The surging news learned that Feng Zikai's painting "Liang Shangyan, Light Luo Fan, Good Wind and Falling Peach Blossom Pieces" created in 1942 was recently included in the Museum of Art and Archaeology of Zhejiang University, and will be exhibited to the public in the 125th anniversary celebration exhibition of Zhejiang University in May this year. This precious Feng Zikai painting was donated as a descendant of Zhejiang University's alumni who moved west, witnessing a love affair between the original collector and Mr. Feng Zikai.
According to the Zhejiang University Alumni Association, recently, Zhejiang University received a letter from a descendant of Zhejiang University's westward migration alumni. The letterer expressed his willingness to donate a painting by Feng Zikai, "Liang Shangyan, Light Luo Fan, Good Wind and Falling Peach Blossom Pieces", which was treasured by his father for decades before his death, to present the 125th anniversary of Zhejiang University. On April 24, the painting donation ceremony was held in Xi'an.
"Liang Shangyan Light Luo Fan Good Wind and Falling Peach Blossom Piece" Feng Zikai
Feng Zikai painted
Feng Zikai is an outstanding person in the history of modern Chinese culture and art, with outstanding achievements in comics, calligraphy, translation and other aspects, and has published more than 160 calligraphy and painting collections, prose works, art theory and music theory works, of which "Nursing Life Painting Collection" is its representative collection.
Feng Zikai is also a representative of the group of teachers who moved west to Zhejiang University. From 1939 to 1942, Feng Zikai followed the westward migration of Zhejiang University, and successively taught in Yishan, Guangxi and Zunyi, Guizhou, teaching art education and art appreciation to Zhejiang masters and students.
According to Mr. Wu Xunwen, the donor of the painting, his father Wu Zhaoxiang studied at Zhejiang University in 1939, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he moved west with Zhejiang university and came to Zunyi, Guizhou. With the fall of his hometown in Jiangxi, the family's economic resources were interrupted and had to work and study, Wu Zhaoxiang alumni and Mr. Feng Zikai, who was the art director of Zhejiang University at the time, met by chance, and served as the tutor of Feng Zikai's second son Feng Yuancao. In 1942, during the flower fall season, after Wu Zhaoxiang tutored Feng Yuancao's homework, Mr. Feng Zikai was enthusiastic to create a painting of "Liang Shangyan, Light Luo Fan, Good Wind and Falling Peach Blossom Piece" and gave it to him. In Mr. Wu Xunwen's mind, his father regarded this painting as a treasure all his life and carefully collected it for decades, as if in the memory of his father, this painting was a natural and indispensable existence.
Wu Xunwen's father, Wu Zhaoxiang, was a student transcript while studying at Zhejiang University
Mr. Wu Xunwen recalled that his father carefully framed and preserved the painting and never showed it easily. But in the turbulent years, the painting was almost lost, but fortunately it was lost and recovered. In 1983, his father submitted an article in the Xi'an Evening News entitled "A Posthumous Painting of Feng Zikai", in which the source of the painting was introduced, and sincerely wrote that "Baisi dare not love alone, and now it is publicly appreciated by enthusiasts". "My father deeply understood that Mr. Feng Zikai was popular, his paintings were also popular, and 'Besi did not dare to love alone, and now he thinks that lovers appreciate it together' is his father's last wish." Wu Xunwen said.
1983 "Xi'an Evening News" "A Posthumous Painting of Feng Zikai"
Mr. Wu Xunwen said that his father Wu Zhaoxiang was most proud of becoming a Zhejiang adult in his life. This precious painting, which originated from the westward migration of Zhejiang University and has undergone 80 years of changes in the times, has finally returned to Zhejiang University, the alma mater of my father's heart, so that Zhejiang masters and students and the public can see the precious paintings left by Mr. Feng Zikai in the process of the school's westward migration, and witness a good relationship between Zhejiang masters and students in the special era. This is the children's deep miss for their father, and it also reflects their great satisfaction in fulfilling their father's last wishes and their expectations for The children of Zhejiang University.
Feng Zikai's paintings are characterized by significant characteristics, and his manga is also influenced by the Japanese painter Takehisa Yumeji, with a single line of flat painting, smooth brushwork, concise lines, and strong folk colors. In particular, most of Feng Zikai's works do not paint the expression of the facial features on the face, but let the people who see the paintings speculate and cause people to think, which has become a major feature of Feng Zikai's character paintings.
"Talking about wine and mulberry" Feng Zikai (data map)
Late to the day to snow, can drink a cup of nothing (data map)
How old is this year? 》Feng Zikai (data map)
Feng Zikai's famous work "After People Disperse, a Hook of crescent moon is like water" is Feng Zikai's first published work in the 1920s, the original work was lost during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and in the 1940s, Feng Zikai re-created one. The sparse and concise brushstrokes outline the scenery in front of the porch of the house, on the porch is a rolled bamboo curtain, under the porch there is a wooden table tea set, the picture is large blank, a shallow moon bud hanging high, the inscription is: "After people disperse, a hook crescent moon is like water." "Liang Shangyan, Light Luo Fan, Good Wind and Falling Peach Blossom Piece" has the same sparse and concise brushstrokes as the painting, the same rolled bead curtains and the composition of a large blank space, which has a long meaning.
"After people disperse, a hook of the crescent moon is like water" Feng Zikai (data map)
"Liang Shangyan Light Luo Fan Good Wind and Falling Peach Blossom Piece" Feng Zikai
Feng Zikai advocates "the humanization of art" and "the artistization of life" and is known as "the most artistic artist in modern China". With sincere and easy enthusiasm, he integrates "art" into ordinary life, full of interest and essence. Under the premise of following the traditional view of poetry and painting with ink lines as the essence, he integrated Western sketching with Chinese poetry, and became interested in writing, forming a painting style that was both realistic and lyrical. In his early years, he often drew on real life experiences, with "warm irony", and in his later period, he often made new paintings of ancient poems, especially liked to take children's themes, outlining the human condition, and the artistic conception was timeless and intriguing.
Feng Zikai's works are warm and generous, and the poetic realm of spirit and tranquility reflects his profound cultural accomplishment and unique personality strength. All 450 original manuscripts in Feng Zikai's representative painting collection "Nursing Life Painting Collection" are now in the collection of Zhejiang Provincial Museum.
(Part of the content of this article is based on the public name of the Museum of Art and Archaeology of Zhejiang University)