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The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

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A good life is around - the 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival

Venue: Xuanwu Art Museum (No. 9 Bancang Street, Nanjing)

Opening time: June 18 at 3 p.m

Exhibition time: June 18-25

The launch of this issue is the gongbi flower and bird painter Diao Siwei for the lady.

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

Diao Siwei, a native of Xingning, Guangdong, born in December 1952 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is currently a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a researcher of the Dunhuang Research Institute of Nanjing Normal University, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Artists Association, and an honorary curator of Xu Peichen Art Museum.

Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain - the female painter Diao Si for the brush flower and bird painting appreciation

Cai Ning

Diao Si is a close friend of Naigo. She has worked hard in the painting world of flowers and birds for more than 30 years, Yu often reads his new works, exchanges and talks about painting art, and is very appreciative of her painting path and aesthetic construction, she has been silently committed to the painting of flowers and birds in the brush for decades, or white painting, subtle color, beautiful and chic; or three alum and nine dyes, the brushwork is delicate, realistic and conveying the spirit; or simply ink, the picture is quiet and fresh; the work is delicate at close range, elegant from a distance, and has an otherworldly sense. In the early 1980s, the Southwest Normal College was entrusted by the State Education Commission to hold a national seminar for the backbone teachers of higher teachers, whose main training was heavy on colorful flowers, birds and figure paintings, and studied under the famous gongbi artist Li Jike and Professor Yang Fang.

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

Yo-perch

Diao Si was also painted by freehand flowers and birds at this time, and studied gong strokes from her husband Xu Peichen. With great patience, she copied the "Eighty-Seven Immortals Diagram", "Qingming Upper River Map" and songyuan bodywork brush flower and bird paintings, and also studied the modern Qi Baishi and Chen Zhifo's brush composition, and learned Zhao Yao's thin gold body, and also studied painting theory, absorbing various nutrients of traditional culture, including folk art, thus laying a solid foundation.

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

Lotus wind soaks the moon and fragrance

While studying the works of the master's gongbi, it pays attention to the creation of foreign teachers and the nature of the teaching method, that is, through sketching, it enhances the ability to grasp shapes and strengthens the creative strength. He lives under Stone City, and often goes to Stone City Park to sketch, drawing flowers and grasses of the four seasons with white paintings and sketches, and painting dragonflies and butterflies. Huang Binhong said: "The ancient Chinese painting theorists are not as good as the teachers. In other words, copying the ancients is not as good as the high quality of sketching. Giving up copying and not doing, vainly sketching, must become an evil demon. Huang Binhong emphasized that Chinese painting must first be copied and then sketched, that is, first master the brushwork and the principle of Chinese painting, and then face nature, and It is in this kind of painting theory that Diao Siwei repeatedly progresses his talents.

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

Haohetu (in cooperation with Xu Peichen)

Diao Si is calm, thoughtful, taciturn, and quiet, and she takes the road of copying, sketching, and creating. He devotes himself wholeheartedly to nature to absorb artistic literacy, integrates his own emotions into nature, and refines and sublimates his paintings from a large number of sketches. She said: If a painter does not work sketching, he will not have his own feelings, he will not create, let alone talk about himself. ”

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

Butterflies love flowers

Man is like his painting, painting is like his person. Diao Si's paintings are mostly the pursuit of imaginary, spiritual yearning, and even the beautiful situation presented in dreams, the painting is subtle, the picture is like blue and white porcelain, containing rich emotions, full of romantic poetry, to achieve the realm of conveying emotions with things, lyricism, and sustenance of true feelings. Reading her "Butterfly", on the pale yellow water ripple rice paper, she carefully sketched a few white phalaenopsis orchids, interspersed with a few bunches of green grass, the flowers were white and green, and a white butterfly leisurely danced on the flowers, like a song and dance, light and fragrant, showing the wonderful scenery full of life in the wild.

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

Good fruit bird

Admire his "Buddha's Belly Flower", depicting the object in a thin gold stroke, the flower stem is drawn from the leaf bush, interspersed with intermingling, and the front and back are leaned forward; the stem end is then painted with thin stems, shaped like a small antler, dyed with bright red, and produces green fruits; the stem veins of the drum at the base of the stem, such as the belly of Maitreya Buddha, plus the shield-shaped green leaves are contrasted; a white and yellow butterfly is in the middle, giving people endless reverie; the inscription on the painting is "The Buddha's belly Buddha's heart is interesting, and the flowers and small leaves are strange", the whole picture is bright and elegant, very cute, and even has the meaning of Zen.

Looking at his "Bamboo Peach", this kind of plant that spreads all over the urban and rural areas in the north and south, in his pen, from the side of the painting, obliquely hangs, intersperses orderly green stems, grows a group of long green leaves around the branches, a cluster of white flowers that are freely curled, some hidden in the green leaf bushes, some open delicate and shy, some protrude from the branches and leaves, some slightly raise the buds to be released; the whole picture is tangible, and the objects are graceful with the wind, which can be described as a beauty of white and pastel.

