The first feeling of looking at a painting is actually catching the whole effect, which is not initiated by certain details of the painting but impacted and ignited by the gorgeous color and breath emitted of the whole. Usually, the first sense is the most authentic since it touches straight forward the essence as well as the true feature of a painting which surmounts the obstacles of rational thinking activities of human being, such as, observation, consideration, analysis and judgment. However, not every painting can bring you the true impression at the first glance, due to the superficial impurities floated on the painting which build a barrier between us and the painting, distracting our feeling from the nature.
In my opinion, there is no isolating impurity in Mr. He’s paintings, at least, most of his paintings are with the sprit. His paintings open a door to a transparent world, reflecting orange light in front of us, which I think, attributed to the purity and simplicity of the conceiving, his sincerity and confirmation of drawing. His paintings are created under the peace of mind with the trace of preciseness, the essence of nature, even the blank space in his paintings is not reserved to meet the needs of layout but presenting the quality of rice paper which coagulating the transparent gelatine to cling the image tightly, swept gently with the sprit of the author.
Rethinking carefully, the transparent sense in Mr. He’s paintings not only lies in his drawing but the passion hided beneath the pen and ink. What he sculpts is an idealistic world.
The content of his paintings origins from the actual world, but the images under his paint-brush lies on the border between reality and ideality, however most already launched to sail toward the ideality space remotely, some even pull over at the other shore to our world. His paintings convey the purity, meanwhile construct a home for them, as a result, we are all attracted thoroughly at the first glance of his paintings. If giving the explanation of the vision of “object in the mirror”, the paintings of HEWEIMING are the best sample.
Mr. HE is not a typological painter. There are lots of ‘strange’ in his paintings, the ‘origins’ of drawing methods or layout are not definite, some derive from sketching, some derive from ancient style, however Mr. HE strives to combine the few origins factor closely, eliminate the impurity, create the characters under his pen-brush like made by nature.
It is the painter’s inwardness that decides the quality, style and pattern of paintings. In the final analysis , Mr. HE possesses the inwardness of sentiment and kind.
