Text/Feng Haitao Photo/Xiao Daping Sun Ben saw Zhang Zhiyong
Learn to paint, be a good scholar, teach the ancients, and create a master. Not good scholars, follow the ancients, copy nature. The inheritance of Chinese painting is to abide by the inheritance, rather than sticking to the inheritance. Those who adhere to the law can only be painters, and those who do not stick to the law can become painters. What is good learning? Most people do not know, and even those who know only know good learning, but do not understand the meaning of good learning. Good learning, amorphous, varies from person to person, and is both the same and the basic method of learning, rather than the meaning of true good learning. Good scholars, understand, when they write their first paintings, they will think about it; in the process of learning, they know how to give examples and repeat themselves; when they study the works of the ancients, they know the archaeologists, and they know how to first understand the paintings and when and why they are painted. It will break down the picture, such as peeling the onion, and analyze and study it layer by layer. When you can create independently, you know, borrow from the ancients, know, how to use the law you have learned, know, and integrate all the laws into your own law!
Xiao Daping's works
Nowadays, there are many people who study painting, but because they all like fast-track, there are many training courses to study the method of quick-tracking. Although it greatly shortens the learning time to be able to paint, it causes people who learn to paint do not like to use their brains, and only know how to mechanically assemble pictures according to the group painting method taught by the crash course. As a result, a large number of brainless painters have emerged in the current Chinese painting circle, who can only copy the works of ancient people and excellent painters. Therefore, the paintings in the painting and calligraphy market are basically the same appearance of thousands of people, and they are all assembled and patchwork paintings without any thought and artistic point of view. Therefore, Chinese painting has moved towards a period of decadence, although some very good painters have done their best to support it, but "one punch is difficult to block four hands" Not to mention, it is now one person resisting ten thousand people. However, good villains have also left a torch for the inheritance and continuation of Chinese painting.
Sun Ben saw the works
Sparks can ignite the plains, so the revival of Chinese painting is only a matter of time. It's just bitter for those painters who have inherited and developed Chinese paintings! They are clearly creating works of art, but they are homogenized by those who rely on patchwork assembly. Even because the patchwork of assembled paintings spread to the market, there was a phenomenon that such paintings were considered orthodox and were truly Chinese paintings. Pathetic and weeping! It should be known that aesthetic orientation affects national morality and the development of civilization. Under the guidance of good aesthetics, there can be a civilized society that does not close the house at night and does not pick up the road. On the contrary, there will be moral degeneration and civilization will not exist. Therefore, the revival of Chinese painting is imminent. Here I hope that the only remaining sparks will illuminate this society with your flames!
Zhang Zhiyong's works