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Hello, I am The Curator, Mr. Kai.
September 7 is the 92nd anniversary of the birth of Academician Yuan Longping.
In order to commemorate Yuan Lao, China Post specially launched a set of commemorative stamps, and the launch ceremony was held at the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center.
Although Elder Yuan has been dead for more than a year, he can remember his outstanding contributions to the Chinese and even to all mankind, and I believe that many people will have a hot eye.
After his death, Elder Yuan was also revered as the god of rice by the public, which was a spontaneous canonization of the people.
Because of his hard work, thousands of people were able to eat enough.
For the public, drinking water does not forget to dig wells, and eating does not forget to plant rice, such a truth is simple and natural.
But now, some people have "ugly" this elder Yuan, who is highly respected by the public.
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Recently, a painter named Fang Lijun held an exhibition of paintings entitled "Wonderland on Earth" at the Xi'an Art Museum.
The exhibition is not unusual, but this exhibition has been attacked by netizens.
Because of the Yuan Longping shown in his paintings, people couldn't help but want to get angry when they saw it, and even the audience who went to see the exhibition called the police on the spot.
This is believed that this is the author's deliberate smear and vilification of Yuan Lao, which seriously damages the image of the father of hybrid rice.
In fact, I have taken many art-related courses in college, and the ideas I have accepted in the introduction to art really do not promote the so-called "ugliness" in the eyes of the audience.
Because art is indeed purely subjective, even if the audience can't understand it, but the author himself can understand it.
It's like a thousand people can have a thousand Hamlets in their eyes.
Art is fascinating precisely because everyone can get different insights and insights from it.
In particular, painting, as a kind of art, has a variety of complex creative techniques such as abstraction, impressionism, realism, and freehandism, and rich and gorgeous expression methods to express the theme and inner appeal of the author's creation.
Although there are different methods of creation and high and low artistic achievements, painting gives the audience the experience and enjoyment of beauty.
But Elder Yuan in this work, I think is very wrong.
Whether it is deliberately ugly is unknown, but for a national scholar-level figure recorded in history, it is indeed very inappropriate for the painter to express his subjective feelings in this way.
Because we are all too familiar with Elder Yuan's appearance and spirit.
Every time I saw him in the camera in the past few years, although he was old, he still had dark hair and a very good spirit.
In the hearts of many people, Elder Yuan has always been the image of an amiable and kind grandfather.
But under Fang Lijun's brush, Yuan Lao has become a "Mediterranean" with his hairline moving backwards, his lower lip bulging, his eyes dim and dull, and his brows locked in a look of bitterness and vengeance.
You know, the Yuan Lao in the original picture is like this:
What makes people most wondering about the author's intention is why he added a handful of small braids to the back of Yuan Lao's head in the painting.
And this obscene little braid is called "money rat tail", and the Chinese people are not strangers.
This is the system imposed on the Han chinese at the time of the Manchu Qing's entry:
It is to shave the male hair, leaving only a small area to grow, and the braid should be thin enough to pass through the square hole of the copper coin, which is the origin of the "money rat tail".
As for the kind of big braids we see in various Qing Palace dramas, they are already beautiful after beautification.
Therefore, it is self-evident that Yuan Lao's original head was painted as a "money rat tail" respected by the corrupt Qing court.
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There is a squinting "poison textbook" in the front, and a "money rat tail" in the back. The art world that has repeatedly overturned the car has also made netizens unable to sit still, and they have said:
"The weapon of culture should be in the hands of the people."
"Elder Yuan let them eat too much."
"In the name of art, do things that smear."
There are simply not too many such things.
Also some time ago, at an art exhibition in Beijing 798, an oil painting also aroused the anger of the public.
This oil painting looks abstract, but on closer inspection, it is clear that it is a replica of Japan's "kamikaze".
