The Artistic Form and Language Characteristics of Bai Yuping’s Painting Texture

Abstract

As a representative of the ‘Northern School’ of Chinese landscape painting, Bai Yuping is adept at using extremely thick and thin texture to record the great rivers and mountains of his country, ultimately creating a strong contrast in the picture, creating a special visual sensation for the viewer and creating an emotional resonance between himself and the viewer. Due to Bai Yuping’s special organisation and use of the language of texture gives his landscapes a special charm. On the one hand, this charm is due to the episodic effect of the writing brushstrokes, which to a certain extent breaks down some of the compositional elements of the original picture and expresses his personal emotions; on the other hand, Bai Yuping uses a combination of paint and brushstrokes to express the texture. These two aspects are important features of his language of texture, and the use of texture in his paintings gives his work a certain aesthetic expression of imagery, which has an important influence on his unique artistic language and individual expression. Through the analysis and study of the use of texture language by Mr. Bai Yuping, one can give new blood to one’s landscape oil paintings, inject new ideas into one’s works, and gain certain insights from them, so that one can better apply them to one’s own landscape oil paintings.