YUAN Hui-Li    袁慧莉

In the THEY Shanshui series, Yuan Hui-Li explores the intersection of traditional landscape aesthetics and contemporary conceptual frameworks. By deconstructing the form and meaning within the vocabulary of dots, lines, and planes in traditional cunfa (texture strokes), she redefines the very meaning of "Shanshui painting." Through her self-created "Yuan-style cunfa," she replaces the naturalist quality of classical texture strokes with the emotionality of feminine consciousness, effectively subverting the cunfa system that has been constructed by a male-dominated perspective for over a millennium in Chinese landscape painting. Furthermore, she supplants the traditional, unified aesthetic of subject and object—traditionally encapsulated as "sourcing from nature externally, and capturing the mind's source internally"—with these emotional texture strokes. In doing so, she shifts toward a completely new interpretation rooted in "interiority," forming an alternative, abstracted Shanshui that creates a realm for landscape painting completely distinct from antiquity.

​在《類山水》系列中，袁慧莉探討了傳統山水美學與當代觀念框架的交匯。透過解構傳統皴法點線面的形意語彙，重新定義「山水畫」。自創袁氏皴法，以女性意識的情緒性取代古典皴法的自然性，顛覆中國山水畫千年以來男性觀點建構的皴法體系；亦將「外師造化、中得心源」的主客合一自然美學觀，以情緒性的皴法取代，從而轉向「內在性」的全新詮釋，形成另一種抽象化的山水畫，為山水畫創造與古迥異的新境界。

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