Jiang Zhaohe is one of the characters filmed for "A Hundred Years of Great Masters and Fine Arts".
Looking back at the evolution of Chinese art over the past hundred years, "A Hundred Years of Masters and Masters of Fine Arts" presents a visual version of the history of modern Chinese art with the personal experience of the master. Most of them came from poor backgrounds, but they continued to improve themselves, withstood the tempering of the years, and achieved themselves with extraordinary will and effort. Although they all live in the same social environment and cultural background, they have their own unique insights and unique creations in artistic practice. What they have left for the world is a beautiful and exquisite work, an indelible cultural heritage in the history of modern art.
Highlights of "A Hundred Years of Great Masters - Jiang Zhaohe"
What is art? What exactly is art for? This question seems to be very difficult to answer. If we speak from the surface of the word, then the "art" is also skilled, and the magician is also the law; the method of expressing the art with the sensitive mind of our people shows the spirit of life according to the shape of the object. This explanation, although it cannot be miscalculated, is too simple. Because the meaning of art is both very broad and at the same time, the function is very great, and it has a great relationship with the country, the nation, and society. Art can not only enlighten the minds of our people, but also promote the culture of the country, represent the advantages and disadvantages of the nation, etc. Art is the expression of all emotions and the soul of all life. We must want to know the civilization of a country, the advantages and disadvantages of a nation, just by looking at his works of art, we can understand.
However, the various countries of the world, because of the differences in culture and history, at the same time, with the change of ideas, the evolution of the times, the creators of general art, have formed various factions. Therefore, we do not seek much understanding of art, and we cannot understand it. Moreover, human thoughts are different, the evolution of the times is quite complicated, and our concept of art is inevitably a little mysterious. Thinking that he is a philosophy, a poetry, and seems to be a fantasy, transcendent, incredible thing, this is also because of the change of thought and the times, and the formation of various schools of art, such as Chinese painting, since the Tang and Song dynasties, each dynasty has several outstanding painters, each style, its own school. In particular, the schools of Western art are the most peculiar, such as the classical school and realism before the nineteenth century, the later impressionism, the Fauvism and so on. The schools of art are so divergent, and it is not easy for us to appreciate art. The so-called popularization of art is even more impossible. Chinese art, in particular, has been far removed from folk isolation for many years. Because Chinese painting, since the Tang and Song dynasties, has always been a manifestation of transcendence, a symbol of shen yun, partial to freehand, not realistic, not a person who has hills and valleys in his chest and has an embrace, cannot have this extraordinary performance. At the same time, this kind of art is not a class of scholars, a generation of literati and scholars, and cannot be played. As for the vulgar and the popular, there is no possibility of appreciation. So, what is art for, and what is art? For us, it will inevitably become a great question.
When we study art, we often struggle to get in, and at the same time, the factions are both divided and do not know what to do. Often confused by various factions, so that their genius, emotions, personality, etc., are completely buried, and they cannot develop in a lifetime. As a result, you can only follow the front, step after the people, not only lose their emotions, personality, then there is no new way to find, and how can there be artistic expression? If we are researchers of artists, if they fall into this situation, do they not think that they have self-pity?
Art is not only the expression of all emotions, the spirit of all life, and emotions and life, but also with the real environment of the times, has an absolute connection relationship, so no matter under any faction, if you want to express your true emotions, true spirit, then you can not but stand on the road of the times and seize the real environment. Whether it's literature, music, drama, it's the same. If a pure writer, without a realistic environment, has no real emotions of his own, then there can be no warm interest, like a flame shining in front of the eyes of ordinary people. Therefore, those who can touch people deeply in art must have a realistic environment to show the true spirit and lively life. Otherwise, it will not give people a deep impression and sympathy.
Because art has a great relationship with the country, the nation, and society, he needs a realistic environment and the spirit of the times to express his mission. Although art is not a tool of any kind, his life is an absolute environment produced in the times. For the creator of art is not the past, nor the future, but only his present emotions, what he sees, what he feels, and what he is. As long as he can faithfully describe it, he will naturally give people real sympathy and full comfort. Therefore, the ability of art to represent the spirit of a country, the superiority and inferiority of the nation, etc., are all because of their sincerity and faithfulness, without the slightest pretense of emptiness, reflecting the truth of all things, bright and brilliant, like the sun and the moon shining in the universe, and what people pursue day and night, that is, this brilliant truth. Therefore, in a country with developed art, we can see the natural and lively taste of the people, and everywhere expresses the spirit of life. In general, the so-called noble and civilized countries cannot succeed just by relying on the development of science and the abundance of materials!?
As for emotions, where do they arise? Because we have thoughts, we have spiritual wisdom, and our thoughts and spiritual wisdom are also born from external environments. We can not exist in society alone, it is bound to have multi-faceted contact, in this multi-faceted environment, feel bitter or happy, so there are emotions. Make a simple analogy, for example: hitting you hurts, scolding you hates. If you are beaten and scolded, what do you not feel? Then, you still can't survive alone, you always have to find your spiritual sustenance. Therefore, we can see that although the monks who cultivate immortals and become Buddhas do not need a realistic environment, they cannot be regarded as an emotional beauty, right!?
