Text/Feng Haitao Painting/Xiao Daping
Art is the ability given by nature, but the height of art stems from self-cultivation and purposeful pursuit. The painter chooses the direction he likes to create, that is, the purposeful choice. This choice is a combination of the direction you like and the direction you are good at. There is a famous saying that "opportunity is for those who are prepared" is also extremely appropriate to use in the painter's painting. Many people paint naturally, without goals and directions. "Painting" is very complicated, and it has not yet been dominant. The main reason for this is that they do not have the heart of a painter at all.
Xiao Daping works 136/68CM
The field of Chinese painting is full of repetitive paintings, and the copied paintings are regarded as creations. The better part is also the use of ancient composition and pen and ink. Why? A serious book, The Great Righteousness replied awe-inspiringly that this was a legacy. Pathetic, deplorable! People who can paint are all people who are favored by Heaven, because they have talent. However, it is not good for their own talents, and they only know how to survive in plagiarism. I have communicated with many painters for this reason, and I have found a hint of answer in the exchange. Originally, some of them thought that inheritance was the height of painting, and some thought that painting was free, as long as they liked it, creating in the inheritance of teachers was art. It turns out that this cause is a problem of consciousness and awareness.
In each era, there will be several painters who have their own artistic views and have their own stylistic tendencies in their pictures. Many people think that these people are the best among painters, and they should have their own artistic views and picture styles. Instead of looking for your own reasons, you deny yourself. In fact, painters who have their own style and their own artistic views are not naturally produced, but they create opportunities for themselves. The establishment of the viewpoint is the presentation of the painter's comprehensive cultivation, and the comprehensive cultivation is not blown by the wind, nor is it innate, but is actively obtained. The style of the picture is determined, and it is not formed by accident, but is borrowed from the past and borrowed from the present, and is slowly perfected in a planned and prepared setting. For example, if you paint flowers and birds, you want to have your own recognition, not to start with the beginning of the pen and ink innovation, but to choose a material that you like to paint, carefully study it, compare this material with yourself, and slowly summarize your own cognition of this material in the benchmark, so as to generate your own picture form performance. Then go and generate your own pen and ink interest.