Introduction to art
Artistic synopsis
Ning Xiang is currently a director of the China Financial Artists Association, a member of the China Financial Calligraphers Association, the vice chairman of the Hunan Financial Literary Association, the vice chairman and secretary general of the Artists Association of the Agricultural Bank of China, the chairman of the Hunan Financial Artists Association, the member of the Hunan Provincial Artists Association and the Book Association, the director of the Hunan Flower and Bird Painters Association, and the member of the Jiusan Hunan Calligraphy and Painting Academy. In 2017, he was rated as an artist of China Financial Arts Association, a member of China Financial Artists Association, a member of China Financial Artists Association, one of the top ten most beautiful bookish families in Changsha, and his fine art works won the first prize of the national selection of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Financial Times, the first prize of the Agricultural Bank of China Art Exhibition; and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth national financial art works exhibition. Huge works such as "Xiangjiang North", "Magical Zhangjiajie", "Nanyue", "Yueyang Lou", "Jiye Changqing" and so on have been collected by institutions from all walks of life.
Ningxiang Landscape Painting Customized "Foundation Evergreen" Institutional Collection - September 2017
Ningxiang Flower and Bird Painting Customized "Peony Rich Figure" Institutional Collection - September 2020
Ning Xiang:
Artists ultimately have to speak on their work
【Original title】 Impression of the painter Ning Xiang: The brush and ink sing the wind
Yan Baihong
The ancients advocated a simple, simple and elegant painting style, and pursued the purity and transparency of pen and ink, just like their pursuit of the purity of the heart. Accomplished painters often maintain a low profile in their attitude towards life. Low-key is a realm.
In the same Huxiang art circle, mixed with finance for decades, I don't know Ningxiang. In May 2021, I met him for the first time, and after several deep conversations, I actually felt that I hated each other. One is my loneliness, and the other is his low profile.
He was first an ordinary art teacher, worked for 5 years, not willing, went to school again, and later admitted to the bank. In the past 20 years, he has frequently seconded and exchanged with many departments of provincial banks, starting from bank outlets to branches and municipal branches, and has become an important backbone of the rural headquarters and the grass-roots level under the national financial system. His works have been exhibited in previous national financial art exhibitions, and he has won the first prize in the national competition for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Financial Times, and the first prize of the National Agricultural Bank of China in celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Party. He is good at painting large works, which are widely treasured. He is the chairman of the Hunan Provincial Financial Artists Association, the vice chairman of the National Agricultural Bank of China Artists Association, the literary and artistic worker of the national financial system "Virtue and Art Shuangxin", and has been rated as one of the top ten most beautiful "scholarly families" in Changsha.
But he did not seem to be stained with fireworks, and "interacted with the spirit of heaven and earth alone." He is a madman who cherishes his spare time, a master of grasping sporadic time, and is obsessed with reading, writing, and painting. He said that the results belong to yesterday, and today should start from scratch. The mentality of "clearing zero" made him write and paint, and he completely entered a state of tranquility and tranquility. The mind is high and far-reaching, and the state of mind is lofty.
Excellent painting styles are different, but the hardships of casting art are always the same, and with the gradual in-depth understanding of Ning Xiang, his life of Han Mo who "writes and ink sings and sings the wind" is becoming clearer and clearer.
Diligent study and hard work
Ning Xiang was born in the late 1960s in a remote mountain village in Xi'an, Ningxiang City. The babbling thousand-year-old charcoal river water, the towering Miyin Temple, along with his growth, look up is the mountain, look down to see the water, love the mountain and love the water to nourish his nature.
Since he was a child, he loved to write and draw, and showed a high degree of artistic talent, winning praise from his neighbors and teachers and students. In junior high school, the principal, who liked to draw, was a close friend of his father's, so he was fortunate to be favored by the principal. Ning Xiang has loved to read since he was a child, especially the wonderful illustrations in classical readings such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Dream of the Red Chamber" and so on, so that he has obtained the most precious treasure and repeatedly copied the study.
When I was studying teacher training, professional teachers such as Tan Fulin and Tao Yuan, as well as famous calligraphers and painters such as Tang Mingsheng and Ouyang Ducai of the Cultural Center, were carefully taught by them. After that, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts of Hunan Normal University to continue his studies, and often received classroom demonstrations from famous teachers such as Zeng Xiaohu and Wang Jinshi, and was fortunate to welcome Li Xiongcai and other foreign artists to the school to demonstrate, opening the "Heavenly Spirit Cover" of true art. After being recruited to work in the bank, he gradually integrated into the art circle of the provincial capital, and edited or edited newspapers and magazines such as "Yafeng Guozhi", "Financial Calligraphy and Painting", "Art and Auction", "Hunan Calligraphy and Painting Newsletter", and befriended Shen Peng, He Shuifa, Chen Baiyi, Huang Tieshan and other calligraphers and painters inside and outside the province, and was influenced and guided by them. At the same time, he traveled back and forth to Beijing, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Yunnan, Shanghai and other places to observe the exhibition of the original works of ancient and modern masters, which broadened new horizons and broadened new horizons.
