Natural History——Interpretation of Landscape by Zhu Yuze and Chen Xin

At the beginning of the chaotic orld, all things in nature are coexisting born Lao Tzu sa “Man follos the earth, the earth follos the sky, the sky follos the Tao, and the Tao follos nature” Lao Tzu, ho is honored as “the father of natural science”, constructed the Eastern philosophy using the Taoist vie of natural order Aristotelian philosophers in the classical age also studied and analyzed the diversity of the natural orld So, the mutual learning beteen Eastern and Western civilizations reached an eological consensus Tracing the source, the natural history of Zhang Hua in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Pliny the Elder in ancient Rome, is also natural science that is all-enpassing, incorporating the true image mirroring the tins of human beings and nature Gradually, the appearance of modern art bees apparent, and scientific concepts bee hden, hich changes people”s vie of nature and even the vie of the orld

Artists Zhu Yuze and Chen Xin both had a living experience in Germany, traveling to the West and being enlightened in the East They are both deeply influenced by the isdom of traditional Chinese culture, studying the essence of modern abstraction, and taking oriental philosophy as the context As outstanding and mature artists, they have long realized the ultimate goal of art, that only by constructing a truly unique personal system, forming the irreplaceable academic viepoints and artistic context Only then can it return to the true nature of art In the experimentation and exploration of artistic creation, they integrated science, naturalology, history, Human literature, and other knoledge systems to explore the scientific research methods of naturalism in contemporary landscape painting, bining art as prominent theory and science as implicit theory, In the end, the high level of self-cultivation of knoledge-based artists is shon via a distinctive visual schema

朱雨澤，庚子-1，69x69cm，宣紙 巖彩，2024

Zhu Yuze has brought forard the unique scientific concept of “Ne Naturalism” fractal aesthetics in contemporary ink painting in his artistic journey over 40 years He has keenly discovered that, the theory of “Fractal Geometry” and fractal las from the field of mathemat威力彩開獎走勢圖ics are in ith China”s Lao Tzu”s ay of nature Hence, he has carried out theoretical analysis and artistic creation practice for more than 30 years With the super high state of neo-naturalism, he returns to the authenticism He takes real mountains and rivers as the cornerstone and is proud of the spirit of ne ink painting He even uses a technique of “the la of no la” With the most essential and simple energy from the heart, he strengthens the halo that is blended ith color and ink and creates a viv, majestic, and dynamic ink painting artistic conception In the contemporary context, it transcends subjectivity and objectivity, hich has created and presented his “Second Nature” theory by bining nature and human, andering in the emptiness, enjoying freedom, and precepting the orld This is the spiritual universe of seclusion by a profound scholar

陳欣，枕空山 No34，布面油畫100x150cm，2024

Chen Xin integrates the artistic context of the East and the West As an artist presenting in the form of abstract expression, Chen Xin has devoted himself to art since 1999 He has long been focusing on the spirit and desire state of modern people He also has advanced artistic concepts and visual experience By bining Technology and Ne Media, and breaking through the limitation of materials, he has formed a unique “empty mountain” and “air style” aesthetic conception ith a subtle to broad and elegant literati charm, hich has brought the past travelling to the present; ith the contemporary Abstract Pop technique, he has created his “Xin landscape” His landscape brushstrokes are distinct, layered and interlaced, rich in color, focusing on the structure of the schema and vigor of the temperament Thus, he creates the elegance of oriental culture, and reconstructs a dialogue ith nature and a return to spiritual tradition Therefore, among all things in the orld, art transcends subjectivity and objectivity, aakens the ontological aareness of the natural landscape in the universe, and achieves an eal state of authentic art, hich is the true meaning of natural history

By Li Rui

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