Artists often suffer the hardships of life, cannot eat the sufferings of the spirit, and pursue the abundance of the spiritual world all their lives. The famous Chinese painter Shi Guoliang is no exception. In 1956, Shi Guoliang was born into an ordinary family. In the era of lack of material conditions, Shi Guoliang also had little opportunity to receive systematic learning from an early age, so he often painted on his own books. At first, it did not attract the attention of the parents, but when the parents found that Shi Guoliang could already draw the objects that could be seen everywhere in life to life, they realized that this child was gifted in drawing.
As the only child in the family, his parents showed a very supportive attitude towards their children's hobbies, and even invited a teacher to teach Shi Guoliang painting at home when he was in middle school. During this period of study, Shi Guoliang's professional knowledge in painting was supplemented, and it was also under the enlightenment of this teacher that Shi Guoliang found that he liked Chinese painting the most among many paintings. Finding the point of interest, Shi Guoliang studied all day long, and most of the time every day was practicing Chinese painting. With his continuous efforts, Shi Guoliang finally entered the Central Academy of Fine Arts and began a higher learning journey.
After arriving in Beijing, Shi Guoliang understood what it meant to call people outside, looking at the art elites gathered across the country, Shi Guoliang was more focused on contact painting, every stroke, every color, he had to practice many times. The large platform of the Academy of Fine Arts made him realize that there were more painting knowledge and painting skills that he needed to learn. During graduate school, Shi Guoliang had already won awards for his works and won recognition from the art world, but he did not indulge in sudden praise, but decided to sink his heart and continue his studies. Therefore, after graduating from graduate school, he chose to go to Canada for further study.
In Canada, the rising star of the art world encountered the first bottleneck in his life. He lost his creative inspiration. Although his wife was always by his side and took good care of his life, what the artist needed was spiritual comfort, and this virtuous wife did not have any artistic attainments, so she could not achieve any spiritual resonance with Shi Guoliang. Shi Guoliang was deeply in the pain of not being able to continue painting, and although many friends came to visit him one after another, he still fell into depression step by step. At this point, Shi Guoliang's mental state is very bad, as an artist who pays attention to the spiritual world, the pain at this moment is not something that ordinary people can understand. Shi Guoliang is very clear about his situation, and how to choose the next step is also a problem he has been thinking about.
Until he met Master Nebula, Shi Guoliang found a new way -- renunciation. He let go of all his worries and frankly explained all his emotions and circumstances, and Master Nebula's point made him suddenly enlightened, and then he was ready to leave home. Although his wife has always supported Shi Guoliang's cause unconditionally, the matter of renunciation has been resolutely opposed by her wife. At this time, Shi Guoliang was determined to become a painting monk, resolutely abandoning his wife and children and leaving his wife and children alone in the "empty house". Will the monasticism satisfy his quest for the spiritual world? From his later vulgarity, it is not necessarily true.
At first, Shi Guoliang survived the "Three Altars of The Great Precepts", got up at four o'clock every day to go on a pilgrimage, attended morning classes, ate fasting, and finally became a Hui Zen monk at xilai temple in Los Angeles, AT THIS TIME, How many worldly worries Hui Chan still had in her heart was unknown, in short, the painter Shi Guoliang no longer existed. Two years later, Shi Guoliang returned to China and settled down. In the days of buddhism, Shi Guoliang still immersed himself in painting, but he was better at and liked realistic paintings of characters, and strived to show the beauty of human nature, but the abbot of the monastery hoped to have more works related to bodhisattvas and Buddhas, which led to conflict.
In Shi Guoliang's view, fifteen years ago, life after renunciation gave Shi Guoliang a full inner world, and fifteen years later, life in the monastery had interfered with his creative freedom. In the eyes of other monks, the human fireworks in Shi Guoliang's paintings are getting heavier and heavier. At this time, Shi Guoliang's wife approached him, hoping that he would fulfill his fatherly responsibilities. Thinking of the birth of the child to the present, Shi Guoliang has always been busy with his own career, after leaving the family, he did not pay attention to the child, and infinite guilt emerged in his heart, looking at the first pleading of his wife who has always silently supported himself, but now he is haggard, Shi Guo's conscience has softened, and he decided to return to the vulgar.
The psychological pressure to be endured was no different from the decision to become a monk at that time. The monks in the temple advised him to insist, but at this moment Shi Guoliang had decided to make up for the debt to his family, and at the same time hoped to maintain the freedom of creation and not interfere with the creative style. Therefore, in 2010, Shi Guoliang returned to the vulgar. This monastic experience has had a great influence on Shi Guoliang's artistic creation, if Shi Guoliang was a painter before he became a monk, he was already a master of Chinese painting when he was still a layman. It is rumored that after his work "The Picture of The Passage" was auctioned, it was sold for a high price of 11.73 million yuan. At this time, Shi Guoliang can be described as a success, but also began to return to the family, he personally taught his son painting, his son is also very competitive, admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Not long after the happy days, Shi Guoliang was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. After seeking medical treatment in many ways, Shi Guoliang began to try other methods, and finally improved his back bending under the guidance of a fitness instructor. Today, Shi Guoliang is already a healthy contemporary painter, leaving him with a long time to spend with his wife and son, and his career will continue to flourish.