Path of Blooms

Path of Blooms

Acrylic and Oil Paint On Canvas

506×300cm

2026

Suspended against a void of a background—no ground, no sky, only a faded gray tone, as if bleached by time, serving solely as a foil for the galloping herd of colored horses charging forward.

This new work can be seen as a color-saturated enlargement of Wind Blast. Coincidentally, both pieces stand at transitional moments in BEI Jiaxiang’s stylistic evolution: Wind Blast witnessed his shift from the Ground Period to the Struggle Period, while this piece marks the threshold where he moves from the Struggle Period toward an unknown, mature style. In the painting, dogmatic harmony is discarded; color sets itself against any arrangement. The red horse at the focal point is most striking; the faces of the other horses mostly submerge into color, their outlines only faintly emerging through subtle chromatic differences.

Wind Blast

Oil On Canvas

153×158cm

2017

This treatment immediately reflects BEI’s current creative philosophy. He strenuously rejects a sense of design in painting—no calculated positioning, no preconceived certainty, no preset arrangement. What he wants is the passion of instantaneous outburst, the improvised record of the encounter between pigment and form. For precisely this reason, those horse faces are not “painted” onto predetermined locations—they “grow” out of color. Each time the viewer looks closely, they may encounter a face not noticed before; such unexpected surprise is the most honest evidence of improvisational creation.

The monumental scale amplifies this experience. Standing before the canvas, the gaze cannot take it all in at once; discovery unfolds only through movement. BEI Jiaxiang stands precisely at the threshold of stylistic transformation, and this painting is the truest footprint on that threshold—no design, only the force coming head-on.