Ding Wenmin's short review of famous artists:

Qi Jianqiu (Famous Painting and Calligraphy Market Critic - Art Critic)

Ding Wenmin is a painter who can hold his own in both landscape and bird and flower paintings. An emotion can be seen in Ding Wenmin's Taishan landscape paintings, which are majestic and upright without losing the color of beauty, very meticulous and thoughtful. He knows everything about Mount Tai very well, so Ding Wenmin's landscape paintings of Mount Tai are creations in the true sense of the word. His elephant works have the following characteristics: (1) Uniqueness in the use of color. (2) The use of brush and ink has a sense of impact and stimulation to the vision, giving people a sense of shock. (3) He specializes in large paintings. (4) The elephants he painted dared to show the head prominently from the front, which was a test for the artist. Especially the close-up of the elephant's head requires a certain amount of skill from the artist, who needs to observe it in life for a long time and coalesce it under his brush to create works with shocking power. Ding Wenmin's elephants are between brushstrokes and realistic works, and are in fact a kind of small realistic works. This type of subject matter is relatively rare in today's painting world, and once it appears on the market it is bound to attract the attention of many collectors.

Lan Tianye (Famous Performing Artist-Calligraphist)

Ding Wenmin and I can be said to be old friends, we have known each other for many years, and we have had a lot of contact. I think Ding Wenmin is a very enthusiastic person, very sincere in his treatment of others, and willing to do his best for his friends, which is very valuable and rare in today's society. He is studious, perceptive and spiritual, so his paintings are full of vitality. Ding Wenmin's preciousness does not lie in the achievements he has made, but in the fact that he still has a lot of potential to be tapped, which is his preciousness.

Jiang Kun (famous comedian and painter)

Ding Wenmin and I have been friends for many years, and we are very good friends, and I've watched him make progress and growth in the world of painting and calligraphy. He is a very diligent person, and in our discussions together I realized that he is a person with his own pursuit. He is a painter who grew up at the foot of Mount Tai, he has feelings for Mount Tai, and he hopes that elephants can bring good luck to people. He captures the various dynamics of the elephant to reflect the pursuit of ideals, I dare not say he is a master, but he will certainly become a master in the future.

Wu Huan (a famous painter and calligrapher)

Ding Wenmin is very hardworking and smart. He came to Beijing in 2002 for further study, and at that time, he needed to improve in his own training and attainments, so I took him into another field. His paintings of elephants and Tarzan are actually elephants and Tarzan is an elephant. The meaning of "elephant" is far more than that of an animal, it symbolizes the weather. By painting both Mount Tai and elephants, Ding Wenmin has gradually become cultivated, with his own humanistic embrace and his own view of the world. I wrote two lines for Ding Wenmin: "The elephant is as big as Mount Tai." I wish him well.

Yang Yan (Famous Painter)

There is a lot I want to say about Ding Wenmin, and I want to start with the teacher-student exhibition we held together. At that time, his main exhibition works were Tarzan and elephants, which attracted some attention and the media reported accordingly. His paintings made me feel that his modeling ability was very strong and that he was a very smart person, with clever hands, who usually paid close attention to observing life. His grasp of Mount Tai and elephants is unique. In Beijing these years he is very hard, as a teacher, I hope he has further improved in depth.