For a long time, I was struggling with a problem. The process of painting from raw to mature, is it raw or cooked? I have asked many people, some people say raw, some people say familiar, they have no conclusion. This stage will go through for many people who are engaged in art. In fact, it is a matter of learning and knowledge.
Zhao Mengfu, a great calligrapher and painter of the Yuan Dynasty, once said: "There are many painters in the world, how many painters are there?" "That's the problem. In any era, there must be more people who "learn" than those who "know." Liao Liao, who really has knowledge. When reading Mr. Dian Bin's paintings, this answer is naturally understood, and the high realm of the painting is not cooked after cooking, but after maturity. The living, the humble also.
Teacher Yang's character paintings, throughout a picture, its size, leaning, exaggeration, deformation, etc., are completely derived from his inner feelings about the dramatic characters. The characters are innumerable, with different situations, coupled with deep pen and ink rhyme, which is very intriguing. The unnatural depiction and depiction is also the essence of chinese painting modeling.
Brother Dian Bin and I have known each other for a short time. I felt the kindness and openness of his heart. When I first saw his work. What attracted me the most was the chi of the work. Nanqi Sheikh taught the Six Laws, the first of which is vivid qi rhyme, and it can even be said that qi rhyme is the highest standard of Chinese painting. When I saw his works, the first thing that infected people was not the pen and ink lines and colors, but the thick and majestic atmosphere in the works. As far as the eye can see, the heart can feel. This kind of qi is literary, elegant, and clean, not jianghu, fiery, domineering, or even tacky. Mountains and rivers and the earth, everything, people, birds and animals will have an aura, I often say that the aura of a work is very important, bringing you the influence of good or evil. The good aura of the work makes you physically and mentally happy and healthy, and a work of evil qi makes you infected with evil, which is the weather of all things in heaven and earth. Brother Dian Bin's works, when you will read it, will make you excited, full of strength, from the works can see his open mind. The meaning of the ancients, the crane and the seagull, people are not like this, how can the works be high? This is the state of exhaustion, and if you want to attain a high realm, you must first be like this.
Zhao Zhiqian once said that "there are only two kinds of people who can reach the highest realm of art, the three-year-old child and the great Confucian of accumulation." The teenager did not know the taste of sorrow, and he did not know it for thirty years. Yunyun painter, who devoted his life to painting skills, did not know that Su Dongpo commented on Wang Wei's "painting in poetry, poetry in painting". Why? The poetry of the painting also. Poetic, derived from the poetic heart also. Poets, children's hearts also. Chen Zizhuang once said that "plain and natural is the highest realm of art". It has been a long way, and the childlike dependent, Feng mao also. Mr. Dian Bin's paintings are ubiquitous and intriguing. It reminds me of the two words that people say about Guan Liang's calligraphy and painting, "childishness.". I also use the word "humble fun" to evaluate Mr. Dian Bin's paintings, and I think so.
(Text/Lion Rock Man)
Artist Bio:
Yang Dianbin, stage name Yixuan, was born in 1960 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, and now lives in Beijing. He is a member of the China Ethnic Minorities Promotion Association, a member of the Ink Danqing Calligraphy and Painting Institute of China Education Television, and the president of the Art Research Institute of Beijing Wanhe Academy.