Text/Feng Haitao Photo/Xiao Daping Du Yan Li Peijin
The calligraphy and painting market continues to be sluggish, but many calligraphers and painters do not have the slightest sense of urgency, and they are still living and creating in a state of peace with their encounters. They are using the psychology of which fluke is waiting for the market to pick up. I don't know if they have ever thought about how much damage the epidemic has brought to the economy in the past three years, and how much instability the War between Russia and Ukraine has brought to the world situation. Imagine how many people in the midst of war and plague still have spare money to collect paintings and calligraphy. Taking 10,000 steps back, the War between Russia and Ukraine is over, the world situation is stable, and the epidemic situation has also returned to zero. Can the calligraphy and painting market pick up? You know, the recovery of Yuan Qi cannot be achieved in one day or two days. Therefore, in the current situation, we cannot wait, we cannot rely on it, but we must find a suitable path.
Dae Ohirayama Water Painting
In such a sluggish calligraphy and painting market, there are still many calligraphers and painters whose works are selling well, and there are also many cultural companies that make a lot of money. Why? It is because they conform to the times and have good planning. We don't talk about the main auction market, let's talk about the normal live broadcast of calligraphy and painting, now those works have recognition, artists with their own views on the art, the works are going very well, a live auction, a teacher's special session can be auctioned to millions. And those painters who have achieved nothing, who only know how to study, and who have no creative ability, now have almost no market. It can also be seen that the downturn in the market is not entirely due to the epidemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Du Yan landscape painting
Enriching oneself, arming oneself with knowledge, walking out of a road that belongs to one's own style, and summarizing one's own artistic views are the roads and achievements that every calligrapher and painter must take. Otherwise, it will only be abandoned by the market and eliminated by society. And the current downturn is a kind of shuffling. Those calligraphers and painters who have their own artistic views and their own independent faces will be recognized by the market and will stand out among thousands of calligraphers and painters. And those who have no contribution to the development of calligraphy and painting art, and only know how to copy or copy, will naturally be eliminated in this market downturn. And those painters who have painting skills and no thought will be naturally adjusted by the market to the field of decorative painting, that is, they will change from the identity of painters to the identity of painters. Therefore, this time the market downturn is the self-sorting of the calligraphy and painting circle, and it is to remove the false and the true. It also indicates that the development of the field of calligraphy and painting will usher in a peak, and there will be countless masters who have been passed down through the ages.
Works by Li Peijin