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The first thing I felt after watching the exhibition was a shock, which was a very strong feeling. Then this shock is not only its picture, its scale, including its meteorology, this weather is very sufficient, rushing to the face, dripping and refreshing.
"Long Sky Colorful Cloud Dance", 144cmX360cm, 2001
We feel that Mr. Sun Bowen's creations, especially in his later period, a kind of explosion, a kind of volcanic eruption, and a superhuman completion of these works, not only the scale is huge, the number is also huge, he is actually a deep traditional foundation, but also has a very strong contemporary spirit.
▲ "KasumiTsumi Reflection Water Floating Fresh", 119cmX119cm, 1998
We now see that the site is more vertical, basically the three far of the Chinese landscape is the main one, it stands up, so it has a very high and lofty atmosphere. At the same time, color actually has the meaning of traditional colors, such as big green, and also the contemporary big splash, which is a revolution of color, a strong direct expression of color. The spiritual connotation of a modern person and the viewing of a world are vividly reflected in the picture, just like the theme of our exhibition is called "Dripping Huazhang". This kind of vivid and gorgeous words form a high degree of integration, and we are very shocked and moved to see, (this is) a very precious exhibition. We know that his entire Chinese painting has a long history of brush and ink skills, from flowers and birds to landscapes, and this batch of works in the late period is an expression of the artist's entire face, maverick style maturity, so I am very congratulatory on this exhibition.
▲ "Ascend to see the clouds low" 358cmX144cm, 2001
Interpretation: Only the heavens are above, and there are no mountains and qi. Raise your head to the red sun approaching, look back at the low white clouds.
He is a very interesting case, and we are very strange, but after reading it, it will leave a deep impression, a very strong impression, even an isolated case. It is an avant-garde art, a pioneering art that is moving towards a subversion, rebellion and breakthrough. But after a few decades, it became a style, an image, a boundary. There is also a strong feeling that people can come to the face, that is, his paintings have a sense of light, a very strong kind of light and light. There is light is not unexpected, but there is light is actually very rare, it is elegant and popular, and some viewers can watch it for four hours on the spot.
▲ "A River of Autumn Water and Clouds", 451cmX144cm, 2002
His works are strong and creative, breakthrough, but at the same time it can make ordinary audiences able to walk in and be attractive, so there is a rich degree of tolerance in its light.
This artist has the ability to control the talent of the big picture, the kind of control of the framework, the kind of control of the structure, the kind of control of the spatial relationship, this kind of control has a sense of the times. It's not a traditional format that comes out, he has an explosive sense of the times. This sense of the times makes his so-called traditional three-far form more full of full tension and lofty momentum. The Confucian spirit of Confucius and Mengmeng is called "full is beautiful, full and glorious is great, large and transformed is sacred, holy and unknowable is God."
▲ "Jiangshan Duoqi Show" 191cmX495cm, 2000
He also has a Shandong spirit called "Yuemingjiao, Ren Nature", "Yuemingjiao" is to abandon the framework of dogma, such an artist with traditional accumulation and skills, it is not easy to do; the second "Ren Nature", "Ren Nature" has formed the "Chinese performance, contemporary freehand" that we have been advocating and pursuing today. (Li Xiaofeng, Professor, Art Critic, School of Fine Arts, Shanghai University)
▲ "Four Screens of Landscape and Water", 787cm*143cm, 2002
Painter Profile
Sun Bowen (1938-2003), known as Jiu xue, zi Bowen, Ruyang Shanren, was born in 1938 in Xifushan Village, Laiyang Cave Town, Shandong Province, the elderly man of the Xinhai Revolution and a librarian of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, Sun (who served in the army of the Grand Marshal's Office), the great-grandson of Sun Tianmu, a master of landscape painting in the North School, and studied under Guan Yousheng, Hei Bolong, Wang Qihua and Chen Fengyuzhu. In 1958, he was admitted to shandong art college, graduated in 1963, and after graduation, he took the initiative to go to the Junan County Cultural Center to engage in grass-roots art and culture organization and education. In 1978, Sun Bowen left Junan and returned to his hometown of Laiyang, eventually settling in Qingdao. In 1979, Sun Bowen bailaiyang famous painter Cui Zifan as a teacher, Cui Zifan's stick figure freehand flower and bird painting technique was transferred to landscape painting, thus beginning to create a new landscape of his own. Later, he studied Mr. Zhang Daqian's splashing ink painting method, integrating innovation and becoming a unique family.
Mr. Sun Bowen devoted his life to the exploration and innovation of Chinese painting, collecting poems, calligraphy and painting in one. Whether it is a huge structure or a doufang sketch, the works are majestic and majestic; the picture is frank and free, and the light is overflowing; especially in his later years, he created a large number of macroscopic works, the size and the number of them, which completely broke through the normal viewing path and thinking mode; the richness of the subject matter and the brilliant use of color completely subverted the historical accumulation and traditional concepts of Chinese landscape painting. Mr. Sun Bowen's artistic achievements are very special, and he has made outstanding contributions to the development of the freehand tradition of Chinese painting.
In May 2002, Mr. Sun Bowen held a solo exhibition of calligraphy and painting at the Beijing Military Museum, which attracted the attention of the press and the art community.
On November 12, 2020, the "Li li Li Hua Zhang Sun Bowen Art Exhibition" opened at the National Art Museum of China, and a number of Sun Bowen's large-scale works were displayed. Let the audience further understand this painter who did not seek to be known before his death and did not know much in the painting world.
From June 6 to 17, 2021, the "Li li Hua Zhang Sun Bowen Art Exhibition" was presented again at the Shandong Art Museum, focusing on nearly 60 Chinese paintings in the late life of Sun Bowen, and held three consecutive academic seminars around the exhibition, and nearly 100 experts and scholars rushed to the Shandong Art Museum from all over the country to participate in this seminar, which is unprecedented in the Shandong Art Museum and even the whole country.