I don't want to be a painter, just a recorder of life, pen and ink do not want anything. No matter how professional the pen and ink is, there is no life itself.
We often lament that when we write article titles, we often lament that peasants write slogans for family planning very vividly, and we who read books write very dryly, because farmers have a real life, some painters paint Huangshan, and some paint grasslands all their lives.
I often complain that I don't have a sketching base, so I have to paint the life around me. Ordinary life is difficult to make people passionate: it is nothing more than eating, living, and the people around them, and the things around them are too new, and new things are the most difficult to draw. Pen and ink like old things. If you want to paint a house, you have to go to Mentougou, and it is difficult to stay at home as an office worker. I can't draw something I haven't seen before.
Don't talk about landscapes around, it is difficult to paint a beautiful tree, and the most you see is people. So just draw the people on the edge. I was surrounded by fragments, and I had to collage them together.
Liu Xinhua was with the famous painter Wu Yi
Famous painter martial arts ------
Your paintings can be summarized with several major characteristics: concise, lively, and without asking for ink and brush. Your paintings have a personal temperament, with emotions, and a variety of styles, but they are all your temperament, self. Most people have a hard time having a personal temperament, and they use other people's way of speaking and techniques to set their own words, not their own language. Many people like to show the pen and ink technology to others in painting, afraid that others will not know how deep their skills are, you are not like this, so you will come out. There is happiness in your paintings, and art must also express happiness, in fact, Van Gogh's paintings are very happy, full of love and desire for life. Your pen is good, your drawing is good, your oil painting is good, and your oil painting and ink painting have reached the sameness. Like your diary-style vision of life, this way of observing comes from Western painting, there is something very deep in it. Li Jin is right, your painting is not thin.
Liu Xinhua in the studio of the famous painter Li Jin
Famous painter Li Jin ------
Li Jin: "Your paintings are very hot, they are enthusiastic all the way, they belong to the emotional painters, but they have a rational side, and their works are powerful. Unrestrained, passionate, self-natured, flowing, transparent, character modeling powerful. The work is quite spirited. ”
Liu Xinhua: "I'm afraid that the painting is thin, and sometimes I deliberately make some." Li Jin: "Your paintings will not be thin, you are not a thin person." I like your airy and flexible features that you can play. ”
"Your paintings can't be 'thin'" – Li Jin commented on Liu Xinhua's works
Art Critic: Hu Jing
Since he came into contact with Liu Xinhua's ink art, he has been looking for a word suitable for describing his art, and after thinking for a long time, he found that Teacher Li Jin's evaluation of his work is the most appropriate: "not thin".
People familiar with Chinese ink painting will certainly not be unfamiliar with the term "not thin". Chinese literati painting since ancient times pays attention to "Shen Yun", "realm", "style", Li Jinyan said that "not thin" is the evaluation of the realm of ink art, if from the traditional "elegant" and "customary" perspective to evaluate Liu Xinhua's art, "not thin" should be equivalent to "elegant". As Liu Xinhua said: In terms of the quality of the pen and ink of his own works, there are still areas that need to be improved. However, in terms of his quality as an artist and his understanding of the feelings of the literati of Chinese painting, Liu Xinhua has far surpassed those who only know how to study ink painting techniques.
In the conversation with Liu Xinhua, he will always listen to his humble words: "I am a marginal painter", but when you talk to him about the topic of art, he always has endless "stories", from China to the West, from ancient to contemporary, from painting to architecture, from science to history, in such a conversation, you seem to truly feel that painting is only a small part of his life.
People who are familiar with contemporary Chinese art can't help but feel that art is too "far away" from life and the public, but what you experience in your contact with Liu Xinhua is a literati's feeling about life. Liu Xinhua, who has never been exposed to the academic training of pure art, has taken another path of art world outside the academy, which confirms the saying: all roads lead to Rome. Liu Xinhua's "Rome" is recorded with the footprints of life, from riding a bicycle in Beijing's various hutongs in the 1980s to "scurrying" to witness the urbanization process of Beijing city every day, Liu Xinhua is surprised by any changes that occur around him, and his editorial work at Xinhua News Agency has also trained his ability to record stories and express emotions with words, and ink art seems to have naturally become the carrier for him to feel the essence of tradition and experience the essence of life. These really confirm Li Jin's words: "People like you are not 'thin'."
