Painting a feeling of forcefulness:Wei Feng's birds and flowers

Three people view Wei Feng's paintings at the Naga Art Center in Beijing on Dec 26, 2015. [Photo by Li Hongrui/chinadaily.com.cn]

"I was born in Henan province in Central China. In the Tang and Song dynasties (678-1279), a lot of celebrated painters in this area became very famous for their ink paintings of landscapes and formed a kind of style related to the Yellow River. People of this place are usually straightforward and unrestrained, so their paintings and calligraphy also bear a vigorous and forceful character, later becoming the Central China style," said Wei, who inherited the genre.

Just as the title of the exhibition Da Xiang Wu Xing (an idea of Taoism, meaning the grandest thing in the world has no material shape but their eternal soul), the aura and air of the birds and flowers are fully presented in Wei's works, rather than their shape. The birds and their creator share the same unrestrained character.