Mr. Baal's paintings always embody deep thinking stemming from reality in figurative and abstract presentations. Politics, economy, history, people, emotions, from the perspective of the entire macro society, belong to the ego, but also embrace all kinds of rivers. Baal is a contemporary artist in China, who has independently planned several joint exhibitions and solo exhibitions of major domestic and foreign artists' works (including oil paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, ink paintings, independent images, multimedia images, Internet digital images, etc.). His contemporary art criticism articles have been published and published in important magazines and media at home and abroad. His representative works "Human Body" (sculpture series), "Family" (sculpture series), "Pictogram-Structure" (oil painting series), "Ge-Yan" (oil painting series), "Monsoon" (oil painting series), etc., are mostly collected by Chinese and foreign people. In his works, he pinned his unique pursuit and expansion of painting art, hidden in the world but not detached from reality, but also transcended reality in the second degree of creation with strong perception in the spiritual world. Dare to break the inherent thinking, boldly tear in the ultimate transformation of abstraction and figuration, give new definitions and connotations to colors, lines, and characters, and create a parallel space for the viewer to reverie and speculate, thus triggering deep resonance. In pure art, which escapes competition and commercial operation, Mr. Baal creates a powerful spiritual world, and at the height of the philosophy of art, he is a creator and a wise man.
Art is a pleasure
Returning to the essence of art, the unity of Mr. Baal's aesthetic practice and ideology truly shows the characteristics of painting art and brings extraordinary aesthetic value.
The path to the pinnacle of artistic creation is destined to be lonely and lonely, but what most people see as maverick is a joy for Baal. "People's emotions are actually very simple, nothing more than pain and happiness. My joy is that I have been doing what I love and have stuck with it until now. The most painful thing is to give up, and if one day I give up this thing that I like and am good at, this is the real pain."
Feel happy because of art, on the basis of moving people with emotion, more with beauty touching, the collision of beauty, image beauty burst out of the state of mind, into life. In the actual division, art belongs to the ideology in the superstructure, and Mr. Baal, through his spiritual grasp of the world, not only clarifies the cognition of the world, but also contains the cognition of the self. In his thinking, the clear feelings of pain and pleasure make the aesthetic world have a broader and deeper connotation, and there is also a more pure division and display.
The dusty minimalist layout, no more and no less home, paintings, sculptures are gently integrated into the various color-blocked walls, the gallery-style display continues from the living room to the bedroom, and in Mr. Baal's residence, there is a mixture of bold and delicate color schemes, leaving aside the specific forms shown by most decorations, and uninhibitedly turning art collocation into a creative adventure.
Romantic, artistic emotional experience and logical cognition
Mr. Baal's figurative and surreal expressions of human portraits, throwing aside the heavy and over-realistic, his oil paintings appear more gentle and not naked, followed by a mysterious and thought-provoking charm. Most of the protagonists of his portraits are mainly wives, or white-clad beauties sitting on the steps, or the side-faced overlooks of white pigeons, or the small bridges in the fish and rice water villages are left blank, and the wives in different scenes have differences and innovations in details, but they retain the same gentle tenderness and steady and delicate charm as a whole. In the performance of Romanticism, it focuses on the concreteness, universality and development of the characters, and the inductive treatment of the emotional experience and logical analysis of the characters, so that the expression of the portrait art image breaks free from the shackles of excessive reduction and realism, and shows autonomy, arbitrariness and subjectivity to a certain extent.
Mr. and Mrs. Baal, who met when they were students, although they studied different art majors and engaged in different occupations, they all had a tacit understanding of love and an appreciation and understanding of art. After each creation, Mr. Baal patiently explains to his wife the meaning behind the work, why he painted it this way, what he wanted to show, and how it was different from the last time, and his wife would listen and communicate carefully.
Panoramas, close-ups, close-ups, a surreal portrait in green, soft and unobtrusive, but unforgettable. His wife said: "Because I usually work out and have a hobby of sports, he thinks I have a lot of vitality, so he uses the all-green form of expression, which is also my favorite one." In my opinion, he is a very pure and pure man."
"Every year on her birthday, I paint a picture of her as a birthday present, and she is the most important person in my life as a two of us." Through the expression of painting art, the characters are vividly jumped on the paper, and after years and years of accumulation, the temperature of artistic romance can be displayed in this way.
The emotional experience is started by the artist himself, transmitted to another person through the link of two-dimensional space, derived from the logic of natural coexistence and detail observation, and through the transformation of light and shadow and the collocation of color blocks, the details of the character image are filled and full. The artist's expression of love is never obscure, compared to the sound language, the relaxation of painting art makes the characters more intuitive and profound, and more things are beyond the soul perception of the technique.
Abstract, inspirational fission of the spiritual philosophy
Transforming ideas into visual images, Mr. Baal's keen insight and cutting-edge creativity turn the chance encounters on the journey into a glimpse. The "Monsoon" series of works appears in abstract form, but with realistic content as the main line, through the form of cell-like fission, it gives objective things a strong vitality. "During my trip to Datong, Shanxi, the scenery along the way didn't inspire me much at first. Later, on the way back, I saw the explosion of paint on the road, and I felt beautiful and magical, like a kind of fission, so I came back and created "Monsoon"."
