has many famous calligraphers and painters in our country in modern times, but there is only one painter who can be called an all-rounder. He is the famous painter, director, and industrialist Mr. Chen Yifei. His oil paintings "Ode to the Yellow River" and "Occupy the Presidential Palace" often appear in textbooks.
Chen Yifei
Chen Yifei is a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang. He was born in Ningbo in 1946. After studying in the United States in the 1980s, he focused on the research and creation of Chinese-themed oil paintings. With the concept of "big fine art", he has made creative achievements in reply, film, clothing, fashion, environmental design, etc. The most famous is that his many oil paintings have been sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. Well-known Chinese artist.
Chen Yifei "Occupy the Presidential Palace"
In the 1980s, Chen Yifei planned to study abroad. His friend recalled that at that time they didn't understand that paintings could be sold for money, so they lost many excellent paintings. But Chen Yifei is very clever. He asked friends for help before going abroad and arranged all the paintings, including "Ode to the Yellow River". In this way, Chen Yifei went to the United States with only 38 US dollars. Four years later, he obtained a master's degree in art, and then held solo exhibitions in the United States and Japan.
Chen Yifei's "Ode to the Yellow River"
Chen Yifei's works are widely collected by the National Art Museum of China, the Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution and domestic and foreign collectors. The New York Times once commented that his style of painting combines realism and romanticism, reminiscent of the masterpieces of European masters. His works "Mountain Wind" and "Jade Hall Spring Warm" successively set the highest auction prices for Chinese oil paintings. When the American oil magnate Hammer visited China in 1985, he gave Chairman Deng Chen Yifei's work "Reminiscences of Hometown-Double Bridge" as a gift.
Chen Yifei "Reminiscences of Hometown-Double Bridge"
Chen Yifei's ex-wife Zhang Zhi is also a painter. She married at the age of 26. After marriage, the two were very sweet. They often hid in the small attic to admire Beethoven and Chai Ke. Masterpieces of Wowski and Bach. But in 1986, the two agreed to divorce in the United States because of their disagreements. Although separated, the two are still friends and still help each other. This shows that Chen Yifei has a very open-minded character.
Chen Yifei and his foreign friend
He met his current wife Song Meiying in 1996. Song Meiying was still a model. In a model competition, Chen Yifei, who was a judge, remembered her, and Song Meiying joined Chen Yifei’s model agency. Later, my friend recalled that when the two fell in love, Chen Yifei was not as busy as the back, and often saw Song Meiying by his side. Song Meiying admired Chen Yifei very much, and her words and deeds became more and more similar to Chen Yifei. In dealing with people and things, she was modest and thoughtful, and generous. Good popularity and good reputation are one of the reasons why Chen Yifei chose her as his wife. In two thousand years, 54-year-old Chen Yifei and 25-year-old Song Meiying held a simple wedding in the United States. The woman in "The Warm Spring of Yutang" mentioned above is a model made by Song Meiying. In addition, she also painted several works for his wife.
Chen Yifei's "Yutang Spring Warm"
is not only well-known in the art world, Chen Yifei began to set foot in the film world in 1992. In less than ten years, he established his position in the field of film. After the completion of "Old Dreams on the Sea", Chen Yifei began to direct the second film "People Meet Dusk". This film starring Leung Ka Fai, not only achieved high At the box office, and won 4 consecutive international awards. And the third film "Escape to Shanghai" caused great repercussions in the Jewish world. These three films established Chen Yifei's position in the film industry.
Stills of "People Meet Dusk"
However, no one thought that "The Barber", which worked with the famous director and actor Jiang Wen in 2002, became the work that ended Chen Yifei's life. The original author of "The Barber" was Fan Yiping. He later recalled that at that time, four-fifths of the crew belonged to Jiang Wen. Although Chen Yifei was the director, his intentions and techniques could not be implemented at all, which made him very disappointed. . At that time, Chen Yifei was already suffering from a serious liver disease, and the doctor told him not to be angry, so Chen Yifei kept suppressing himself, which also led to the final illness.
"Barber" stills
After the "Barber" filming started, Chen Yifei and Jiang Wen had conflicts, and even in January 2003, the famous "stop filming" incident occurred. For this reason, Jiang Wen said that arguing about an excellent movie is veryNormal, no fuss. However, Chen Yifei, who has always been tolerant and generous, denied Jiang Wen's statement. He believed that Jiang Wen's character was problematic. According to Wang Shaowei, the executive producer of "The Barber", the film was originally only a disagreement on the creation of the two people, but once Jiang Wen launched a malicious attack on Chen Yifei at the shooting scene, saying a lot of Chen Yifei's bad things, and I thought Chen Yifei didn't hear it. In fact, Chen Yifei was wearing a monitor and heard everything. "I think this is the root cause of Chen Yifei and Jiang Wen's complete break," Wang Shaowei said. Later, Jiang Wen withdrew from the filming, and some investors also expressed their intention to withdraw, and Chen Yifei had to start filming the film out of his own pocket.
Jiang Wen
In March 2005, Chen Yifei's condition was very serious. The hospital diagnosed gastric bleeding caused by cirrhosis, but Chen Yifei refused to listen to advice and even worked in a hanging bottle. On April 6th, Chen Yifei's family called Wang Shaowei and told Wang Shaowei that the doctor had stopped Chen Yifei from working, but Chen Yifei was still optimistic about his condition. On the morning of April 10, the famous painter and director Chen Yifei died of illness in Shanghai Huashan Hospital. He left thoughts for his friends and regrets for Chinese painting.