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

White Paint Traveler Banana

She used this method to paint five-tree fruit, dandelion, water hibiscus, turtle back bamboo, plantain, rose, mountain peach, white peony, jade hairpin, camellia, Dali flower... All according to the variety and texture of the objective objects, determine the content and artistic conception of the painting, paint it in a feminine and unique subjective psychology and beautiful and elegant way, the composition is concise, the line drawing is prominent, and the shades and shades outline the absolute poetry; the color is still light, elegant but calm, so that the picture is a little more clean and ethereal. On this road, she is very mysterious, reaching out very fast, not slow, and even drawing a brush in a freehand way, almost half a day can paint a beautiful work of brushwork, which can be described as handy.

Since the rise of literati painting, the lotus flower has been loved by many painters, and everyone who is good at painting and painting has emerged endlessly and has its own characteristics. She moves with emotion, moves with emotion, focuses on painting, loves to paint lotuses, and loves to paint huge pictures. Four pieces of screen paper, pressed on the painting wall with a magnet, charcoal strips, hanging wrist hook line, starting pen to close the pen, pen and pen in place, starting to bear and turn, God fixed the air foot; paving the dyeing, light color for it, compound and then wet, gradually layered halo, dyeing thick; shaped green leaves such as covers, long stems and flowers, pavilion table, exquisite tricks;

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

White depiction of orchids

It can be enjoyed on a single screen, and the combined screen is a huge "out of the mud without dyeing the map", which reasonably shows the poetry of "the lotus leaves are infinitely blue, and the lotus flowers are different from the sun"; the color and ink collide in the painting, the dots and lines are staggered, and the undulating and symphonic pastoral lyrics with rich rhythms and connotations are displayed. Sometimes, at the invitation of the dealer, she also made six-foot, eight-foot, and two-foot lotus drawings, with dignified pen and ink, thick colors, gorgeous and elegant. For example, its "Lotus Wind Infiltrating the Moon and Fragrance" depicts the silent night, a thin green mist floating above the lotus pond, graceful and colorful green lotus and lotus; the lotus leaves are light and stretched, some swing downwards like skirts, some gently raise the sleeves of the dancing water; in the lotus leaf bushes, several white lotus flowers are unevenly bathed in the moonlight blooming like water; a full moon in the upper left corner of the painting, giving people a hazy and illusory; the whole picture is real and virtual, unified in the light blue tone, and the shape and space of the lotus pond under the moon are very clear, painting the crystal clarity of the lotus flowers under the light moon. The green leaves set off the flickering light and darkness of the lotus flowers and the unstained beauty of the lotus flowers, which naturally and harmoniously show the meaning of "clear water out of hibiscus, natural to carve".

The 8th Yangtze Evening News Art Festival | Diao Siwei: Willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of rain

X - Lotus Pond Moonlight 68X136

Diao Si has a special love for the Netherlands and places his inner feelings on the Netherlands. She said to Yu more than once: "I pass on the spirit for the flowers and birds, and the flowers and birds speak for me, and I am willing to be a lotus flower to listen to the sound of the rain." She often tirelessly paints lotuses, and she is also a style of wanzhong, known as "Lotus Fairy Gu" for people in the industry. Sometimes she paints light colors, sometimes heavy colors. Its "Lotus Pond Qianying", "pen and ink" is embodied in "with the pen", the pen is calm, the charm is compelling, the brushwork is powerful, the lines are smooth; "with ink" is converted to "with color", abide by the law of heavy color, and the color is mostly rendered as a "face", and the attention is penetrated by the infiltration effect of the back of the paper; the lotus flowers are "not vines and branches, the fragrance is far away, the pavilion is pure planting", creating a space modeling beauty of lotus leaves and lotus flowers, virtual, thick, near and far, and large,

In particular, the various lotus leaves that look up at Ang Zhan are both like the lotus of the umbrella and the "small lotus to show the sharp corners", the front of the lotus is dyed with dark green, and the back is lined with pink and green, the atmosphere is vigorous, deepening without a trace, forming a multi-layer superimposed heavy effect; the reed leaves of the lotus are interspersed with double hooks, several white lotus flowers sway among them, and two Mandarin ducks play under it; the whole picture is rich and not colorful, the contrast between light and dark, cold and warm is harmonious, virtual, large, and quiet; the whole layer is rich and vivid, giving people a harmonious, ethereal, and quiet artistic charm visually, showing" The artistic realm of "flower sex is my nature, flower love is my love" highlights the aesthetic pursuit and orientation of a generation of people for life and love, and is full of the rich delicacy and water-like tenderness of the emotional world of female painters, interpreting her perception of life and annotations on life.

Not long ago, Liao Jingwen, the father of Modern Chinese Art and the wife of Master Xu Beihong, wrote the "Peichen Spirit" for Professor Xu Peichen, affirming Professor Xu's contribution to Chinese flower and bird painting. Recently, Mr. Liao wrote "Flower and Bird Spirit" for Diao Si to encourage her pursuit of the art of flower and bird painting. "Flower and Bird Spirit" is a painting art that combines humanistic spirit and natural science. May she pour more passion into her heart and create more beautiful works.

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