"The Golden Bull resigns from the old years, and the Fuhu sends spring to come", the cultural movement is related to the national fortune, and the cultural context is connected with the national vein. Without the prosperity and development of socialist culture, there will be no socialist modernization. At this beautiful moment of universal celebration and reunion of thousands of families, Ye Shangqing, a ninety-year-old artist: Greetings to the people of the whole country! To all people from all walks of life who care about and support the development of calligraphy and painting, I would like to extend sincere greetings and good wishes!
Ye Shangqing | Great clumsiness is fun to be clever
Original / Liu Hui (Discerning Everyone)
Rare! The famous painter Ye Shangqing, poetry, books, paintings, and prints, are not learned, theory, and creation are equally important and cannot be obtained.
In particular, the beauty of the lotus, the painting lotus, and the lotus flower are like the brilliance of the hibiscus in the water, the noble sentiment, and the long rhyme of pen and ink.
He is good at painting the majesty, might, vision, and heroism of mountain eagles and sea eagles, which inspires people to have a broad and broad mind.
2016 Fight Chart
Shang Qing is still humble, shang shi sheng
Walking into Ye Shangqing's studio in the west of Hangzhou City, I was greeted by works full of walls: flowers and birds, figures, calligraphy, poetry printing, ink painting, sketching, freehand, photography... Ye Shangqing's style of painting flowers and birds can be summarized by "qi, rhyme, god, force, simplicity, reason, and truth", which is what he often calls "seven-character mantra".
These "seven characters" can be understood from the aesthetic taste and artistic philosophy, and can also be explained from the pen and ink techniques and painting expressions. He is good at painting lotus, eagle, heron and other subjects, and is also good at painting plums, orchids, bamboo, chrysanthemums and marine animals. The representative works of flowers and birds are "Pure Planting Lotus", "Hundred Birds Figure", "Goshawk Mood Through Changhong", "Fish Play Lotus Leaf Diagram", "Dragon God Diagram", "Battlefield Yellow Flower Extraordinarily Fragrant"...
2000 Net planting of lotus flowers
Opening of the atmosphere, endless charm, bone strength, poetic feelings - Ye Shangqing's flower and bird paintings, simple in pen and ink, contain philosophy, full of pride, full of charm, whether it is a sketch album or a large middle hall, there is a strong visual impact.
Exquisite, lyrical, touching - Ye Shangqing's flower and bird paintings, brush to home, profound skills, can withstand careful taste. The late art historian Mr. Wang Bomin praised Ye Shangqing's freehand paintings of flowers and birds as "fresh and elegant, funny and clever". Calligrapher Jiang Dongshu said that Ye Shangqing's paintings are "explored from life and renewed in inheritance".
1984 Finger Ink Album Quasi-Song Renyi
Because of this, the history of flower and bird painting in the mainland is long, with many masters and painting schools, forming various techniques and styles, which is not only a rich artistic heritage, but also an obstacle to the progress of future generations of flower and bird painters.
It is precisely based on this understanding that Ye Shangqing has taken a strong interest in primitive ancient jade, faience pottery, oracle bones, seal books, Chinese paintings, Tang paintings and other simple and clumsy art forms since the 1980s, and has successively created a series of innovative works such as "Fish and Water Map", "Dragon God Diagram", "Sunbird and Heron", "Golden Wutu", "Nine Rutu", "Calligraphy and Painting Tiger Eye Map" and so on.
1991 Tiger Eye Chart
Thus, in these sketched images with jerky and solemn lines, Ye Shangqing traced the origin of almost to the source, tasted the original nature of flower and bird painting, and gave a modern interpretation full of the spirit of the times. This kind of exploration of his was deeply appreciated by Mr. Lu Yushao: "Brother Shang Qing Dao's recent four dragon diagrams are very gratifying. ”
1988 Dragon God Diagram
As early as the late 1950s, Mr. Pan Tianshou wrote "A Brief History of Flower and Bird Painting" (first draft), which was naturally the research result of the First Ink Painting Department of the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts that initiated the teaching of three majors: figures, landscapes, and flowers and birds. Today, Mr. Pan Tianshou's disciple Ye Shangqing's masterpiece "History of Chinese Flower and Bird Painting" can be said to be the inheritance of Pan Tianshou's literary vein and the embodiment of his teaching ideas.
