Time is like a focused lens, always chasing those who struggle and pursue endlessly:
In April 2022, the Australian Artists Association "May Day" calligraphy and painting works online exhibition, specially invited Ge Caixia to exhibit the masterpiece "Gongbi Character Yang Yuhuan";
In the 2019 Shanxi University of the Elderly Calligraphy and Painting Invitation Exhibition, Ge Caixia's painting half-work and half-writing lotus flowers won the special prize;
During the epidemic in Central China in February 2020, Ge Caixia's painting "White Peacock" donated to Wuhan was awarded the first prize, and was permanently collected by the Wuhan Municipal Museum, and was written by reporters "White Peacock in the Epidemic Area", which was reported by many websites;
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Ge Caixia, a female painter from Fan County, Henan, is dignified and generous, with little language and elegance, the classical beauty of smiling and teethless, but full of enigmatic tenacity and tenacity, with the courage and perseverance of weak swallows to break through the rain and fog, with the brush in her hand, again and again on the road of exploration, with her own suffering and experience, rewriting her fate and writing the chapter behind Danqing.
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Painter Ge Caixia
Born with wisdom
At several large-scale calligraphy and painting exhibitions held in Shanxi and Henan Provinces, as long as people pay attention a little, they will notice a lady wearing a blue flower dress, her hair is hanging high, quiet as a virgin, her eyes are smart, her expression is sincere, she is the famous painter Ge Caixia from Fan County, Henan.
Fan County has a rich cultural heritage, with a history of more than 2,000 years, and The well-known patriotic poet Xu Mu of the Warring States period grew up on this land; the light and simple charm of "Wei Feng Kao Yu" makes it full of mysterious spirit and beauty.
Yang Yuhuan in the painter's pen
Ge Caixia was born in the early years of that unprecedented movement, in this ancient hot land, her young mind, bathed in the baptism of poetry and painting, her heart did not engrave the mark of that special era, on the contrary, it was Zheng Banqiao, who served as one of the five county orders in Fan County a hundred years ago - "Yangzhou Eight Monsters", who had the most profound influence on her.
"Ya Zhai lay down and listened to Xiao Xiaozhu,
Suspected is a folk voice.
Some small Wucao county officials,
A branch and a leaf are always concerned. ”
When she was in elementary school, Xiao Caixia would recite Zheng Banqiao's poems, and when she heard the teacher stunned, she asked her curiously who taught her. Xiao Caixia replied innocently, "It was taught by Grandpa Itabashi." However, Itabashi's grandfather not only taught her poetry, but also taught her to draw and draw bamboo in her dreams, because adults often saw her homework books smeared with strange shapes of "bamboo"...
Legends may be said or childish, but one thing is true: Xiao Caixia's love for art is almost obsessed. In 1984, she was admitted to the Qufu Art Academy in Shandong Province with excellent results.
Unexpected storms
"Along the campus familiar trails,
Come to the tree early in the morning to read,
The rising sun shines on the face,
And look at the little tree next to you..."
This is a classic portrayal of ivory tower life in the 1970s and 1980s, with colorful dreams, students studying on campus, and lifting their wings towards the distant places they design. In addition to completing the subjects that should be studied, Ge Caixia devoted all her energy to painting, that is, the pursuit of gongbi figure painting, especially under the guidance of the flower and bird painter Huo Chunyang, whose painting techniques and achievements were increasing day by day, it seemed that the painter's hall had hung above her eyebrows and shone with colored light. However, the weather was unpredictable, and one day she received a letter from home that her father's esophageal cancer had reached an advanced stage, and the time spent living in this world could only be calculated by the hour. As the folk say goes, "father and daughter connect hearts." ”
Ten days ago, Ge Caixia was already overwhelmed, and the emptiness and the emotions of suffering and loss in her heart tormented her to sleep, and she felt that some misfortune would come, but she couldn't tell where this misfortune came from, until the moment she received the letter, she was really a broken soul. Her father was the pillar, everything in the family was supported by her father, and once her father died, she faced the possibility of dropping out of school, trapped in her understanding that the poor family was unable to support her to continue to college.
Fate was so merciless, like a sharp blade, cutting off the road to the high-level academy at Ge Caixia's feet; those few acres of farmland, the crops in the farmland would accompany her throughout her life from now on. As the saying goes, "the leak of the house is met with overnight rain, and the ship is often broken by the head wind". The family sent their father away in a sad atmosphere, her sister was diagnosed with leukemia, and when the family was in the most difficult situation, her mother borrowed a fifty cent from someone and found nowhere.
Xiao Caixia sat on the field and looked at the sky in a daze, often staying for several hours.
The painter's grapes
Perhaps it is fate, she will be associated with painting all her life, otherwise, how can she see Gu Kaizhi, Wu Daozi, Li Sixun, Su Dongpo in the historical sky of Liaoyuan... These historical painting masters, and her compatriot and predecessor Li Tang are even more fond of her, in a hazy mood, this great painter seems to whisper to Ge Caixia:
Yunli Tobacco Village Yuli Beach,
See what's easier said than done.