"Painting cannot be rigid, for abstract painting, no collision is a failure. Although "Monsoon" is mainly gray, it is inseparable from the three primary colors, so it incorporates some bright elements."
The birth of the "Monsoon" group, in addition to the sharp innovation of color, from the emotional and imaginative, can pull people back to the scene, truly feel the vicissitudes and pain of paint after crushing, exposure and the change of seasons, implying the objective trend of life disappearing, conveying a helplessness, loneliness and tenacity, the embellishment of a few bright color blocks, and it shows that it has also bloomed, and at the same time longs for rebirth. In an orderly and chaotic visual rule, the series presents amazing ideological themes, concepts and results, and the transformation of abstract forms does not hinder its good narrative style and the ability to express the personality of the artist's thoughts, where objective things are still not subject to human will, but have acquired a new artistic identity.
In addition to "Monsoon", Mr. Baal's pen also has abstract works based on lines.
"All the lines in this, starting from any point can return to the original point, but also symbolize a concept of beginning and end, doing things, life, are like this, like a game, but there is a beginning and an end." Philosophically, Mr. Baal's "philosophy of beginning and end" gave him the identity of a wise man in the art world. Between the grasp of abstraction and the return of reason, simple lines show the scale and depth of life.
"The painting at the end of the corridor is actually a small animal that I once had, a kitten and a puppy before, and although they are no longer with me, they have also walked with me for a while, so I want to record it."
It is said that people who love animals must have a pure heart, in this abstract painting with animals as the theme, cats and dogs are combined, and the stacking of color blocks shows the fun of life, thoughts, innocence, childlike fun, emotion dominates the entire process of artistic activity, but also runs through the entire psychological process of artistic creation.
"All kinds of things in our lives, computers, mobile phones, architecture, furniture, etc., from design to output, are originally derived from painting. Including the industrial revolution at all stages of history, it is inseparable from the original template design, so the art of painting is crucial to the development of human history." Starting from life, Mr. Baal also talked about the origin of a "painting", from the display of individual and individual vitality to the change of social environment, from the macro environment to look down on the value brought by art, dialysis of objective things and the essence of subjective thinking. In the world of painting art, Mr. Baal has a transcendent philosophical realm in his mind, at this level to perceive, feel, and then write and convey.
Art has nothing to hide
"I want to show all my inner thoughts, because art is very pure and cannot be hidden." Mr. Baal said this when he talked about what he most wanted to show his viewers.
"To depict a character, I must have an understanding and respect for him in my heart, regardless of nationality, and I admire those who have played a role in promoting the development of world social history."
In a portrait of a female economist, the use of blue candy tones and white space, the overall style is more gentle, but in the woman's eyes to add a slightly complex fortitude and strength, but at the same time the perspective of looking and rising is also showing a new hope, the interface of the background layout, feedback on the complex environment of the characters in the mix of light and dark, the overall charm is "out of the mud without staining, mao qing lian without demon". People strongly perceive that what is coming at them is a strong personality that faces hardship and bitterness, but is still born to the sun. Mr. Baal tries his best to show the story of the protagonist while leaving room for the viewer to invent and reverie, light or dark. There is a connection and separation between thinking and existence in the art world and the real world, and all the silent language comes from the condensation of social phenomena and the exploration of social life, but the most important thing is that it never stingily pretends to be deep, but shows and expresses it freely, without narrow twisting, and some are just open-minded.
Comparative literature, going out of the sense of home and country
"Art is all-encompassing, at the same time he and the development of the country are also closely related, as an art worker, the most important thing is to go out, you should see, feel, to contact." Because the culture of any country is a prerequisite for comparing with each other, it is possible to understand truly excellent works, and only when it realizes its own shortcomings can we make more progress, so can we make more progress, so can we do so for individuals and the development of national culture."
Speaking about his travel experience, Mr. Baal said that when he arrived at the Louvre, he was most impressed, and the paintings here were praised by viewers around the world because the paintings here can resonate with the vast majority of people, which is the subtlety of art. In the face of the advantages of foreign art and culture, while appreciating, Mr. Baali will continue to think about the development direction of Chinese painting art, and find out the advantages and shortcomings through comparison, which is not only an acknowledgement, a new self-knowledge and development, but also a Chinese artist's study and responsibility for culture, and a romantic expression of home and country feelings.
There is a pure land in the heart, true and pure, in the face of the commercialized prevailing art market economy, Baal, who chooses to stay away and avoid, completes another level of richer thinking, adheres to the love of the heart, is the walker spirit of human life, continuous deep exploration, and is a figurative abstract free wisdom. Some people only do one thing in their lives, and fortunately, this thing just makes him pure enough, rich enough, cheerful enough, and happy enough.
Author: Fan Jinyu
Source: World Wide Web