Text/Feng Haitao Cliff Cypress Painting/Sun Baoyuan
"Cliff cypress has the whole country, Toohang material is respected" such a high evaluation is for a reason, because the Taihang Mountains have less soil and less water, cliff cypress in such a harsh environment, survival is extremely difficult, and can survive can be said to have passed the test of wind and frost, but also because of the difficult living environment makes it forge its own texture hard, tight, but also rich in oil and a refreshing fragrance. He is also known as the "King of Wood". At the same time, because of the environmental reasons for the survival of the cliff cypress, its shape has a hundred forms, so there is also a saying that "the shape of the cliff cypress is not enough for all trees".
Sun Baoyuan's work "Cliff Cypress"
Literati loved cliff cypress, "with its shape as a piece, and put in the home", there are "made of wood beads, made into a string in the hand" to wear, play. Therefore, he likes to paint cliff cypress and hang cliff cypress works in the study. However, because the cliff cypress is "well shaped and easy to write, and it is difficult to paint", there are not many painters in the calligraphy and painting industry who can really paint the cliff cypress, which has also caused a market phenomenon that it is difficult to find a painting.
Sun Baoyuan's work "Cliff Cypress"
Painter Sun Baoyuan, famous for painting cliff cypress, in the circle of calligraphy and painting, mentioning cliff cypress, the painter who thinks of it is sun Baoyuan. Everything has a cause, and it is not accidental that Teacher Sun Baoyuan was able to make such achievements in the field of painting cliff cypress, but inevitably. Because he loves cliff cypress, he searches around for cliff cypress and places it in his home, observes and studies it every day, so that he has the idea of creating cliff cypress, and then begins to study the painting of cliff cypress day after day. In the form of cliff cypress and "temporary work", in the study of the habits of cliff cypress, he gradually mastered the method of using pen and ink to paint cliff cypress. The picture also shows its own understanding and its independent style.
Sun Baoyuan's work "Cliff Cypress"
The cultivation of understanding and style is never a closed door, but walking and observing, but collecting style and interviewing, in order to cultivate his own creative style, and to be able to express the meaning of cliff cypress, in addition to the observation of the collection of cliff cypress at home, he has also been collecting style and sketching for decades. Looking up under the cliffs, looking down at the cliffs and looking at the peaks, you can observe the cliff cypresses from all angles. In the collection style, they also exchanged stories about cliff cypress with local villagers and their cognition of cliff cypress. Teacher Sun Baoyuan thus formed his own independent understanding of Yabai, so his painting of Yabai has both gods and forms, vivid charm and tension.
Cliff Cypress