructed the “Three Inks, Five Colors, Two Lights” system. Ink does not vanish but recedes into the painting’s bone structure and foundation. Color ascends to the stage with unprecedented intensity and subjectivity, becoming the primary narrator. Light, as two intertwined energies of warmth and coolness, breathes temporality and spatial temperature into the picture plane. I internalize Huang Binhong’s “Five Brushes and Seven Inks” as my framework, transform the scientific observation of Impressionist light into an internal rhythm of luminosity, and allow the texture of Dunhuang frescoes to reunite with the poetic conception of Song Dynasty landscapes within a new visual order.
Thus, “Fantasy-Color” is the explicit contemporary language, while “Freehand” (Xieyi) is the intrinsic Eastern soul. My works are visually international, abstract, and elusive, yet their underlying code remains the philosophy and aesthetics formed through the thousand-year dialogue between brush, ink, and Xuan paper. I do not paint the form of landscapes; I construct a habitable spiritual field, condensing my contemporary understanding of “Zaohua” (creation)—encompassing nature, tradition, time, and the total projection of the creator’s present state of being.
The evolution from “LU Jinsong” to “Muran Gong” marks the path from inheritance to initiation. My work is to enable ink, this most ancient Eastern medium, to confidently participate in the global contemporary art dialogue, offering a unique vision of the future that could only have grown from this very soil.
