A river landscape and a river
——Read Mr. Xu Yichuan's Qingdan Heavy Color Panoramic Documentary Freehand Landscape Painting
Text/Ouyang Bin
I met Mr. Xu Yichuan on a morning in the summer of the previous year.
That morning, I asked a few people to come to the office to talk about a Zhangjiajie scenery photography exhibition, and Mr. Xu was accompanied to my office by a friend of mine in the provincial city. Mr. Xu is tall, good-looking, about seventy years old, with white hair, and he looks very artistic. My friend introduced that Mr. Xu is a big painter who wants to paint the panoramic landscape of Zhangjiajie, and has no other requirements, but only wants me to write a painting review for his Qingdan Chongcai landscape painting. As soon as I heard that someone was going to paint the landscape of Zhangjiajie, I was naturally happy, and I only wanted to encourage him to paint it, so I agreed without thinking. But as soon as Mr. Xu left, I regretted it: Oh hey, you are really fat, you don't know his people, you haven't seen his paintings, and you don't understand art, so you actually wrote a painting review.
Therefore, I pushed, on the grounds of tight time, heavy tasks, and lack of understanding of painting. Mr. Ke Xu was a serious and persistent person, and he actually confessed to death, and actually urged me to pay the account without hesitation. Moreover, in the process of pushing him, I really completed a lot of Zhangjiajie paintings and uploaded them to me from WeChat. I knew that this time I had met a "stubborn old man", but I was afraid that I couldn't push it off, so I also clenched my teeth and secretly paid attention to his people and paintings.
Mr. Xu Yichuan's surname is Xu Zhiguang, his pen name is Xiao Bing, the lord of Changfeng Hall, the dragon and tiger mountain people, etc. Mr. Li is from Hebei Province and now lives in Xiamen. Engaging in the painting industry stemmed from the influence of his family at an early age. His mother's exquisite embroidery and paper-cut patterns sparked his interest in art for the first time. In the 1950s, the popular villain book comic strip greatly stimulated his love of painting, and then he was out of control. After graduating from the university majoring in fine arts, mr. Li joined the military camp and still has no change in his love for art. Mr. Li is good at heavy color ink landscapes, and works part-time as a character, flower and bird. He also has a deep involvement and research on aesthetics, poetry, photography, calligraphy, and gold stones. Rooted in tradition, integrating East and West, he entered the painting and creation with the humanistic spirit of the times, and expressed the leader of the times in the contemporary era with the technique of "heavy ink and color documentary and realistic writing". His style is simple, deep, majestic, atmospheric and full of tension. Mr. Li is deeply rooted in the inheritance of "the source of foreign teachers's creation", with realistic freehand and highlighting the humanistic spirit of the times into the painting, the unique "Qingdan Heavy Color Panoramic Documentary Freehand Landscape Painting" works have set a precedent for a generation, which has been widely concerned and recognized by the calligraphy and painting circles and collection circles at home and abroad, and is now a member of the China Artists Association and the China Photographers Association, a national first-class artist and professor. At the same time, he also has a variety of titles such as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Painting Creation, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Poetry and Calligraphy Association, artistic director of the China Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, academic member of the Chinese And foreign culture research association, etc., and is known as one of the top 100 masters of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and was rated as "Top Ten Leading Figures of Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting" by CCTV in 2018. In 2021, he was awarded the title of "People's Artist of Virtue and Art Shuangxin" in the centenary of the founding of the Party and the title of "The First Batch of Cultural and Historical Inheritors in the Country in the Centenary of the Founding of the Party" by five units, including the China Artists Association. In the same year, the People's Fine Arts Publishing House published an album entitled "Xu Yichuan Landscape Series of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Masters" written by Mr. Gu Jinpingming, secretary of Zhou Enlai and a master of calligraphy and painting.
