Lu Taiyu, native place: Chongqing, is a famous contemporary Chinese oil painter, a national first-class artist, an academician of Beijing Danqing Painting and Calligraphy Academy, an international peace artist, a specially invited consultant to the state guests of the People's Republic of China, and a winner of the "Golden Sail Award" of Art China. In 2023, with the series of oil paintings "Good Morning Chongqing", he landed on the Internet blockchain and was praised by the authoritative media People's Network and Guangming Network as "a pioneer of digital art interpreting the beauty of Chongqing with paintbrush".
Lu Taiyu has successively studied in the Academy of Fine Arts of Southwest University, Lingnan College of Sun Yat sen University, Surikov Academy of Fine Arts of Russia, and China Academy of Fine Arts.
"Walk all over the mountains and rivers, and draw only one city". Draw your own familiar life and the changing city; In recent years, Lu Taiyu has launched an extraordinary art project, "witness the beautiful Chongqing, 100 beautiful paintings for you to see". Use color to record the beauty of life, explore the profound cultural heritage of the city, and show the unique charm of Chongqing.
Lu Taiyu, who is keen on public welfare, donated money to establish the "Kaixiu Scholarship Fund" in Banan District, Chongqing in 1995, and was awarded the honorary principal of Banan Guangcai School; In order to fulfill their good wishes and open a window of art for children in mountainous areas, they joined a public welfare organization in 2019, went to Meigu County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and became a rural volunteer teacher deep in the mountains; Won the honor of "Excellent Volunteer" and "CCTV Love Ambassador".
Rooting artistic creation in the history of national rejuvenation
Thoughts on Lu Taiyu's Oil Painting Series "Good Morning Chongqing"
After French romanticism, there appeared a realistic art movement to praise nature and describe the life of ordinary people. Realistic painting refers to the art of expressing the reality of life. It describes the things in its own vision with the method of being faithful to the object. It reflects the essence of things through the phenomenon. Realistic painting is formed by the landscape painters of the "Barbizon School", represented by Koro, the "peasant painter", Miller, the self proclaimed "realistic painter", Courbet, and some political satirists, especially the creation of Dumier.
▲ Good Morning Chongqing
The works of Lu Taiyu, a contemporary painter, continue the artistic style of the 19th century western Barbizon school, which is known to later generations as Miller, Koro, etc; In terms of technical description, he also contrasted the characteristics of Russian realistic landscape paintings in the second half of the 19th century. The most representative painters, such as Hishkin and Leviathan, mainly depicted natural landscapes in their creative themes and reflected the living conditions of the people, with a high degree of humanistic realistic care.
▲ Beautiful Chongqing in Spring
When I saw Mr. Lu Taiyu's relevant painting videos, experiences, etc., I was moved by his dedication to art and his love for Chongqing, his hometown, and his motherland. Mr. Lu Taiyu's landscape paintings are rigorous in structure, relaxed in tone, skillful in color, and fully expressed in light and air. His art always gives people a soft and elegant feeling. He can faithfully describe the nature, and at the same time, he can add soft feelings to produce poetic charm. Koro's landscape paintings seldom show the scenery under strong light, but mostly show the scenery with mild interest in the evening, morning and natural objects. Looking at his works, the trees seem to be in the haze, as if in a semi dreamlike world. The picture shows a poetic flavor, which makes the viewers love the beauty of the city.
▲ Golden Chongqing
Lu Taiyu's oil paintings are undoubtedly the praise and praise of Chongqing's urban civilization. With exquisite brushwork, rich colors and unique aesthetic concepts, he skillfully combined various elements in the city to form beautiful and moving pictures. 100 works were dedicated to Chongqing and China's reform and opening up for 40 years! In his paintings, we can see many tall buildings, busy traffic, beautiful scenery, leisure and quiet; It can be seen that the flow of people is very busy, and it can also be seen that the years are quiet and peaceful. The scenes in this kind of oil paintings give us a more comprehensive understanding and perception of urban civilization, so painting for Chongqing endorsements is full of the responsibility and responsibility of promoting urban civilization.
▲ Chongqing Guotai Art Center
His works seem to give people a feeling of going through time and space, as if they are in the scene. Every painter dipped his brush into his soul and painted his nature into his painting. His painting "Dongshuimen Yangtze River Bridge" shows his exquisite observation, and every detail is carefully described. His works are full of vitality and bright colors, which make people relaxed and happy. With its unique color and texture, oil paintings show the imagination and creativity of artists, which is amazing.
▲ Eighteen Ladders of Love
When watching the video of Mr. Lu Taiyu's painting from life, I was deeply touched by one thing. When painting from life on the street, the audience can participate in painting together. This is very good. If you combine with the masses, your work will be more interesting. His works include Chongqing of different ages. With a unique perspective and keen observation, he captures every bit of urban development, organically connecting the past, present and future of the city, not only showing the prosperity and vitality of the city, but also revealing the cultural conflict, integration and inheritance in the city. This in-depth discussion of the theme of urban civilization undoubtedly provides us with more dimensions of thinking and perspectives when facing urban development and change.
▲ Overlook of Thousand Buddhist Temples
As an artistic language, oil painting includes color, light and shade, lines, texture, brushwork, texture, light, space, composition and other modeling factors. Lu Taiyu's paintings express the artist's two ideological contents, presenting different faces from painting art and technology. Oil painting has a strong expressive force. Through bright colors and realistic pictures, it makes the audience feel happy and happy. His paintings can be met but not sought. All of his paintings are obtained from the extreme training. Every work he creates with his heart is worthy of our respect and appreciation, recording the prosperity of a city and the vision for a better future. I believe that he will contribute to the painting world with new exploration achievements on the road of art.
Famous painting and calligraphy art critic: Shan Yu
Written at Yanyuanwei on May 6, 2024
Appreciation of works
▲ Train for Spring
▲ Wonderful Light Rail Crossing Buildings
▲ The Rising Sun Chaotian Gate
▲ Sunshine over Shiziping Light Rail Station
▲ Ancient Town of Hidden Magnet in Longmen
▲ Morning at Linjiang Gate
▲ Dawn of Yellow Garden
▲ The Backbone of Chongqing
▲ Longmen Haolaojie
▲ Spring to Hongya Cave
▲ Trains Crossing the City
▲ Mountain City Trail in the Afternoon
▲ The Wonder of the Yangtze River -- Turtle Stone
▲ "Spirited Away to Hongya Cave"
