Review
But anything called art requires amazing talent. Chen Yifei, a gifted painter, came to the United States at the age of 34 with $38 and shocked the American painting world for decades with an oil painting "Ode to the Yellow River".
But compared with artistic achievements, Chen Yifei's private life is more interesting, he married a model as a wife after he became famous, and his wife was exactly 29 years younger than him, as if it was a love that crossed the twilight.
After marriage, Chen Yifei became more and more obsessed with his wife's appearance, and constantly painted portraits of his wife, resulting in overwork and death, saying that art is crazy, and Chen Yifei's life seems to prove this.
Career success love is not smooth
In 1946, Chen Yifei was born in a family in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, and his father Chen Genglai was a chemical engineer, who paid attention to knowledge to save the country at that time, and was bound to catch up with Europe and the United States and other knowledge powers to build the motherland better. Chen Genggeng is engaged in chemical work with such a belief, and he hopes that his son will inherit his mantle in the future and continue to study on this road.
Unfortunately, Chen Yifei disappointed his father, and in 1963, he went to the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts despite his family's opposition, during which he specialized in the study and creation of oil painting and sculpture.
Compared with boring chemical experiments, Chen Yifei is obviously more comfortable on the road of art, especially after going to the United States in 1980, he focused on the creation of oil paintings with Chinese themes; Among them, "Ode to the Yellow River" has been admired by many American painters.
Later, Chen Yifei focused on the concept of "big art" creation, and made creative contributions in the fields of environment, film and clothing, which made him soar in value and became a world-renowned Chinese artist. However, compared with the smooth sailing of the artistic road, Chen Yifei's emotional road is quite bumpy.
Chen Yifei first talked about a girlfriend when he went to the United States, but that girlfriend scorned Chen Yifei's artistic career, even though he was already famous in the United States at that time, but because of the concept of disagreement, the girlfriend still firmly left him. Later, Chen Yifei decided to return to China to develop and met his ex-wife Zhang Zhi at an event.
Zhang Zhi and Chen Yifei also studied painting, which allowed the two to always find more topics. At that time, Zhang Zhi was gentle and generous, Chen Yifei had a successful career, and the two soon fell in love and held a wedding soon after.
But the old saying goes: Marriage is the graveyard of love. After marriage, Chen Yifei and his beloved wife's life is not happy, the two also have incompatible personalities, and often quarrel because of some small things.
Finally, his wife Zhang Zhi proposed a divorce, Chen Yifei can only choose to accept, after all, such a married life is not what both parties want, instead of hurting each other, it is better to let go as soon as possible to find a better one.
However, it may be that the failure of this relationship hit Chen Yifei very hard, and for the next 20 years, he maintained a single life, put all his energy on art, and was unwilling to touch love again. Until the appearance of Song Meiying, it finally brought Chen Yifei the fire of love.
Chen Yifei and Song Meiying
When Chen Yifei first met Song Meiying, he was already a half-centenarian, and Song Meiying was in her youth, a 21-year-old girl.
Song Meiying does not have much background, is an ordinary beautiful girl, when she heard that participating in the model contest can get a generous prize, Song Meiying went to participate, because this money can reduce a lot of financial burdens for the family.
It was also her decision this time that allowed her to meet Chen Yifei at the venue. The competition for models is too big, and even if Song Meiying has excellent looks, it is difficult to gain a decisive advantage here, and in the end, she has no choice but to lose;
Just when she was in a low mood, a man on the side communicated with her, the two chatted very happily, sweeping away the haze of Song Meiying losing the game, and then left each other on the phone when they came to leave, needless to say, this man is Chen Yifei.
At the beginning of the love between the two people, there were still scruples, Song Meiying felt that she had no identity, and she was not worthy of the art master who had already enjoyed a high reputation in the art world; And Chen Yifei felt that she was too old, even if she married the other party, it would be difficult to give her happiness.
But the spark of love can not be stopped, and in the end the two still fall in love, which brings unprecedented happiness to both sides.
Soon, a wedding spanning 29 years came, Chen Yifei married Song Meiying, this time his married life was not as bad as imagined, but full of happiness.
Like a flower in spring, Chen Yifei suddenly felt that artistic inspiration was bursting after marriage, and he urgently wanted to paint based on Song Meiying, and the wife in the painting was elegant and generous, looking particularly moving.
This may be the appearance of the most perfect wife in Chen Yifei's heart, the two do not seek great wealth and nobility, but only hope to spend this life together.
But this good wish soon became distant due to Chen Yifei's physical reasons, in fact, when he and Song Meiying were married, they were both in their 50s, and the creation itself was a laborious thing, because of the continuous painting of his wife, Chen Yifei still fell ill.
At the age of 59, Chen Yifei died with regrets, leaving his wife in her 30s. I think Chen Yifei is probably happy, if he hadn't met Song Meiying, he wouldn't even have known that the original love also had the appearance of a mixture of bubbles, and the other party's eyes were full of himself, and he carved this kind of acacia in the painting.
It is a pity that this beauty is short-lived after all, and his life has a career and love, but it is regrettable that this perfection cannot be retained forever.
epilogue
We will encounter all kinds of people in our lives, but many people are always on the verge of numbness and do not have the courage to jump out of the predicament.
When he married Song Meiying, 29 years younger, the outside world did not know how many voices of doubt and ridicule there were, but they lived very happily after marriage, although this happiness was short-lived.
In any case, marriage and career, we always have to enjoy a moment of well-being, so everyone should strengthen their confidence, be prepared, and greet the arrival of tomorrow with a warm attitude.