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Yinchuan Evening Newspaper Official Fang Wenhua WeChat Pingtai | No. 1039
The Year of the Tiger is coming, and the "Tiger" is happy! In this year's special issue of New Year's Flavor, we take the tiger as the theme and send you a series of Tiger and Tiger Flavor Feast! I hope that everyone in the Year of the Tiger, cheer up the spirit, work hard, tiger and tiger!
This issue pushes you the "Tiger Tiger And Tiger" Annual Flavor Special Issue - Tiger in Painting.
When the Year of the Tiger arrives, many people like to add some tiger elements when they decorate their rooms to welcome the New Year, including hanging paintings, ornaments, etc., hoping that the Year of the Tiger can add a "tiger atmosphere" to the home. What is the meaning of the tiger in the hanging painting? How do you choose the right painting for you? Let's hear what the calligraphers and painters have to say.
From fierce to auspicious
A few days ago, in order to welcome the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, Zhang Xuezhi, deputy director of the Ningxia Museum of Literature and History, painted a batch of tiger paintings. Coming to his studio, on the walls and cases are all kinds of tiger pictures, some majestic, some with a cute attitude, some with far-reaching ideas, and some with interesting feelings.
Zhang Xuezhi's "Auspicious Ruyi".
"Chinese painting includes several subjects such as landscapes, flowers and birds, figures, and animals, and among the animals, the tiger is a very important subject, and many painters have painted from ancient times to the present, and have also left a number of classic works." Zhang Xuezhi introduced that from the Southern Song Dynasty Muxi's "Tiger Map", the Ming Dynasty Dai Jin's "Fuhu Luohan Map", and the Qing Dynasty Zhang Mu's "Tiger Map", it can be seen that the painting theory of the dynasties has been continuously enriched, and the painting skills are skilled. In the modern period, artists have used richer techniques to not only present the tigers in the paintings more accurately and vividly, but also inject the spirit of the times into the paintings. For example, in zhang Shanxiao's paintings in modern times, the tiger is not only powerful, but also has the meaning of awakening. The painter himself has a strong patriotic spirit and likes to borrow the tiger to express his aspirations.
The walls of Zhang Xuezhi's studio are plastered with tigers.
In today's daily life, the image of the tiger is not only less scary, but even a little "cute". In fact, in folk art, the tiger is often weakened by the fierce side and becomes auspicious and joyful. Artists also looked for inspiration from folk art and created paintings with a folk flavor. "Times are changing, and so is people's need for art. Artists try to break through traditional painting techniques and use fusion aesthetics to explore, so the tiger images we see today are not necessarily fierce and powerful, but also cute. Zhang Xuezhi said while finding the "Ji Hu Ruyi" created last month, he pointed to the small tiger with a round head and a round brain in the painting and said that many people like such a tiger. It forms a "contrast" with the mighty tiger in the traditional concept, looking agile, mental and cute, very healing.
The tiger that wards off evil spirits and nafu
Among Zhang Xuezhi's many tiger paintings, he himself is the most fond of the impression rock painting "Zhenshan Tiger", which was created based on the Helan Mountain rock painting "Zhenshan Tiger". Due to years of research on rock paintings, Zhang Xuezhi can be said to have a hand in painting this painting. Only to see him sketch the tiger's lines on the rice paper, at this time the shape of the tiger is already very clear, the huge head, the spiral lines on the chest and buttocks, all reflect the might and strength of the tiger. Then, he filled the gaps in the lines with brown paint, and the tail of the brush strokes and the paint that smudged out gave the tiger a plush texture.
Zhang Xuezhi's works combine the figurative tiger with the tiger in the petroglyphs.
"In the past, floods in the Helan Mountain Gully brought disasters to people. And carving a mighty tiger on the rock of the mountain has the meaning of avoiding disasters and warding off evil spirits. Zhang Xuezhi said that since the totem worship of the ancestors, the tiger has a divinity in people's minds. In the Eastern Han Dynasty Ying Shao's "Customs and Traditions", it is said: "The tiger, the yang, the chief of the hundred beasts." Can fight and frustrate, eat ghosts. It can be seen that the tiger has the symbolic meaning of suppressing evil and avoiding disasters and protecting life.
In the tiger-themed paintings displayed by Zhang Xuezhi, many of the painting titles have the words "Ji" and "Fu". For example, a pair of small tigers like toys are named "Lucky Luck continuous years"; a tiger with a twisted head and a large mouth is named "Golden Tiger Nafu"; there is also a petroglyph style work, which is the image of the tiger in several petroglyphs, as well as various related words and symbols, named "Fuhu Baoji"... "'Tiger' and 'Fu' are harmonious, in the folk, people think that tigers can bring blessings. Zhang Xuezhi said that many painters have painted the "Five Blessings Map", which is exactly five tigers on the painting, so it is also called the "Five Tiger Diagram". In the ancient rock paintings, there is the "Five Tiger Diagram", which is the auspicious meaning of Nafu.
Different tigers, different wishes
The rich content of tiger culture and the beauty of the meaning have given artists a lot of creative inspiration. Tigers, as commonly used materials in paintings, not only like the painter, but also after integrating into people's spiritual pursuits, everyone hopes to use the meaning of the tiger to motivate themselves to make continuous progress.
"Tigers are fierce beasts, and generally people pay attention to not hanging pictures of fierce beasts at home, or hanging at the door, and the tiger's head is outward." But not the same tiger, the meaning is not the same, choose a good tiger, or very exciting. Ma Weidong, vice chairman of the Yinchuan Artists Association, said that about 20 years ago, someone asked him to draw a tiger, so he painted more than a dozen tigers, and since then, people have intermittently looked for paintings of tigers. He introduced that in the traditional painting of the mainland, the tiger painting often takes the landscape as the background, which appears quiet and far-reaching, and the mountains and rivers are threatened. There are often pine trees in the landscape, and with the help of the cultural connotation of pine trees, it is even more arrogant and arrogant to appear that the tiger is tall and arrogant.
Ma Weidong's "Tiger Roaring Divine Power".
However, what is more interesting is the different forms of tigers. "The most common are the upper and lower tigers." Ma Weidong introduced that among them, the tiger on the mountain refers to the state of returning to the mountain after eating enough, and the tiger at this time is satisfied, which means that there is no trouble. And going up the mountain also means rising step by step, so it is liked by people who take the road of career. Most people who do business or start a business like to go down the mountain tiger and are willing to hang it in the office, because the down mountain tiger is the state of going down the mountain hungry to find food, and predation means entering the account, and it is a tiger that recruits money. At this time, the tiger was fierce and mighty, and the ancients believed that this momentum could ward off evil spirits, and today people are more willing to understand it as a brave and fearless fighting spirit. "In addition to the upper and lower tigers, there are many forms of tigers in the painting. For example, Crouching Tiger means that Taoguang is obscure and thick and thin. Ma Weidong said that although the painting is a tiger, it is actually a reflection of the state of life and the vision of life.
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