Painter Wang Hui

Wang Hui, a contemporary painter and calligrapher, inherits the fine traditions since the Song and Yuan dynasties, integrating strengths and compensating for weaknesses. Her works cover a wide range of subjects, with ingenious compositions, lifelike forms and spirited expressions, fresh and elegant, rich in brushwork and ink charm. In creation, she advocates: "Learn from nature and express one's own emotions; unite the self with the object; learn from predecessors for one's own use, and continuously innovate."
       Her painting technique combines meticulous detail with freehand expression, and balances emptiness and solidity. She excels at depicting the richness and vitality of the world of flowers and birds, and is particularly skilled at conveying the artist's inner feelings and imaginative visions. She emphasizes sketching from life, especially adept at portraying small creatures in nature—such as butterflies, mantises, crickets, longhorn beetles, frogs, dragonflies, and wasps—rendering them vividly and appealingly. She also skillfully employs flexible and varied brushwork, combining color and ink, using color to enhance ink and ink to highlight color, integrating the color principles of Western painting into traditional solid colors to achieve harmonious overall color contrast and add rhythm to the composition. She accurately captures the dynamic movements of flowers and birds, and conveys fleeting emotions through the fusion of scene and sentiment. Thus, her depictions of flowers, birds, insects, and fish are exquisitely detailed, vibrant, lively, and full of charm. Free from the rigid formulas of Ming and Qing dynasty flower-and-bird painting, she has created a distinctive style that is fresh, ingenious, and appealing to both refined and popular tastes, possessing high aesthetic and collection value.