He lived a kind of life hidden in the wild, thinking about the world of philosophy all day long, asking about the ultimate of art; wandering in the temple of art, flying in the sky, with a hundred years of temperature, a lifetime of infatuation, the seal carved out of many characters, jumping on the paper, becoming a masterpiece.
He is called a slacker, a thatched room, a few cups of tea, giving birth to the true feelings of the world, a golden stone knife, a few stones, so that the cold stones can speak, let the stones line up in the world, jingo iron horses, left to take the essence of The cold art, right to inherit the old art mantle, fight out a Zen art school.
He only believes in the truth, and his explanation for the truth is the seal carving, which forms the philosophical height of his life, abstracted into his artistic world, and he indulges in the dialogue with art every day, the smooth lines, the solemn knife technique, and the magnificent and decisive intention, with the scene of tenderness only talking to the flower, outlining his artistic world. In this world, the artistic life of Wang Zhiqiang, the founder of the Zen genre, is outlined with ink painting-like lines.
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Wang Zhiqiang in the story
A few holes in the earthen kiln dug on the slope of the loess, a small mountain village made of stone courtyard walls, Wang Zhiqiang fell to the ground, and since then, a small life has been associated with this small village like a paradise. Since childhood, he has lived a rural life of jumping among stones, running in the intestines of sheep, and playing in mountain springs. The simplicity of the countryside has cultivated his generous character, the openness of the fields has cultivated a strong humanity, and the rugged mountain village life has cultivated his uninhibited personality. Since childhood, he has lived in the sound of dingdong mountain springs, the sound of happy birds, the undulating crops, these natural artistic elements, constitute the background color of his life' hard work, his world, from then on, only the great banks of the mountains, the rushing of mountains and rivers, the charm of mountain flowers, these colors and backgrounds, are destined to become the temperament of his art and the background of life.
In the haze, Wang Zhiqiang came into contact with art from the color of nature's landscape, understood the beauty of art, reveled in the brilliant time of sunset every day, loved the romantic time of Yunshu cloud roll, curious about the rainstorm moments of thunder and lightning, and also admired the leisure pictures of the shepherd boy and the old cow slowly and leisurely, all of this natural edification, enlightened his feelings of engaging in art creation the day after tomorrow, his connection with art did not tend to be academic machinery, nor did it fall into the colorful and colorful clichés of folk art, but unique, The formation of his zen-filled novel creation, so that his square inch of the world's artistic characteristics are unique, such as a light watercolor painting, less ink and more artistic feelings, beautiful lines and no lack of rough and unrestrained, so that his works have a kind of tenderness only with the flowers to talk to the artistic conception, shyness only to the sweetness of the world, in this artistic conception, but also without losing coldness, many artistic elements are tightly hooked with historical events, the past is like a song like a crying "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", telling all the aspirations of life, the vicissitudes of the world, the meaning is profound, This may be a scene reproduction of Wang Zhiqiang's artistic career. Art is a kind of fate, fate allows Wang Zhiqiang to start an artistic journey, and supported by a lifelong belief.
Because of art, it was a chance, that time, Wang Zhiqiang traveled on a business trip to The north of Saibei, in the Yungang Grottoes, he was shocked by art, the exquisite appearance of the flying shape, the amazing expression of the toothless bodhisattva, the enlightening expression of the open-air Buddha to the world, all of which made him linger, stop and move forward, let him lurk in the heart of the art cells activated, become a kind of inspiration that can spread passion in the heart, it is difficult to let go for a long time, his blood is boiling, the emotions are excited, he has reveled in a situation that cannot extricate himself, he knows, Many of the silences in the world, can not speak, the path of being able to speak was originally expressed through the form of art, for this reason, he was passionate, and he left his heart in the center of the art world and could not extricate himself, he thought of flying.
Leading to the temple of art, not only the nourishment of blood and sweat, but also the interweaving of persistence and diligence, Wang Zhiqiang began to immerse himself in art, a knife, he can be fascinated by a day, a stone, he can warm up for half a day, just so obsessed, he is full of ambition in the golden stone world, and he is full of sadness, step by step, he walked out of the wonderful, and behind him, unconsciously abandoned a meter high, half a wall thick stone, a pair of delicate hands, since then rough, like vicissitudes of the years, and like a few lotus flowers, blooming in the golden stone world, smiling proud of the rivers and lakes.