"I was born in 1930 in Yuhuan, Zhejiang. Began to work in the Wenzhou Cultural and Labor Troupe, youth league, in 1951, transferred to Hangzhou to work, in 1954 was admitted to the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, originally studied figure painting, and then due to the needs of the country to cultivate talents, I had the honor to become Mr. Pan Tianshou's disciple, to learn from him the technique of freehand flowers and birds, both Pan Lao's graduate student, but also Pan Lao's secretary ..." Ye Shangqing also remembered that the worship ceremony held in Pan Lao's studio was simple and solemn, everyone cleared a cup of tea, and expressed their hearts to each other, from then on, "painting does not need three absolutes but must be four complete" The teachings of the teacher have always been kept in mind.
In 1963, Ye Shangqing (second from the left) accompanied his attendants Pan Tianshou and Wu Maozhi to Tai'an to give a lecture
In fact, the creation of "Hundred Birds" was not done in one fell swoop.
At first he drew a long scroll and asked Mr. Sha Menghai to write an inscription to add luster and color. Sha Lao believes that this form repeats the predecessors, and can it be changed to another form. Ye Shangqing deeply felt that Mr. Wang's proposal was a high-level move. Later, after repeated thinking and deliberation, it became a combination of calligraphy and painting, with ancient and new, one page and one bird, work, intention, ink, and then added Han and Tang bird patterns and ancient bird characters and other forms of expression to be integrated, so that this large album, more innovative, more connotation, finally came to an end. Later, when exhibited at the Zhejiang Art Museum, it was constantly praised by the audience. When two Japanese artists visited, they were full of emotions, and they specially congratulated Ye Shangqing, saying that it was "an unprecedented initiative of the ancients."
2004 One of the Birds of The Hundred Birds
In this regard, Ye Shangqing will learn from his heart, work pen and ink, diligently and diligently, from unable to have the law, and then from the law to the impossible, laying a solid foundation. Finally, pan Tianshou's finger painting charm opened up a successful path.
It is precisely on the basis of inheriting the tradition and absorbing the strengths of bada shanren, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo and other families, that he is more committed to the innovative exploration of Chinese ink painting, and the spirit of the times is integrated into traditional brush and ink. Only then did Ye Shangqing absorb the "golden stone nutrition" from the primitive art, ancient murals, bronze ornaments and Han bricks, and pursue the ancient, thick and simple "Hundred Birds Diagram" with Mr. Sha Menghai's dashing inscription, a burst of interest came to his face; he loved lotus, painted lotus, and Wing Lotus, focusing on the beauty of its water hibiscus, and praising its high quality of coming out of the mud without staining.
Throughout, Ye Shangqing's "Shang Humble, Shang Astringent, Shang Sheng..." is not all an art world of his own Chinese flower and bird paintings that has been opened up from this?
Freehand change refers to ink strange things
In Ye Shangqing's heart, finger ink painting is a strange flower in Pan Tianshou's painting art treasure house, and it has accompanied Pan Tianshou through a brilliant artistic life.
Since then, Ye Shangqing has followed Pan Tianshou's proverb: "To learn finger painting, you must start from the basics of brush drawing, and you can't use your fingers to steal tricks and play with ink." ”
"Although finger painting began with Zhang Xuan in the Tang Dynasty, in fact, Zhang Xuan usually liked to paint with a 'withdrawing pen', that is, a bald pen, and only occasionally smeared it with his fingers." Ye Shangqing said that what really made the finger painting shine was Gao Qipei, a native of Tieling, Liaoning during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. Gao Qipei, the character Weizhi, the number and garden, is good at painting flowers, birds, animals, figures, landscapes, especially in finger painting, extremely high achievements, known as the founder of finger painting. Pan Tianshou was deeply influenced by Gao Qipei, and through painstaking exploration on the road of artistic creation of "constant" and "change", he eventually became a generation of pioneers and innovators in finger painting.
Talking about why Mr. Pan Tianshou painted finger paintings, Ye Shangqing had many incisive expositions. He once said: "Yu zuo brush painting, intercropping finger painting." Ho Jay? In order to find the difference in the use of techniques between the fingers and pens, the different meanings of the pen are different, and they are mutually referenced. Luck pen, often also; transport finger, change also. Constantly seeking change in order to understand the constant, is also a blunt root of the blunt law? "Pan Tianshou uses his fingers to paint in order to change on the usual brushes, and through this change, find the different techniques and interests between the brush and the fingers, so as to break the routine of brush painting, the ultimate purpose is to make his art develop and innovate." Pan Tianshou is well aware of the truth that "there must be change when there is always", but "always" is easy to "change" and "difficult", and the more difficult it is to change, the more he has to move forward, although he modestly calls himself a "blunt root" person who uses blunt methods to change.