He adhered to the pure land of art with a sincere heart, and cultivated between the paper and the stone with diligence. Always with sincerity for art, the pen does not leave the hand, where to paint wherever it goes. When I was young, I didn't have money to buy rice paper, so I drew on cheap raw paper and wrote it in old newspapers; when I didn't have money to frame it, I stacked my characters and paintings in a pile, and Wrote thousands of words and paintings. In the sea of paper and ink, learning and learning, innovation and improvement, gradually to the easy hand, free wielding, pen to go, meaning to follow.
Teacher Li Keyan said: "Painting is a long-distance race, you have to be smart and stupid kung fu, and it will take decades to see the difference!" In this way, he was hungry and thirsty, and he learned from the strengths of the various families, and for more than forty years he diligently pursued them, and gradually became his own way. Like a deep-rooted tree, it stretches its own lush foliage in the wind and rain of the times.
Search for Qi Feng to hit the draft
Shi Tao painted a quotation from The Cloud: "Mountains and rivers are born from Yuye, and Yu is born from mountains and rivers." Search for The QiFeng hit the draft also, and the mountains and rivers met with the gods and traced them. It is said that the painter must not only "be an apprentice with the ancients", but also "create the teacher".
While constantly learning from tradition and teachers, Ning Xiang will go out to sketch as long as he has the opportunity and time. For more than 30 years, the ruts and horses have been in the world for half the world, the footprints have spread all over the north and south of the great river, the magnificent scenery of the mountains and rivers of the motherland, the beautiful scenery of China, the climbing of the stone level, the view of the sea of clouds, the sunrise, and the lofty mountains and majestic colors, all of which are hooked into the sketching album. Take a full tour to see, should be the sense of things. Judging the situation of mountains and rivers, feeling the weather of the four hours, participating in the yin and yang to the back, realizing the virtual reality of the near and far, creating a subtle transformation into a hill in the chest, creating a spirit of rhinoceros dot dyeing ink and danqing, operating a majestic, fresh and heroic landscape and smoke clouds, excellent works are repeated.
Li Keyan said: "I am the poor man of time", as a bank worker, the time of artistic creation is especially true for Ning Xiang. His drilling and squeezing strength have won him the initiative, combined with the book of the sleeping tour book, search network, aggregated the materials and materials created, alleviating the problem of insufficient time to go out to sketch.
Mr. Liang Shunian said: Sketching should write the soul, the soul wins the truth, the things and I are facing each other, and the next pen has its own God.
Ning Xiang sketching focuses on the nature of the teaching method, but it is not only about the truth or the image. He believes that the natural purpose of mastering the fa is to integrate his pen and ink techniques with nature and constantly sublimate them, to transform the landscape from shape to god, so as to reach the realm of natural charm, gradually form his own correct understanding and insight, and strive to cultivate his own character, enlarge his mind, and temper the pattern in practice.
I see that his understanding of mountains and rivers is a kind of grand view of heaven and earth, and the nature he writes about is no longer the nature of reality, but the nature in his heart, the second nature that goes up to heaven, down to the earth, grounded gas, and popularity, full of humanistic ideals and the spirit of the times. The vitality of nature has injected inexhaustible vitality into his paintings, enabling him to shake off the shackles and become his own. He paints landscapes, not ink landscape paintings, but writes prose poems of landscapes one after another, which are full of spirit and mind, and are nostalgic and sustenance. The ink-colored, permeated and changing landscape is not a depiction of the scene and a dull reproduction, but a surge of exciting artistic tension. An artist has a cultural education, to connect ancient and modern, the integration of East and West, cultural literacy can greatly improve the value of painting, this is the secret of Ning Xiang's works can move people.
Pen and ink were contemporary
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: Literature and art are the clarion call of the times, which can best represent the style of an era and the atmosphere of an era. Han Mo song is prosperous, and Dan Qing sends affection. Only works that "have bones, moral character, righteousness, and temperature" can make people cultivate, learn from them, and draw strength.
Ning Xiang believes that born in the opportunity of the times, in the boom of the times, artistic innovation should not only be "no questions asked about the west and the east" but also "apprentices with the ancients", with the traditional professional ink, carry forward the main theme of the times. He believes that painters should "be good at the heart of the ancients, and be able to obtain the method of creation", and while tirelessly studying pen and ink, they often pay attention to the changing times and colorful nature, and obtain the source and inspiration of creation from nature and society. The audience should not only appreciate the beauty of art, but also feel the progress of the times and the changes in people's lives. He believes that the decadent and decadent style of painting is contrary to the current era, and opposes the so-called literati paintings and funny behaviors of embroidering legs, making cars behind closed doors, moaning without disease, rootless duckweed, and soulless shells.
