Since ancient times, Jiangsu's landscape paintings can be said to be the peaks of Qi, and the peaks of the group are competing. In order to commemorate Mr. Qian Songyao and to promote the development of Chinese landscape painting, Yangtze Evening News and Qian Songyao Art Museum plan to jointly hold the "Tribute to the Classics" landscape painting invitation exhibition on January 17-23, 2022. This exhibition will also be promoted simultaneously on the WeChat public account of Yangzi Jianzang. The artist introduced to you in this issue is Chu Yun.
Chu Yun, born in 1948 in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University in his early years, and is now a researcher of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Central Museum of Culture and History, a librarian of the Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Culture and History, the vice president of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Culture and History, a national first-class artist, a member of the China Canglang Book Club, and a visiting professor of Beijing Language and Culture University and Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. His works have been selected for many national exhibitions and won several awards, and he has held solo exhibitions at the National Museum, Nanjing Museum, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, etc., and his works have been collected by the National Museum, the National Art Museum of China, the Central Museum of Culture and History, Zhongnanhai and other units.
Zhi Dao according to De Yi Ren Entertainment
Shao Dazhen (Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Honorary Director of the Art Theory Committee of the China Artists Association)
Chu Yun is quite accomplished in the field of calligraphy and painting art, and his skills are mainly due to diligence, hard work in pen and ink, emulation of the ancients, and nutrition from nature; his cultivation is due to reading, experience and thinking. Calligraphy and painting are heavy skills, more important. The sage Confucius said: "Aspiration to the Tao, according to virtue, according to benevolence, swimming in art." "Aspiration to the Tao, according to virtue" embodies spiritual thoughts, and "relying on benevolence, traveling in art" is the attitude and criterion for living in the world.
Looking at Chu Yun's calligraphy and painting art, it can be analyzed from the four aspects of Tao, Morality, Benevolence, and Art.
Chu Yun was born in Yixing, where the cultural heritage is profound, talents are born, and there are many jinshi in the Qing Dynasty. The Chu clan is a noble family in Yixing, and it is said that "Yixing Three Reserves with Three Sus". Modern times have Xu Beihong, Qian Songyao, Wu Dayu, Wu Guan and other famous artists, who are talented in painting and lead the way.
Chu Yun was influenced by the Confucian family and regional culture, he first revealed his artistic talent in his early years, and after entering the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University, he was influenced by the spring wind and rain, and after unremitting efforts, he had extraordinary artistic skills and cultivation, free and casual style, unique style, and quite creative.
Chu Yun is determined to be ambitious, good at all, and takes calligraphy as his foundation, advocating and advocating the view that "Chinese painting is written". He learned from his predecessors to create the spirit without imitating the appearance of his predecessors, the landscape started from Huang Binhong, the freehand flowers and birds started from Xu Wei, dared to "walk in", and dared to "come out", indicating that he attaches importance to skills and does not meet the skills, and the ambition lies in the Tao, lies in the creative spirit.
Chu Yun's talents and virtues complement each other. He sought the Tao in the "instrument", experienced the inseparable relationship between art and life in the process of improving the skills with excellence, and devoted himself to creation with a highly humanistic and caring spirit, which is the main reason why Chuyun calligraphy and painting have reached today's achievements.
Benevolence is useful, "body" is the cultivation of the heart, and "use" is to love people and love things. Chu Yun's education is comprehensive, and his inner world is full of benevolence. The calligraphy focuses on seals, grass and rows, and the style of the pen is majestic and simple, vigorous and powerful. The poem "The Wind is Hanging on the Sails", Zhang Cao's "Buddha Says the Eight Great People's Awakening Sutra", and the couplet "Ji Heming" are his representative works.
From Chu Yun's landscape paintings, you can feel his love for nature. He "searched for Qifeng to make drafts", and revealed the "three ones" he pursued through writing in his inner accumulation, that is, the unity of heaven and man, the unity of calligraphy and painting, and the unity of benevolence and love. The work "Impression of Tianshan Mountain", in the painting, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the snowy mountains are spectacular, highlighting the mountain soul of Wei'an. The nearby jungle people give life to the picture. The brushstrokes are flexible, and with a wave of the brushstroke, the ink-colored dots and lines turn into imagery lyrical singing. In the work "Wind and Objects by the Lake", the picture is mainly based on lines, and the ink blends together, all in one go. The inscription above is a long piece of calligraphy, which strengthens the artistic charm of traditional Chinese culture.
Tongguan Mountain is the natural beauty of Yixing, Chu Yun was born here, grew up here, and is familiar with the folk culture of this place. The picture of "Xiyu Tongguan" adopts far-reaching compositions, including mountains, lakes, trees, houses, small bridges, and boats, all of which give him a deep love and attachment to his hometown.
Chu Yun traveled in the art of calligraphy and painting, he started from calligraphy, further specialized in landscape painting, teachers of the ancients, teachers of creation, but also studied flower and bird painting, and admired Xu Wei's big freehand flowers and birds. His freehand flowers and birds "Grass and Wood Xin before the Steps", the pen and ink language is ups and downs, unrestrained and lively, and ingenious and changeable.
Zong Baihua, a master of aesthetics, believes that "Confucius's transcendent, gentle, beauty-loving and nature-loving attitude to life, we see people who are far away in The Orchid Pavilion Collection of Wang Xizhi of the Jin Dynasty and Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems." In Chu Yun's creative achievements and his transcendent attitude to art, we are also glad to realize that he is also an outstanding artist who echoes the immortal style of the sages.