With the rebirth of the nirvana of the ancient nation and the prosperity of traditional culture, the meticulous attitude, rational spirit and moral beauty contained in Chinese painting complement the contemporary Chinese cultural values that need to be constructed in the new era. It not only gives the history of art a brilliant chapter, but also leaves people with a dignified and elegant, romantic and loose memory of time.
The ink fragrance dissolves into wisps of mist and dissipates in the life of water. A few danqing strokes outline the square inch of the world. This issue of "Art Beijing" overview will take you closer to the Chinese paintings in the expo and appreciate the new face of the world under the pen and ink.
The life carefully depicted in the silk pen is deep and ethereal, who is Mao Su hand, in the clear waves of the Tianhe River, listening to the sound of water that is colder than the cold star? A wisp of ancient Zen color, rock-like standing in the wind and rain. There are the most primitive memories of culture in that silk paper, projecting the most simple philosophies and explorations of predecessors.
The artistic conception created by the painter is divided into "reality" and "divine realm", the former is to express the idealized natural reality, so that people can obtain pleasure and stimulation at the visual level; the latter relies more on the illusion and creation of the painter at the ideological and cultural level, giving people a spiritual experience beyond reality.
Guancang Hai Wei Wu whip drawing, color on paper, 2021
Guancang Hai Wei Wu whip drawing (partial)
Li Jingbin graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Hebei Normal University and studied in the Department of American Painting at Yangyang University. All along, he has worked hard in the professional aspect, inherited innovation, and gradually entered a better situation, from "Little Tang Ren" to "Wei Jin demeanor", each artistic image in his pen has a unique personal label. In addition to figure paintings, he also created many silk works based on traditional shrines.
In China's traditional culture, gods occupy an extremely important position, and the related artistic image also runs through the development process of the entire History of Chinese Art. If you count from the gods and Yu Lei, Chinese has been worshipping the door gods for more than a thousand years. Since the story of Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Qiong, and Wei Chigong was introduced to the people, the two closest door gods to the world began to take root and spread in the folk.
Every year, Li Jingbin will draw a pair of door gods with the method of white painting, take tradition as the foundation, add his understanding of the door gods, and create a series of images of Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong with a unique artistic style. If you look closely at his works, you can always be attracted by the rhythms of them, which are either ethereal or flexible. The full figure is skillfully grafted into the current environment through some subtle elements, and the traditional art and contemporary aesthetic are integrated between the elegant and the customary, and the gorgeous places are like a fairyland, and the ordinary places are also accessible.
New Year's Art No. 3 (Xin Ugly), White Painting on Paper, 2020
The secret thoughts are scattered in front of me in various forms, and I just want to express this feeling in the most comfortable way, even if it is just a fiction. —Yang Yu
Black is ink, white is paper, how much sorrow blooms in the past, the pen is red dust, and the breeze is full of breeze. The rhyme of ink brews an unsolvable mystery, flowing into a wisp of ancient painting rhyme.
Ink painting has a long history and profound tradition, and it carries the prosperity of many ancient and modern times, which is inexhaustible. In the meaning of traditional culture, the delicate ink permeates the deep beauty of birth between the plain and elegant. The painting leaves blank, the magic is in the inkless place, like smoke like dust to dilute the heart, and condense a period of happy and sad memories into a painting.
Two Lives two, Ink on Silk, 2019
Yang Yu graduated from nanjing art college with a bachelor's degree in Chinese painting studio. After graduating from graduate school, she studied under Professor Zhou Jingxin and is now working at the Nantong Academy of Painting as a director of the Jiangsu Chinese Painting Society.
The thickness of the ink comes from mortal dust, so five colors can be seen between black and white. There is a pale face in the night, tickling people at the turn. If there is a seemingly innocent breath, it can become the introduction to the pen. In Yang Yu's paintings, she tries to solidify this imperceptible breath to retain those silky moods.
Incense Ask, Ink on Silk, 2021
The gray tone between black and white has a beauty of desire that wanders on the edge, and it seems to be right or wrong, and desire is not evil. Yang Yu uses the brushwork method to line, using a large number of lines to break the stereotype of the image, and integrates the performance of the brush with the texture of the ink and complements each other. Therefore, the mysterious and cold texture of gray is continued, purified and refined in the painting.
Incense Question (Partial)
The feeling of art is sometimes a flash of inspiration, not always. —Yuan Wu
Ink is like the background color of the Chinese nation, when we see that touch of smudge, we can feel the artistic conception behind it, without a trace of estrangement. The distant mountains and smoke and rain in the ink, the mountain streams and the willow embankment will always make people feel more emotional, like a dream of a thousand years of pastoralism.
Yuan Wu graduated from the Art Department of Northeast Normal University and graduated from the Central American Painting Department in 1995 with a master's degree. He is currently a director of the China Artists Association, the deputy director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee, a professional painter of the Beijing Academy of Painting, and a researcher of the National Academy of Painting.
View of the Goose, Color on Paper, 2002
Yuan Wu's figure paintings are simple and sincere, and his smooth brushstrokes have a strong artistic appeal. The use of fine lines makes a lot of brush and ink seem to be understated, but in fact it contains the painter's profound understanding of traditional culture.
In the pen and ink of the avenue to Jane, the meaning is rich. Yuan Wu followed the classical aesthetic principle of writing gods in shape, abandoning the requirements of figurative and realistic modeling, and paying more attention to god-like play. His character paintings are ancient and leisurely, and it is difficult to hide the vivid emotions that flow between his faces and looks.
Small portrait of Li Qingzhao, color on paper, 2002
Painting and nature are indispensable roles in each other's lives. In the whirlpool of life, countless people imagine the quiet moments of Daran, and after a long search, they turn them into the common carrier of long memories over and over again. The broad artistic conception hidden in the Chinese painting has achieved the painter's pursuit.
To red, color on paper, 1998
Morning Glory, Color on Paper, 1998
Dai Ze graduated from the Art Department of Chongqing National Central University, and studied under Mr. Xu Beihong, Lu Sibai, Fu Baoshi and so on. He taught at CAFA all his life, not only made outstanding contributions to the cause of art education in New China, but also was one of the most representative artists in the history of Chinese art in the 20th century.
In the pursuit of painting, Xu Beihong once emphasized "rather square than round, rather straight than curved, rather dirty than clean, rather clumsy rather than clever", which has great guiding significance for Dai Ze in the expression of sketching and the use of color, prompting him to move towards rigorous modeling, simple painting style, thick tone display, etc., and gradually formed his own unique style.
One sand, one world, one flower and one heaven. In his old age, Dai Ze returned to a peaceful and simple state, and he followed the teachings of Mr. Beihong all his life, unswervingly walking on the road of his artistic life, and was a generation of masters.
Camel, color on paper, 2002
Ink color by the heart, in the soul homeland of color or ink, the person who writes the pen looks at the boundary of the field of vision. After the ink fell into the painting, they turned into devout walkers, depicting the scenery along the way, and continuing to write the prosperity of the national rhyme.
When there is a wave of Danqing immersion, occasionally lonely, especially looking forward to the people who come after.
Eye Edge Art Chronicles Chapter 809 is dedicated to the artistic gift of life.
Text Writing: Eye Edge Art Zhi
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