Original title:
Depict the harmonious sounds of nature with abundant greenery
——Remembering Su Guanren, visiting professor of the Royal Victorian Academy of Art in Canada and a painter from Fangcheng Hong Kong
Mr. Su Guanren, a Hong Kong artist from Fangcheng, Guangxi, was hired as a visiting professor at the Royal Victorian Academy of Arts in Canada. Starting in 2021, the Royal Victorian Academy of Art in Canada, in cooperation with the China Oriental Art Research Center, intends to hire a famous chinese calligraphy and painting artist as an honorary academician and visiting professor of the academy..."
This is a news item recently published by the China Network Art Museum.
In 2021, the academy hired a number of Chinese artists as visiting professors, and Su Guanren, a famous painter from Fangcheng Hong Kong, was one of several Chinese oil painters hired.
The famous painter Su Guanren (first from the right) and the visiting Chinese and foreign youths exchanged art and took a group photo to commemorate the occasion.
"Thank you to my mentor Mr. Rick"
Su Guanren, formerly known as Su Zikui. Born in July 1960 in Shaluoliao Village, Guangpo Town, Port District, he has been cultivating the sea for generations.
The painter Su Guanren is painting
Su Guanren has particularly liked to draw since he was a child. In 1977, he graduated from Guangpo High School. In December 1978, he was conscripted into the army. He served as an armed police soldier at the Pingxiang Friendship Pass Border Inspection Station in Guangxi for 4 years, and participated in the battle to defend the frontier of the motherland. He worked as a projectionist in the political office of the checkpoint and a member of the propaganda committee of the general branch of the regiment. During this time, he had the privilege of meeting the famous military painter Mr. Rick.
Wei Ke (1916-2012) was born in Rong County, Guangxi (present-day Rong'an County). In 1935, he was admitted to the Western Painting Department of The National Art College of Hangzhou, and among the same students were Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki. In May 1938, he joined the New Fourth Army, and in 1949, he entered Shanghai with Chen Yi's Third Field Army. He is an important painter in the history of Chinese art in the 20th century and the founder of the "Subtropical Color School", with in-depth research and achievements in oil painting, ink painting, watercolor painting, ink painting, etc. He has served as the vice chairman of the Guangxi Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the chairman of the Guangxi Branch of the China Artists Association.
The Li River is late
In the border guard, Mr. Wei Ke looked at the poster painted by Su Guanren and felt that he had a good foundation. Su Guanren also admired mr. Rick, who was very easy-going, and the two had been friends for twenty or thirty years, and had a large number of letters exchanged with each other. After Su Guanren retired from the army, Mr. Wei Ke recommended him to the Guangxi Academy of Arts (oil painting undergraduate) to study in the fine arts major, and admitted him as the only "private" student until graduation in 1984. In 1999, Su Guanren re-entered the postgraduate course of Guangxi Academy of Arts (Chinese Painting) for one year. "If I hadn't been a soldier in the army, I wouldn't have met Mr. Enshik. If I hadn't met my mentor, I would most likely not have the life of a painter I am today. Su Guanren said.
During this period, Mr. Hook also wrote to him specifically:
("Comrade Su Zikui:
Your basic painting skills are very solid, whether in the shape and color have a deep realism kung fu, which is a painter's deep foundation of the requirements.
Secondly, the color should pay attention to the ever-changing tone. Because the objects depicted are ever-changing.
Then there is how to form their own unique style and characteristics. ”
Written on April 7, 1998)
The original of this letter has been well preserved by Su Guanren. "How to form your own unique style and characteristics" is the lifelong pursuit of an outstanding painter.
From opening a gallery to "the most collectible artist"
When he was in the army, Su Guanren's personal deeds were reported by the "Border Defense Life" column of the Central People's Radio and the "People's Public Security" magazine. Two years after retiring from the army, he returned to Fangchenggang for 9 years as a TV reporter, and his works have won several journalism awards. One of the things that pleased him the most was that after the TV special films "Recent Facts on the Post-War Border of Fangcheng County" and "Report from the Mangrove Forest" produced by him were sent to the central authorities, they aroused the great attention of the leaders of the State Council, and the central authorities allocated huge sums of money to Fangcheng County (now Fangcheng District) to develop the coastal mangrove forest and resettle the lives and production of border residents. Subsequently, CCTV selected and broadcast the feature film "Report from the Mangrove Forest".
Red sand, the sea of hometown
Now, 40 years later, the "Certificate of Retired Soldiers" and the "Certificate of Screening Operation" are still well preserved; 30 years later, the "press card" with the red plastic cover is still preserved. These are the evidence of his youthful memories.
Due to busy work and various reasons, SuGuanren interrupted his creation for many years. However, during this period, he has always paid attention to the trends in the Chinese art world, often buying art books and periodicals, and when he has the opportunity, he will go to Nanning to watch the art exhibition. He said: "In those years, I was painting with my heart, or I was brewing painting. ”
In 2000, Su Guanren left Fangcheng Port and opened a gallery in Huadu District, Guangzhou. That year, the galleries in Huadu District did not charge rent, and they did not have to pay taxes to do the gallery business. Of the more than 100 shops, Guangxi people accounted for 70 or 80. Galleries are a platform for painters to communicate and sell their work. After arriving in Guangzhou, Su Guanren picked up the paintbrush again. By 2008, his works began to enter the auction market. His first work at auction in Beijing fetched a good price of 33,000 yuan. "At that time, if you were still working in the unit, your monthly salary might be less than two thousand yuan." Continuing to work, I simply didn't have the time or cost to paint. After 7 years of opening the gallery, I made a lot of money and had time to paint. The price of my paintings went up, so I switched to the gallery and became a professional painter. ”
By 2013, Su Guanren had sold a high price of 4 million yuan for a single work. In 2014, he began to sign a contract with a well-known domestic collection company and became a contract painter.
