Nurturing and harvesting in life - the art of landscape painting that is good for business
Xu Encun
Shang Shoushan, a painter living in the mountains of western Hubei, has been painting with the landscape of his hometown for several years, praising the poetry of his homeland, the spirit of his hometown, the ancient and mysterious of folklore... The natural simplicity and profound connotation of his hometown and homeland have bred the spirit and feelings of Shang Shoushan, making him deeply love his hometown, his inspiration is obtained here, his vitality is obtained here, and his creative spirit is also obtained here.
Tujia Xianju into the drawing
In short, the rich natural and cultural resources of the mountainous areas of western Hubei have endowed the painter with profound spiritual wisdom and aesthetic connotation.
Here, his poetic thinking and poetic imagination give his hometown and homeland a formal expression that transcends the existence of reality, and his pen shows the aesthetic realm of the unity of nature and man, and the integration of things and me.
Canyon white clouds listen to pastoral songs
The beauty of the mountains and rivers in western Hubei and the depth of humanistic accumulation give Shang Shoushan a keen sense of aesthetic feelings, which enables him to experience the new style of his hometown landscape and the mirror image of the era refracted in the turn of history, and in the surging passion, he resorts to the presentation of pen and ink forms and symbols. Although it is difficult for the painter to get rid of the limitation of the particularity of Chinese painting materials, and even the constraints of the pen and ink tradition, the painter captures with his true feelings and keen feelings, smoothly and enthusiastically expresses the simple beauty and poetic mood contained in the daily life of the mountain towns in the contemporary context, and these works are refined and subtle, and the viewpoint is unique and changeable, showing Shang Shoushan's painstaking exploration and pursuit in "brush and ink with the times".
Canyon pine wind map
Shang Shoushan, facing the landscape and scenery of his hometown, has not only stopped at sketching the scenery, he has raised the landscape creation to the level of spiritual creation, giving the object an exaggeration, deformation, deletion of complexity and simplicity, so that the weather surges, the style is high, the body and the object are compared, the symbol is compared, the scenery is unified, and the chisel marks are not revealed; the business layout, the overall operation and strategy, are natural; lyrical speech, pen and ink are sprinkled, carved and polished, and inadvertently complete a harmonious and complete artistic creation.
Clear a stream of clouds
Reading the recent works carefully, it is not difficult to see that the broadening of the painter's work realm and the improvement of the style are gradually revealing the atmosphere and the vastness, and the maturity of the technique makes the dry, wet, thick, dense and heavy of the works close to the aesthetic height of the big pattern and the big realm; obviously, the artist's art has reached a new aesthetic realm. During this period, Shoushan was personally taught and guided by the famous landscape artists Li Baolin and Miao Chong'an, and the works gradually showed the following characteristics: First, pay attention to the poetic dialogue between tradition and reality, better solve the contradiction between tradition and reality, and open the mixing process of "old bottle of new wine" and "new bottle old wine", so that it cross-fertilizes the style and form of new landscape painting; secondly, the landscape of heaven and earth, ancient and modern in the pen, in order to seek the unity of heaven and earth, the unity of clouds and smoke, the fusion of virtual and real, and the artistic realm of both lushness; Lyrical writing of the landscape in the heart, the posture is majestic and diluted, the mood is super strong but agitated, the insight is outstanding but simple, it can be described as "returning to the void and entering the mud, accumulating health as a male", "the wind and bones are clear" and "full of beauty", "standing like the intention" and "the structure is mixed"; finally, the chapter is strange, it is self-contained, the great beauty is not said, the gods and things are traveling; the good landscape, so it is a family and has its own style.
Cloud High Road Village Pass
In the long-term practice, Shang Shoushan has fixed his own artistic style, found the self-path of artistic expression and the personalized characteristics of pen and ink language, he gradually abandoned the narrative technique of discussing things and seeing things and not seeing people, taking freehand as the key, taking feelings and emotions as the premise, and raising poetry and emotional transmission to a more pure and clear realm.
"Reading thousands of books, walking thousands of miles", walking in his hometown and feelings outside his hometown, all converge into his ideal of building a spiritual homeland, where his hometown complex is one of the deepest cultural complexes of mankind, which is an unconscious impulse that constitutes a strong emotional factor for the painter. "With the impulse of nostalgia to find a spiritual home", in the artistic creation of Shang Shoushan, it belongs to the pursuit of ultimate value.