Ning Xiang's works are close to the times and are full of positive energy. If you have the help of the country, you will not have poetry until Xiao Xiang. Huxiang land, rich in literary style, landscape and water, he used the pen as a song, took painting as a poem, sang the main theme of the times, and praised the prosperous civilization wind. Standing in front of his painting, there seems to be a forced flow of air rushing in, erupting with a touching shock force.
In 2017, the China Financial Trade Union commissioned the China Financial Artists Association to create a huge landscape painting for the first literary and artistic creation demonstration base of the All-China Financial Federation of Literature and Art, and the superior leaders found Ning Xiang. Ningxiang chose the creative idea of Changsha Orange Island Head as the main scene and the cultural resorts on both sides of the Xiang River as the background, and repeatedly sketched and observed on the ground, and carefully created a 5.4-meter-wide and 2.4-meter-high landscape painting of "Xiangjiang North, Orange Island Head". In the work, Orange Island is like a giant ship, chopping waves, leading the head, he put the landmark buildings of Changsha Ancient City Tianxin Pavilion, Du Fu Jiang Pavilion in a close-up view, the distant Yuelu Mountain stretches endlessly, vaguely visible Yuelu Academy, Lushan Temple, Aiwan Pavilion, Yuelu University Town, the Xiangjiang River on both sides of the magnificent cultural scenery in the painting, panoramic view, its scenery is rich in connotation, its meaning is endless. He said: The first thing in painting landscape paintings is to have a large capacity and a large space, and the picture has depth, thickness, and height. The second is to grasp the pulse of the times, with a big heart, high intentions, and strong pen strength, just like the blockbuster in the movie and the symphony in the music.
After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020, he has successively created character paintings and landscape paintings such as "National Backbone Zhong Nanshan", "Gengzi Anti-epidemic: Resumption of Work", "Gengzi Retrograde: Fishing", especially the character painting "National Backbone Zhong Nanshan", which portrays the tall image of the 84-year-old academician Zhong Nanshan who stepped forward in times of national crisis, in the face of ruthless natural disasters, and the style of The Chinese backbone, vividly and reverently. He also organized the members of the association to create 64 Chinese paintings, which were donated to the families and warriors of the workers who participated in the fight against the epidemic in hubei, and praised the spirit of the anti-epidemic with the artist's conscience and action.
On the eve of the centenary of the founding of the Party, he organized painters from all over the country to go to the Eighteen-Hole Village to carry out sketching activities. He himself changed his manuscripts and created landscape paintings with the themes of "Eighteen Caves Village in Xiangxi Province, China's Poverty Alleviation Landmark" and "Building a Dream of Xiaokang Road with One Heart, Remembering the New Green Time of Jiashan Mountain" and other landscape paintings with the theme of reflecting poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, which were exhibited at the Hunan Art Museum and presented to the party. The work "Eighteen Caves Village in Xiangxi Province, a Landmark in China's Poverty Alleviation", has a lofty intention, an atmospheric composition, exquisite pen and ink, and a bright morning glow in the distant mountains, which reflects the eighteen-hole village, which was the first place of "precision poverty alleviation" and the model of poverty alleviation in the country, which not only vividly reflects the difficulty and difficulty of poverty alleviation, but also perfectly expresses the great achievements achieved in this great battle.
He created huge theme works such as "Jiangshan Yonggu Jiye Evergreen", "Magical Zhangjiajie", "Prosperous Peony" and so on, with exquisite pen and ink, depicting the Chinese dream in the journey of national rejuvenation.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "If literary and art workers want to achieve achievements, they must consciously breathe with the people, share a common destiny, and connect their hearts, rejoice in the people's joy, worry about the people's troubles, and be the people's widows and cattle." ”
The most important key to opening up your own artistic territory is to stand on a different footing. He pursues the pen and ink language of "thick and rich, lush and harmonious", and pursues the artistic realm of "the hills in the chest and the smoke at the bottom of the pen". Advocate going deep into the touching and deep fiery life, cultivating and tempering, establishing a legend for the mountains and rivers, and the works have a height and grounding. Let yourself resonate with the people at the same frequency and create a cosmopolitan world. In this way, we are blessed with unique talents to stand with our predecessors.
Good painting is more expensive than subtle
Ning Xiang read a copy of "The Biography of Xu Beihong" when he was a child, and he deeply remembered the "to the vast, subtle" in it, which has always influenced him and guided him.