Light gauze covers the wild
So far, Su Guanren has published more than 100 works in dozens of professional art magazines, large-scale art albums, e-books published by the state-level publishing house, and exhibited in various professional exhibitions and auctions, and published many painting collections. From 2010 to 2013, he was awarded "Artist with the Most Collectible Value of 100 Works" and "Artist with the Most Collection Appreciation Potential of 100 Works" by China Collection magazine for two consecutive times. In 2012, he was invited by the "Art Lecture Hall" column of CCTV to do a personal interview. In 2013, he was invited by the "China Master Road" column of CCTV to do a personal interview. In May 2017, he was invited to participate in the 17th "China Century Style Summary and Commendation Conference and CCTV Annual Person Awards Ceremony" in Beijing, and won the "Most Influential Oil Painting Master in Contemporary China" award and the title of "Chinese Century Talent". In 2014, he donated the oil painting "Homeland" and the Chinese painting "Mysterious Zhangjiajie" to the Guangdong Red Cross Society Yixin Charity Foundation for charity auction, raising a total of 276,000 yuan, all of which was donated to the public welfare foundation.
In September 2017, Su Guanren was invited to Hong Kong to participate in the 12th Asian Brand Ceremony, and won the titles of "Asian Famous Art Brand Award" and "Top Ten Innovative Brands in Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Industry", and the brand value of "Su Guanren" was evaluated by Asia Nebulas Brand (Beijing) Co., Ltd., with a brand value of 41 million yuan. In 2018, he was invited to participate in the Beijing Summit Forum on the Tasting of Calligraphy and Painting Works of Famous Chinese Contemporary Artists, and was highly praised by expert judges such as Shan Guoqiang, a master of calligraphy and painting appraisal of the Palace Museum in Beijing, and Lu Changsheng, a gold medal calligraphy and painting appraisal expert of the China History Museum, and was named "China's Most Collectible Artist".
In the future, there will be more hometown mountains and sea themes
The main theme of Suguanren's paintings is landscapes, grasses and trees, mostly from Guangxi landscapes, while Guilin landscapes are mostly used. Although there are scenery of the coast of the hometown, there are fewer.
Su Guanren mainly plays oil painting and also paints Chinese paintings. In su guanren's view, oil painting and Chinese painting are not independent and incompatible. His own oil paintings are not limited to the former Soviet Oil Painting and European Oil Painting, but to learn from their strengths and integrate Chinese and Western. It not only preserves the light and color of Western paintings, but also does not lose the artistic conception of Chinese landscape painting.
Li River in dreams
For decades, Suguan people have been living in Guangxi and Guangdong. The grass and trees in the two subtropical areas are evergreen, and the flowers bloom in all four seasons. Unlike the four distinct seasons in the north, the grass and trees rise and fall, the rivers and mountains are moist, and the colors are clear. Such as northern autumn and winter, rhubarb, rhubarb, big red, big white, or black, strong color, thick texture. In the eyes of ordinary people, subtropical flowers are colorful, colorful, easy to enter the painting, while green appears "monotonous". However, Su Guanren prefers green, and chooses green as the main color of oil painting, which is actually a challenge to a certain difficulty and height. "As long as you pay attention, the subtropical green still changes in different seasons. I like to show subtle changes in green that people are not easily aware of. ”
SuGuanren listens to the colors of paintings as "tones of sound". He uses color and light and shadow as his painting language, so that the color of the picture is simple and not monotonous, the mottled light that is faintly visible in the layers, digging new sensitivities from the bland, so that the simple and soft colors change into different forms, thus creating a dreamy "color space". His paintings move freely between reality and dream, figuration and imagery, maintaining a delicate balance between hiding and revealing, concealing and revealing.
early morning
Perhaps because of the love of green, Suguan people look more than ten years younger than their peers.
Guangzhou is not far from its hometown Fangcheng Port. Every year during the Spring Festival or other free time, Suguan people return to their hometown of FangchengGang Guangpo as usual. One comes to visit relatives and friends, the other is to go back to his hometown to sketch, and often guides young painters and painters on the spot. In April 2019, he also accompanied the Guangxi Fangchenggang Artists Association to Hualien County, Taiwan, to carry out cross-strait cultural exchanges and style collection activities. During this period, two oil paintings were exchanged and exhibited at the Hualien County Art Museum. In recent years, more than 100 works have been collected by collectors at home and abroad, art institutions and government archives and art museums. A few years ago, he donated 3 works to the Fangchenggang City Archives for collection. He has published "Suguanren Painting Collection" and "Suguanren Oil Painting Collection" and so on.
In mid-January, through the CCTV news client, Suguan people paid homage to the people of the whole country and extended sincere greetings and good wishes to people from all walks of life who cared about and supported calligraphy and painting. He said that in the future, he will show more hometown mountains and seas.
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