Eight years ago, I wrote an article for Mr. Jia (entitled "monk"and "saints" , "published in the "art" , 2003. 3. April). At that time, he was addicted to the comprehensive material, creating a large number of masterpieces between abstract and performance (mainly working at symbol). Earlier, he experienced two stages——the realistic oil painting and performance art. He has awarded in the exhibition, increasing visibility rapidly. But, since then, he seemed like "conceal one's identity", suddenly disappearing from the field! Eight years later, he finally came back. He called me and invited me to his Changping Shangyuan Art Village studio to see his paintings. After seeing, I was surprised to find that he totally changed, and was a one hundred and eighty degree turn! Not letting me sit up and take notice, the paintings were just like made by another person. Looking at the picture that day, I almost doubted my own eyes: were the paintings really created by Mr. Jia? But without a doubt, these were really created by him and were the best proof of his hard working.

　　1. To take the laws of nature change as a teacher, to learn to adapt to the evolution of all things

　　Image is the basement of the paintings of Mr Jia.

　　Mr Jia has completed fifty or sixty pieces of "great landscape" creation. (I spent nearly 2 days to appreciate it).The number is less odd than the size of these paintings . Away from 10 meters, towering spectacular integral layout; From five meters to see, orderly structure, all paths and powerfully hills have their origin and end. One meter away, grass, rock, waterfall, farmer, porters, trail……are all distinguishable. There are too many things for people to see "(from" the authors report ").

　　Across the Chinese landscape painting, "feasible, hopefully, can swim, can live in" (that is, by the historians referred to as the "panoramic landscape") ——this is an old dream. This ideal finally yielded good results in the five dynasties and song dynasty, producing a batch of landscape painters, such as Jing, Guan, Dong, Ju, Fan Kuan, Li Cheng, etc. At the same time, this also gradually become a great tradition of the landscape painting. However, the paintings of literati become popular. Till the Ming dynasty, more so - called "civil case" say, this great tradition was interrupted for nearly one thousand years, landscape painting began to wane because of many other various reasons. Since modern times, it seems to renew the "feasible, hopefully, can swim, can live in" tradition for the reason some people argued that we should use the realistic way to improve the traditional Chinese painting. Performances of the masters of Li Keran, Shi Lu, Qian Songyan are outstanding.

　　Mr. Jia doesn't follow the "new Chinese painting" path. He takes more attention on the history of the painting, connecting with the great traditions of the five dynasties to the northern song dynasty, and put it to an extreme. This is entirely new.

　　The words of "extreme", "special" mean "photo"  that advocated by the ancient people, which means "to write according to the fact" , "the eyes and the heart should both be the same" (written by Zongbing), "  Temperament " (written by Jinghao). On this basis, people take more attention on the realistic even "super realism" and modern carving techniques (except for some slightly abstract rockets landscape). And just like that, it creates a more three - dimension (relative to the land), lofty feeling. When facing these pictures, it can let a person think of Li Bai's poem: "when the white have a footpath, it can cross off E'mei top", " A winding road ahead, revolve around the mountains ", "Miles and miles of mountains, blue sky, looked from a distance of less than a foot, long pines on the precipice, constitute a beautiful picture." At the same time, it also makes the clouds, trees, houses, animals and gravel, character, category details more concrete and vivid. Mr. Jia's series are not boring, but all plain and naive. Every composition of the masterpieces pulls tension between the details and the main object, as to constitute advanced natural landscape and big state.

