The painter Shan Guodong tasted lotus in his lotus garden
One
Walking into Shan Guodong's art museum, the first thing that entered the field of vision was his unique courtyard, two ponds, and koi swimming. All kinds of thatch, wantonly intermingling. You look in your eyes and throw a look of doubt at him: You live in this yard?
I opened my eyes, grew insightful, and filled in the gaps in my experience. In my mind, I reflected Zhuangzi: "The catfish swims calmly, and it is the joy of the fish." ”
At this time, his eyes are also staring at you. It's as if your face is a mirror of him.
He wants to be the original, to return to the way nature is. This look made him always think of his hometown of The Great Northwest, he was a man in Longzhong, thick, simple, wooden, and stubborn.
I listened to his thick voice, and suddenly, I felt very kind. He poured out all his feelings into his picture; He was there, unleashing his talents and enthusiasm to the fullest.
Yang Bo, chairman of Yuan Henry, and famous writers Lin Xi and Shan Guodong enjoyed the works together
Two
A professional artist, he wants to be different in the quality of expression, then he can also be different from others in his life habits, for example, Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi's long beard.
While we patronize their art, we will also tolerate their mavericks in life, or in appearance, or even ignore them as subsections of life. Because of these habits, it is likely that they will always affect their creative mood, creative thinking and even creative inspiration.
I love this overgrown courtyard and understand and respect the artist's aesthetic orientation.
An artist must have a paranoid side, and even, the more paranoid the better. My understanding is mainly to get rid of the tacky in artistic expression, to be different, not to be similar, to create a distance, and the farther away from others, the better. Only in this way can you be refreshing and imprinted in your heart. Only in this way can others tolerate your differences in life habits. Just think, a person who is reckless in the abdomen, only pursues external strange clothes, who will understand or tolerate?
Author and Lin painter Shan Guodong
Enter the art museum and visit his two-compartment and three-story paintings, one for oil paintings, the other for Chinese paintings, he is an amphibious painter, he is different from other painters, as the saying goes, "art is not oppressive." ”
His oil painting, which is the main business of art school, has been engaged in oil painting works before, and later, he began to adjust the painting track and excavated into the field of Chinese painting.
Three
In his spare time in painting, he loves to read in order to enrich and expand his knowledge. Because, he knows that the deeper your knowledge, the more powerful the connotations you convey in the picture.
In particular, I would like to mention the book club he organized, which is heartily high-fived!
The level of the book club is very high, which can be described as a gathering of celebrities, and it is particularly worth mentioning that Liu Jianwei, the winner of the "Mao Dun Literature Award", is among them; There is also Lin Xi, a talented female writer who came on this special trip, who has published many novels and more than a dozen collections of essays. This time, Lin Xi also presented her long novel "Behind the Yang Conspiracy", which I will read carefully to show my gratitude!
Shan Guodong Art Museum Moon Season Garden
I envy this book club, at their age, they can still have such a move, very precious.
This kind of sentiment was my behavior in my twenties, and I even hated myself for not taking root in Beijing.
This city that can bring people from all over the world together; This tolerant metropolis inadvertently evokes my nostalgia for my past experiences...
I pray in my heart: to develop team spirit and communicate and read new knowledge. Knowledge depends on accumulation, knowledge depends on comprehension, and knowledge depends on communication. Although I cannot be with you, my thirst and desire for knowledge are the same as yours.
I will always pay attention to your reading in the far Northwest, my arid ventricular door will always be open, I will suck my breasts like a greedy baby, I will read alone, and I will follow your steps all the time!
Shan Guodong Chinese painting "Taihang Soul" 39x234 2016
Four
In the restaurant on the third floor of the art museum, there is a large circular rotating table, Shan Guodong has a great appeal, more than a dozen people, gathered together, introverted and low-key, he actually pushed me to the chairman and invited me to preside. I, nervous, flattered. I couldn't quit, so I had to indiscriminately fill up the number. I muttered in my heart, how can I let him love like this. You are all elites, why should I sit on this throne? How to open my mouth, thinking and thinking, I finally thought that the people here are counting my older, and I can only accept this task under this excuse.
Shan Guodong's oil painting "Holy Mountain" Specification: 70X200 (CM)
I was thinking, he really didn't know me, I've always been very low-key in social situations. One is that I am invincible, the other is that I am the least willing to appear in public, I am not good at saying more than I do, the profession and the earnest teaching of my predecessors, a writer must always speak with his work, and it should always be the process of the reader's pursuit of the author. But in today's world, the spirit of professional ethics has been lost too much, and even the dignity has been lost, and even the minimum professional bottom line has not been taken into account, which is simply the shame of the industry!
Mr. Lu Xun once warned: "I am silent, I feel fulfilled; I opened my mouth and I felt empty. ”
Because, he does not understand me, I can only state here, this matter, the following is not an example, and please understand as hope!
At the dinner table, because only Lin Xi and I climbed the grid, we talked a lot. We talked about Chen Zhongzhong and his "White Deer Plain", about Tolstoy and "Resurrection", about Sholokhov and "The Quiet Don", about Márquez and "One Hundred Years of Solitude", about Carpentier and "The Kingdom of Man", about comparative literature, about the square structure and the river structure of the novel...
Shan Guodong Chinese Painting "Red Jiangshan" (Partial) 60x360(CM)