看曹辉的油画，弥漫在画面中的细腻、静谧、温情、唯美就会扑面而来。无论静物、风景还是人物，都寄托着他对艺术的执着追求和唯美阐述。

　　1986年毕业于中国美术学院的曹辉，一直潜心写实油画的创作。长期以来，认真的学术态度和严谨的艺术表达方式一直是他的风格。曹辉是个十分勤奋的画家，没有周末和假日，虔诚地在自己的领域里作着艰辛的耕耘和探索，他孜孜地寻求着自我审美价值的发现，加之对自己性情的正确把握，逐步找到了适合自己的切入点，形成了具有鲜明个性的艺术语言。曹辉对传统的中国文化有着特别浓厚的兴趣，在他的静物画中充溢着古老而缠绵的中国元素，他希望能从一个新的视角来诠释一些旧的感觉，这些陈旧的家具、器皿、织品，结合鲜活的果物，给人以阳光、生机和暇思，甚至在超然的意境中，产生一种飘浮的诗意。画面“诗化”的意象，那份流连和雅韵，链接了现代人难舍的许多依恋，也表现了画家宁静、深遂、温和而超逸的艺术个性和细腻幽微的心理意蕴。

　　曹辉的作品，光影变幻丰富微妙，色彩绚烂，极具感染力，其之所以打动人是由于画家对于光影的感悟、处理和把握，看似平凡的物体，经过他用心的营造，一线霞光、一抹斜阳，无不折射着他内心的独白，倾注了画家对生活的挚爱和深深的怀旧情结!生动真实的光影效果赋予了作品以新的内容和生命，提炼了生命意义的精华，也唤起了人们对光影的某种思考与探索。

　　曹辉是个甘于寂寞的画家，他所钟情的写实画风需要耗费他大量的时间精力，也要求画家具有不竭的激情，然而我们从他接连面世的画集中，看到了大量精美细腻的作品诞生，它们凝结了画家近年来在艺术之路上孤独跋涉所付出的心血。曹辉之所以能创作出众多优雅而完美的艺术作品，不仅因为他精于技艺，更在于他对艺术深深的迷恋。每天手执画笔，独坐画架前的时间无疑是他最感充实的快乐时间，这已成为他生活的一种方式。因此我们相信在漫长的艺术生涯中，曹辉以其艺术家真诚而执着的态度，在艺术之道上将走得更高、更远……

　　On Cao Hui's Oil Paintings

　　AI Xuan

　　Well-known Contemporary Chinese Artist in Oil Painting

　　One of the Founders of Chinese Realistic Painting

　　October 2009

　　Cao Hui's oil paintings are replete with delicate, tranquil, warm and aesthetic breeze gracing its appreciative audience. His artistic pursuit and aesthetic interpretations are spun into his oil paintings, whether it is still life, landscape or portraits.

　　Cao Hui, who graduated from the China Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, has been dedicated to the creation of oil paintings. Critical academic attitudes and rigorous artistic expressions have been a trademark of his style for a long time. He has a keen interest in traditional Chinese culture, which is frequently present in his still life paintings. He seeks to interpret some old feelings from new perspectives. Old furniture, utensils and fabrics are combined with fresh fruits, triggering vitality and meditation in sunshine. Occasionally, in a transcendental mood, his paintings produce a quality like floating poetry. The poetic imagery and lingering elegance create tremendous attachments that modern people cannot resist.

　　Those qualities also reflect the artist's tranquil, profound, gentle and transcendental personality as well as his delicate and subtle thoughts.

　　The light and shade in Cao Hui's paintings is forever shifting, rich and subtle with gorgeous colors. Their contagious power is derived from his perception, treatment and mastery of light and shade. Even seemingly mundane scenes, such as a ray of sunglow or a setting sun are intentional and accurately reflecting his inner soliloquy, love of life and strong nostalgic inspirations. Vivid light and shade invigorates his work with new content and life, seeks to capture the essence of life, and evokes thoughts and consciousness.

　　Solitude is Cao Hui's companion. His favorite realistic style demands not only tremendous time and energy, but also limitless passion. However, we have seen a large number of exquisite and delicate works from his art collections published successively that draw heavily upon his endeavors of solo artistic trekking in recent years. Cao Hui's ability to create so many elegant and perfect works of art is not only a reflection of his skills, but also his deep fascination with art. Holding the brush, the moments sitting alone on the easel are undoubtedly his most fulfilling and happy time, and have become his way of life. Therefore, we believe that in his long artistic career, Cao Hui, a true artist, will continually advance down the road of art, creating masterpieces that showcase sincerity and perseverance.