The road to art is never smooth, and everyone is on a bumpy journey. Some people saw the glory of art, there are also people who are broken by the hardships of art, Wang Zhiqiang on the glorious road of art, there are also stories of defeat in Maicheng, at that time, he was just out of the woods, full of spirit, participated in a national golden stone competition, the result was lost in Sun Mountain, and then went south to worship a teacher, but was turned away, disheartened He faced the world with cold, cold and warm feelings, and infinite frustration struck his heart. Against the cold stone, he burst into tears, as if he had countless heartfelt words. At this moment, the lights on the stage were extinguished, and the smiling faces under the stage disappeared, leaving only Wang Zhiqiang's lonely back wandering. The loneliest shadow in the world never explains the reason.
That time, he was sick for a long time, lying on the hospital bed, and he thought of the past that was difficult to let go, and he also thought of the miserable defeat, and he could not get out of the predicament. In this case, he returned to the hometown where he was born and raised, under an old tree that had experienced vicissitudes, and he often sat frustrated, and occasionally birds and finches circled, and it was impossible to rule out his loneliness. He stretched out his arms and shouted to the heavens, he knew the truth of heavenly rewards, but he could not change the heavenly human feelings that I persuaded the heavenly gong to shake again. Only the landscape of his hometown can make his scarred heart find a poetic habitat, and let his body tired of art be healed. After a thorough reflection in his hometown, he decided to let go of a stagnant burden and re-emerge from the jianghu.
That time, Wang Zhiqiang bid farewell to his hometown again, the meaning is not ordinary, this is not a parting, but a kind of self-consciousness of prostrating to art, he put down all his baggage, packed his bags, trekked thousands of miles, came to Wutai Mountain, and let his thoughts awaken in the world of Zen. From the historical smoke clouds of the Buddhist world, he found the true meaning of art, discovered the root of the beauty of art, let the impetuous heart be calm, experienced into a life experience, so that the temptation of red dust into Zen, become a grasp of artistic understanding, abstract art to the realm of Zen, the lines in his heart are no longer rigid and rigid, like a red streamer that flashes with light, fluttering out of the most beautiful melody in the world, just like a blooming lotus, stunning a pool of lake water, so that the distance and dreams are associated together. Wang Zhiqiang's re-emergence from the jianghu is destined to set off a storm and stir up the big action of the art jianghu.
After that, Wang Zhiqiang opened the Hundred Cities Tour, he successively took art, visited the former residence of Wang Yangming and the place of enlightenment, visited the former residence of the great leader Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai, and others, visited the former residence of the Jinshi masters, gathered the strengths of hundreds of schools, allowed the strengths of famous masters, and solved their own shortcomings, gradually forming a sect with its own characteristics. And Wang Zhiqiang's palm, full of thick cocoons, some fingers, due to the long-term grip of the knife, are deforming, outlining a kind of beauty, a kind of beauty created by labor. During this period, traveling around the world became a sign of extending his footprints, when people could not see him, he was on the way to learn art from his teachers, and when people saw him, he traveled in the golden stone world.
In his eyes, there is only jinshi, and in his bloodline, he continues the artistic temperament of the famous art of the north and south, and for the sake of art, he fights.
He spelled the mountain shakes, he fights to forget death, several times the seal carving, he is in a state of waste sleep and forget to eat, in the starry sky, only his lonely figure, the house, the height of his shadow is not as high as the stone he carved in the name of art. In the collision of stone and knife, he found the feeling of phoenix nirvana.
The plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold, and the kung fu pays off. In 2000, in Wutai Mountain, when many senior monks faced with the exquisite Buddhist scriptures and a lifelike Buddha statue he carved, I don't know what factors were transmitted by the power of Zen, or whether the exquisite seal carvings touched these escaped monks, after a moment of silence, the warm applause was given to him, this kind of transcendent emotion, let Wang Zhiqiang excited, some monks also recited the scriptures for him on the spot, the sound of the sutras, this is a noble tribute to art, a senior monk said: each of Zhiqiang's works, Full of deep Zen, penetrating the back of the paper, looking at its back, is the philosophy of the Buddha, the sutra of philosophy. Such a high evaluation comes from the mouth of a group of monks who have seen through the red dust and otherworldly, at this moment, his world, only Zen and robes, Wang Zhiqiang's crying mess, back to the intestines; Wang Zhiqiang's smile is full of tears, the past, the past life, as if it is under his feet, his art is enlightened in the Buddha's country.