Li Songsong, a painter who is a Chinese, uses the infamous "suicide" Japanese squad during World War II as a creative inspiration, which is undoubtedly a naked harm to national feelings.
And the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, as the head of the eight major academies of fine arts, the Houyi statue built on the campus actually directly changed the race -
HouYi turned into a curly-haired, naked western mainstream statue image.
Isn't this still not just art?
Is there a sense of entrainment and flattery to Western aesthetics?
It is true that in artistic creation, boldness and freedom are essential qualities in creation.
However, this does not mean that some people can bear the banner of engaging in art and look at everything, even including the feelings of national compatriots.
Blatantly trampling on the bottom line of the public will only be eaten and sanctioned by public opinion.
Even if art originates from life above life, artistic creation must always be based on the masses.
So it is no wonder that netizens did not buy it after Fang Lijun apologized.
The so-called abstract art style is not a reason or excuse for ugliness.
The great men whom people admire are not to be desecrated, and they are not to be parodied in the name of artistic style.
Some people also say that Fang Lijun's painting style has always been like this.
However, the characters in the previous paintings are all unknown people, and the directionality is not strong, and this painting is like this, which will inevitably make people suspicious.
When some netizens pulled out Fang Lijun to paint for his family, the painting style was still very normal.
The facial features are painted very naturally, at least it will not make people have a bad look, which is enough to prove that he can paint normally.
Art knows no borders, but it should have a conscience.
Since you choose to include a great person who is a household name, you should correct your mentality and maintain respect.
03
As we all know, Academician Yuan Longping has two dreams:
One is to cool off under the grass, and the other is that hybrid rice can cover the whole world, so that more people can eat enough.
It can be said that he changed China and the world with a seed.
In 1960, the country suffered an unprecedented famine.
As a witness to this history, Yuan Longping knows what a terrible experience it is to be hungry.
Since then, his lifelong pursuit has been to study hybrid rice to keep everyone away from hunger.
At that time, the study of hybrid rice was a worldwide problem, and researchers in developed countries had no clue, so naturally no one was optimistic about Yuan Longping.
But he didn't care about the voice of the outside world, and after the next sentence "Foreigners can't succeed, it doesn't mean that we can't Chinese", and then buried his head in the test field all day long.
Foreigners also boldly prophesied:
"China has only 7 percent of the world's arable land, but it has to feed 22 percent of the population. In 2030, Chinese will go hungry, and who will feed Chinese? ”
Finally, Elder Yuan punched them in the face.
Yuan Longping also devoted almost his life to scientific research:
If you are not at home, you must be in the test field; If you are not in the test field, you must be on the way to the test field.
Never really retired for a day.
Even at the age of 90, he is still personally going to the field and guiding the work.
One year, a major earthquake occurred in the county where the rice test field was located, and Yuan Lao risked his life to rescue rice seeds from the house that was about to collapse.
Whether the eye has just been operated on or the lung infection requires three injections, as long as the rice is in the growing period, he will definitely go to the field to observe.
Later, Yuan Longping not only completely solved the problem of chinese people having enough to eat, but also made extraordinary contributions to world food security.
Therefore, when Elder Yuan died, the common people would worship him and respect him as a "rice god".
I still remember that at 13:07 on May 22, 2021, Academician Yuan Longping passed away.
On that day, the whole country mourned, and tens of thousands of citizens in Changsha spontaneously sent Yuan Lao on his last journey in the rain, and the people who sent them off crowded the streets, and the streets were surrounded by cars that spontaneously honked their horns.
"Grandpa Yuan, go all the way" the crying and shouting, for a long time.
His achievements and contributions are immeasurable, and they deserve to be written and passed down through the ages.
Therefore, this time we will condemn the "ugliness" in the name of art, let alone allow anyone to scandalize and desecrate such a great man as Elder Yuan.
This is not an unreasonable atrocity, but as Elder Yuan said before he died:
Man is like a seed, to be a good seed.
We should all be a good seed.
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