Change is about innovation. Regarding the relationship between the brush and the finger, Ye Shangqing said that in order to achieve something in finger painting, you must first seriously study the brush painting, if you do not lay a solid foundation in the brush drawing, and mistakenly think that the finger painting is novel, or think that the finger painting can be clever, you can be strange and dazzling, and you are not willing to work the brush, which is not right. And with the foundation of the brush, you have to have a gradual learning process for finger painting. Learning without stealing, you must be down-to-earth, in order to create more and better finger paintings and release this beautiful flower.
Since Gao Qipei founded the Chinese Finger Painting School in the Qing Dynasty, although there are many painters who are good at finger ink flower and bird paintings and their heirloom works, the "Ye Family Style" created by Ye Shangqing is still "unprecedented" after all. In the expression technique of transporting fingers and using ink, he broke out of his independent appearance, looking at that, soft and rigid, rigid and soft, Ye Shangqing is like "folding the strands", and the line of "cone drawing sand", which reflects the strength and texture of his ink drawing line, giving people a sense of strength and momentum.
2021 Finger Ink Painting Fish Play Lotus Leaf Diagram
Look at that, blending with each other, the two phases of the qi qi, Ye Shangqing with the finger and ink rhyme contrasting color and ink, the rhyme is vivid, the contrast is interesting, or splash ink or splash color, making people feel more emotional and interesting.
"Although Ye Shangqing's finger paintings benefited from the closeness of his mentor Pan Tianshou, a comparative study of the works of teachers and students found that although Ye's finger paintings of flowers and birds had the foundation and influence of Pan Weng, they had different painting styles and different methods of expression." As art critics have said, the contrast between him and Gao Qipei's finger painters, including the flower and bird paintings of contemporary finger painters, also has different faces and charms, which is the artistic value and significance of Ye Shangqing's unique style of finger ink art.
The beauty is exquisite, and the form of the gods is revealed. In fact, Ye Shangqing's finger ink figure paintings are no less than his flower and bird paintings. He specializes in historical figure painting, modern theme figure painting, dance and figure painting.
1985 Finger ink painting Tibetan dance
For example, paintings such as "Jiao Jiao Yu Gu", "Tibetan Dance", and "Human Body Sketching" are all valued by readers. In the 1980s, Ye Shangqing's finger ink figure paintings such as "Lotus Donor" and "Quiet Diagram" vividly expressed the subtlety of finger movement and ink use, the painting was profound, the teaching was nurtured, and the artistic conception was sought, which embodied the pen and ink interest of literati painting, and also had the taste of life, lyrical with "Yi Pen Grass", full of simple, quiet beauty and wonderful charm between heaven and earth.
Borrowing from the past to open up the present, foreign teachers have created. Ye Shangqing wandered between the artistic worlds of Gao Qipei, Pan Tianshou and other giants, inheriting tradition, eclecticism, and continuous artistic practice, from shallow to deep, from Bo back to the covenant, he has always sneaked in the inheritance, development, innovation, pioneering context, tireless, passionate, and finally found the "Ye family style" and unique.
Ye Shangqing began to paint finger ink paintings in the 1960s, mainly copying Pan Lao's works. He believes that in the process of learning, occasionally engaged in creation, it is not a system, until 1970, there is a eyebrow, these initial works are quite charming. The "Lotus Album of Calligraphy and Painting" inscribed by the famous calligraphers and painters Wang Bomin, Chen Zhenlian, Liu Jiang, Ding Maolu and Wang Dongling is wonderful.
1975 Finger Ink Album June West Lake
Mr. Liu Jiang inscription cloud: "June West Lake." Finger ink began with Gao Qipei, and then the Tianshou Master promoted it, and Shang Qing's frame could get its bone and quality, which was gratifying and admirable. ”
Mr. Wang Bomin's inscription: "Imitation of Song People's Intentions" paintings, "to inadvertently seek to resemble the Song people's painting method", see the painter's diligence and ingenuity in finger painting, is indeed intriguing and interesting. Later, the painting style began to change, the chapter method became more skillful and simple, and the ink method became more rhymed and expressive.