Zhejiang, Hangzhou, the ancient city gathers the world's celebrities, each of their knives, is the knife of longitude and latitude, each of their paintings, are handed down to the world, many masters have stopped in front of Wang Zhiqiang's works, careful observation, quiet gaze, the sharpness of the falling stones, as if sweeping thousands of armies and horses, the meticulous knife technique, like daiyu's melancholy emotions, each knife, stirring the hearts of artists, just like the spring color of the garden can not be closed, and like a red apricot out of the wall, and each stroke, is the left longitude and latitude, the right spring and autumn, the atmosphere is majestic to the mighty mountains and rivers, Delicate and subtle into a square inch world. In the end, the experts announced wang Zhiqiang's works with high praise, and since then, Zhiqiang's works have entered the ranks of artists with names and surnames.
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Wang Zhiqiang in philosophy
In the golden stone world, style is destined for quality, and temperament determines everything. Looking at Wang Zhiqiang's seal engraving works, I found that there are relatively few side works, most of them are positive works, so that the works can face each other, so that my thoughts can communicate with the audience's thoughts, and the highest realm of art is communication, which is Wang Zhiqiang's philosophical point of view.
Wang Zhiqiang is an artist with a philosophical point of view, he never defends his works, he remains silent, and all the language he expresses in an artistic form. He believes that the artist's supreme act is to make the work speak. The supreme purpose of the Golden Stone World is to make the stone speak.
Wang Zhiqiang carved a work every time, always let the mind fly up and down for five thousand years, and then under the knife, his knife, never for the work more than a carving, just like the stroke of God, smooth thousands of miles away, in the thunder, he ingenious, lazy to carve a knife, but it is Ma Liang's divine pen, a deep knife, earth-shattering crying ghost god, shallow knife, especially like unfolding a beautiful picture scroll, presenting a wonderful character to the world. And the exquisite depiction of everyone's emotions in his works, the subtlety of each facial expression, are three-dimensional displayed in the cracks of the knife and stone. The stone crack that slowly fissioned, in the hand of the knife falling, was just like a heavenly sound, penetrating the heavens and the earth, becoming the work of Jing Wei that penetrated changhong.
But the pursuit of art, he does not stick to all experience, does not blindly worship any classic, dares to take a novel step, inherits the folk rules, breaks new trails, forms his own knife method, he is good at depicting classics, agrees with everyone's knife method, sucks the essence of art from the Qin and Han dynasties to the ming and qing dynasties, which of the Qin and Han dynasties is the most impressive, which knife of the Ming and Qing dynasties is the most profound, he dares to cross the knife to seize love, the flame wolf smoke is synthesized into his own knife method, such a situation has a scale in art, there are also exquisite, more regular, can not dance the golden rooster dance alone, And in order to form their own magnificent golden rooster independence in the chorus of the mountains and seas, let this knife borrow thousands of ancient knife methods, innovate that knife into the characteristics of the times, skillfully become a knife method of the times, and achieve the effect of Nüwa supplementing the heavens in art, the sword and knife chapter method makes Wang Zhiqiang dance in the art garden, wanting to compete with the Tiangong test.
There are always boatmen in the bitter sea. In the exploration of art forms, Wang Zhiqiang always refuses to stop, trekking in the world of golden stones every day, asking about art bitterly, every day, every minute, he practices in the world of art, he describes himself as an artist without robes, trekking in the spiritual journey of art, he is an ascetic of artistic behavior. In his spiritual world, it is all works of art refined by gold stones and knives, all of which are art classics he has carved out in the name of life, and in his life world, all are books and golden stones, when he is in the golden stone scene, it must be that he is practicing in the world of art, but the attachment to art is almost a perversion, every day, it is a stone in hand, holding and holding, this stone that has been soaked by his sweat has unconsciously become a party printing stone, dipped in bright red printing clay, forcefully on the paper, showing a negative artistic composition, Magically become a work, stunning the world. Art makes life philosophy, and philosophy interprets life as art.
Wang Zhiqiang said that the highest state of art is philosophy, philosophy is the interpretation of art, in this regard, every time he creates a work, he always sets the tone from the perspective of philosophy, and he never creates any work that lacks philosophical factors, and he never lets it be born when there are insufficient philosophical factors. He said that philosophy is related to people's aesthetic tastes, if only for art and exaggerated art, it is a fashion, and art is a history, hook the historical storm, art is a philosophy, is the practice of the world, so, my works in the general situation, are facing people, communicating everything to people, explaining everything to people, because the world is a matter of angle, what angle you look at art, art responds to you in what philosophical way.
