Contemporary painting, like the book world, has some absurd stories. Mingming is very different from traditional calligraphy and painting, but there are always people who jump out to compare with the ancients, and the calligrapher Shen Peng once borrowed Zhao Puchu's mouth to boast: Great works do not let Mingxian. And fan, a strange man in the painting world, simply went into battle shirtless, saying that if he gave himself another thirty years, he would be able to surpass the Eight Mountain People. Shen Peng surpassed Mingxian, and Fan Zeng's goal was clearer, he wanted to surpass the Eight Great Mountain People of the Great Generation of Grandmasters.
Fan Zeng
Bada Shanren is not an ordinary person, he is a milestone figure in the development of Chinese painting, from the Qing Dynasty to the contemporary era, the number of painters who have studied the Eight Great Mountains is innumerable, that is, there are not a few who have achieved high achievements, such a respected Chinese painting master, is it so easy to surpass. Surpassing the Eighth Congress is equivalent to putting yourself in the position of a generation of grandmasters, this big talk can be compared to Shen Peng's masterpiece that does not let Mingxian reveal his bones, in fact, Fan Zeng has difficulty achieving such a goal, can only say that courage is commendable.
Shen Peng
To surpass a person at an artistic level, we must first ensure that we are consistent with the direction of this person. Just like overtaking in a car, you must first be on the same road as the vehicle being overtaken and drive in the same direction. Shen Peng claims to be a masterpiece that does not allow Mingxian, an innovative calligrapher, to guide the practice of calligraphy with Western art theory, limited to the form, in the form of changes, do not know what the essence, qi, god is, according to Su Dongpo's "books must have divine qi flesh and blood, five are one, do not become books." "By standard, the innovative calligraphy represented by Shen Peng is not calligraphy, at best it belongs to fine arts." This is not on the same road as the Ming Dynasty or even the entire traditional calligraphy, which is guided by classical calligraphy and pays attention to the nature of the Taoist law. The so-called mingxian is just pretentious, and the two are not comparable at all.
Eight mountain people works
Fan Zeng's transcendence of the eight natures is similar, you have to surpass the eight, first of all, you must ensure that your painting into the flow of the ancients, in a stream, with your intelligence, diligence and virtue, it is possible to surpass the sages. The sages, including the Eight Mountain People, are human beings, not gods, as long as the direction is right, time is enough to be completely surpassed, which is what the ancients said, "Everyone can be a sage." Unfortunately, although Fan Zeng's paintings have the form of traditional Chinese paintings, their spiritual temperament is far behind.
Chinese painting pays attention to the artistic conception, many things will not be directly painted, let the viewer to experience it. Different people, different times, different places, and even different moods, admiring Chinese painting will have different feelings. The reason for this effect is that Chinese painting has long been not limited to the image, that is, beyond the image. Su Dongpo, a great scholar of the Song Dynasty, said: "On the similarity of paintings, it is seen in children's neighbors." "If painting is not like an image, it is similar to a child's insight.
Fan Zeng's works
Fan zeng was a member of the academy, which was both his strength and his weakness. The advantage is that his modeling ability is relatively strong, and the proportions of the facial features and body parts of the characters are accurate. It is precisely this precision that makes his paintings lose their charm, and the master of Chinese painting Qi Baishi said: "The beauty of painting lies between similarity and dissimilarity, too similar to kitsch, not like deceitful." "This degree is difficult to grasp, and the magic of Chinese painting is in this place." Just think, no matter how much you draw like a camera, it doesn't make sense. From this point of view, Fan Zeng's paintings have actually departed from the essence of Chinese painting.
Qi Baishi on painting language
This is not technically clever, and then look at the logic of painting, Mr. Fan Zeng wants to show Lao Tzu out of the pass, it must be Lao Jun riding a green bull, followed by a child, almost illustrated, what text to draw what image, specific to no imagination space. A Chinese painting can not give people the space to imagine, it is difficult to say that it is successful, no wonder many people say that he painted a comic strip. Looking at the paintings of the eight big ones, whether it is a bird or a fish, rolling their eyes, leaving a large area of white space, a strong sense of substitution, so that the viewer seems to have entered the painting, there are many words to say to the eight big fish and birds, which is not a thing at all with Fan Zeng's almost engineering drawings.
Whether it is Shen Peng's cursive writing that claims to surpass the Ming Dynasty, or Fan Zeng's paintings to surpass the Eight Greats, it can only be their self-bragging dreams. Not on one road, there is no transcendence at all. After many years, this is the laughing stock of future generations, and they will wonder about the emergence of such a master in our time.
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