Yangtze River Daily Wuhan Client, April 23 (Beijing reporter Ke Li) Wen Lipeng, a 91-year-old professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is the third son of Mr. Wen Yiduo, born in 1931 in Hubei Province. On April 22, at the exhibition site of "Ode to the Red Candle: Wen Yiduo, Wen Lipeng Art Exhibition", the old man said in an interview with the Yangtze River Daily reporter: "My father's personality strength has deeply affected me all my life, and he is an eternal spiritual guide for me, and I have always tried to use the brush to inherit my father's pursuit of beauty, sublimeness and heroism." ”
Qinghai Rural Style Creation "Ode to Red Candles"
Wen Lipeng was interviewed by a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily before the huge spray painting of his oil painting "Ode to the Red Candle". Photo by reporter Currie
At the exhibition site, a painting by Wen Lipeng in 1979, "Smelling One More Portrait", is the most eye-catching: Wen Yiduo and the burning red candle next to him are juxtaposed, and the candlelight stains the earth red, reflecting the rock-solid figure of Wen Yiduo.
Wen Lipeng told the Yangtze River Daily reporter: "From the first day I picked up the paintbrush, I thought I must paint my father. After more than ten years of painting study, slowly able to have some skills, I began to brew ideas, in fact, the brain thought of all kinds of fathers, but how to paint to really show the smell of this person, quite laborious. I drew a lot of sketches, this way and that, and I felt as if I couldn't connect with my feelings for my father. ”
In 1978, Wen Lipeng went to Qinghai to collect wind. "At that time, the local area was relatively backward, and there were often power outages. When I was living in a classmate's house, the power went out at night, and the candle lighting, the kind of red candle used in the countryside, stood on a huge board, which immediately inspired me. I combined this image with a photograph of my father in the stone forest in Yunnan to create Ode to the Red Candle. ”
Wen Lipeng feels that his father is like this red candle burning himself and creating light, and his pure heart and patriotic feelings have always inspired future generations to pass on the torch.
He fondly recalled that his father had been pursuing the unity of truth, goodness and beauty all his life, and had been moving freely between literature and fine arts, and closely combined the two, and his father's creative practice also proved that art comes from life.
Wen Lipeng's 2015 oil painting "Ancient Wood Sunset". Photo by reporter Currie
"In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, my father moved south with Tsinghua University and hiked from Changsha to Kunming, recording the wind and objects along the road with a paintbrush on the way, leaving a lot of sketches." Wen Lipeng likened the hike to a "small long march" by his father.
"At that time, most of the instructors either took a car or changed lanes from Hong Kong. Father and more than a dozen other teachers walked with the students, and along the way, it was of great help to his thinking. Because he has always been a student, he returned from studying abroad to Tsinghua as a professor, Tsinghua Professor was a senior intellectual at that time, life was very good, but this way on foot, through the Miao, Yi and other ethnic minority areas, he not only experienced Chinese culture, but also experienced the life of the poor people at the grassroots level. Along the way, my father really came into contact with the most basic level of China, not only painting a lot, but also taking more than 200 photos of peasants and ethnic minority compatriots along the way with teachers and students. I think this path had a great influence on his thinking and his future literary creation. Wen Lipeng said.
"Smell a lot of sons can't Chinese bad"
Mr. Wen Lipeng's oil paintings are full of strong colors and artistic appeal. Photo by reporter Currie
Art not only nourished and shaped Mr. Wen Yiduo's great spiritual character, but also subtly penetrated into his education of his children. Wen Lipeng said that fathers attach great importance to the cultivation of their children's personality and aesthetic qualities.
Although he is old, Wen Lipeng still remembers the details of his relationship with his father before the age of 16. "When I was a child, my father did not teach his children cultural classes like his father now, he basically taught by example and encouraged us to study well, and he paid special attention to what kind of people our brothers and sisters became. Father once said: Smelling More is teaching Chinese, and Smelling More's son can't Chinese badly! ”
"My father's dedication and dedication to his career made me feel very deeply." Wen Lipeng remembers, "Life was very difficult during the Southwest United University, and a room with his and his mother's double bed, his father's desk, and my sister's bed were all crowded together, which was also his reception room." There were guests, students, and I sat next to them. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw him still writing and engraving stamps there, which left a deep impression on me. ”
Wen Yiduo has three sons and two daughters, all of whom are accomplished in their studies and versatile. The eldest son Wen Lihe in the secret service in order to protect his father, stepped forward, 5 shots in the body, fortunately in time to save his life, but fell disabled for life, after recovering from injury he returned to Tsinghua University English major to continue studying, after the founding of New China he engaged in education work, due to poor health died young; the second son Wen Lidiao inherited his father's literary talent, is a writer, after retiring to devote himself to the collation and publication of "Wen Yi Duo Complete Collection"; the third son Wen Lipeng was deeply influenced by his father, and liked painting from childhood. It is also an excellent representative of the first generation of oil painters trained by New China.
The son created a series of portraits for his father
Mr. Wen Lipeng's oil paintings for his father attracted the audience to stop. Photo by reporter Currie
Wen Lipeng is full of gratitude to Tsinghua. He told the Yangtze River Daily reporter: I myself have lived in Tsinghua Garden since I was a child, and after I arrived in Kunming, the five of us brothers and sisters have also studied in the Middle School and Primary School attached to the United Nations General Assembly. My father was 16 years old when he had an accident. Fortunately, Mei Yiqi, the president of Tsinghua University at the time, asked the school to continue to pay the Wen family a year's salary, and the mother fled to the Liberated Area with the family.
"My father was assassinated by kuomintang reactionary agents, and at that time my grief and indignation could not be described in words. At that moment, I was bent on revenge. I went to the Liberated Areas in 1947 and entered the Academy of Fine Arts of the then Northern University. After studying, I joined the Communist Party of China and received more than ten years of education from the party, and I understood that I had the responsibility to inherit my father's legacy, carry forward my father's revolutionary road, give full play to his artistic strengths at that time, do my best to do more things for the people, and repay the party and the people and my father and mother for their education and cultivation. ”
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wen Lipeng has been studying in the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, staying in the school after graduating from graduate school, and has served as the director of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the deputy director of the Oil Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the China Oil Painting Society.
In this joint exhibition, Wen Lipeng's father and son's series of portrait oil paintings created by Wen Lipeng and landscape oil paintings created in the past 30 years have been exhibited, and their creations contain tragic and lofty artistic conceptions and connotations, with rich and symbolic colors, forming a strong visual impact and unique artistic style.
Wen Lipeng told the Yangtze River Daily reporter: Influenced by my father, I have been engaged in oil painting creation and art theory research all my life, and created oil paintings such as "Daughter of the Earth", "Ode to The Red Candle", "Wind", "Internationale" and so on, hoping to express the deepest nostalgia for my father through the perfect integration of content and form, and inherit my father's artistic proposition and personality strength.
【Editor: Deng Laxiu】
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