Yes, of all art forms, the most beautiful form is to be able to examine the human world in a philosophical way, and the human world is art. When the human world becomes art, philosophy becomes a story. In this way, Wang Zhiqiang sketched out the basic structure of zen art form. He believes that the core of all art forms lies in the joint point of how to aestheticize. Yes, how to aesthetic itself is a philosophical problem, but also a philosophical proposition, from the perspective of how to aesthetic, play out a philosophical topic, is a philosophical problem, can bring people into a philosophical problem domain to solve not only how to jump out of the circle of aesthetic fatigue, aesthetic prejudice, but also let people settle, all art, always associated with meditation, Zen is the idea of philosophy, both can be imaginative, but also can be quiet, but Zen has no trace of thought, it is a kind of perception, lightning-like perception, Just like the rainbow came out of nowhere, before the storm, there was never a rainbow, after the storm, you can see her magnificence, but people never trace the traces of the rainbow, with this philosophical insight, Wang Zhiqiang began to enter the thinking of Zen art, which is a large-span artistic pursuit, it spans three thousand years of art, sweeping all the art fields, so that Zen Buddhism derived another sect, that is, the Zen art school, and then exquisitely and stretched a little, that is, the seal carving art school was born, in the field of art, This is a groundbreaking thing.
Of course, art and Buddhism have always been interrelated, mutually causal two sects, many artistic masterpieces, are the influence of the Buddhist world, so that it came out of a piece of robes in loneliness, into an artistic image, since he knew the connection between art and Buddhism, Wang Zhiqiang sneaked into Buddhism, lived in the posture of an ascetic monk, with the persistence of an artist, the poetry of the body, the whole body of the idea used to create a Zen art school, he had no hesitation, began to practice on the road of art.
In the world, who has life is not a rush, and in the human world, that person's life is not a practice? Wang Zhiqiang with the perception of art, obsessively walking on the road of art, he wears the stars and wears the moon, clings to the heavens and the earth of art, several times his life is in danger, lying in the hospital, that is, on the hospital bed, he is also in the way of art for life to present a busy look, not the knife in the hand, or the painting is engraved in the heart, it is this kind of busyness in the race against the clock and the belief that death is like home, so that the god of death is afraid to step forward, let him return to the human world, let him be like an angel, a knife and a spring and autumn, a stone and a world, the colorful interpretation of the world as a Zen, Let the thick Zen spirit flow out of the shallow artistic image. This world is destined to be the artist's spiritual home, and this homeland seems to be Wang Zhiqiang's philosophical paradise.
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Wang Zhiqiang in art
Everyone has a world, our spiritual world, our material world, we are explaining the world, we are also building the world from the perspective of art. The world is the cracking of the laws of art. Wang Zhiqiang's spiritual world and material world are unified, the spiritual world is art, the material world is the composition of art, and outside the world, Wang Zhiqiang wears an artistic robe, making the square inch world become art.
In his youth, Wang Zhiqiang often ascended to the heights of the lookout, nearby, rocks through the air, the mountains rolling and rolling, the small rivers meandering in the mountains and mountains; in the distance, is the epitome of one human homeland after another, at that time, he wanted to go out of this mountain village world, to a prosperous place to live and die, for this, he often looked up at the starry sky, the stars are dotted, and Wang Zhiqiang in the landscape associated with the colorful art world.
When he came from art, he realized such a truth, the more artistic things, the more lonely products, the more obsessive things, the more lonely products, and only a hundred years of loneliness, can let art turn out of the world, bloom in the prosperous world, in this regard, Wang Zhiqiang often lives in the deep mountains and forests, accompanied by bamboo, accompanied by plums, rough tea and light rice to cultivate his gentle and elegant temperament, nurtured into his elegant temperament, a look at the face to know that he is a person who has practiced to the level of great enlightenment. Many of his works of art were also created in the quiet mountains and forests, in the monasteries of the morning bell and dusk drum, and in the base areas of the Red Revolution. He often travels far and wide, just to feel life, inspire inspiration, and make the tree of art evergreen. For art, he often changed his brushwork, integrating goodness into it, injecting compassion into it, and ethics became the only yardstick for him to cross the artistic world. In this regard, his artwork is not a product of patchwork, but a sense of traveling the world, his artistic image is not stereotyped, not smiling proud of the rivers and lakes, or worrying about the world, using art to present a variety of life.
