People's Daily Jinan, January 14 -- On the afternoon of January 13, Yang Xiaogang, a famous painter, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, the director of the Shandong Art Museum, the honorary chairman of the Shandong Youth Artists Association, the vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Artists Association, the vice president and secretary general of the Shandong Provincial Chinese Painting Society, and the standing committee member of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, walked into the cultural horizon, tasted tea and discussed the Tao, tea friendship, strolled through the Chinese art space, and splashed ink in the cloud studio to accept an exclusive interview with the China Network Shandong Channel and the Cultural Horizon Network, sending New Year greetings to everyone!
The laughter in the reception room was loud, and Yang Xiaogang, who had been the director of the Shandong Art Museum, took time out of his busy schedule to visit his old friends, which was calculated as "stealing half a day's leisure". There is a poetry cloud: "I am also good at singing and drinking, singing and drinking with beautiful people and friends." "There is no shengge and wine beauty, Liang Hongwen, chairman of The China Network Shandong & Culture Vision Network, treats this young talent in the painting world with tea instead of wine and painting instead of song. The sky outside the window is misty and snowy, the tea in the bucket room is full of smoke, only two close friends chat and have fun, the north of the south sea, the great rivers and rivers, at this moment, all of them are within a few inches of this tea smoke.
Yang Guan is in full swing, but he has made remarkable achievements on the stage of art, he is good at traditional ink character freehand, as the honorary chairman of the Shandong Youth Artists Association, the vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Artists Association, the vice president and secretary general of the Shandong Provincial Chinese Painting Society, this time to the new post to take up his post, I believe it will be more "broad world, great achievements." The two talked about the current situation, development and New Year's planning of the art museum, and expressed their opinions.
Subsequently, Chairman Liang invited Director Yang to visit the "China Art Space", which was inscribed by Fan Di'an, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of the China Artists Association, and all the calligraphers and painters who walked into the cultural horizon were displayed. The first painting was an oil painting, and Director Yang immediately recognized that it was the Russian birch forest made by Teacher Liu Qingyan; later, he stopped and observed for a long time in front of the alpine cuckoo painted by Teacher Shen Guangwei; Zhang Dashi's "Ten Thousand Mountains Red Everywhere", its novelty and boldness made him quite interested...
Savoring the divine strokes in the paintings of the famous artists, the two stopped and went to the editorial department of the two networks to appreciate the old works of Director Yang issued by the two networks. Time passed suddenly, Director Yang was full of emotions, thinking that when he first studied, many contemporary masters were still young painters, and now they have so many excellent works.
When the Cloud Studio waited for a long time, Director Yang wanted to show his skills here, but found that the painting paper on the case was reversed, and the staff was about to adjust, Director Yang stopped it, and the wrong side was wrong, and the reverse side was more rough, and it was used to paint a different flavor.
I saw him choose the thinnest pen, use the tip of the pen to lightly dip the thick ink, attach himself to the concentration, and carefully outline it in the center of the plain paper. When he was young, the beautiful nose and cherry lips and slim eyebrows were in the pen tip model, the goose egg face and peach blossom cheeks also fell under the ink, and a beautiful jade face of "clear water out of the hibiscus, natural to carve" appeared on the paper, slender as the fingers of the onion tube, and waved the prayer wheel in the air. Director Yang then added a little clear water to adjust the ink, changed the thick pen to infiltrate, the flank was gentle, and a dark cloud hair was smudged on the white paper; when the crane was half dry, it was followed by a pinch and a few strokes, and the body dress was formed, the folds were clear, the clothes were staggered, and there seemed to be a fluttering posture, and a Tibetan beauty jumped on the paper. Immediately after, Director Yang drew a young girl next to her. The creation of this Pair of Tibetan Mother and Daughter, the brushwork is both thick and thin, and the sparseness is appropriate; the expression of the face is exquisite and delicate, Director Yang has been leaning over and carefully depicting, the pen of the body and dress is loose and loose, and a few large strokes are achieved in one fell swoop.
"Auspicious Ruyi" Yang Xiaogang
The originator of ink painting, Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, said in "On Painting", "Where painting, people are the most difficult, sub-landscape, sub-dogs and horses, Tai Xie must be instrumental, difficult and easy to do, do not wait to think of wonderful also." "The difficulty of painting people is because man is the primate of all things, the extreme of creation, compared with other flowers, birds, landscapes, pavilions and pavilions, people have rich and profound thoughts and emotions, and they also have more vivid and complex emotions, states, gods, intentions, and rhymes. Director Yang's characteristics of the character are focused on portraying the eyes. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows of the soul, after the character is formed, he once again carefully carves the eyebrows, uses thick black ink like a dragonfly to dot the water and then repeatedly aggravates the color of the eyes, and finally dyes them with pure white dots, and the two pairs of beautiful eyes are immediately black as dot paint, white as mutton fat, deep like an ancient well, pure and just like water lotus, clear and messy, empty and a little confused. As in the Song Dynasty, "Water is the eye wave, and the mountain is the peak of the eyebrow." If you want to ask pedestrians to go over there, your eyebrows are full of eyebrows. ”
The pursuit of a cheerful intention, Director Yang's self-evaluation is a compatible style of small freehand and large freehand, in a state of wandering between intention and figuration, especially for the facial performance is more abundant, through the portrayal of the eyes of the characters to grasp the eyes of every viewer.
