Without that persistence, there would be no art
Text/Chen Dehong
Lingnan painter Chen Dehong
Introduction to Chen Dehong's art
Born in 1979 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong. Graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, his works were selected for the First New Youth Art Exhibition in Guangdong Province, the Fourth Chinese Painting Exhibition in Guangdong Province, and collected by the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and other institutions. During his undergraduate studies at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Chen Dehong was directly taught by teachers such as Li Jinkun, Zhang Yan, and Zhou Yansheng, and received guidance from teachers such as Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, Chen Jinzhang, Chen Xinhua, Liu Shumin, and Lin Fengfeng. In the more than ten years since chen graduated from university, he has exhibited more than 30 times in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhaoqing and other cities, and is a powerful and influential young artist in Guangdong Province. His strategy is based on the inheritance and innovation of the Lingnan School, his works pursue tradition and the times, and his works have unique artistic conceptions, profound skills and novel compositions, and are influenced by the traditional Chinese cultural system and European modernist arts such as Western Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism in brushwork.
Chen Dehong's paintings
I have always pursued original beauty, simple beauty, and my works are full of personality. I was drunk on sketching, and I felt that nature had poetry, existed in the corners of my mysterious mind, and it was from this mystery that I felt the poetic meaning of painting. This is also my own independent artistic path.
My paintings are not about reproducing nature, all my works are derived from my understanding of traditional brush and ink and my perception of nature. I found in nature what I expected, lush plants, millennia-old trees, eternal blue skies and simple life.
My world is lonely, and it is these invisible lonelinesses that allow me to keep a clear mind, look at my art and life, and maintain a better mentality at all times. And the more unique a person has, the more difficult it is for him to make such a sacrifice, so to endure or enjoy solitude is proportional to the value of the person himself.
Schopenhauer said: The higher a person's position in the level of nature, the lonelier he is, which is fundamental and inevitable. If a person's physical loneliness and spiritual loneliness correspond to each other, it is very good for him.
There is an incomprehensible relationship between art, which is the innermost part of man, a kind of self-reproduction buried in the depths, which has become a profound meaning, and the original intention of a long journey has become a real bitter heart! The deeper the love, the more intense the sex, the more true the love, the more lonely the art, this is the portrayal of artistic life! The more experienced you will laugh and see the vicissitudes, which also shows that the higher the understanding, the farther away.