Katherine de Tilly-Blarn , Art dealer, 1999

“ His characters have a natural tendency towards elegance and grace creating an aristocratic quality. Even his studies of the great masters reflect a certain Chines pride throughout. He plays with mixing Chinese figures into familiar works such masters as Manet, Velasquez, Vermeer and others. The chinese character fits so well in its Western surroundings as the artist himself in his Parisian “ environs ”.

Perhaps the most strongly element of Yin Xin’s work is his remarkable use and sbtlety of color. Warm, somber tones give a strong visual impact to his work and reinforce its solemen nature. Yin Xin doesn’nt use light freely to illuminate nor color to bring life, he wants the viewer to slowly contemplate their impact and explore the canvansses richness and darkness. Sometimes, he describes color as trite and uses it only because others push him to do so. He prefers the world of the natural palette which expresses a feeling as distinct as the difference between a black and white photograph and a color snapshot. He often says that he likes to paint in dimly lit conditions to understand the way such masters such as De La Tour understood light. As one critic has put it, “ It is with fiendish economy that Yin Xin makes his statements , and it is through this economy that he lays bare his inner substance. ”

As can be seen in the way in which Yin Xin’s painting style has evolved through ardent study of solid technique, his drive towards perfection brings us back to the Confucian values at the heart of this artist. Confucian thinking suggests that trough practicing a social form (ritual, music, poetry, painting), we modify our nature so that gradually we perform easily and well.

Acquiring skills though practice in this way is deeply fulfilling. Indeed, Confucians believe, it is our nature. Yin Xin strives for classic continuity though will power and thirst for knowledge. Although Yin Xin was trained in classical painting in the Xian Academy of fine Arts, his expertise was in woodcut prints. Today, Yin Xin’s life in Paris has brought him back to Chinese values. His paintings masters are those found in the corridors of the Louvre and the Orsay Museums mixed with a few millennia of Chines culture and history buried deep in his psyche. ”