He paints and carves for over 40 years and wins a special status in the field of Chinese contemporary art for his numerous artworks and excellent art expressions with unique style, magnificence and modern concepts, making significant contribution to the development and innovation of Chinese contemporary art. His concern and deliberation to the universe, life and living condition of human being are released to the art creations in the performance of intense modern concepts and modern artistic quality no matter in concept or painting technique. Besides, the essence of Chinese traditional culture, like Confucianism, Taoists and Sakya are combined into his works, conveying the integration of Chinese and Western ideas, ancient and modern elements and the balance of mutual generation and restriction, compatibility and harmony.
He has achieved fruitful results in the assiduous exploration in modern art and created about a thousand art pieces of 9 series. Each series is respectively independent, inseparable and closely related to each other. The amount of the works is a large number but they all embody the full display of deep connotation of the artist’s remarkable talents in creation and expression.
All the while, Xinmin Fu is dedicating his life to blend the essence of Chinese traditional culture in Confucianism, Taoists and Sakya with the concept of criticism and the reflection from western modern art. He creates a new pattern for Chinese local contemporary art to reach out to the world through the deliberation of bringing modern art tension into profound classical artistic in the realistic situation of shocking visual experience to get art back to thrilling from the narrow storey,
1.Core theme: Realization of harmony between human and nature
Xinmin Fu focuses on the concern and thinking of life and living space for nature and human beings which finally refer to the way to realize the harmony between human and nature. Facing the increasing ecological crisis, exhausted resource and ethical lapse, value lost, decayed conscience, money worship during the modernization and marketization, he tries to rethink the existence of human being and the issues to the extreme rich society. The realization of harmony between human and nature is the core theme in today’s world as well as in the art creation by Xinmin Fu.
2.Unique system: A link to relate cosmology and the way for harmony
In more than 2 decades, Xinmin Fu produces 9 series of inseparable art works and gradually establishes a complete system in his style based on the theory of that, the universe creates a vast world where everything follows the rules and human will finally realize the harmony between human and nature when they know and understand the nature, and then they will talk to the nature and seek for the rule and order of development and operation for things.
3.Nine series: Connected and inseparable
Totally there are nine series created by Xinmin Fu:
Theme of “Weaving Series”: The universe is basically divided into varied states in the theory of object creating, heaven-earth and principle, which containing the unique view of the artist towards the universe, nature and society.
Theme of “Travelling Through”, “Fission” and “Transformation” series: The thinking of rules of movement and change for all the objects and the perception, reflection and inquiry to the realistic.
Theme of “Frozen Scenery”, “Inspiration”,“Dialogue”and ”Pursuit of Order” series: To demonstrate the current situation between human and nature, the attitude of human being towards the nature and the exploration into the universe, nature and general rules of human.
Theme of “Flowing” series: Represent the harmony state between human and nature, the belief towards the future of civilization and the ideal expectation based on reality.
The nine series of about a thousand refined works have contributed to build an artistic system of numerous works, varied forms and modern concepts. Works belong to the same theme are closely associated to its allies to form a complete, rich and innovative realm of contemporary art. The creations implies the artist’s understanding and thinking of the global ecological crisis, environment problems, relations between human and nature; reflects his worries about the nature, human being, modern technical civilization and commercial culture, the anxiety and criticism towards overall alienation from nature to life, society and even to spiritual world, the longing and desire to recover the realm defined in the theory of Chinese traditional culture which saying that man is an integral part of nature, the expansion of original desire and vitality of nature, and the heartfelt calling for getting out of dilemma and the yearning for new life. It can be understood that, the theme of existence is taken into deep deliberation by Xinmin Fu and turned out to be most incisive performance of art in the creation.
4.Two major materials: Natural wood and modern industrial materials
Almost all of modern art works in his hands relies on two opposite materials: the original material of natural wood like root, wood and stone, and modern industrial materials like metal, resin and others used for combination effect. The materials imply various symbolic meaning for their types, as original material is the symbol of nature, warmth, softness and sensibility, while the industrial materials are featured with artificiality, coldness, stiffness and rationality. They are a great combination to show the comprehensive impact of modern art and perform the profound meaning of five element theories in Chinese traditional culture.
5.Penetrate with philosophical concepts throughout: The dialectical thought of Five Phrases Theory and the law of the unity of opposites.
The modern art created by Xinmin Fu is always penetrated with profound meaning of Chinese traditional culture. Their material, form, structure, implication, theme and style are all about the classical philosophy concepts of the Five Phrase Theory for elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth and dialectical thought in the law of the unity of opposites.
6.Cultural background and standpoints of the creation
The artist goes through an era of spirit supremacy flooded with class conflicts and an era of material supremacy centered on economic construction. He is a witness and participant of the hardship and changing of Chinese society within 6 decades. Besides, he is bestowed with a strong sense of mission, responsibility, ethnic consciousness, official sensation owing to his military career of over 30 years, which has been turned into the art spirit of his creation. He has completely different vision and pursuit in art from academic artists. In most cases, he is caught in the struggling and contradiction between the two varied eras, carrying the mission of “protecting the family and country”, the anxiety against messy facts coming with the rapid economy development and sharp increase of material wealth in the deterioration of natural environment, moral declination and value disorder, and questioning closely to the whereabouts for future human beings through his experience and deliberation in art.
7.Creation Features:
（1）The meanings of material. The combination of modern industrial material and natural ecological material has given a unique expression to the art. The performance even stands out in the field of international modern art.
（2）Modern consciousness and sense. The image, form, profile, color and material are not only the significant elements for visual appreciation, but also the mirror to reflect the sentiment and deliberation of the artist upon the universe, reality and plight of human existence.
（3）The blending of nativeness and globalism. The artist makes the best use of techniques of traditional root art and produces unparalleled effects of atmosphere, strength and rhythm that are highly respected in Chinese art. Meanwhile, the fresh modern vision and artistic concept has breakthrough the limit of traditional art and output a new form of native modern art of China to coordinate with that of western cultures.
（4）Magnificent and powerful creation. Most of sculpture works from the artist are massive creations based on large and precious wood or root material collected from the nature, and supplemented with modern industrial material. The application and mastery of varied materials are cohered together naturally, showing the profound implicit and magnificent atmosphere.