Curtain (2008-2010)

From 2008 onward, Zhu Wei made new attempt in his painting style; besides his continuation of figurative style, he represented abstract elements in his meditation in creation and gave birth to the new works of “Curtain series”. It is the artist’s deliberation of contemporary visual language that is closely related with this series of works; the creativity of fine brush painting in representing realistic objects with clear image is obvious, although before this, Zhu Wei gained his reputation in his utilization of image resources and outstanding modeling capability of personal characteristics; however, the linguistic feature of fine brush painting is whether one can control pictures with abstract significance and this is the new issue faced by Zhu Wei in his creation of “Curtain series”. In the works of this series, Zhu Wei reduced the rendering characteristics of fine brush languages to the lowest and freed the eyesight of viewers on pictures from the restrict of the objects and he emphasized the purity of ink and wash language, opened a new way of representation in dissolving narrative factors.

《帷幕系列》（2008-2010年）

2008年起，朱伟在作品的绘画风格上，进行了新的尝试，在延续原有的具象风格作品之外，他将具有抽象思维特质的元素在体现在创作的思考中，诞生了“帷幕系列”的新作品。与这个系列的作品密切相关的，是艺术家对当代视觉语言的斟酌，工笔绘画在表现现实主义的、具有明确形象的物象方面的创作力是显而易见的，虽然在此之前，朱伟因为运用图像资源以及出色的、富有个人特色的造型能力而赢得了自己的声名，然而工笔的语言特点是否能够驾驭带有抽象意味的画面，是朱伟创作“帷幕系列”面临的新课题。在这个系列的作品中，朱伟将工笔语言的渲染特性降至最低，将观者观看画面的视线从客体的束缚中摆脱出来，并且在强调水墨语言的纯粹性，消解叙事性因素方面开辟了表现的新路。