When the human eye does not know,
Buy more rouge painted peonies.
For Xiao Caixia, this meditation is a proverbial poem, many years later, that is, in 2004, Henan Province held a flower and bird painting exhibition, Ge Caixia's four-foot brush painting peony fairy actually won the first prize, really live up to the master's "buy more rouge painting peony" ah!
It's too far away
In the eyes of ordinary people, painting is an elegant art, she is as elegant as the white snow of the spring, and as tall as "the high place is not cold," is it a poor and sick rural woman who "serves"! This is not doing the right thing, this is the "crooked way", this is laziness,...... Cold words, dark arrows generally come from all directions. After all, it is a yellow flower woman of about twenty years old, what determination does she have to compete with it, under the pressure of family and society, Ge Caixia surged up the idea of giving up painting, just as the neighbors said: "Painting can be eaten as food!" Another Ge Caixia's body was also secretly against her, because of years of tiredness and poor diet, she suffered from stomach diseases, and sometimes the pain was so painful that she had to put down the paintbrush in her hand. ..."Walk to the end of the water, sit and watch the clouds rise. ”
Ge Caixia put down the paintbrush and went to Nanle County to find a famous doctor to treat stomach diseases, but she happened to meet the nanle county painter Zhang Zhiduo, who saw the paintings that Ge Caixia carried with her, her eyes were shining, as if she had discovered a new continent, he praised them one after another, and encouraged: You are a rare painting genius, insist on painting, and you will become a great instrument in the future; you should also go out, you can get the guidance of a famous teacher, and you will be able to walk alone.
The painter's mink cicada
Yes, it's time for you to go out and walk around, away from gossip, away from cynicism. And the beautiful scenery is often high up and off the beaten track. So she put on her easel, along the Yellow River Old Road, across the Taihang Mountains, and she wanted to take a three-mao walk. In Mount Wutai, she had been infected by Taoist culture and felt the mystery of traditional Taoist culture; in the Potala Palace, worshipping the statue of Guanyin, she knelt down reverently, tears like broken pearls, and how much hardship and confusion, grievances and bitterness flowed out in silence. ...... Could it be that her piety touched the South China Sea? Why did her future paintings "Guanyin Sending Son" and "Guanyin" win awards many times!
Some of her figures are consciously or unconsciously depicted with the ethereal and compassionate feelings of the Seemingly Innocent Buddha.
Standing by the Yellow River, she mesmerized to capture the tenderness and roar of the Mother River in an instant; in the depths of the Taihang Mountains, the majesty and majesty of the hungry painting mountain; in Lüliang, she painted the legend of the new children's heroes; at the end of the world, she painted the legendary turning deer...
She's going, she's going! She paints, she paints! She writes, writes!
Although she is far from walking easily and dashingly as Sanmao, Sanmao is alone, and she still has three small mouths waiting to be fed, since God has given her three Angels in her life, then she must take on the responsibility of her mother, so she walks unusually hard, embarrassing, and even described as poor. She placed the child on the bed made of the earth, ripped off the blue sky as a quilt, and let the guardian mother's loving eyes flow with such verses:
Sweat and tears
It is the best reward for life
It's just bothering you
Suffered together with Danqing
That angelic smile
Urge the mother to cut through the thorns
Forward again, forward
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Du Fu said: The article hates fate. The fate of suffering made her painting more flexible, more casual and profound, timeless... More than twenty spring and autumn years have passed, and in the summer of 2019, when she talked to this writer in the coastal city of Lianyungang, her expression was still indulging in the hard walking of that year, she sighed a long time, and said: "Now it is still like a dream, I don't believe that I really came over, sometimes it is rare to eat a meal a day; in front of me, a boss in Guangzhou bid 600,000 yuan for my painting Eighteen Arhats, but I did not shoot!" I always thought I was still asleep in yesterday's dream"...
The heart is in the picture
Left wall immortal painting, Danqing shang youwen.
After a hard walk, the benevolent people of the mountains and the wisdom of the rivers vaguely reminded her that there was still a lack of a tone on the palette, that is, reading, and the dropout of qufu Academy of Fine Arts became an indelible hidden pain in her heart. She wanted to make up for the reading lesson,—— "Danqing still has a text", in the words of Zuo Qiuming, that is, "words are not written, and the line is not far away.". A good painter needs a deep cultural heritage as a support. Ge Caixia was endowed with extraordinary gifts, in order to go further and higher in the future and pursue the cause of painting, to reach the realm of her dreams, she "closed" herself, embraced "Han Liu", studied "Sansu", and enlarged the articles of these sages to connect with the mountains and rivers she climbed, connected with the rivers and seas she crossed, and shook hands with the sages she met in the historical sky.
