Xin Yingjun, Qinzhi, Haogu, and the master of the Two Tiger Dragon Halls in Shenzhou. He is a national first-class artist and a famous Chinese calligrapher and painter.
Born in 1946 in Dandong City, Liaoning Province, he set foot in the painting garden of the book world, learned from the world of knowledge, and persevered. He has been engaged in art creation, education and teaching for more than 50 years, and was formerly the director of the Fine Arts Department of Xing'an College of Inner Mongolia Normal University. He was the vice chairman and secretary general of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Secondary Teachers Calligraphy Education Professional Committee. He is currently an artistic member of the China Association for the Promotion of Culture and Art Development, a researcher of the Culture and Art Committee of the China Chinese and Foreign Celebrity Culture Research Association, and a director of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association and the China National Painters Association. He has held honorary positions in many art institutions, including Vice Chairman of the Calligraphers Branch of the China International Literary and Artistic Association, Tenured Visiting Professor of the Oriental Art Research Institute, President of the Beijing Songzhuang International Calligraphy and Painting Institute, Vice Chairman of the World Chinese Calligraphers Association, Honorary President of the Beijing Contemporary Global Calligraphy and Painting Institute, Honorary Advisor of the New Shenzhou Academy of Arts of the Republic of Singapore, and other art institutions. In the past 50 years, he has won more than 50 gold, silver, bronze and excellence awards in teaching, academic seminars and various calligraphy and painting art exhibitions held in provinces, cities, the country and the world. Among them, the 2008 World Chinese Artists Reform and Opening Up 30th Anniversary Essay Contest won the gold medal. In 2009, he won the "Most Influential World Chinese Artist Lifetime Honor Award". He has been invited to recommend the publication of calligraphy and painting works on a number of official websites and print media (national newspapers and magazines). Invited to Japan, the United States, France, Canada, South Korea, Singapore and other countries to exhibit calligraphy and painting works and art exchange activities. His biography has been included in the Collection Dictionary of Famous Calligraphy and Painting Artists of the Twentieth Century, Chinese Oriental Artists, Asian Art Celebrities, Who's Who of World Artists, And Dictionary of World Literary Artists, etc.
He has participated in social charity activities for many times, and donated more than 20,000 yuan of the auction proceeds of his calligraphy and painting works. He has been commended by Nanjing, Shenyang and other municipal government charities and public welfare institutions. He is the founder of the "Two Pen Dragon" and "Two Pen Tiger" cursive list books, and the author enjoys copyright according to law.
In recent years, he has been rated by relevant art institutions and media at home and abroad as one of the chinese calligraphy and painting masters with the greatest investment and collection appreciation potential in contemporary times. The auction of works has been rising year by year, the price has doubled, and the calligraphy and painting works are 30,000 yuan per square foot. It has been collected by many art institutions and elites at home and abroad.
Echoes of History - Reading the Works of Xin Yingjun, a powerful Chinese calligrapher and painter
Text/Lu Fuming
In the eleventh year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (752 AD), a spring breeze was drunk at noon. The great poet Li Bai climbed a mountain range in Yingyang, sang about the wine, looked up to the sky, and wrote a poem that has been passed down through the ages, "Will Enter the Wine"--"The water of the Yellow River rises from the sky and flows to the sea without return." "His poems are like the wind and rain in the sky, the heroic spirit is rushing towards people, and the majestic style is invincible.
More than a thousand years later, a famous calligrapher and painter who admired Li Bai, Xin Yingjun, wrote a cursive work "Will Enter the Wine" in the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia with his rafters. Although this painting is not the wild grass style of Zhang Xu and Huai Su, it is written majestically and majestically. With his brushstrokes, the viewer goes deep into the depths of Li Bai's heart, reminiscent of Li Bai's immortal qi and the appearance of drawing his sword and looking around--the scene of not seeing the ancients before and not seeing the comers. This cursive painting is flowing without being rash, unrestrained without being frivolous, and free without losing its legality, which is a rare masterpiece.
Look at another calligraphy work of Mr. Xin Yingjun - Mao Zedong's "Liupan Mountain". This painting is cleverly composed, the pen and ink are flexible and flying, sometimes like a wild storm, sometimes like spring, so that the viewer is dazzled and beautiful. Try to see the two sentences "The sky is high and the clouds are light, looking at the flying geese in the south, not to the Great Wall is not a good man". Among them, the word "cloud" is inserted obliquely from the top left to the bottom right, shaped like a strange fluttering cloud, and like a mythical flying human figure, and the composition composed of words such as "sky high" is really wonderful. The "to" character in "Not to the Great Wall", the contrast between the "long" word and the "city" word give people a sense of aesthetic joy.
