The Paper's reporter Fan Jialai intern Li Guanda
Kim Kwok-myung's paintings.
"Doing one thing for a lifetime is precious, and persistence is especially important."
On January 16th, the "Art is the Philosophy of Life - Jin Guoming's Story of 'Jet Lag'" book sharing meeting was held, co-sponsored by the Shanghai Jiaotong University Centennial Fortune Reading Club and FM106.5 East Shanghai Voice "Schumann's CD" program. "Jet Lag - Kim Guo-myung's Art Record" is a new book written by Kim Guo-myung in ten years, showing Kim Guo-myung's half-life artistic path and hundreds of paintings in the "Jet Lag" series.
Kim Kwok-myung is both an editor and a painter. As the deputy editor of Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, he has been engaged in art book publishing and editing for more than 20 years, painting creation for more than 30 years, and was listed in the "Shanghai Cultural Newcomers" list in 2011, and participated in the "French Artist Salon", "French Autumn Art Salon" and the National Oil Painting Exhibition several times.
"Kim Kwok-myung, who wears a shirt and jacket, doesn't look like an artist, but more like an 'old cadre.'" The dialogue begins with ridicule, and Kim Kwok-myung says: The commonality of artists is not in the appearance, but in the passion when creating in the heart. Although he does not have long hair and wears moderate clothes, his passion for painting is common to any artist.
"Leaving the Dead"
From "Dream Cloud" to "Time Difference": a painting in ten years
The "Jet Lag" series was created by Kim Kwok-min in ten years. He confessed: "It is not easy to have a dream in ten years. Two decades, carrying my dreams. Ten years a painting, ten years a dream. Ten years of refining the heart, ten years of crystallization. ”
Since 2012, Kim Guo-myung has been involved in the creation of the "Jet Lag" series. The reason why the new series is named "time difference" is to express the time difference between reality and dreams, and space. Stepping out of hundreds of "dream clouds", Kim Guo-myung regained the youthful dream of the 1990s and opened up a new artistic journey with the new expressionist schema. For him, "jet lag" is not only a dream, but also an important practice from this shore to the other shore on his dream road, and a sublimation of the realization of artistic dreams.
Each painting in the "Jet Lag" series is different, and the expression is diverse and casual. It is a scene of the painter in different moods at different times. The new crown epidemic in 2020 gave Kim Guo-myung a huge impact, he is grateful for the motherland's protection of hundreds of millions of people, but the loss of many lives around the world still makes him very sad, and deeply appreciates the smallness of the individual. Based on this, he decided to use expressionism to create a huge "Death" to depict the world devastated by the impact of the new crown.
He first worked for a month, and felt that he did not need to paint masks and angels dressed in white again, so he painted a pair of eyes overlooking the heavens, looking at the famous buildings in many cities below: the church in Milan, the tower in Paris, the building in New York, the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai... These buildings represent the concept of a global village. "These eyes represent the eyes of god; and these buildings represent the people of the world fighting and fighting against the epidemic." Kim Kwok-myung said that the moral of the painting is that although the Eye of Heaven looks at human struggles coldly, humans will not be defeated by small bacteria and will eventually win the new crown.
The painting ended up 2.2 meters long and 1 meter wide, and Kim Guo-myung painted it for five full months.
In the view of Zheng Zhongyi, president of the Centennial Wealth Reading Club of Jiaotong University, from his youth to the year of destiny, he has never stopped chasing his dreams.
"Masquerade"
Give up the "big factory high salary" and only want to be a painter
In the first part of "Jet Lag", "The Dream Begins Here", Jin Guoming recalls his experience of learning art from his teachers in his youth, and sorts out his own artistic creation path, until now he has become an oil painter, calligraphy and painting editor, and collector.
In junior high school, he became a "new talent in painting" in the eyes of his teachers. After graduating from middle school in the early 1980s, he was assigned to work as a mechanic at the Shanghai Third Iron and Steel Factory, and when others could only get more than thirty yuan a month, he could get one hundred yuan a month. But he still chose to give up the stable life of the steel factory, resolutely resigned to go to the university, and finally entered the Fine Arts College of the Gurus University with high scores, embarking on the road of pursuing his dreams in art. After graduating from college, he was limited by financial pressure and could only go to the normal school as a teacher, but he still resigned and went to the Oriental Radio and Television Station as an art editor, refusing to give up his dream of painting.
At that time, the young Jin Guoming was also in poor economic condition, but in the 90s, he painted many classic works such as "Masquerade" and "Shockwave" and began to emerge in the Shanghai art circle. Until he was introduced to the Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, it became a turning point in Jin Guoming's artistic path, and he persisted in this unit for decades, working as both an editor and a painter. His painting creation and book publishing work complement each other and complement each other.
Zhang Lixing, vice chairman of the Shanghai Literary and Art Critics Association, said: "A generation has a generation of youth. Compared with the group of other generations, the 'post-70s' can be said to be very lucky. From workers and art school students to senior editors of publishing houses and oil painters, Jin Guoming's own experience just typically confirms these 'post-70s' youth characteristics. ”
Talking about the text part of the book, Jin Guoming described himself as "making a car behind closed doors", refusing all meals, and spending three years writing 160,000 words of art records, and then repeatedly revising them. Sometimes the editor makes one comment, and he can overturn all the chapters. After the finalization, I spent three months at Artron, which was responsible for typesetting and printing, going six days a week, communicating with the editors repeatedly, just to publish the book as error-free as possible.
Fusion of Chinese and Western techniques, willing to be a "dream chaser"
The third part of "Jet Lag" is Kim Guo-ming's watercolor paintings, which were painted by Kim Guo-ming in the gap between the creation of oil paintings, and he painted one in more than an hour, he likes to bring Chinese colors, hoping to achieve a combination of Chinese and Western. The content of the painting is often what is in mind, relying on years of training, grasping the overall layout and aura, and then casually swinging.
His paintings retain his innocence. Jin Guoming likes to paint snow scenes because in his memory, shanghai in his childhood was very cold, and his hands were frostbitten in winter, and he liked to paint the feelings of the cold winter moon when he was a child into the painting and create the snow scene in his heart.
He painted bigger and faster. He once spread five meters of drawing paper on the cement floor and painted all day, infused with the artist's exuberant and surging passion, and at the end of the painting, he described that "his feet on the ice cement floor are very hot." ”
Kim Also stressed that "Jet Lag" selects only some of his works in the past decade: "Many paintings will appear in my dreams, which are better than reality, but when I wake up, I forget that this is actually the subconscious." Something in the subconscious is wonderful. ”
He sighed that his personal growth experience is in line with the development trajectory of the country's reform and opening up in the past 40 years, going to the world, broadening his horizons, and working hard towards his life dream with ease and freedom. "I always believe that the ideas I want to express must conform to the aesthetic orientation of society and the general public. Because, without profound literary and artistic accomplishment and profound accumulation of life, it is impossible to produce works; without good moral conduct, it is impossible to produce excellent works; often have a grateful heart, and true success is not too far away. My artistic dream stems from the ideal of youth, and after half a hundred years of life, I will have another dream - the dream begins here. ”
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