Beijing, 19 Dec (Xinhua) -- Wang Ping, a native of Tongcheng, has multiple identities. As a famous landscape painter, Wang Ping's paintings are known as "Wenxin" and "Calm". From being involved in sports reporting to the current president and editor-in-chief of China Art News, he appeared as a painting in the "Cheers for the Olympics - Lausanne China Red" event, and has a unique insight into the interaction between landscape painting and sports.
As the Beijing Winter Olympics approached, we walked into Wang Ping's studio to get a closer look at the inheritance and expectations of traditional Chinese culture by this artist who was associated with the Olympic Games.
Painted with Bach to highlight the Olympic Chinese red
In Chinese New Year's Eve 2019, wang Ping and a group of Chinese painters jointly created a landscape painting in the "China Red" series of activities at the "Cheers for the Olympics" event, the first overseas special event of the "Cheers for the Olympic Games". With the brushstrokes of Chinese paintings, the painting outlines the museum's welcome to the Chinese New Year in the Olympic atmosphere. IOC President Bach painted the Olympic flame in his paintings.
Pictured in 2019, "Cheers for the Olympics" - the "Chinese Red" event at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Bach painted colors for the paintings.
Speaking of this close contact with the Olympic Games, Wang Ping believes that the Olympic culture has given an expansion of the theme of Chinese paintings, and it is also a platform to highlight the charm of traditional Chinese culture.
"I really like to exercise myself, and I think art and sports complement each other. The content of the Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games has increased the connotation of Chinese painting, and it is of greater reference significance for the expansion of Chinese painting themes. "Talking about his experience with his students going to Chongli Snow Park and Shougang Big Jump platform to sketch, Wang Ping deeply felt that Chinese painting and sports development have achieved mutual achievements." Without the Olympics, we wouldn't think about such a subject. He believes that Chinese painting has more opportunities to show through popular activities such as sports, and sports and the Olympic spirit have been further popularized through the expression of art.
On December 11, the 2021-2022 FIS Snowboard U-Track World Cup in the United States Tongshan Station came to an end, and China's Cai Xuetong won the crown with 80.50 points in the women's final. Xinhua News Agency/Midland
The feeling of "WenXin" and "Calm Breath" The atmosphere of Chinese painting in the mountains and forests is present
Speaking of Wang Ping's paintings, most of the evaluations are that they have a sense of "literary heart" and "calm breath". For this view, Wang Ping believes that this stems from his family environment and educational background.
"I was born in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, a city of Chongwen and home to many cultural monuments." Wang Ping recalled his experience in the industry and believed that due to the environment of his hometown, he was very close to art.
In September 2017, more than 1,000 local fitness enthusiasts in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, walked along the historical and cultural attractions of Tongcheng Old Street Bridge, showing citizens passing through "Six Feet Lane". Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Xu Guokang)
During his time at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Wang Ping studied Chinese painting more systematically. "Zhejiang Mei pays attention to the 'four-fold' of Chinese painting, that is, emphasizing tradition, emphasizing foundation, emphasizing cultivation and emphasizing innovation. The first thing is the emphasis on traditional Chinese painting." He believes that the so-called "Wenxin" is the tradition of Chinese painting, that is, there is character and the atmosphere of mountains and forests. And "calm" is a calm, calm, atmospheric temperament.
"Chinese landscape painting emphasizes style and taste, rather than whether it is realistic or refined. This is the sense of 'Wen Xin' and 'Calm Breath' of traditional Chinese painting. ”
Taking traditional culture as the root of creation Cultural self-confidence needs to be early
When it comes to traditional Chinese painting, Wang Ping can't hide his excitement. "Now the country emphasizes 'cultural self-confidence', which has great positive significance for the entire nation. Learning Chinese painting and traditional culture should be the background of creation. Wang Ping believes that in the past, some Chinese paintings took Western realism as a guide, forming a large number of modern ink paintings, but they lost their true colors in expressing the traditional Chinese cultural conception.
The picture shows Wang Ping painting.
Wang Ping's paintings are typical of traditional Chinese paintings. He believes that "China, as the world's second largest economy, Chinese must be more energetic; China's excellent traditional culture has a long history and is broad and profound, and we should not always focus on the West when creating, but should explore the more prosperous Chinese culture." He said frankly that cultural self-confidence allows China to have the ability and should introduce richer Chinese culture to the world, including through the combination with the Olympic Games and sports, so that the Chinese culture with deep roots and atmospheric self-confidence exudes a more unique charm of the new era.
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Reporters: Zhang Cang (intern), Lu Yuchen, Gao Meng
Video: Tian Wen (Intern)
Editors: Zhang Yueshan, Huang Xuguo, Peng Dong