Mr. Xu is the leading figure of "Qingdan Chongcai Panoramic Documentary Freehand Landscape Painting", and to understand his paintings, of course, it is necessary to have an understanding of "Qingdan Chongcai Panoramic Documentary Freehand Landscape Painting". Chinese painting is the product of the fusion of Chinese culture, Chinese philosophy and Chinese painting art, and it is a form of painting that has developed, grown and become famous in the world alone in the soil of China. Any Chinese painting is nothing more than the harmony of ink, color, paper, pen and water, nothing more than the use of depiction, dot painting, rubbing, blending, turning, and closing, but the form and god it presents are ever-changing. Chinese has loved nature, worshipped nature and longed for nature since ancient times, and landscape painting is the essence of Chinese painting. Since the beginning of Chinese painting, there have been people who are obsessed with landscapes in every era, who are in the company of landscapes and rivers, and have been playing circles in landscapes all their lives, eager to search for qifeng and paint all qifeng. Just as there are thousands of personalities of people, Chinese landscape painting also presents a variety of forms. Observed from the perspective of my layman, in a nutshell, it is nothing more than the distinction between big and small, heavy and light, intentional and work. The so-called big one, the heart has the spirit of encompassing the universe and swallowing the eight directions, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, can be carried out in one stroke, a paper exhibition; the small one, focusing on one person and one thing, one flower and one leaf, and the heart is not distracted, the person who is pictured, to peep at the leopard, to see the big one in the small. The so-called heavy ones are those who dare to splash ink, dare to weigh the color, dare to express their chests freely and freely in the midst of wang yang wantonness, and even shout: Hurry, heaven and earth are used by me; the light one is if the weight is light, the clouds are light and the wind is light, and ren'er is a thousand miles, I only take a scoop to drink, and the line is also said to be pulled. The intention is that the pen turns at will, the meaning turns with the sky, the earth, the wind, and the moon, and only cares about God and forgets the meaning of the form; and the worker, one stroke and one painting, is neat, well-behaved, and sets up its own thunder pool, and does not dare to cross its half-step. I understand that Mr. Xu Yichuan's "Qingdan Heavy Color Panoramic Documentary Freehand Landscape Painting" is a fusion of the heavy, the big and the italian in Chinese landscape painting, but the colors are mainly green and Dan, and at the same time of great ups and downs, they also emphasize the realism of individual details. To be the leading figure of "Qingdan Heavy Color Panoramic Documentary Freehand Landscape Painting", Mr. Xu naturally has to devote a lot of his energy to this aspect. As far as I know, in fact, before Mr. Xu came to Zhangjiajie to find me, he had already traveled to the three mountains and five mountains of the motherland and created many works in this regard. In these works of Mr. Wang, the weight of coloring, the breadth of vision, and the wonder of creativity are all exerted to the extreme. The kind of big red and big green splashing, the kind of momentum of the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, the kind of creativity that sees ingenuity in the vast and magical ideas in the subtleties is really amazing.
If Mr. Xu's paintings are just a pile of big red and green blocks, just a depiction of the image of mountains and rivers, just a reproduction of some fantastic ideas, good or good, after all, it is still a long distance away from the master. Mr. Xu's brilliance lies in his liking to inject two other elements into his paintings— "history" and "love." Especially in the creation of those mountains and rivers, his habitual practice is: first read history, then look at the scenery, and place the scenery under the grand historical background to depict, so that the vicissitudes of history can penetrate into the scenery bit by bit, so that people are reading history while looking at the scenery. And the pouring of love is the highlight of Mr. Xu's paintings. A landscape painter, if he can't integrate the scenery in his creation, lyrically with the scenery, and give the scenery with emotion, then his creation is also dull and boring after all. In Mr. Xu's paintings, his joys and sorrows are vividly expressed through his own pen and ink. "Yellow River Lion Roar" is Mr. Li's masterpiece, Mr. chose the Qikou Waterfall as the main picture, the Yellow River came from a distance, to the Mouth of the River suddenly narrowed, the river became more and more urgent, and finally, it became a jump in the face of the body and the backwater battle. It was in this jump that a male lion leapt out of the rapid waterfall and listened quietly, as if he could hear the roar of the male lion. Mr. Guan's paintings seem to be able to hear the majestic song of "Yellow River Chorus" in his ears. Wuyue is the soul of the Chinese nation, and Mr. Wuyue's footprints have gone deep into the Five Mountains several times, and every step and eye is a painting. His divine thoughts blended with the natural landscape of the Five Peaks, the majesty of Mount Taishan, the danger of Mount Hua, the beauty of Hengshan Mountain, the wonder of Hengshan Mountain, and the shadow of Song Mountain, which converged into his magnificent mountains and rivers, and became his great love for the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland. "Towards the Road to Rejuvenation", "Chinese Dragon", "Feitian", "Meihe Tu", "Nanyue Hengshan Cast National Soul", "Sunrise Jinggangshan Red Cradle Panorama", "Sanqingshan Sacred Landscape Scroll", etc., these paintings, framing differently, all reflect the essential characteristics of their "Qingdan Heavy Color Panoramic Documentary Freehand Landscape Painting".
