The work of Lin Changhui "Hot land" was selected in the Fourth National Youth Art Exhibition

Text / graphic reporter Gong Xiaoguan

Lin Changhui | "Hot Land 1" | 115 x 178cm | oil painting on canvas | August 2011

Original title: painter more than 20 times under the site to capture the sense of happiness of migrant workers

The painter Lin Changhui's work "Hot Land" was selected in national youth art exhibition in Xiamen, only this one, "Hot Land" stands out from the 9127 works.

The fourth national youth art exhibition sponsored by the National Youth Federation, Chinese Literary Federation, Chinese Artists Association, from 1957 to 2008, China has held three sessions, the emergence of Huang Zhou, Zhang Qinruo, Luo Zhongli, He Jiaying and other outstanding artists from them. To continue building a good opportunity for talented young talents show itself, national youth art exhibition since the beginning of this year, will be held every three years. This exhibition received a total of 9127 pieces of works from all over the country, including the selection of traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, watercolor painting, powder painting, lacquer painting, sculpture, synthetic materials and other kinds of art works of 526, then pick out more than 200 pieces of works in the National Exhibition tour.

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Lin Changhui: the people of Xiamen, a member of Fujian Artists Association, graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts comprehensive painting art performance postgraduate class, now he is sign painter of the Dragon Art Limited Company. His works have been selected in many provinces, cities and national exhibitions and won many awards. 2008 oil painting "Left" was selected in the fifth session of Fujian youth art exhibition, which hosted by Fujian Province Artists Association; 2009 painting "Red Bird" was selected in the students' exhibition of outstanding works, which hosted by the China Central Academy of Fine Arts; 2010 oil painting "the Scenery Outside the Window” was selected in Shanghai art fair art exhibition; 2011 oil painting "Golden Gull in Spring- Chinese Soviet Area Divided land” was collected permanently by Fujian Provincial Museum.

A national comprehensive exhibition, the Fourth National Youth Art Exhibition National touring exhibition is underway, one is the Xiamen youth occupation painter Lin Changhui’s oil painting work "Hot Land", this is a major breakthrough in the field of occupation painter of my city.

There are many professional artists including teachers and students of major art institutions, the art competition in our province, only selected three works, Lin Changhui's "Hot Land" is the only one in Xiamen Province, is also my provincial three works selected in the top.

Vice chairman of Xiamen Artists Association Yan Minsheng said, Lin Changhui as an occupation painter, selected works of national exhibitions, especially in extremely difficult oil painting type, is a great progress, regardless of skill, composition, depth of thought or overall creative have reached a higher level. He said, Xiamen Haicang, Wushipu oil painting village, gathered nearly 10000 painter, can appear such a representative of Xiamen youth oil painter Lin Changhui, will play a very good role model and inspiration for the whole oil industry of Xiamen.

Lin Changhui | "Hot Land 1" local 1 | 115 x 178cm | oil painting on canvas | August 2011

"Hot Land" is the performance of a migrant worker of drinking water, this is the opening of Lin Changhui's creation for a series of works of migrant workers. In order to this picture, he has been to the site more than 20 times, once he drove the car into the site by unloading cargo blocked, just only second days took out the car.

"I am a farmer's child and have a vague sense of intimacy towards the peasants. One day last year, drive to the Tongan sketch via a building site, see two of the migrant workers are digging the foundation, the moment I feel very touched, because their eyes exude a sense of happiness, and not the same as I saw before the migrant workers." Lin Changhui immediately got off the car, please one person smoking, and he wanted to befriend each other, although because of busy refused Lin Changhui, but since the beginning of each site frequently in island and out of island, and in close contact with migrant workers, only to capture the feeling, let him have the touching moment.

In the picture of "Hot Land", a migrant worker was pouring a bottle of mineral water into mouth. Lin Changhui said, when he saw the migrant worker of more forthright behavior on the building site, take the initiative to find him chat. After two people became familiar, Lin Changhui caught drinking water with the camera. "The movement of this drinking water feels like a stretch of his limbs and a tension in his behavior. More importantly, he is drinking mineral water, in fact, this is a kind of humanistic care, this picture just reflects a sense of happiness."

Lin Changhui said that this piece of work he has created for more than three months, "I care very much, even if the color is a little bit bad, all may come again. Especially where I need to be carefully portrayed, I will do whatever it takes to achieve what I want." For example, the bottle of mineral water and flowing water, Lin Changhui said, he took a photograph, migrant worker into the mouth of the little water, not flowing out from the mouth, and he wants to flow out from the mouth of the bottle of mineral water come into contact with the skin on the face, and the feeling of flowing down wet clothes. In order to describe this effect, Lin Changhui invited a student as a model, let the students continued to pour out mineral water, but a total of eight or nine times, spent the whole four bottles of mineral water to reach the satisfactory effect of Lin Changhui -- the water from the mouth of the bottle to clothes, the overall trend is curve flow sense, very vivid. The student had been suffering from a cold, which made Lin Changhui feel guilty.

At present, Lin Changhui is creating second series of works of migrant workers, the reporter saw in his work room, the picture of the peasant workers are smiling leisurely manner. Lin Changhui said, "this cigarette smoke movement shows the casual feeling and the sense of ownership on the construction site, and it makes people feel that the whole site is the home of the migrant worker."