In the process of carefully tasting Liu Xinhua's works, he seems to have some new thinking on the problem of "ink entering the contemporary era". Liu Xinhua was born in a family of literati, due to the infection of his ancestors, he was influenced by the traditional Chinese painting art at a very young age, and at the same time experienced an important transformation of Chinese art in the 1980s, the identity of Hubei people allowed Liu Xinhua to personally experience the climax of the reform of Chinese ink art during the 85th thought period, although he did not participate in such a vigorous "revolution" as an artist at that time, but the problem of the reform of Chinese painting was buried in Liu Xinhua's heart very early. In this way, as a "marginal painter", Liu Xinhua's heart absorbs various favorable nutrients outside the college, so that the seed of "how ink enters the contemporary era" slowly takes root and sprouts, I believe that today's teacher Li Jin's evaluation of him "not thin" is the best witness to the fruits of his achievements. Liu Xinhua's story continues, let us wait with awe for more of his masterpieces. 2009-03-11
Liu Xinhua Art Notes
No longer noisy, but comforting and tranquil. The sunlight sprinkled under the leaves makes people feel clean and peaceful like never before. The work is simple, but it will be more powerful. At first, I didn't care about the subject matter, the symbols, only the body, and the (internal force) lines breathed and walked quietly, with ups and downs, as if Tuna. One word--- loose, comfortable feeling. What is painted is not a story but tranquility. The painting is a philosophy of life, which is long and has the sentiment of Chinese literati's sadness and compassion for people, so that the picture presents a faint sadness. The depiction of the scenery is hazy and swaying, expressing a nostalgia for nostalgia. The painting is Song Jing's attitude towards life!
To feel art in a wise way, mind and matter and thread are one in wisdom, and they are also one with our actions. In this way, art is inseparable from life.
With a tube of pen to simulate the realm of too much fiction. Book Theory: Peace, peace of mind, how long the qi is, how long the line is, is the trace of life. Bone method with a pen, the body should be through Thai; round, yin and yang two qi, colored invisible, ventilation. Everything must be round, thick and textured, such as the eight major lines; stay, such as Aluhan, a moment of you are very clear, then know what is strong, hundred tempering into soft fingers; loose, loose soft, no attachment; put, is faith, self-confidence, faith is the spirit. All are empty, only momentary vitality, and everything else is empty, like taking a cup and drinking water.
Chinese philosophy emphasizes the naturalness of man and the "harmony" of Buddhist Zen Buddhism, and emphasizes the organic form of nature and the mentalization of its writing in language. The mind and matter are one, and the heavens and men are one. The "nature" in the Chinese intellectual and artistic tradition has never been seen as an object of the opposite of man. In Taoist philosophy, man is seen as a part of nature and possesses a "spirit" of the same nature as everything in nature. The various spiritual practices of Confucianism and Taoism based on the concept of nature are essentially consistent. China has aesthetic concepts rooted in its own ideological tradition, and the spiritual realm sought by Chinese calligraphy and painting is aimed at the spiritual training of Confucianism and Taoism to achieve "neutralization", "emptiness" and "emptiness".
Buddhism is not about knowledge, it's about emptiness. Zen is the use of looking directly at your mind, all for the sake of emptiness. The mind is the line of enlightenment, "everything is dropped, and the instinct is self-aware" as long as it is guided, it is given. Non-attachment is emptiness, good law is empty, and solution is empty. Emptiness, pure possibility, is emptiness awareness. Many artists go intellectual, go to the end to religion, and religion cannot be solved and decadent. Religion and spiritual usage are reversed. Buddhism is not a religion.
