Art, no matter how high or low, but for some people who study art, they will judge and even evaluate other people's art works according to their own artistic literacy and personal preferences.
If the open struggle in other fields is a "firefight", then the struggle in the art world is a "cold war".
What I want to talk about today is the struggle in art, one of them is Wang Huaxiang, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the other is Chen Danqing, a red man in the painting world.
These two people exist like needles to Mai Mang, an academic school and a bold faction, both of whom have different concepts, and will react violently once they meet.
For those of us who eat melons, it is just a hilarity, but for the art world, it can set off an uproar.
The rebel among the painters - Chen Danqing
Chen Danqing, this name is not familiar to everyone, first, because the art circle is originally small, even some enthusiasts, are sporadic in the vast sea of people.
Second, everyone may have seen the paintings he has painted and heard what he has said, but they just don't care who painted them and who said them.
Chen Danqing is the most influential contemporary painter, writer, literary critic, and scholar, and he is best known for his "Tibetan Group Paintings", which can be described as "subverting the mode of indoctrination and tracing its origins to Europe".
At the same time, he is also a writer, publishing more than ten literary works, and these works are full of Chen Danqing's unique personal style.
Why is it said that he is a rebel among painters? In fact, it is because he often speaks amazingly, and some of the rebellious remarks he says often cause an uproar in the academic circles.
It is hard to imagine that as a painter who graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he often belittled painting everywhere and advised young people not to paint.
On the other hand, he is still "working hard", continuing his painting career, earning money and the world's attention.
This is like the saying "take up the rice bowl to eat, put down the chopsticks to scold the mother", before Chen Danqing, the author knows that such a person is still the online novel writer Tang Jiasanshao.
Ordinary people have already raised their blood pressure just by thinking about it, and they feel that this person's, not to mention Wang Huaxiang, the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Painting the world of reds and the college dean of the battle
"He is well-informed and talented, but his cleverness is mistaken by cleverness." For example, his situation along the way: going to the United States can not enter the United States, going to the academy can not enter the academy, learning tradition can not go into the tradition, advocating the contemporary can not enter the contemporary.
When the public is also a pseudo-public knowledge, he is a fake and shoddy product of the intellectual circles who are bright on the outside and gray on the inside, and at most he is just an art fan who is very good at packaging himself. ”
"People who don't know the problem have problems with their logic and are not suitable for talking, but he goes around belittling painting, making people think that he is going to stop writing, but he still draws, and instigates young people not to paint, just like spitting into the rice bowl while eating." I really miss the simple and distant Chen Danqing during the "Tibetan Group Painting" period. ”
These are the evaluations of Chen Danqing by the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and I have to say that people who study art are really scared of not seeing blood, but they make people very congested, and these two criticisms have criticized Chen Danqing as a disgrace.
However, Chen Danqing reversed his previous style this time and was silent for a while, but instead accumulated the counterattack into words, using the pen as a knife.
His own response and counterattack were condensed into a book "The Journey of Ignorance", which has: Dean Wang Huaxiang said that I am a jerk, and I will admit ignorance first.
Art or interest? They are all from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, how much hatred is there, so they are afraid? In fact, the root cause is - interests.
Why? Let's look at Chen Danqing first.
He said that he was ignorant, and in his works, from beginning to end, there was an atmosphere of decadence, just like the "funeral culture" that was popular in previous years and the "world-weary makeup" in the mouths of girls.
Chen Danqing describes his denial of his art and the negation of the industry, and on the other hand, he is inseparable from the money and fame brought by these so-called negated art.
Chen Danqing often spread to young people that "painting is outdated, don't easily learn to draw" and "sketching is useless", but he is also teaching students to be self-reliant and quickly earn money, and he is not qualified to encourage students.
Chen Danqing, who is so contradictory and even somewhat neurotic, will indeed be annoying.
On the other hand, Wang Huaxiang is not like this, he is the president of the regular Central Academy of Fine Arts, a very standard academic school, for students, Wang Huaxiang is a positive attitude.
At the same time, Wang Huaxiang also opened some off-campus cram schools to make a profit, and in order to make money, it is necessary to establish the concept of painting useful in people's minds, but Chen Danqing's remarks have broken this balance.
Imagine that a person in the training industry, who relies on cultural propaganda to establish the necessary concept of training, has to recruit a few students, and then suddenly a person appears and says to these students: "It is useless for you to learn this, and there is no future after learning...".
This hard student source may also be "dissuaded", and whoever happens to the person is happy.
Keep the love, the thought is the mountains and the sea
Although Chen Danqing himself often has some mourning, after his famous work "Tibet Group Map", other works have not been able to continue to maintain the achievements of "Tibet Group Map", and in writing books, he can only be regarded as an amateur writer.
This situation is very embarrassing, but can we say that Chen Danqing has no talent? Can you say that Chen Danqing is ignorant? Can you say that Chen Danqing does not have a love for art? Of course not.
On the contrary, Chen Danqing's love for art is real enough, it can be regarded as a true disposition, he is not ignorant, he can often talk about a certain issue, and he does not think of what to write in writing, but has his own thoughts and rules.
In Chen Danqing's eyes, painting has nothing to do with money and politics, he paints only because of his love for art.
In his works, we can feel the original appearance of the whole world, the endless wheat fields reflecting the blue sky, and the beauty of nature is pervasive.
"How much of the history and glory of China's small cities, buried, forgotten, the pride of today, at most is the township enterprises or industrial parks", Chen Danqing is more about the understanding and thinking of the world.