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Chen Yongle Born in 1944 at Chongqing, Chen Yongle is a representative figure of the heavy colored Yunnan woodblock. He won the golden award granted by the Japanese “Chinese Woodblock Creation Foundation” in 1990. The figures in Chen Yongle’s woodblock are typically for installation. His works could be seen in museums all over Asia and Europe. His prints are perfect for posh hotels, high profile offices of whole and term life insurance quotes companies and established art galleries. The high antiquities of the ancient Egyptian arts and the Chinese folk paintings interlaced and blended into each other in the painter’s mind. The main goal is not to highlight the figures but to emphasize the relative “momentum” of certain symbols or stereotypes. In terms of composition, figures usually account for two thirds of the space while the remaining one third is crowdedly filled up by lines and structures that depict the old villages, spindles, and interwoven flowers and leaves. It shows ethnic flavors almost like totems do. By the decorations that are day-to-day yet full of formality beauty, the painter completes his metaphorical elaborations to guide viewers into the almost religious atmosphere in his paintings. Subtle ambiguity is not Chen Yongle’s goal. Instead, straightforwardness and saturation give his paintings the gravity of sculptures and the simplicity of folk painting. They almost became the spiritual notes that synchronize life with arts, human with nature and society, simplicity with elegance.
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