Tag: Yu Zhenli
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Handwritten Diary (Volume Two)
Yu Zhenli DOI: 10.64212/ZUQX7337 Editor’s Notes: After exploring Yu Zhenli’s early works, his construction of a studio in the mountains, and his Chinese abstract morphological expressionism paintings, this issue will review Yu Zhenli and the contemporary art scene in Dalian. The first article will analyze some often overlooked details in his life and work, as well as…
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Spring Snow for the Countryman: Yu Zhenli and Contemporary Art in Dalian
Li Yang DOI: 10.64212/TGEB1713 Abstract Since the passing of Yu Zhenli, many people in the art community have reviewed his artistic journey, particularly his continuously evolving creative practices and his studio transformation that integrated art into everyday life. However, his contributions to the local art ecosystem as a native artist from Dalian are equally worthy of…
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Traces: The Whisper of Art’s Presence
Yu Zhenli DOI: 10.64212/RANI1069 Editor’s Note:Before Yu Zhenli created his last expressionist work Women at Wedding Reception in 1989, he had already begun to create some abstract art. In the following three decades, he persisted in exploring his unique style of Chinese Abstract Morphological Expressionism. This issue features a commentary written by Liu Xiaochun, alongside an early…
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Touch: Chinese Abstract Morphological Expressionism in Yu Zhenli’s Works
Liu Xiaochun DOI: 10.64212/PQSL6974 Editor’s Note:Before Yu Zhenli created his last expressionist work Women at Wedding Reception in 1989, he had already begun to create some abstract art. In the following three decades, he persisted in exploring his unique style of Chinese Abstract Morphological Expressionism. This issue features a commentary written by Liu Xiaochun, alongside an…
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Propaganda Painting to Abstract Expressionism Art: Memoirs of Yu Zhenli
I was born in Yujia Village (于家村), Huajia Town (華家鎮), Jinzhou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, on March 2, 1949, the third day of the second month of the lunar calendar, i.e., the day of Xinmao (辛卯), the month of Dingmao (丁卯), in the year of Jichou (己醜). There are eight children in my family,…
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Self-Imprisonment and Freedom: Yu Zhenli in His Eighteen Years of Living in the Mountains
In December 1988, Yu Zhenli wrote a limerick: “Mouth in the mouth, wandering in the wall, one remains a prisoner in the mouth; up and down, left and right, coming and going; a red apricot waiting in a circle, bring people back to prison. ( 口中口，牆中游，人在口中留為囚；上下左右步，來來去去走；一枝紅杏圈中候，引渡人再回到囚。)” This sly poem contains Yu Zhenli’s serious artistic attitude…
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Handwritten Diary
Yu Zhenli [Yu Zhenli Art Museum provides the article] DOI: 10.64212/ZHUW9458 Editor’s Notes: This issue marks the second installment of artist Yu Zhenli’s research-oriented essays. The first piece features a critique by the critic Shui Tianzhong, using “social sculpture” as the starting point, retrospectively narrating the social and artistic values of Yu Zhenli’s studio construction after…
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Constantly Searching
Shui Tianzhong DOI: 10.64212/FDPB6935 Yu Zhenli is an artist who keeps exploring and progressing. While he developed an alienated attitude from the dominant fashion of Chinese art, he always remembered the changing environment where he found himself as an artist. Artistically, Yu Zhenli is interested in the changing social structure and he contemplates the trends of…