Gaze – Recent Works by Gulistan
He Yunlan
Consultant of China Women Painters Association, director of Chinese Painting Association, painter
Gulistan’s works have been highly appraised by Mr. Huang Du, a well-known international curator and contemporary art critic, who thinks that she is a contemporary artist with unique aesthetic taste who draws inspiration and energy from the classics and returns to elegance in a post-modern way. This is completely different from the general comment of “superb skill, gladden the heart and please the eye”.
Contemplating the Middle Ages I
In recent years, Gulistan’s paintings have further expanded and dived further, requiring a more complete layout and more individuality. A more powerful expression, the most representative of which should be this “Memory of the portrait-Self-gaze”. This is developed from a small painting of two people playing a game many years ago. Completed in 2019. The works are still elegant and gentle, but the air is very strong; the techniques are still simple and simple, but the careful examination is richer and more refined. In the center of the picture are two busts. They are similar but different. The lower part of the painting is like a mountain, like water, like clouds and mist, like a sensible natural dream, and like the original prehistoric universe? They are not the existence of reality, but the existence of people and nature structured by the author with montage technique, expressing that “You have me and I have you”, “Dao that can be daoed(dao in Chinese that has one meaning means express)is not the true Dao” philosophical thinking, virtual intertwined close relationship. The chaotic and sacred atmosphere created by the whole picture tells us that their gazes are both projected to each other and inwardly watching. Only such feedback and thinking involve deeper propositions.
Gulistan is not just immersed in it with the audience, think about human beings themselves, the relationship between people, and the relationship between people and nature. Wings are also given to the protagonists to symbolize the freedom and hope that reflective human beings may have. Just like herself, she advocates the free and uninhibited flying of the mind, and is always in touch with the blood of her family and country. And when the epidemic is raging all over the world.. This creation undoubtedly more profoundly interprets the essence of the work originating from great love!
Tribute to the classics VI
In fact, no matter which series of Gulistan’s works, the common theme is love. Without love, how can beauty pass and forever? Without thought, how can there be deep power? When these two are combined, and touch our heartstrings with both classical and modern artistic language, we will be deeply moved; we will realize that because of love, gentleness can also be very powerful!
Gulistan’s paintings are very unique and highly recognizable in the painting circle with serious homogenization and bright surface. This insistence on painting concepts and individual language requires strong inner motivation. Must also have comprehensive artistic literacy. Her works are poetic and musical, spanning time and space, but leaving room for the viewer’s imagination. As a result, more and more people read and fell in love with her works.
This painting is relatively large and has strong appeal. It is suitable for collection in art museums or for decoration in living room clubs with large space. I believe that the audience will stop and stare at the work before the painting, echo Gulistan’s love and thinking together, and look back at their hearts together, hoping that both themselves and the world will become better! This is the value of excellent contemporary works!