1982 Finger Ink Album Quasi-Song Renyi
That painting "Lamei Blooming" uses the finger line double hook method to express the contour structure of the old plum trunk, wax flower, green bamboo and mountain stone, with imagery, several clusters of wax flowers, poetry around the fingers, ink color implications, light and elegant. The concept is novel, interesting, poetic and intoxicating.
The "Pine Eagle Figure" can be described as a representative work of Ye Shangqing's finger ink flower and bird painting, created in 1990, and another finger painting, "Proud and Majestic Wind" (2019), are the same theme, the painter uses simple finger lines to outline the eagle's head, feathers and eagle claws, and dyes the feathers on the eagle's back with ink dots. Aggressive eagle eyes, slightly exaggerated eagle beaks and nearly realistic eagle claws express the vitality and strength of the eagle. The iron trunk of the branches in the background is written in a strong finger ink, slightly ochre and green, which not only highlights the majestic and vigorous attitude of the goshawk, but also extends the depth of field of the picture, referring to the pharaoh's spicy and clumsy taste, which makes people endlessly reminiscent.
1986 Finger ink painting Pine Eagle Diagram
The new work "Hundred Crane Poetry Calligraphy and Painting Finger Ink Scroll" (15 meters long), written for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party. Thirty years ago, he went to heilongjiang red-crowned crane hometown to experience the material of life, and once made a long scroll of more than two meters, but because it was not ideal, he now repaints it on the basis of the original. He believes that this work highlights the happy scenes of crane dancing and crane singing in Gao, and the profound artistic conception of the magnificent giant production of acura party celebration is the proud work of his later years.
Rugged beauty The mood is timeless
In Ye Shangqing's heart, Lao Lian, Qingteng, Bada, Shi Tao, Pegatron, Bin Hong and his teacher Pan Tianshou... It had always been the big gentleman he admired.
"Inheritance should be strict, and innovation should be bold." Immersed in the rough beauty, the timeless artistic conception, the artistic goal of poetry, calligraphy and painting, thus opening up a vast space full of meaning for Ye Shangqing.
You see, his cranes, eagles, swallows, herons, fish, insects, flowers, grasses... They all pursue a simple meaning of Chinese painting and faience pottery.
"In a new realm full of vitality, there are strange reefs and swimming fish that occasionally dive into the clear stream, and what flows out is poetry, music, and a sublime beauty." Veteran Singapore commentator Wong Shu Lin said.
The momentum is open, fresh and timeless, and it is its own pattern. For example, Mr. Liu Qijun, a Singaporean calligraphy and painting critic and connoisseur, wrote an article entitled "Ye Shangqing's Finger Painting Art" in the early 1980s, and highly praised his finger painting art: "Ye Shangqing's finger ink painting is precisely the use of the advantages of finger ink and the shortcomings of the brush, so that his finger paintings can achieve a sense of interest and magnificence, vitality, transformation of flat plates into flexibility, smoothness into condensation, and obtain a unique charm look... It is filled with the simple and tranquil beauty of heaven and earth. ”
2018 Finger Ink Painting River Stork RestIng Picture
Lu Fusheng, a famous mainland painter and art critic, pointed out: "In the past two decades, a series of works that have been studied tirelessly by painters and called 'poetry paintings', 'ancient paintings' or 'ancient meaning chasing the wind' fully demonstrate his unwillingness to obey the inertia of self-expression, not satisfied with the exploration and enterprising spirit of stylized inheritance and self-repetition." ”
The reason is that whether it is Ye Shangqing's ink painting or the outstanding features of finger painting art: there is a solid brush painting kung fu; the fingers are loose and loose, and the ink is thick and clear; inheriting Pan Tianshou's majestic atmosphere, and exerting his own personality, in order to seek vivid charm and novelty, so as to obtain his own unique appearance. His artistic achievements should lie in the profound exploration and unique contribution to the inheritance and development of Chinese finger painting art, which is obvious to all.
2019 Finger Painting Proud
As early as 1980, Ye Shangqing made a more systematic and scientific exposition and induction from the aspects of finger painting, finger transportation, ink method, coloring, and tools in "The Inheritance of Pan Tianshou Finger Painting - Letter to Mr. Qijun". Among them, Ye Shangqing's theory still has important academic value and application value to this day.