The perception of art is the perfect presentation of the art form. The perception of art is not only to love this kind of art, not only to linger on her beauty, but also to revel in her shape. In order to carve a "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", Wang Zhiqiang walked through many temples, from the temple's collection, the beauty of the writing of this sutra in different historical periods, presenting the beauty of the font of this sutra in a historical way, so that every word is engraved into a character symbol, so that every shape shows the historical situation, and his works have a state of natural cracking of the golden stone, and also let the words reflect the beauty of ancient clumsiness, do not let a stroke and a painting have flaws, so that each seal engraving work does not lose the beauty of Danqing, With magnificent momentum and magnificent pictures, it has entered the temple of art and become a masterpiece.
Some people say that art is a practice. Yes, the art of seal carving is a practice of going to heaven and earth, going up to the heavens to quarry stones, going down to the ground to create Buddhas, he wants to use this knife to reverse the qiankun, so that the stones can speak, and he wants to use this knife to determine the longitude and latitude, one stone to shock the four seats, and the people who accompany them are lonely. But his world is associated with heaven and earth. Every day, live in the composition of art, perhaps, a work is more than a moment, sometimes, can not grasp the line, a month only carved a shallow mark, the grasp of the law of art is not accurate, but also let the distressed Wang Zhiqiang angry, the side of the teacup thrown for many years to smash the bones, but also a few feet. Sometimes, far from home, to a strange place for a month, just in a daze, do not do things related to art, such a day, Wang Zhiqiang's body and mind are tormented, in fact, the art works he conceived are also in the unforgettable torment, people's hearts and art always echo each other, artistic people, half life prosperous, half lonely.
For the sake of art, Wang Zhiqiang closed a lot of diplomatic life, he was obsessed with silence, often silent day after night, and there was only one picture of a ghostly sculpture in his heart, that is the composition of the dialogue between man and heaven and earth, that is the obsession of going into the fire, art is a kind of torture, but for art, how many days, just like this is tortured by art to the point of not being human, people are thinner than yellow flowers. When the inspiration struck, Wang Zhiqiang crossed the battlefield and wielded a sword, and when the earth-shattering ghost god was the most comfortable moment, but the rest of the days, the painstaking meditation for art, let Wang Zhiqiang fall into a kind of bitter feeling and could not extricate himself. Where the artist's works come from, it is from this state that Wang Zhiqiang's impression of art is a kind of seal engraving.
Art, always a source of life, runs through the blood of all sects, all the roots of art in history, and can always be explained in art, because art has taken refuge in history. As a self-taught Wang Zhiqiang is no exception, although he does not have a formal master, he asks about the various sects, and sucks the spirit from the Jinshi classics, in his artistic bloodline, the inheritance is not only the power of one sect, but the inheritance and synthesis of many sects, which forms the arrogance and style that I come from heaven and earth.
Flowers bloom in the world are all poetry, decades of tempering, decades of practice in Hangzhou Lonely Mountain, Jinci Hanging Mountain, many years shuttle between Wutai Mountain and Yungang, Wang Zhiqiang cultivated into immortals, with the master's mantle and true transmission, wrapped in famous works of edification and depiction, forming an independent crane group of Zen schools, becoming a generation of masters. His golden knife rolled up a thousand piles of snow, set off a thousand layers of waves, competed in the art world, shocked in the painting and calligraphy, people have been amazed by the spring colors of this new artist in the art world, all kinds of social honors have also come, he is often busy forgetting the southeast, south and northwest.
But he rarely participates in all kinds of socializing, still imaginative, often a pot of tea, a knife, walking in the artist's garden practice, from the stone, he interprets history in the square inch world, with the power of seal carving, open up the human complex on the water side, let the stone tell the story of ordinary people, he is often a robe, in Zen to ask about art, to ask questions of Pangu, let the seal carving return to the human world, become a philosophical art with Zen meaning.
Still, after becoming famous, Wang Zhiqiang is still a cloth cloth, shuttled through the art gallery, strolling in the folk alleys, for a picture, a party seal stone, still have a fondness, can not let go, for a problem, still argue in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, in order to restore an art story, still trek through the mountains and waters, walking in the world, he is Wang Zhiqiang, Dong Shouping Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Association executive director, nan lao printing society executive director, Shanxi Minjian Painting Institute vice president, secretary general of the Zhongdu Calligraphy and Painting Institute, president of the Lingshi Printing Society, honorary vice president of the Taiwan Calligraphy and Painting Society. In fact, he is still a slacker, whether in art or in the peach orchard, still a pot of tea, a knife, a stone, enjoying life, also tracing philosophy, creating in retreat, and practicing art in the distance and poetry.