--- analyzing WEI YI’s art work

In WEI YI’s art, the layout of the image is always simple, powerful, finished and stretchy. The colorless half figures makes the atmosphere dark yet quiet. It speaks the feeling of being suppressed. The background is always yellowish; hinting the background of people’s live—under the endless yellow sky and earth. Expression of the people is always exaggerated in an abstract way. The big mouth takes most of the space, which is every expressive. The little notebook in the figure’s hands described the historical period of time the figure is in. The image reminds viewers the uniqueness of beings in the special giving time, and the meanings behind the image.

In his early works, he emphasized the flash backs of individuals lives. Later on in his view, he added more historical factors in there. With changing time line and places, the individual experienced the evanescence from ideal dream to naked truth. The innocence in one’s childhood and youth, the simplicity and passion have changed. The black and white view of the world has changed. With time going by, all the innocence got replaced by helplessness, loneliness and confusion. The harsh facts and truth makes live want to retreat. Time could prove anything, change anything and destroy anything. And behind it, is it the giant hand of fate controlling us? The evanescence from the ideal dream to real naked truth under the endless yellow sky and earth is depressing. History and time made a huge joke out of us.

Facing all the depression, artists have more and bigger responsibility to try their best to wake up the society. This is a big challenge. To show the powerfulness of the challenge, sometimes we have to put aside the arty “taste” and coming out under all the covers. This also challenges people wisdom and bravery, because everything reaches perfection in conflict.