The deep mountains of Wuling can be cultivated
Influenced by Mr. Li Baolin, Shang Shou makes good use of the pen to be bold and strong, full of vitality, especially the superposition and interlacing of the geometric forms of the imagery, which adds to the virtuality and richness of the space, and increases the sense of gravity, the pen and ink language becomes more pure, in the shift and transformation of the pen edge, the emotions and experiences of the self are expressed, the landscape image is highly symbolized and spiritualized under the pen of Shang Shou Shan, and the pen and ink forms and symbols are poeticized into colorful emotional structures in the free conversion and random dexterous use of performance, becoming a symbol of the soul. Especially in the landscape imagery and pen and ink forms, it is very successful and unique to trace the meaning and vitality of that natural life, as well as its unique spiritual tone. The painter's works thus constitute a pluralistic, rich and fulfilling living artistic situation and aesthetic scene. As long as you carefully read the works, you will find that in the essence of timeless, implicit meaning, interspersed with the symbols of the modern context: buildings, new houses, cars, highways, high-voltage lines, etc., can not help but feel: the rich changes of the picture, expressing people's dreams and pursuits of a new era and a new life.
Creek out of Ma Cha Ditch
This is a kind of "doubtful illusion and doubtful true Luo Wanxiang" of the real writing virtual technique, Shang Shoushan with a little dyeing and rubbing technique, between "similar and not similar" to write about the scenery of the western Hubei landscape, the pen end presents a kind of strange and majestic beauty; the ancients cloud: "do not take the virtual as the virtual but the real as the virtual, turn the scenery into the sentiment, from the beginning to the end, if the natural clouds flow, this is also difficult; otherwise it is partial to the barren and vulgar, and not enough to collect." In the landscape of his hometown, the painter finds the meaning and happiness of life, the beauty and realm of nature and home, clarity and peace, which opens up the inner spiritual understanding and sensitivity of the painter, and enriches the sensory experience and the most direct aesthetic understanding.
Home mountain terraces are accompanied by clouds
The Qing Dynasty scholar Ye Xie said, "The beauty of poetry lies in the subtlety of infinity, the thought of the subtle, its sustenance between the unspeakable, and its referral to the incomprehensible meeting." Words are meant here and there, leaving the image, absolutely talking and poor thinking, leading people to the state of indifference and trance, so it is the most important. "Shang Shoushan expresses his feelings and nostalgia with a paintbrush, and shows the vigorous vitality of nature and the harmonious picture of heaven and earth people in his landscape works that are subtle and hazy, timeless, ethereal and ethereal. The life experience of Exi Mountain Township and the enrichment of his life have become the impetus for his artistic improvement, all of which are condensed in his landscape works, so that his art has created a virtual, illusory and imagery formal beauty and new field in the interaction of virtual reality.
This is an artistic creation and experience worthy of recognition.
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Shang Shoushan, male, born in 1962, member of the China Democratic League, Hubei Enshi people, bachelor degree, joined the work in 1981. He graduated from Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1989 and has been transferred to Hubei University for Nationalities since 1997, and is now a professor at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Hubei University for Nationalities and the vice president of Wuling Academy of Painting. He is a member of the China Ethnic Minority Art Promotion Association, a director of the Hubei Provincial Chinese Painting Society, a member of the Hubei Provincial Artists Association, a director of the Hubei Provincial Aesthetic Education Research Association, the vice chairman of the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Artists Association, the director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee, and a visiting professor of the School of Fine Arts of South Central University for Nationalities. He is a member of the first, second, fifth and sixth teaching expert committees of Hubei University for Nationalities. Over the years, in addition to teaching, he has always adhered to the creation of landscape painting, and many works have participated in large-scale painting exhibitions in Hubei Province and the country and won awards, many works have been published in national art core journals, and published art monographs such as "Writing Jia Shan - Shang Shou Shan Shan Landscape Painting Art" and "Love Jia Shan". He has held solo landscape painting exhibitions in Beijing, Wuhan and Enshi.