Text/Feng Haitao Photo/Du Yan
Horizontal and vertical, most people, think it is a problem of strokes. However, the value of its existence is not a simple horizontal and vertical problem. It is the direction in which the painting is created. Because the production of any painting is within the horizontal and vertical range. The walking of the line, just these two ways. Some people may say that the curve in the painting is greater than the straight line, but you must know that whether it is a straight line or a curve, the trajectory of their walking is up and down, left and right, so it is inseparable from the horizontal and vertical. The difference is only whether the horizontal and vertical are straight or curved.
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Painting is like being a person, horizontal and vertical in being a person, and the role of painting is the same, people live in the world, facing the day and night, experiencing is the alternation of horizontal and vertical. Therefore, the horizontal and vertical in the painting is the alternation of life, which is not only physiological but also psychological, which is why Chinese painting is a philosophy. Because the truth that exists in the painting is not only the narration of the complete picture, but also, since the beginning of the pen, the ink color on the pen has begun to tell life.
There is a saying called "horizontal and vertical are dead, dry is finished" seems to be a very tragic, very mixed words. But this is also the momentum of people standing between heaven and earth and living with dignity. Therefore, horizontal and vertical is the road of life and the creed of our life. Our words are also produced in the horizontal and vertical, whether it is the dots, apostrophes, twists or bends in the text, they cannot be separated from the shadows of horizontal and vertical. Therefore, horizontal and vertical is the whole through our lives, which is not only the stroke of the text, but also the line of Chinese painting, and it is also the road of our life.
Some say horizontal and vertical are shackles, and he binds our bodies and souls. Some people say that horizontal and vertical is a plus sign, and she has unlimited possibilities. In fact, horizontal and vertical is the road we take, the road of life. On the road, there are responsibilities and unknown possibilities. But we can't take what life encounters as shackles, nor can we create some fantasies about the future in life, but walk on the cross road established horizontally and vertically, no matter which mouth we take, we must firmly believe that we can go to the other side of life. But remember, this gravel road is a responsibility between the horizontal and vertical. Painting is the same, to control the horizontal and vertical, do not dogmatic, horizontal and vertical is straight or zigzag. Instead, write yourself between the horizontal and vertical.