China's Jiangxi Network reported on October 23 that Chen Shangzhi is 70 years old this year, and he has only a primary school education and has been a farmer for most of his life. With the art of painting, he also worked hard in the big city for ten years, and the reason why he chose to return to his hometown was not because he could not earn money, but because "only when he smelled the earthy smell of the countryside, painting would be inspired." In May this year, one of Chen Shangzhi's paintings, "Love is Blessed," was exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, becoming a veritable peasant "international painter," much to the delight of the villagers, including his wife.
When it comes to artistic creation, people with a little relevant common sense are clear about the principled sentence, "art, from life, and higher than life", however, in many times, perhaps in order to reflect the "artistic taste" and "artistic model" of artistic creation and artistic works, we often only pay attention to "higher than life" but forget "from life"; and since art is "derived from life", then, forget this starting point, our artistic creation and artistic works, Then it is bound to fall into the mud of the rootless water and the wood without roots and it is difficult to extricate itself. Not long ago, Hai Rongtian, a web celebrity and feminist who has performed performance art in full nudity many times, once again engaged in a "performance art" at the Beijing 798 Art Center - "Ten Days Talk", stripped himself naked, and from October 5, in a closed iron cage for 10 days! And "open to the outside world", tourists can communicate with it. In this regard, netizens pointed out to the point, "Nudes with cages are art, and nudity without cages is pornography."
In addition to winning eyeballs, we really don't see any relationship between such acts and art. Such artistic creations and creations can only be short-lived at best. On the contrary, only based on the soil, based on life, artistic creation, can blossom. This is the most convincing proof of this, the famous painter Luo Zhongzhong's famous work "Father". Today, the work of peasant painter Chen Shangzhi, "There is love is blessed", is exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, which is also illustrative evidence.
The peasant painter Chen Shangzhi stands out first of all in his persistence, his adherence to the soil and his life. When he was a teenager, he would rather go hungry and use the money he saved to buy pens and paper; his persistence was reflected in his love for the real life full of earthy atmosphere, he carried paper and pen with him, "When doing farm work, he saw that the scene of peasant labor was very moving, he took out a pen and paper to record it." Ripe pumpkins, chickens on the hillside, peasant women who cut rice... The casual scenes in life can become his material, which can be copied." Just with such a thick accumulation, his spray is thin and thin, and it will come to fruition.
The peasant painter Chen Shangzhi also stood out thanks to the local emphasis on the cultural industry. Since 2012, Wan'an County has upgraded the tourism and cultural industry to the same status as local industry and energy, and tourism culture mainly relies on peasant paintings. Wan'an County opened Up Tianbei Village as a peasant painting village, the ancestral hall in the village was converted into a gallery, and the pond was built into a fishing pond, which not only lost the rural style, but also provided a good environment for painters and tourists. The optimization of the environment and the persistence of the individual finally made peasant paintings such as "There is love and blessing" bloom brightly.
We do not deliberately emphasize that literature and art must be so rich in earthy atmosphere, because a hundred flowers bloom is the real spring of literature and art; however, we must pay attention to what we must pay attention to, rooted in the soil, based on life, literary and artistic creation, will blossom. On October 15, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the forum on literary and art work: "The Chinese spirit is the soul of socialist literature and art, literature and art cannot be lost in the tide of market economy, literature and art cannot be slaves to the market, do not be contaminated with copper odor", the rigorous creative mentality and fruitful creative results of peasant painter Chen Shangzhi are a vivid interpretation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi's important speech.
Text/Van Der Chau