Modern artists, only with passion, not with heart, art relies on inspiration to live, is given sex. That's not called art, painting a lot of paintings and writing a lot of poetry, and the art of not caring is not called art. The current introduction to art is basically art history. Perceptual belief is the real art, the ability to feel the moment. This feeling can only unfold in art, art is anti-form, always marginalized, and the philosophy of art can be a philosophy of the mind. Believing in wishes, abstaining from wisdom, body and mind, emptiness, letting go, the mind naturally appears, Goku.
Awareness speaks of intuition, not given, in the form of scanning and tracing. Art wants this thing. What is mindfulness, the existence of a moment, the non-existence of anything else. Perception ---- know. Feeling ---- receiving. Intellectual, generating intelligence work. Awareness, the work of generating "faith" from within, addresses the problems of birth and death, well-being, and well-being. The work of awareness, the work of no-self, the work of art is like that, so art is great.
Lines and shapes are divided into three categories: one is the line subordinate to the shape; such as the work stroke, the pen is to draw; the second type is to draw with a book, to use the writing method into the painting, such as freehand painting, its pen is to write, but still from the shape; the third type is the deformation painting, is the shape from the painting, so that the line is liberated from the shape, so that it can express the disposition, heart, aesthetic taste. Deformation exaggeration obeys the orders of pen and ink. Painting Chinese painting is not painting technology, but painting learning cultivation.
Fatally, contemporary art has lost its avant-garde and intrinsic spiritual motivation, and has not yet found an artistic language that belongs to contemporary Chinese.
I insist that feelings are art, lines have emotions, vision is vision, it has an indescribable beauty, can not be written, painted.
Blurring is soft abstraction, there is figuration in abstraction, there is abstraction in figuration, the colors are soft, and the wheel gallery is not clear. German Romanticism valued inner intuition, religious experience, contemplation, and fantasy. Admiring the power of nature, painting is hazy, like Chinese Song painting, both fine and distanced.
Forget the shape, and when you leave the form, you have the feeling of the eight big ones. Chinese painting should be subtle, and the sensitivity and delicacy of the heart should be delicate. Now many people do not paint themselves, and slowly train to find themselves. Experience, marginalize, leave traditional experiences and habits. Self-awareness and reflection on one's own paintings and other people's paintings. Look for the subtleties of Chinese painting, there is kung fu painting anything.
I have seen too many things and temptations over the years, and it is very fascinating, but temptations are not in your pocket after all. If he floats and lives, he is not down-to-earth, he is his own master, he asks inward, and he saves himself. This happiness is solid, it rewards as much as you do, it does not deceive people.
Design is to make what is known unknown, to be unfamiliar. Design the cup not like a cup. Design is an awakening is a way of thinking, and touching people's hearts is very important for art, and awakening is very important for design. Empty is minimalist.
What the purpose of man's hard work and pursuit of wealth and status is, in the final analysis, to gain the love of others. Including love, but also the respect and support of others. The height of civilization does not give people a richer spiritual world and richer content, and man is animalistic. How well told! This is also useful for creation. Painting can't be emotional.
Yes, art is all about removing everything superfluous and leaving behind beauty to comfort people's hearts. All art, no matter in what form it takes, has an impact on emotions and has an impact on people. When we are in versailles, we will be completely conquered by raphael's virgin statue; when we watch the ballet "Swan Lake", we will be deeply infected by that sincere love; like the movie "Painted Skin", when the devil has true love, it will become very beautiful, love is the greatest force in the world, the devil has true love, and the heart will become soft.
Lines are the life of Chinese painting. It is hidden inside, the waves are cloudy, fantastic and unpredictable. If it is broken, it will not fall down in one fell swoop. It will not be issued, it seems to be motionless, the sound is not revealed, and the force is hidden in it. One wave has three folds, and one has several turns. A trembling thread is the flow of life of Chinese artists, full of deep love. It is ten square voids, it is not written out of form, but a ladder of transcendence of inner life.
The mountains and forests, the silence contains the motivation, the chaos contains the breath, the breath is breathed, the great beauty is not said, the trance is confused, the great beauty of the illusion, the image of the movement of the universe. Vast and vast, vast and too vain.