2015年CRI 艺术家李玉双：绘画是光编码（在线收听）

Reporter: 80 years old Li Yvshuang titled his ongoing exhibition in the Today Art Museum "From and For Nature——A Discovery of Encoding of Light".

The mentioning of encoding sounds largely based on science and technology, which is the approach employed by this scientist-turned artist to interpret his vision on art.

Li Yvshuang recalls how he embarked on painting on the basis of a law of reflection.

"Since 1970, I have been devoted to experimenting. I painted like Monet, with a more impressionistic approach. As I studied carefully the science and theory on light reflection, I used my paintings to gradually adjust the theory and meanwhile develop my artwork step by step according to the modified theories."

Li Yvshuang graduated from the Beijing Machinery Manufacturing School in 1956. He continued to study in a shipbuilding college in Shanghai. Later he worked as a teacher of engineering in a machinery manufacturing school in Zhengzhou, Henan province.

Born in the family of a master of landscape paintings in China, it is naturally expected that Li Yvshuang would have a career in art. Then with a strong educational background in engineering and natural science, Li utilizes scientific methods as a faithful description of nature in his unique artwork.

With a concise understanding that vision begins when light rays are reflected off an object, the artist takes pleasure in explaining the foundation which he based his paintings on to the interested viewers.

"The eyes' vision is actually the reflection of light from the object outside, which is then sensed by the brain. I found later an image is shaped following the process of two-dimensions encoding and decoding. Concerning whether I should paint the optical image in human eyes or paint the visible outline of an object, I decided then to base my paintings on the images shaped in the eyes."

Since Li Yvshuang's solo exhibition opened on June 28th, it has been attracting a big crowd of visitors to the museum.

The exhibition comprises over 40 pieces of oil paintings, watercolors, "mixed-media" artworks and several hundreds of sketches. Besides these works, a project that shows the digital artwork jointly made by Li Yvshuang and contemporary digital artists will also be on display to show the amazing light-encoded world.

Yi Ying is a professor with the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He quoted Fei Dawei, a Paris-based art critic and curator to comment on the artist and his artwork.

"For decades, he has been working independently. He's invented a peculiar and even contradictory painting approach. He combines rational scientific research and emotional artistic expression. His understanding of the nature has expelled fallacy of the era from his paintings."

A Discovery of Encoding of Light is composed of three sections: "What is the encoding of light?", "An observation of encoding of light" and also "Method of encoding".

All his artworks included in these three sections will take visitors through Li's path of artistic pursuit to learn about the interplay of artistic exploration and the scientific research which drove the progression of his art in an unprecedented direction.

The artist hopes, on the other hand, his paintings would give viewers with an in-depth apprehension about the charm of light.

"My paintings are basically of scenes from everyday life. Ordinary people don't have to specially develop a feel about them. I think my works are light encoded paintings. Paintings are a sort of visual expression. The code of lights in the nature is vibrant, rich and colorful. Meanwhile its beauty is the most widespread and has no limits."

The entire third floor of the museum has been devoted to Li's work. Gao Peng is curator of the Today Art Museum.

"People can know more about Li Yvshuang through this exhibition. He is a scientist, and he has his own peculiar way of observing the world and then using paintings as an expression of those peculiar sceneries in his eyes."

The first major solo exhibition dedicated to Mr. Li Yvshuang's sixty years of art pursuit will be available in the Today Art Museum until July 12th.

For Studio Plus, I'm Xu Fei.