‘The so-called freed-up style and simplicity is to look for the feature, quality and color of something complicated and integrate it into painting with an interesting way of expressing.’ said LIN Fengmian and well validated by BEI Jiaxiang.
In art, realistic stylefocuses a lot on experience while expressionist style focuses on the expressing of feelings, however, they are not really contradictory to each other and experience is not completely excluded in expressionist, the two can be compatible and exist harmoniously.
As we see, the artist started with realistic style and then strengthened expressing, eventually turned into a freehand style. The painting was composed by blocks of color, the perspective relation was also achieved by the arrangement of color, making the painting either extremely lively and vivid or tremendously peaceful and elegant, perfectly expressed authentic feelings of the artist.
While painting the nude BEI Jiaxiang focused on the body shape instead of the face, that’s why we can hardly see the face of the girl, not to mention her facial expressions. In his paintings, it is the human body thatis expressing the painter’s emotion,not the woman who was being painted, becausehe believes that if he paints the face then he was painting a specific person, the face sets obstacle to express his feelings, besides that, face will damage the unity of the painting because the visual elements of human body are abstract so that the state and essence of the person could be presented.
