Contemplate art, think about life, and realize life
He Jiaying spoke
【Introduction】Today, one of the series of activities for the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the China Academy of Arts, the keynote speech of "New Art - Diversified Cross-border • Inclusive Development" held by the Academy of Literature and Art Creation was held.
The fragrance of the six arts of gargle, the nourishment of painting things to grow in love
Text/He Jiaying
The China Academy of Arts is a highest research institution with full coverage of all categories of literature and art, but each department is independent, the opportunity for cross-contact is very small, and occasionally in the expert academic conference can also hear the voices of experts in various fields, dare not say that it is deeply beneficial, but it can be said that it is occasionally inspired. Our literary and artistic creation institutes are very different, it is precisely a department composed of various disciplines, as long as there are meetings or activities, they always have to be together, which is very interesting, the different voices of various disciplines, intersecting together, must not be as monotonous as a single discipline, the angle of standing is different, but the art and theory are the same. I believe that there will be complementarity and great benefits, especially with a university person like Mr. Mo Yan participating in the activity, speaking out will make people feel enlightened! I believe that the mutual influence of various disciplines will benefit from each other, right? In fact, literature and art have never developed in a single existence, they are mutually influencing and nourishing each other, which is the intersection of the soul and contributes to spiritual sublimation. Music for painting, like the fusion of the sound of nature and the rhythm of the painter's heart, will be baptized in the soul again and again, it is really wonderful, its sound makes us intoxicated. There is also ballet, which will be invigorating with all kinds of arts throughout our lives, nourishing our souls and giving birth to noble and beautiful feelings from the bottom of our hearts. Literature is even more important, it is the soul of a person. All of this is summed up and becomes the cultivation of man. I quoted a sentence from Lu Ji, and then accompanied by a clumsy sentence of mine as the title of my speech: Seroku Art Of The Fragrance, Nourishing Painting Things to Grow with Affection. My artistic path is also inseparable from the nourishment of the soul by various arts.
The Young Farmer of Da Deng Zhuang, 1976
The university I went to, the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, was actually the Tianjin Academy of Arts, which was actually composed of two major categories, art and music, although one was in Hedong and the other was in Hebei, we still often went to the Conservatory of Music to participate in their concerts, some singing, there were also pianos and orchestral music, etc., enriching our monotonous cultural life, especially for me, a young man who returned to the city from the countryside, what a wonderful feeling! They soaked my heart.
Teacher Shen Raoyi loves symphony, and in his current tone, he is an "audiophile", he always turns on the stereo when he draws, and his music hobby deeply affects us students.
Steelworker, 1977, first-year college classwork
Teacher Bai Gengyan took us out to collect wind, always looking for some local dramas and folk songs to listen to, he believes that if you want to understand the local customs and customs, opera and folk songs are the most able to bring people into that context, can arouse a nostalgia, a feeling, feel their emotions. Therefore, everywhere I went later, I also wanted to find these folk sounds to listen to. Teacher Bai once brought back a cross-tune audio tape sung by Shen Fengmei in Henan, and we used that kind of lunchbox-style tape recorder to play it repeatedly and learned to sing. We painted the Taihang landscape and figure paintings in the local opera and folk songs, and my "Nineteen Autumns" and "Rice Fat's Mother-in-Law" were both created at that time.
The Female Worker, 1977
When we were in the first year of college, "national, oil, and edition" was not divided into subjects, which made my subject area more open. Oil painting teachers such as Fu Nailin, Lü Xiaopeng, Zhang Shifan, Liu Tiancheng and other teachers taught us drawing and color, which made me have a deep understanding of these foundations, which played a very great help to my study of Chinese painting, and was able to grasp the essential laws of painting in the study of the integration of the two paintings, find their point of convergence, make the two closely integrated, and lay a solid foundation for my later brush stroke creation.
"Shanxi Farmers Rushing to the Market", 1981
After I was sent to school, Teacher Liu Tiancheng also told me the words of Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, that kind of gentle mood was deeply imprinted in my heart, which made me increase the temperament of mourning, perhaps this temperament originally existed in my personality, when I encountered this type of poetry (including other literature, movies, music) will stimulate this emotion, so in my works to reveal (or choose) this emotion, I think this is the most touching subtle and sensitive nerve emotion. The nourishment of poetry often brings us into the poetic mood of nature, to see the deeper realm that exists in addition to beauty, so that aesthetics have more cultural attributes.
Mountain, 136x166cm, 1983, color on paper
Feng Jicai is both a writer and a painter, his articles benefit from painting, and painting benefits from his literary accomplishment, he claims that his paintings are writers' paintings, and he looks at painting from the perspective of a writer, and each work is full of literary poetic feelings about nature, rather than the repetition of old styles.
If Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige had not painted, I am afraid that they might not have been able to make such a heart-wrenching film, because they have the aesthetic height of an artist.
Nineteen Autumns, 110x170cm, 1984, color on silk
Nowadays, it is more and more convenient to enjoy good music, movies, literature, dance, opera, opera works, and even go to the theater to enjoy it directly. They have become so deeply formed into our spiritual life that painting is also deeply influenced by them and will also gain enlightenment from them. I just watched an interview video with a dancer, Gao Yanjinzi, talking about her understanding of modern dance, as if talking about painting. She said: "Modern dance is actually exploring what is the freedom of life? I don't care how you move? Do you care more about why you move? It is because your emotions are there, your present mind is there, it is the state in which true life is pouring out." "When the thinking of life and your individual thinking are freely expressed, all language can be used by you, so modern dance is a thought, a spirit, or an attitude of oneself, an art form that will constantly open everyone's mind." "Everyone has the ability to dance, it is what you have with life, when you use your body and your own language to feel the dialogue, in fact, it is a dialogue with heaven and earth, this state will make people's life real, sense of return and natural sense of real revival, homecoming." 」 This kind of understanding is not something that can be obtained in the painting circle, but it is profoundly realized and inspired by the understanding of a dancer.
"Rice Fat's Mother-in-Law", 230x80cm, 1985, color on silk
Today, when discussing the cross-border and communion of art, I have talked about the nourishment and enlightenment of a lot of art, and I really don't know how to create a cross-border with other art disciplines as a graphic painting? I've seen modern ballets starring Tan Yuanyuan use oil paintings as sets, but I've never seen dance and music added to the paintings. Zhang Xu saw Gongsun Da Niang dancing the sword and was greatly inspired, so his calligraphy made great progress. I know that ancient calligraphy and painting are of the same origin, and even calligraphy and poetry are inscribed on paintings, and I also pay attention to paintings in poems and poems in paintings, which is about injecting the artistic conception of poetry into paintings. Of course, these are already old traditions, which is not surprising, but at least it shows that the ancients also crossed the border. What we can integrate into our paintings today is basically from the perspective of the subject matter involving various arts. I think pedanticly and conservatively that the influence of various art disciplines on painters is not necessarily an immediate combination, but more of a silent nourishment of moisturizers and a mastery of art. Each discipline of art still has its own independent and distinctive characteristics, and what can be integrated can only be implanted between art in the same space, such as sculpture and ceramics, design and painting, ballet implanted with modern dance, opera implanted with opera, etc. In the past few years, our Gongbi Painting Institute has been organizing the imitation of ancient murals along the Silk Road, that is, borrowing the materials of classical oil painting to paint means and concepts, and showing the thick vicissitudes of the current murals, giving people the feeling that they are really old murals, rather than "renderings" drawn on paper. There are many articles to do, not only to learn the aesthetic factors of old murals, but also to study new means of expression, break through the limitations of Chinese painting, and make Chinese painting more extensive and deeper!
"Dancing Rest", 195x115cm, 2006, color on silk
Now some people graft painting with image, it is a new art form, I am not qualified to evaluate, but qualified to choose. The Harvard University Laboratory invited me to combine my works with images to do a new experiment, I really did not have enough imagination, how to knead painting and image together? Is there a need to experiment? I don't want to catch up with the fashion, but honestly innovate and improve in the field of my own painting, and I will draw inspiration from ancient traditions, especially the ancient fresco tradition. I feel that my creative direction is to deepen and break through Chinese painting, rather than creating alternative art with ingenuity. However, the dissemination of images to fine art works is far greater than the display of flat surfaces, and from this point of view, it is still necessary to further explore and let it play its due huge role.
This is just my one-hole view, not as a conclusion, but as a target, accepting criticism and correction from scholars, experts, and professors.
December 5, 2021
"A Hundred Flowers Bloom and Push the Old out of the New" Series of Forums of the Art Exhibition of the China Academy of Arts
He Jiaying, born in Tianjin in 1957, is currently the vice chairman of the China Artists Association and the vice president of the Contemporary Gongbi Painting Association, and is good at the creation of contemporary Gongbi figure paintings.
He Jiaying has made his own contribution to the transformation of Chinese Gongbi figure painting to contemporaryity. He creatively draws on the tradition of Chinese gongbi painting and the rigorous and solid modeling techniques in Western painting, and combines the aesthetic views of contemporary people to create a large number of works full of the atmosphere of the times. Reading his paintings, you will find a sincere and delicate passion and a dreamy ideal color.
Asahi Lu Sang, 1997, 200x148cm
"Ranch Love Song"
(Note: The picture and text are from the artist)