Therefore, she has a unique insight into Wang Wei's "Passing the Xiangji Temple" and lets this insight be expressed in the paintings; "Minus Magnolia Lichun", written by Su Shi when he was degraded in minnan, was sketched by her as a vivid genre painting; her award-winning painting "Lao Tzu Out of the Customs", pouring pen and ink and color on Lao Tzu's face, and the complex expression made thousands of readers wonder Dou: Why did Lao Tzu get out of the customs? Where did you go after you got out of customs? In what circumstances did he write the Tao Te Ching? Why is his whereabouts still unknown? ......
The painter's Xi Shi
She painted the four beauties of ancient times, what was different was that she studied the thoughts and thoughts of these women who influenced the course of Chinese history day and night, often had long conversations with them all night, she integrated her heart into the charm of the four beauties, which was not enough, she went to RuoyeXi to visit the relics of Xi shi Huansha, to Find the Shadow of Wang Zhaojun's life, to Shanxi to talk to Yang Guifei again a thousand years ago,...... It is her endless pursuit and selfless dedication, her four beauties once painted, they received rave reviews, awards, and now someone has asked her for 300,000 yuan. After painting Wang Zhaojun, she was moved to tears by herself:
Red coats
Soaked in the frost of loneliness
otherwise
Why is it difficult to cover up the vicissitudes of history
When the soldiers fell in tears
Empty holding the lute
Can only play Hu Tian Mingyue
Tell the story of rising from Aozuka
sad
Wang Zhaojun in the painter's pen
If suffering is a kind of capital, Ge Caixia has already made a primitive accumulation, which is manifested in the fact that she paints the stoicism and endurance of oriental women and the strong will to achieve great things in suffering; she is good at painting ancient ladies, and she thinks that some ladies are too gloomy, the light is stagnant, and the characters are only confessed in the composition room, lacking spirituality.
Where is the true beauty and character of the lady?
She plunged her clever mind into a remote world.
She studied the early Italian art works full of serene religious overtones, and also observed Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Rembrandt with the delicacy of women, and finally discovered the mystery of nature in Corot's paintings; she integrated this mystery with the rich colors of nature she experienced, boldly integrating the "luster" and power of oil paintings into her paintings, so that the hearts of the ladies in her pen flowed with the rhythm of youth and the vision of beauty, and implied the content of calm and fortitude, which was authentic. The beauty of ancient women belonging to the original taste of the Orient. Her hard work in the painting world for more than 20 years, adhering to the thick accumulation of thin hair, one day, her nearly a thousand paintings on the market will shock the painting world, the years will shine.
Worship the sea of friends
Nowadays, Ge Caixia is often invited to participate in domestic and foreign painting exhibitions, and often has big wins: in 2014, she participated in the Chinese Art Exhibition in Sydney, Australia, and won the third prize for her work "Guanyin Sending Son"; in 2015, she participated in the Art Invitation Exhibition of Old Cadres in Luliang City, Shanxi Province, and won the first prize for her painting "Lotus"; "Guanyin" won the third prize of the 2019 Luoyang Art Exhibition and published a book to commemorate it.
Master Ding Youhai (right) teaches Ge Caixia (center) to tone colors.
It is worth writing a lot that in May 2021, Ge Caixia was accepted as a closed disciple by Mr. Ding Youhai, a famous master of Yanyun Landscape Technique and vice president of the China Academy of Calligraphy and Painting. Master Ding Youhai in the mainland painting world, painting mountains and fog clouds and seas is a must, that majestic momentum, bold splashing ink, poetic composition, romantic swing, crown for a while. A poet described it in four verses like this:
Splash ink dome empty pen incense,
The majestic mountains are dressed in silver.
Immortals travel long ride,
Rise up and swallow the sun.
Master Ding Youhai's cloud and mist diagram
Master Ding Youhai taught Ge Caixia by example, personally teaching his disciples to ink color and line drawing, so that Ge Caixia's painting skills improved by leaps and bounds, and went to a higher level...
It is said that the rainbow after the rain is a portrayal of life, but how many trekkers fall in the rain and cannot afford it. The difficult years after her father's death were given her strong support by Li Tang, a great painter of the Southern Song Dynasty--Li Tang was still setting up street stalls in her 80s to make a living, she was young, living in poverty, and if she was a little tired, she would get something!
The past is like smoke, yesterday has become a memory, tomorrow is still full of pursuit, the pace of life will always move forward.
Today, Ge Caixia is already a member of the Chinese Academy of Painting, a member of the Henan Provincial Artists Association, a standing director of the China Zhengbanqiao Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the vice president of the Henan Provincial Academy of Calligraphy and Painting for the Elderly, and a national first-class artist.
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The road of art is endless, and I believe that the painter Ge Caixia "has been cultivated" and has poetry books in her belly, and will definitely go far and far.
———— Author: Hu Daolin
Editor: Miao Qizhi