我无法抑制地需要某些特别的方式表达自己，因而我就无法固定某一种模式或固守某种不变的风格。甚至我需要用互为冲突的创作过程和迥然不同的视觉刺激来满足我的这一需要。惟有两种或多种强烈反差的情绪和思维活动所形成的广阔巨大的空间方能满足我的这一需要。我一直以来都倾心于我以为十分重要的“文化反差”，因而我的作品常常出现东西方不同元素的交织，通过多种材料甚至综合媒介来表达这一反差，最终的效果却又皈依于单纯。
我在整张画做了一层水墨底子或单色底子后，用中国大漆罩一遍，使整个画面处于一种深色略偏褐色的氛围中。然后我选择与底子的图像不同文化元素、在视觉上形成一定程度反差而又能相互依存的造型。画面不同层次的融洽和交织倚仗于绘画性很强的技术语言。材料的使用也是东西方不同材质的并举——大漆、硍硃与油彩、丙烯综合为一种不同寻常的迷离效果。画面常常是多种物象的综合，复杂的材料、变幻的图像、光洁如镜的表面与我们身处其中瞬息万变、充满奇光异彩的世界相暗合，而在浮光之下潜藏着一个幽冥神秘的世界。
2000年后的绘画《重造培根》系列作品，又在此基础上借鉴培根的艺术的元素更突出强烈造型的力量，更为直接进入人的灵魂对白或独白。通过油彩、丙烯与中国特有的材料大漆在不同层次上的交替使用，让作品产生一种超常的特殊效果，而这是与借用培根艺术元素汇合以别种元素所造就的幽冥气氛相表里的。激越的笔触和强烈的色彩反差表现那非常规的奇谲造型和灵魂世界，绘画性和深邃意境并驾齐驱，涵义复杂而不确定;培根作品主要以明亮的室内气氛作背景，二者效果殊异。
总体而言，我希望既确立一种艺术形式完璧无瑕的统一，又在其中肯定自然宇宙存在的矛盾与协调的无穷变化;既溶解理智的坚冰，又平息激情的喷薄;而以自然宿命和人为秩序统一内心深处无以名状的灵魂语言，获得既稳定永恒，又给幻想玄思以极大空间的表达方式。
Artist Statement
By Hu Zhiying
After making a penetrating study of traditional Chinese culture and the history of Western painting, imitating artists of the abstract expressionist school and experimenting with and producing ready-mades, I have taken up painting again. In the last two decades I have been exploring a question I call “cultural contrast”, a broad field that I aim to explore further. In notes on my works, I write: “In my work I combine the constant cultural value of the symbols in Chinese painting and the unfolding eclecticism of painting taking place in the West.” I combine Chinese traditional landscape painting with the elements of vary art styles in the West. I like to regard my works as equivalent to the real world and not merely a documentation of it. My paintings frequently synthesis imagines of many kinds of objects, where those in the background often change places with those in the foreground.
My works illustrate “cultural contrast” as an abstract and concrete field of knowledge. When the viewer tries to discern the origin of this field and identify the relationship between the themes of art and their prototypes, they are likely to lose themselves in the dreamlike realm of the paintings. In my easel paintings on canvas or board, apart from conventional materials like ink, oil and acrylic colors, I apply gold and silver power, Chinese Varnish. These materials, expressing an archaic mood in a multitude of imagines, add substance to the “cultural contrast”. The various materials, the diversity of images and the glossy surface are easily identifiable with the bright yet unstable reality of the world in which we live, and at the same time, imply a dark, mysterious world lurking beneath the dazzling surface.
The series works "Remake Bacon" is, since 2000, based on above, and uses for reference the certain elements of Bacon’s art to be the more prominent power of the intense images, more directly enter the person's soul dialog or the monologue. To use oil, alternately, acrylic with the unique material——Chinese Vanish in different level alternate, lets the work have a superior visual effect, but this quotes the Bacon’s art elements, and converges with others art elements in the dim atmosphere which the elements become vary outward appearance and substantive content. The vehement contrast between the intense brushwork and the strong color display those non-conventional changeful and extraordinary images and the soul kingdom, the pictorial technologic language and the profound artistic conception in harmony, its meaning is complex and indeterminacy; the effect is bright atmosphere indoor as the background in Bacon’s work, the former is differently from the latter.
Overall, I hope to establish a perfect art form which posited the endless changes of the existence in which include the conflicts and the harmony of the unity of the nature and the universe; both dissolved the ice-like reason and the gushing over-passionate; and unity natural fate and man-made order in the language from the hearts, its form is not only the eternal stability, but also the expression way having the great room for mysterious fantasy imagination.
【编辑：小红】
