Lin Jinfu 林金福 China, b. 1978

看林金福人體作品
My Opinion on Jeff Lin's Nude Paintings

十多年前，我曾在林金福同學所在本科班短期授課，親見他第一次㝍生人體，用功，聰穎，有悟性，一時為全班最佳者。
Over a dozen years ago, I lectured for a short period to the undergraduate class where Jeff Lin attended and witnessed his first nude sketching. Diligent, smart and sensitive, he was then the best of the whole class.
畫人體非常難，乃學生必修。而畢業後迄今持續不斷畫人體，持續進步，以為志業，將課堂式的人體畫轉為具有內涵與主見的作品，就我所見，眼前的金福是一孤例，殊堪珍貴。
It is very hard to draw nudes, which is compulsory for students. He is the only one I have ever met who makes constant progress by keeping drawing human bodies after graduation, and transform the classroom-style nude drawings into works with deep connotations and unique ideas in his whole career. It’s really rare.
而金福屬意於男性身體，每取強健俊美的模特入畫，畫中的肢體語言似有所訴，亦有所抑，在肉身的博動中，隱隱見郁勃之氣。
Fond of male bodies, Jeff often chooses strong and handsome models as his drawing subjects. In his drawings, their gesture languages seem to be telling you something and simultaneously suppressing some other things. Behind the movements of flesh bodies, gloomy vitality is slightly demonstrated.
國中的人體畫多為女性，男性身體的陽剛而內秀，似不入多數畫家的眼目。人體藝術來自西方，蓋希臘以降，男性裸體的雄強勁健是為一大主題。百年來我們取法兩畫，卻於這一層美學，幾乎交了白卷。
Nude paintings inside China are mostly focusing on females. Male nudes are manly muscular with inner charismas, but they seem to be rejected by most painters. Body art originates from the Occident and the robustness of male nudes has been a major subject of the art since the Ancient Greece. For over a hundred years, we have been learning drawing skills from both Chinese and western drawings. But in this area of aesthetics, we have almost achieved nothing.
此所以我敬佩金福的選擇和勇氣。人體畫可謂漫漫長路，弗洛依徳積畢生之功，多有男人體力作，渾茫而姿肆。今金福志於此，以使徒精神跋涉之，我願為他叫好。
That's why I admire Jeff so much for his distinguishing choice and outstanding courage. For people taking up nude paintings, they would take a long and exhausting road. With his lifetime efforts, Lucian Freud has produced many masterpieces of male nudes, which demonstrate vagueness, confusions and natural grace. Now Jeff aspires to work at this and proceeds arduously forward as his disciple. I am willing to back up and cheer for him.
陳丹青
Chen Danqing
2018年6月於紐約
New York, June 2018






「所有藝術學院的學生都畫人體習作，但人體創作卻是罕見——尤其以男子的裸體作為主題。林金福剛清美畢業前幾年一直在畫布上追慕少壯男體的矯健與青春，當時我就想這條窄路也許因他的堅執而越走越寬。肌肉與形體固然是雄健之美，倘若金福還能畫出男體的憂鬱和神秘，他的男體畫面，或許會有更成熟的意境。經過了這些年的成長，金福的人體創作又進一大步。畫面整體、鮮明、內在。在他的人體創作上可以感覺到融入了自己對生命的感悟，對人體的認識更加純粹，並逐漸有了自己的面貌，在某些領域里取得了一定的突破。
林金福能有今天的成績和他的對藝術的執著和堅持當然是分不開的！希望他能繼續保持著這種淳樸，超越自我的迷障，繼續完善自我，期待他在自己的藝術創作的道路上走出自己的一片天地！」
"All students of academy of arts often copy human bodies to improve their drawing skills, but it is rare for them to draw with human nudes as subjects, especially male nudes. Mr. Jeff Lin, in first several years after his graduation from Academy of Arts, Tsinghua University, had been concentrated his efforts admiringly on drawing young and vigorous male nudes to demonstrate their brilliant youth and robustness on the drawing cloth. Then, I thought he will broaden this small field with his firm determination and persistence. Muscles and bodies are of great beauty, but Jeff may imbue his paintings with more mature implications by exhibiting the melancholy and mystery of the male nudes. With continuous growth over these years, Jeff has made a huge progress in his nude drawing works, which is complete in images, vivid in color and rich in connotation. His nude-centered creative works leave us an impression of his inspirations about life, a purer understanding of human bodies, and his unique features. He has made some breakthroughs in some areas of the drawing art.
Mr. Jeff Lin cannot make such impressive achievements today without his adherence to and insistence on art! I hope he can continue keeping this kind of artistic honesty, break all hard future barriers and make continuous self-improvements. I look forward to a special world he can create in the field of artistic creation!"

2009
陈丹青
Chen Danqing