From the point of view of art, we recognize that it is composed of real emotions, and emotions are produced by the environment of the times, so art is a manifestation of the times. From the art of a certain era, we can see what kind of spirit the thoughts and emotions of a certain era are. For example, in the primitive times, people were ru mao drinking blood, burrowing in the wilderness, flooding beasts, and the era of the weak and the strong, which could not be said to be any thought and civilization. Later, when the Yellow Emperor came out, there was a country, there was politics, and people wanted to have an organization, because they wanted to make this organization strong and stable, so they wrote poetry books, ordered ritual music, and cured physiology, and gradually evolved to the present. Today's civilization, today's happiness, is not accidental. After thousands of years of changes, all aspects of evolution, in the process of each dynasty, each generation, there is a real environment, the spirit of the times, and therefore, it has produced the emotion of art.
When the Tang and Song dynasties were, the people were very simple, and the religious beliefs were also the deepest, and the artistic depictions were naturally very faithful. Many Of the Buddha figures that have been handed down to this day are kind faces and thick expressions. It is to draw a vase, which is also unconventional for the contours of the lines, and there is no meticulous place. In the later generations, it gradually became very different. Because of the changes in the environment and ideas, can not stand all the constraints, the style of painting, of course, there is another trend, but also because of the safety of the country, the bitterness of the people, a variety of different emotions, so it has caused the artist's brushstrokes, such as unrestrained, vast, majestic, clean and so on, its expression of detachment, the abstraction of the meaning, are nothing more than the rhyme and vividness, to symbolize all things, and rarely the shape of all things, in a realistic way to describe, only by the sense of the supervisor, without considerable sympathy, the skill of casting charm , to express the interests of individuals, this is also because it is the evolution of the times, people's thoughts, along with a complex phenomenon. Therefore, Chinese painting is gradually detached from ordinary people, and it is not intended to be understood and appreciated, and this is the reason. At the same time, the decline of literature and art is not due to this reason.
The average Chinese artist has always been lonely and confident, pure and self-congratulatory, as if disdainful of returning with the vulgar, living in the mountains and forests, comfortable and self-satisfied, when the window is clear and clean, then lay paper and brush, a burst of the chest in the embrace, comfortable and self-satisfied, has nothing to do with the world, so art and ordinary people, naturally isolated. Then there are ordinary handsome people, because of their fate, their ambitions cannot be achieved, or because of the failure of their careers, they retire to Gou An, so they attach themselves to poetry and painting, in order to cultivate their hearts and minds, these are not art for art's sake. However, if everyone works like this, will there still be a day when art will develop?
All the works of art of the people contain a profound meaning of life. When the country was at peace, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment and lived a happy life. In the course of history, we have seen many such pictures, such as the joy of the field family, the farmer who sows seeds, the shepherd boy on the back of the ox, the woodcutter on the mountain trail, the old man who fishes alone in the cold river, the hut reflected in the sunset, the woman and child who weaves in front of the window, how these are doing their work leisurely, and how they show how an agricultural country is founded! However, these scenes are now in the past. Because since the sea ban was greatly opened, the import of new culture has broken the culture, etiquette, economy, etc. that we have ruled for thousands of years. Therefore, the rural bankruptcy, the people are not happy, the old, the weak, the poor, the lonely, the lonely, what kind of emotion does these many realistic scenes give us? And on the road to giving art, what kind of trend should it be? I wonder if we in China, who are currently self-styled masters of the Renaissance, are still painting a few landscapes or a few beasts there, and dazzling them before the ordinary dignitaries can be the basis of the Renaissance. Sincerely a big question also.
On December 12, 1938, the sixth issue of The Morning Post and Art Weekly in Beiping
Source | Ancient Huan Qing Love
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On April 5, 2017, the review of "A Hundred Years of Masters - Jiang Zhaohe" was carried out at the Silver Valley Art Museum
Yang Jingdao, producer and chief planner of "A Hundred Years of Masters", and Jiang Daiming, son of Jiang Zhaohe, are discussing
On April 5, 2017, after the review of "A Hundred Years of Masters - Jiang Zhaohe", Ma Zhensheng, president of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Central Museum of Culture and History, president of the Research Association and famous painter, Liu Xilin, famous painter and art historian, Ji Qingyuan, director of the creative studio of the Beijing Academy of Painting and member of the Art Committee, Zhu Fan, director of the China Artists Association and director of the Copyright Protection Office, Jiang Daiming (Xiao He), a famous painter, graphic designer and son of Jiang Zhaohe, Yang Jingdao, producer and chief planner of "Hundred Years of Masters", producer of "Hundred Years of Masters", Planning a group photo of Li Pingping
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