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Breaking the circle is the two words that calligraphers and painters should understand the most, because in this era of serious homogenization, only by breaking the thinking and understanding and expression of the ancients and breaking through can we make achievements. Therefore, "breaking the circle" is what calligraphers and painters have to do at present, and it is also the only way for Chinese calligraphy and painting to eat the old books, but for sustainable development.
Li Peijin's works qingdao study room, No. 26 Zhejiang Road
Talking about "breaking the circle", many calligraphers and painters may not understand that we write and paint, what circles are broken! "Breaking the circle" is a way and method to break the solidified thinking and understanding, not only for calligraphy and painting, any industry field, if you want to stand out, "breaking the circle" must be done. Otherwise, after following others, it will always be the little brother, always eating the rest of others, it can be said that people eat meat and you drink soup. It is only in the field of calligraphy and painting that if it does not break the circle, it will be more serious than other industries, because the field of calligraphy and painting is not a matter of eating meat and drinking soup, but whether calligraphy and painting are still adapted to the development of the times and whether they can accompany the common progress of culture. It can be said that it is a question of the survival of calligraphy and painting. Of course, many calligraphers and painters will say that we are very well mixed, many people are still collecting calligraphy and paintings, and a certain Chinese painting can also be auctioned for more than 100 million yuan and so on. However, have you ever thought about it, how many people are still collecting calligraphy and paintings, what age distribution, the paintings of a certain painter have been auctioned for hundreds of millions of dollars, because of their artistry or speculation, and now these collectors are collecting calligraphy and painting works for what reasons, collecting calligraphy and painting works and so on!
Li Peijin's works The former site of The Qingdao branch of Jincheng Bank
What circle does the "broken circle" break? It should be the problem that today's calligraphers and painters want to understand. "Breaking the circle" is the same as the main points of artistic expression and inheritance and development of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and it is a breakthrough in consciousness and cognitive transformation. Breaking the inherent consciousness and re-recognizing the definition of calligraphy and painting is to break the circle and is also the key to the inheritance and development of calligraphy and painting. If the thinking consciousness is only placed on the concept of "pen and ink", it will never come out of the shadow of the ancients, and if it cannot come out, it will be separated from the current culture. Cultural generations are destined to be eliminated by history, and the current intangible cultural heritage, and the handicrafts that have been lost, etc., are not that their development has come to an end, but that they have not kept up with the development. So it is replaced by something else and thus disappears from history. Chinese painting and calligraphy regard "pen and ink" as the purity of calligraphy and painting, which is the main willingness to lead to the stagnation and development of Chinese painting and calligraphy, so the first step in breaking the circle is to redefine the status and role of "pen and ink" in the field of Chinese painting and calligraphy. This is also the reason why "breaking the circle" is the cause of consciousness. As long as the calligraphers and painters can understand or understand that "pen and ink" is a tool, "consciousness" is the soul, and the broken circle can be broken at any time.
Li Peijin's works Christian Church, No. 15 Jiangsu Road