Good painting is more expensive than subtle. Subtlety refers to the natural sense of improvisation and the exquisiteness of the layout, and the painter who understands the subtle, the more he paints, the more he enjoys.
In order to seek subtlety, Ning Xiang carefully studied ancient and modern painting theories, works, and poems. From the Six Laws of the Southern Dynasty Sheikh, to Zhang Xuan's theory of the creation of foreign teachers and the theory of the source of the heart, from Dong Qichang's concepts of rhyme, law, and meaning and the theory of the Southern and Northern Sects, to Huang Binhong's theory of dry cracking and autumn wind and the theory of containing spring rain, to Qi Baishi's theory of the similarity and dissimilarity, these Chinese painting theories and aesthetic systems, he comprehensively and systematically studied, acquired and specialized, and was enlightened and full of energy.
He attaches great importance to the subtlety of pen and ink, believing that the pen should have spirituality, stand in the bosom of everything in the mind, and swim in the heavens and the earth. Ink must have life, and the creation is the birth of all things to form a realm. Only the subtle pen and ink can make the painting have a musical melody, a dance-like rhythm, and a poetic mood, and can express the spiritual realm of shape, image appearance, accident, and rhyme.
He advocates the use of books into painting, heavy emotional expression, one is the objective world of natural creation, the other is the subjective world of artistic expression, the level of the realm, the vividness of the rhyme, the expression of emotions and pen and ink are closely linked, through the expression of pen and ink show the painter's aesthetics, thoughts, temperament, education, temperament and so on. Subject to the eyes, swimming in the heart, things and I are integrated.
He pays attention to his straightforward feelings about the mountains and rivers, and never uses one method to paint different landscapes. Painting Taishan is a painting method, painting Zhangjiajie is a painting method, and the landscape of the north cannot be applied to the landscape of the south.
He is good at managing large paintings, making huge paintings, showing his grandeur and showing his temperament and skills. Walking into the landscape world of Ningxiang is like swimming in the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland. As a whole, a thousand rocks compete for shows, thousands of valleys compete for the current, grass and trees are lush on it, clouds are xingxiawei, and the pen is vivid. See the line of pen from close up, and look at the thick Huazi in the distance, with smoke and rain. The trees and stones are intertwined with each other, covering each other, and they are one and the same, lush and lush.
The layers of fluttering clouds, the raised peaks, high and low, large and small, seem to be broken, from thick to faint. It can make the viewer feel the rhythm of a kind of music.
The ups and downs on the pen, the intertwined performance of thick and light and virtual reality, has a unique performance of the interdependence of the natural mountains and rivers inside and outside, and the positive and negative sides.
In his landscape paintings, the white clouds that are obliquely through the waves of the mountains dominated by thick ink are rolling and tumbling, one static and one moving, one black and one white, Zhang Chi has a degree, and the weather is endless. Whether it is the endless thousands of rivers and mountains, or the endless fields and hills, they can breathe, have life, or wander like the soul in the painting, or sweep thousands of miles like a subliminal image. He can construct moving pictures under his pen, with unlimited imagination space and far-reaching artistic conception. Can be climbed, can be involved, can be stopped, can be safe, is a natural anger, making people look forward to it and be moved.
His landscape sketches, the picture is less than more, the pen and ink are refined, the heart is written and lucky, the writing is not depicted, the ethereal nature, the form and the spirit are both, the salty business, the intriguing taste, a good scenery of Xiaoxiang.
No matter how big or small, he can be at ease, which is the comprehensive embodiment of his pen and ink modeling ability, creative way of thinking, inspiration awareness, and point of view experience. In the nature of the teacher, he felt that the broad atmosphere and grand mind of the mountains and rivers were speaking for himself, and he also had a strong sense of responsibility for the mountains and rivers, so in his seal box there were many big seals such as "for the mountains and rivers", "so many delicate rivers and mountains", "picturesque rivers and mountains", "good people's life famous mountain tours" and so on.
Ning Xiang said: "I have never been lazy, diligent and earnest, innocent, tirelessly exploring art, among all sentient beings, I have devoted my life to art, and I have survived for a while, and I have not stopped cultivating, as for the result, I do not care about it." ”
Yes, there is no end to art, no end to learning, no boundless avenue, and it is difficult to have a great realm without great repair. He did not speak boldly, still low-key, down-to-earth and seriously painted every painting, quietly reading and writing. I think that with his understanding and persistence, he will definitely go better and farther on the journey of art.
About author:Yan Baihong, a native of Ningxiang City, Hunan Province, works in the provincial financial system. He is a member of the Hunan Provincial Prose Literature Association and vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Financial Artists Association, loves calligraphy, painting and poetry, has held personal exhibitions, and published more than 200 works in the national media.
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