　　Mr. Jia's creation of the "big landscape, state" is not the general mountains and the rivers. On the contrary, the steep cliffs here have the distinct and strong landscape characteristic, distinctly making people appreciate them. All the mountains and rivers belong to the Taihang Mountains. Previously, a dramatic change has happened in ancient Yan Zhao earth. Two movements of the mountains contributed to the Taihang mountain peaks, and one million years after, formed the today's Taihang scenery. ——"Mountains have their own life, meanwhile water have their own life". (Guo Xi father and son said it). Taihang Mountains is one of China's vast landscape. Its beauty shocked the world. For one thousand year, many poets have sung for it and also drawn for it. Most of the Taihang Mountains were once one of the great birthplace of the Chinese landscape paintings. In the past, we had the masters of Hao Jing, Cheng Li, Xi Guo. Today we have Youfu Jia, Lizhou Yang, Yingchun Wang, Youben Hu. But Mr. Jia's "Landscape Painting Of Magnificent Scenery" is different from the ancient people and the modern people. When compared to the ancient people, his paintings are more modern. But his masterpieces seem more realistic and natural than the contemporary ones as the result of the sense of ancient. All in all, he has his own way to express his feelings and creates his own efficient way to record the charm of the Taihang Mountains.

　　2. Love for the land and people

　　Spirit is the soul of Mr. Jia's "Landscape Painting Of Magnificent Scenery" .

　　As the saying goes, in The Xuanhe Painting Catalogue, " landscape painting is for expressing admiration for virtue of heaven and feelings of everything" . It shares the same meaning of "love for the land and people" . Looking into the beauty of the series, "Landscape Painting Of Magnificent Scenery" , we can find that it contains two points mentioned above:

　　Firstly, this series focus on the image of father, setting it as the backbone of Taihangers, even Chinese. With his deep love for the land, it also embodies the "admiration for virtue of heaven" . Secondly, these paintings also highlight the image of mothers in Taihang Mountains, who pour their love on their homeland and people. This is the reflection of expressing the feelings of everything.

　　Different works will be discussed as follows.

　　The first category —— " love for the land"  includes relatively pure landscape paintings, which far outnumbers the category of "homesickness" . It has about thirty to forty works, constituting the main frame of "Landscape Painting Of Magnificent Scenery" . In this category, Mr.Jia highlights eight features of Taihang Mountains: greatness, magnificence, momentum, iron, desolation, remoteness, air and charm.

　　Greatness means that Taihang Mountains are really great in volume and size. In Deep Valley (2010), there are remote mountains and cloud - covered valley (long shot); lofty peaks and steep cliffs (medium shot); gullies, pools, a stone bridge and underwood (close shot); and clouds are moving and a waterfall flies straight down. Scenery of miles around is all displayed in this painting.

　　Magnificence is used to describe the mountains' form and bearing. For example, from a low angle, A Silent And Secluded Spring Flows Through The Ages (2009) presents a main peak that rises from the earth and reaches to the sky. Placed in the middle, the main peak is surrounded and set off by well - spaced and overlapping mountains, as well as canyons, waterfalls and moving clouds, which further show its height and arrogance.

　　Momentum refers to the mountains' might in dynamic and static states. In My Heart Longs for Seclusion in Taihang Mountains (2007), a fragmented landform is filled with rocks and gullies in various shapes, layer upon layer of peaks and knolls, and also scattered cloud clusters. The painting has motion in quiescence, and it might can deeply overwhelm readers.

　　Iron, is not only in aesthetics, but also in spirituality. Iron Cliff (2008) describes a sky - high screen - like mountain that looks like an iron rod standing erect between heaven and earth, and remaining still regardless of wild wind, thick clouds and passing years. We can say that any painting in "Landscape Painting Of Magnificent Scenery"  can show the beauty of mightiness and manliness. Both characteristics are indeed the theme of the series!

　　Desolation, the essence of past ages, reflects the beauty between time and space. In Crystal - clear Stream (2008), two mountains stand facing each other and a waterfall plunges straight down the deep canyon with a deafening sound floating in the air. The cliffside is shockingly cracky and rough. How can it take on such a look but experiencing the erosion of winds, rains and thunders for millions of years? The texture beyond the painting itself also renders readers feelings of vicissitudes. In Chinese, desolation means distance and boundlessness as well. It can create a superorganic feeling when one faces vast space, and Listening To Sounds Of Nature In The Cold (2011) is an example that can trigger such sentiment. Without desolation and distance, how can we see the eternity of Taihang Mountains?