The ancients painted characters focusing on lyricism, and today's people are popular in abstract painting, and Director Yang has long adhered to the realistic painting style, he believes that many people, especially the spectators who are outside the art, have a biased understanding of figuration and abstraction, in fact, the insistence on the realistic painting style is every outstanding artist since ancient times. Every painter dedicated to the creation of abstract art is also a master of realistic painting, Picasso's early works on the depiction of realistic figures reached the peak of the extreme, and later he with the deepening of his understanding of art, produced a variety of forms of transformation, with new ideas for art to give new connotations. "I am walking in aesthetic figuration, and I am an inheritor of the 'Xu Jiang' system of Chinese freehand painting." Director Yang said, "My understanding of figuration and abstraction is also from immaturity to maturity, and from maturity, I pursue a kind of novelty and change of myself. The artist's style is also constantly advancing and evolving, constantly enriching itself. ”
In addition, he also admitted that all works of art are sent out with feelings and are based on themselves. Artists need to be individual, but also need to be able to control and grasp their own state. Therefore, even if it is realistic, it cannot only pursue pure similarity, but should integrate the author's feelings into it, express the mood of the characters in the painting, and pin more on the author's thoughts, emotions, aesthetics, ideals and so on.
Su Shi said this very thoroughly a thousand years ago: "On painting in the form of a similarity, see the neighbor with children." The poem must be this poem, and it must not be a poet who knows. Poetry and painting books are all the same, natural work and freshness. Su Shi's artistic concept, painting and poetry have a common law, that is, "heavenly work and freshness", that is, the highest realm of art is natural, there is no trace of artificial axe chiseling, which must require the author's natural expression of true feelings. Otherwise, it is really a child's insight to only talk about painting in terms of shape, and the content of writing poetry is only a description of real things, which is certainly not the work of a wise poet.
Finally, Director Yang used indigo, ochre, cinnabar, etc. to color the painting, he used the red, yellow and blue triad colors on the dress, producing a fierce sense of collision; and then used snow blue, light ink, ochre to fuse, dye the sky, and finally put the white pen in the air, with the other hand lightly touched the wrist, a little snowflakes from the sky sprinkled on the two mothers and daughters' bright and gorgeous dresses. A pair of beautiful Tibetan mothers and daughters smiled and looked forward to it, as if Yingying had come from the mysterious snowy plateau to this cloud studio to send blessings to everyone.
A painting of happiness in the auspicious year of Ruixue is Director Yang's blessing for the upcoming New Year.
From this brilliant use of color, Director Yang talked about his artistic journey along the way, at the beginning of the university, he followed the principle of "ink is divided into five colors", did not like to use color, but used pure ink to express; later went out to sketch, was attracted by the "strange costumes" of ethnic minorities, began to particularly like to paint ethnic minority themes, especially indulged in the use of rich and intense colors to paint national costumes. "At that time, I was young, my painting techniques could not reach a mature state, and my understanding of painting also lacked a high degree, and the color of ethnic minority clothing had a great stimulation to my senses and satisfied the curiosity of young people." He laughed, and with the increase of age, the use of color is more rational, or like to paint the bright colors of ethnic minorities, and the combination of prints with traditional Chinese painting language, the color is more intense, but pay attention to getting rid of the "vulgar" of the mortar, to this national original ecological beauty to give a more elegant artistic, modern effect, "the same high saturation, fierce collision of colors, now painted will be more 'elegant', this to the accumulation of long-term painting practice, little by little groping, little by little 'enlightenment'." ”
Later, with the experimentation of various themes, styles, colors, and with the precipitation and maturity of his personality, he also loved another kind of subject, Mr. Great Congress of the Republic of China, and painted many revolutionary ancestors, benevolent people, and famous masters of the Republic of China period, such as Sun Yat-sen and He Xiangning. Graduated from Nankai University, an ancient famous school with great heroes in the Republic of China era, perhaps because of this, he has more feelings and mission, and his works after middle age pay more attention to humanistic care. In this series of works, he uses dark gray and yellow ink to show the old era that is full of suffering but pregnant with vitality, and the wind and clouds are surging at the same time, showing the predecessors and celebrities who explored the road to the rise of the Chinese nation for the country and the people.
Beauty and celebrities, starting from Qu Yuan's "Leaving the Troubles", "Xiang Jun", and "Lady Xiang", have been compared. "Hu Jiang is far away from Zhi Zhi, and Qiu Lan thinks that Qiu Lan thinks it is pei." Celebrities have always loved to compare themselves with beauty, and in their works of art, they have taken the wearing of vanilla as a metaphor for pursuing a strong and noble personality, and a beautiful social ideal of helping the world and serving the country and the people. Director Yang's artistic concept is that works of art should be diversified, but ideology must be full of positive energy, carry forward the main spiral road, praise the party, praise the motherland, and care for the people, "This is also the responsibility and mission of Shandong Art Museum as a member of the National Art Museum." "Young artists should cultivate their character and create excellent works for the motherland, society and the people." This artistic ideal is fully reflected in the creations of ethnic minority girls and Mr. Republic of China.
Whether it is "vanilla beauty" or "celebrity style", it is the common pursuit of Director Yang in his art and personality. Why he loves the artistic creation of these two themes is that he has always adhered to the high quality and humanistic care it represents.
"The world says that I love Chang'an, but in fact, I only love Chang'an." (Ji Zhe)