When I met me, my husband promised to complete the panoramic landscape map of Zhangjiajie, and now he has completed the long scroll of Tianzi Mountain. Judging from his completed Zhangjiajie paintings, Mr. Zhangjiajie's creative passion and creative skills can be said to have been fully exerted once again. Zhangjiajie is one of the few cities in mainland China that has established a tourism city, with six golden business cards, including China's first batch of world natural heritage, the world's first batch of global geoparks, the world's "Zhangjiajie landform" naming place, China's first national forest park, China's first 5A-level scenic spots, and national civilized scenic spots. The natural beauty of Zhangjiajie, in the three thousand qi peaks, eight hundred beautiful waters. The core scenic spot of Zhangjiajie is in Wulingyuan, and the core scenic spot of Wulingyuan is in Tianzi Mountain. Mr. Zhangjiajie panorama is the first choice of Tianzi Mountain, which can be said to be "directly hit the point". For Zhangjiajie, Xu Yichuan also has his own unique views. Since the mountains of Zhangjiajie are famous for their oddness, the first thing he has to express is of course qi. In his pen, the peaks rise flat on the ground, pointing straight to the blue sky, the peaks see the bones, and the peaks see the gods. Although Mr. Qingdan is known for his heavy colors, when expressing the mountains of Zhangjiajie, he does not blindly just pile up heavy colors, but leaves a lot of space for clouds. The clouds in the Mountains of Zhangjiajie written by Mr. Zhangjiajie are vast and vast, sometimes like turbid waves emptying, sometimes like ten thousand horses galloping, dyeing those strange peaks and strange stone points like a dream. At the core of the painting, Mr. As always, left the "history" and "love" in his heart - that is, Marshal He Long and his mount on Tianzi Mountain. Marshal He Long, in mr. He's pen, holds a pipe in his hand and stares into the distance; his mount is meekly snuggled up next to him, never abandoning. Around the statue of the marshal, Mr. He also deliberately sketched out some people who came to pay respects, and his meaning was self-evident: Marshal He Long, who was born in Sangzhi County, Zhangjiajie City, was an elderly proletarian revolutionary and the commander-in-chief of the August 1st Nanchang Uprising, and Marshal He Long was another peak in Zhangjiajie and will always live in the hearts of the people. The long scroll of Tianzi Mountain of the First Lord also has this thick red feeling, and the sense of thickness, history, vicissitudes, and intimacy of the painting has increased sharply, and people cannot help but be impressed: masterpiece, this is a real masterpiece.
A river landscape and a river. Writing this, instead of having any opinion on Mr. Xu's "forced debt", I have added some inner joy. Sir "forced" me to press tightly, I finally had the first draft, first promised my Zhangjiajie panorama? Sir, you have a long way to go, but you have to grasp it, and you also have words first.
Haha, take this as a comment, but also take this as a basis.
Ouyang Bin, born in July 1965, is a native of Hengyang, Hunan. He has worked in The Supply and Marketing Cooperatives of MaoShi City, Hengnan County, the Nanyue District Committee of Hengyang City, the Shuangpai County Committee of Yongzhou City, the Tourism Bureau of Hunan Province, the Discipline Inspection Commission of Hunan Province, the People's Government of Zhangjiajie Municipality, and now the Zhangjiajie Municipal CPPCC Committee. He has published a number of literary works such as the poetry collection "The Finger of the Sunshine" and "The Most Beautiful Hunan", the prose collection "Feeling the Famous Mountain" and "Percussion", as well as tourism planning monographs such as "Introduction to Chinese Tourism Planning" and "Practical Illustration".
Xu Yichuan, name, Zhiguang, pen name, Xiao Bing, Lord of Changfeng Hall, Longhu Mountain, etc., graduated from Harbin Normal University, and was the president of the Chinese Painting Research Institute Huang Yan.
Contemporary famous artist, aesthetic education scholar, art critic, national first-class artist, Peking University Peiwen course researcher, professor, known as "China's most collectible artist", "contemporary Chinese power school of six masters", in 2018 by CCTV as "China's contemporary Chinese calligraphy and painting top ten leading figures". In 2020, he was appointed by the U.S.-China Investment Promotion Association as the director of the Chinese Painting Committee of the Arts Professional Committee. In 2021, he was named "the first batch of cultural and historical inheritors in the country in the centenary of the founding of the Party", and is now the director of Xiamen Yichuan Art Museum and a contracted artist of Guangzhou Art Fair.
He is good at heavy color ink landscapes, part-time work characters, flowers and birds. He also has a deep involvement and research on aesthetics, poetry, photography, calligraphy, and gold stones. He has taught in many colleges and universities such as Peking University and Xiamen University, and has been hired as the vice president of the China Academy of Calligraphy and Painting Creation, the expert member of the China International Friendship Calligraphy and Painting Academy, the artistic director of the China Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, the deputy secretary-general of the China Poetry and Calligraphy Association, the academic committee member of the China Chinese and Foreign Culture Research Association, and has been specially hired as an expert scholar and senior consultant by many domestic and foreign professional institutions such as the Singapore Academy of Arts.