"There is no limit to the subject matter of finger painting, and animals and plants such as figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, insects, and fish can be painted. The choice of theme should be based on the author's life feelings, academic accomplishment, personality hobbies, etc., as a deep and exquisite reflection. Ye Shangqing not only inherited the finger ink techniques of Gao Qipei and Pan Tianshou, but also explained the principle of unlimited finger painting subjects with his own artistic practice, which can be called the essence of advanced painting.
2010 Travel poems
"The qi, rhyme, god, force, simplicity, rationality, and truth of pen and ink techniques and aesthetic tastes all come from life." Under Ye Shangqing's pen, every step of the painting must be carefully considered before the pen is dropped, and the fine depiction of the picture is carried out, and the ordinary subject matter is turned into a work with artistic appeal, which is also more interesting. The picture is full of ink and color, magnificent, full of agility and fun, triggering the viewer's infinite reverie, and will also bring themselves into it while watching the painting.
It is precisely because of the profound and simple artistic tempering and exploration that Ye Shangqing's artworks are more intriguing and tense.
Ye Shangqing laughed and said that he belonged to the horse, and on the road of painting, he should naturally have more ambitions of "old Ji Futuo, determined to be in a thousand miles".
2019 Shisumi-ga Senshu Manko
Selected Poems of Ye Shangqing (selected from "Bitter Tea Pavilion Poetry Yincao")
Accompanying Mr. Pan Tianshou to Visit Chairman Zhu De (three songs)
Spring Festival in 1962
During the Spring Festival, when the Zhejiang Calligraphy Exhibition was grandly opened in the exhibition hall of our hospital, the leaders of the hospital informed me to accompany the waiter Pan Lao to pay respects and receive Mr. Zhu to visit the calligraphy exhibition, so that his old man could visit and appreciate with great interest, please give more instructions.
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Red plum blooms to announce the new spring, and the college laughs and talks frequently.
Sheng Ri cherishes The boss of Zhu, the spirit is strong and innocent.
1980 Primula
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Welcome to the Bin Zhi Xi Ying Gate, proud and ambitious.
Tsutsu watched the book Eight Bodies, and Zhi Yong still existed.
Mr. Zhu, Shou And kang, borrowed the spring breeze to discuss in detail.
1991 Suzaku Tu
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Affectionate instructions are more interesting, and a variety of books and flowers are pro.
Looking up at the haoduan to seek new ideas, the paper is deeply skilled.
Today's fangs are comparable, and the spirit of creativity is multiplied.
The four bodies of Chinese art in the Hanshu Dynasty have been paid to future generations for thousands of generations.
Ye Shangqing
He is currently a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the Xiling Printing Society, a professor of the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art, a standing director of the Chinese National Painters Association, a special art consultant of the "Molan Society" in Singapore, an honorary president of the Chinese Sinology Research Association, the president of the Zhejiang Calligraphy and Painting Society of the New Fourth Army, the vice president of the Zhejiang Calligraphy and Painting Association of the New Fourth Army, the "International Outstanding Senior Intellectual" awarded by the Cambridge International Celebrity Biography Center in the United Kingdom, the "World Outstanding Chinese Artist" awarded by the World Culture and Art Research Center, and the "World Chinese Poetry Artist" awarded by the World Chinese Poetry Association. Contemporary Poetry Model", etc.
His calligraphy and painting works have participated in provincial, municipal and national exhibitions many times, and some have been selected for exhibition in more than 20 countries and regions such as Japan, the United States, France, Russia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; some have been collected by Chinese and foreign national museums, art galleries, and embassies; some have been published in many overseas newspapers and periodicals; and some have won awards and gold awards at home and abroad. He has been awarded the "Commemorative Medal for Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" by the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission; the commemorative medal of the CPC Central Committee "50 Years of Glory in the Party"; and the commemorative medal and "Honorary Certificate" of the "Outstanding Contribution Award for the 40th Anniversary" of the Zhejiang New Fourth Army Historical Research Association.
In recent years, he has been invited to Vancouver, South Korea, Singapore, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Vatican and other countries to hold solo exhibitions, inspections and lectures, which have been praised by international friends and contributed to promoting Chinese culture and disseminating Chinese art to the world. His artistic achievements have been included in more than 20 dictionaries such as "Chinese Art Yearbook", "Sino-Japanese Modern Art General Guide", "World Chinese Art Masters Yearbook" and so on.