EXHIBITED:
Imagery of Mt. Wuyi: the Debut Interactive Creation of Chinese vis-à-vis German Artists on International Tours , Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, July 22-30, 2006

ILLUSTRATED:
Imagery of Mt. Wuyi: the Debut Interactive Creation of Chinese vis-à-vis German Artists on International Tours , China Academy of Art Press, 2006, illustrated, p. 401
Xing Ling Shan Shui – Hong Ling You Hua Zuo Pin Ji , Hebei Education Press, Shijiazhuang, 2008, color illustrated, p. 95

SILVER SNOW
HONG LING

The landscape oil paintings of Hong Ling’s are different from those that are familiar to people and his creative idea, which combined western oil painting with Chinese landscape painting, has become the turning point in modern landscape history. Since oil painting imported into China, a large number of artists have tried to combine oil painting with Chinese traditional cultural, and to work out a new art way with Chinese culture spirit and oil painting essence. And the oil painting, a kind of painting derived from overseas, can contain more Chinese culture aesthetic characteristics. Artist Hong Ling is a model representative who has dedicated himself into the course of combining Chinese painting with western one, and has made a great success.

Hong Ling, by his Chinese landscape study and practice in the early years, and his deep research about western oil painting art in the following subsequent period, coupled with his own talent and courage, has opened up a clement foundation and generous promising art road. His Chinese ink landscape in the early years had self-experience and selfunderstanding of its language factors. After that, he learned oil painting, like others, he can freely use both painting languages and gradually infiltrate into his individual exploration which he called Landscape Painting. For Hong Ling, landscape is only a certain cr eation theme, painting is only a medium, he wants to create Chinese Oil Painting, not just show some Oriental symbols, not only surface of national customs, not even establish a little bit landscape theme, but find his own language. What Hong Ling's creation relied on is the great Chinese traditional culture, simultaneously, it has integrated the creative ways and techniques of Western oil painting.

Just like what Hong Ling said that his painting creation had been through many explorations and changes, even involved pure abstract, then his way, which explored new oil painting from ink landscape had set up. It has gradually developed into this unique art feature. For this, Hong has really spent much time working on it, such as abrogating focus perspective, light and shadow, without time limitation. He abandoned visual interpretation of scenery and entered into subjective created situation. This process is a length by length exploration, difficult but enjoyable. Hong Ling uses his unique method to show remote and fresh landscape in the south of China. The green rocks and hill is genial and remote under the humid smoke and hazy sky. From the creative mind of the artist in recent years, the painting shows the features of indifferent and tranquil, delivering a sense of art direction. His works express kind pursuit to the massive and gentle nature. To people lived in this realistic world, his works have showed fresh and natural feelings, washing out people's soul, and they contain positive and healthy live attitude. The tranquil and peaceful aesthetic character, otherworldly artistic conception that recovered the simple and returned to the nature, can make us thinking human's position in the nature and the relationship between human and nature when we enjoy the everything on earth. It can also calm anxiety and utilitarian thoughts, inspire living courage. Whether from the perspective of sociology or psychology, Hong Ling's works have positive significance.