Xin Yingjun has been engaged in art and calligraphy education for more than 40 years, which can be described as peach and plum all over the world. He told his students that if they wanted to write cursive, they should first practice it for ten years. Look at a calligraphy he wrote: "Teach people vanilla hands to keep incense, send people rose hearts to fragrance themselves..." Its words have the beauty of the solemn balance of Ouyang Inquiry calligraphy, showing the calmness of God's calmness, and the grace and generosity of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy. In this painting, we can see the charm of "Multi-Pagoda Induction Monument" and "Divine Strategy Military Monument".
Contrary to the vertical axis written by Xin Yingjun, the two horizontal cloaks he wrote gave people the feeling of the river and the sea flowing and the cloud mountains overlapping. These two characters are written in the opening words of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Su Dongpo's "Chibi Huaigu". These two pieces of calligraphy are deeply rooted in the essence of the Wang Shu, and combine the side of the shape with the strength of the pen in the beauty. Just as Sun Guoting said that "heavy as a cloud, light as a cicada wing", it is both majestic and flexible, just like the waves and waves of the Yangtze River.
Xin Handsome's calligraphy is deeply rooted in the true biography of the Song Dynasty everyone, try to see a poem written by wang wan in the Tang Dynasty: "Outside the green mountains on the road, in front of the green water of the boat, the tide is flat on both sides of the river, and the wind is hanging in the sails..." At first glance, the knot characters tilt left and right, as if there is no balance and serene structure, but each word has a stable center of gravity, from unbalanced to balanced, giving people a momentum of crossbow shooting thousands of miles.
Like a general who commands thousands of troops and horses, the calligrapher and painter Xin Yingjun's ability to control various book bodies can be said to be in the midst of planning and winning thousands of miles away. But he also has times when he is painstakingly managing. On a "tiger" word, Xin Yingjun practiced nearly a thousand times. He is well versed in the principle of the homology of calligraphy and painting, and inscribed eight characters on the vertical axis of the word "tiger" as "Tiger roars and melts Danqing, and the calligraphy and painting are of the same origin". The "tiger" has the image of a fierce tiger, but it does not lose the traditional norms of calligraphy. The last vertical of the word "tiger" is generally vertical to the end, only making a fuss about the thickness and thickness, and Xin Yingjun writes this vertical as a skim bent to the left, like a tiger's tail and like a rock climbed by a tiger. The author has seen countless literati and inkers or generals of the battlefield write the word "tiger", but this one has left a deep imprint
Humanity is "the return of the Five Peaks does not look at the mountain, and the return of the Yellow Mountain does not look at the mountain". Although the calligrapher and painter Xin Yingjun lived outside guanwai for a long time, he admired the magnificent scenery of Huangshan Mountain in southern Anhui, and he personally visited Huangshan to paint "Huangshan Fog Sea Map" and "Huangshan Morning Dawn Map" and other maps. In these paintings, we can see the excellent traditional brush and ink of the Ming and Qing "Huangshan School" masters such as Shi Tao, Mei Qing, and Hongren, but they have innovated in technique. The close-up view in the painting is a number of tall pine trees, the branches are strong and tall, the distant view is the lotus flower, the peaks of Tiandu, its peaks are majestic and beautiful, the mountain rocks and cliffs, the heavy mountains are stacked, the mountain waterfalls are straight down, the clouds are swirling, the mood is long, and it seems that you can hear the roaring sound of water. The painter uses thick ink to smudge the contours of the mountain stone, or use light ink to polish and dye, expressing the texture of the mountain stone. The pine trees of Huangshan Mountain are a major wonder in nature, pine trees or standing rocks, or hanging cliffs, or facing the stream, or overlooking the Cloud Valley. The pine trees he painted were somber, deep, and quiet, with tall and robust crowns, expressing the spiritual world of the painter. The pine needles he painted have both sharp edges and Tibetan fronts, which is a style of Song people painting pines, and these characteristics can be clearly seen in the painter's "Huangshan Morning Dawn Map" and "Songquan Map".
"White Plum Chart Under the Moon" (Partial)
《Huangshan Morning Dawn Map》
In Xin Yingjun's paintings, there is a "White Plum Diagram Under the Moon", which is "Shi Zhu is humble and moderate, and the iron bone of the plum is born in spring". In the painting, the cloud shadow, the moon shadow, and the bamboo shadow are interesting. The plum blossoms are painted in an icy posture, moist as jade bones, while the trunk of the plum tree is hard as iron, showing a cold charm in the ink color. In this painting, we can understand the artistic conception of "the shadow is shallow and shallow, and the dark incense floats in the moon and dusk" in the Song Ren painting, but there is a clear integration of Western painting in the use of color and the angle of composition.
The same tube of sheep, a piece of rice paper and a stone of ink incense, why Xin Handsome's calligraphy and painting are different in the longitudinal brush and ink, is because we clearly see the excellent pen and ink tradition in his calligraphy and painting, and hear the sound of ancient history and the sound of art in his paintings and calligraphy.
[Editor of this article: Liu Qingli]