Yang Lingwu is changing the painting for the students. People's Daily Wang Hui
"Painting should paint places that you are familiar with, places with feelings. The vastness and vastness of Inner Mongolia are incomparable to the scenery of other regions, and the creation of inner Mongolia is also a special interest. Walking into the studio of Hohhot Tie'er Middle School, yang Lingwu, an art teacher, said. When his huge oil paintings come into view, the scenery of the grasslands on the picture is vividly displayed, and the snow and dry grass are in the sky, which makes people have unlimited reverie. At this time, Teacher Yang Lingwu was fiddling with still life with dried flowers and dried lotus puffs to prepare the content of the class...
Yang Lingwu is creating new oil paintings. People's Daily Wang Hui
Yang Lingwu, born in 1963, began to paint at the age of seven, dedicated the best years of his life to art, and he also enjoyed the joy of life brought to him by painting art. After graduating from university in 1989, Yang Lingwu engaged in art teaching, his favorite is sketching landscape painting, he likes to integrate the feelings brought by nature into painting, and use painting techniques to record the beauty around him. Since 2015, Yang Lingwu has invested a lot of time in going out to sketch and collect painting materials, and the accumulation of years has not only affected his own exploration of painting, as a teacher of high school students, Yang Lingwu also shared this feeling in art teaching. From the beginning of students' contact with painting, Yang Lingwu has guided them to have a personal experience of painting, rather than simply copying, Yang Lingwu attaches importance to cultivating students' eyes that are good at discovering beauty. Talking about painting teaching, Yang Lingwu was deeply touched.
Yang Lingwu believes that engaging in teaching work has a long way to go, and only by continuously improving their professional level can they better teach students. In 2019, Yang Lingwu participated in the painting collection activity to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and always follow the party - "Red Centennial Inner Mongolia" oil painting and sculpture exhibition, and his oil painting "Grassland 110" won the Excellent Work Award in the exhibited works, which was permanently collected by the Inner Mongolia History Museum.
Huge oil painting "Prairie 110". People's Daily Wang Hui
"Grassland 110" depicts a beautiful picture of the border pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia in the cold and frozen inner Mongolia, one after another "Grassland 110" like a link linking the party committee and government of the border pastoral areas, the officers and men of the military police, and the masses of all ethnic groups to jointly build a solid security and stability barrier in the northern Xinjiang of the motherland, and the great patriotic feelings jumped out of the paper. "This work uses the upward perspective method to push the characters into the middle scene, making the picture more expansive and showing the sparsely populated environment." Yang Lingwu also introduced that the picture shows the scene of the military, police, and civilian joint defense patrolling the border line between China and Mongolia.
Speaking of "Grassland 110", Yang Lingwu recalled: "When this theme was selected, I went deep into the grassland police station of Siziwangqi several times, ate, lived with, and sent out the police with the local border police station and the officers and men of the troops, and personally felt the hardships and hardships of the local police and the officers and men of the troops. ”
Yang Lingwu's oil paintings. People's Daily Wang Hui
"Sinking down to the grassroots to collect wind and dialogue with nature is the most interesting thing, and every time I encounter a unique landscape, I always pick up a paintbrush and record it." Yang Lingwu said that every time he went out to sketch, he had the habit of carrying a sketchbook, and when he saw a beautiful or interesting scene, he would draw it with sketches. In the process of taking students, Yang Lingwu also passed on this good habit of painting to students.
On the way to improving his own artistic accomplishment and teaching students learning methods, Yang Lingwu integrates the two well. He believes that the process of teaching students is also the process of learning by oneself. Although he is almost at retirement age, the artistic dream in Yang Lingwu's heart is still burning like a burning fire. He said that when teaching students to draw, teachers should correctly guide students to like painting, and boldly express their feelings on paper, be good at respecting students' nature, give play to their differences, and strive to cultivate children with unique artistic personalities.
Yang Lingwu's daily sketches. People's Daily Wang Hui
A small oil painting by Yang Lingwu. People's Daily Wang Hui