As we have discussed with everyone before, as long as aspiring calligraphers and painters want to inherit and carry forward the tradition, it is best if they can innovate. But even the eternal theme of innovation has also become a burden for many artists, we can recall today's well-known painters, each of them is innovative and accomplished, in addition to the previous introduction to everyone, today I also want to solemnly introduce a contemporary painter, Wang Mingming.
Wang Mingming, a national first-class artist, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture, chairman of the Beijing Artists Association, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang Mingming has loved painting since childhood, showing amazing talent, and his works as a child have been exhibited in more than 30 countries and won the special prize of the World Children's Competition.
When he was young, Wang Mingming was fortunate to come into contact with Li Kuchan, Wu Zuoren, Jiang Zhao, and these art masters, and was able to get the guidance of the master to train in basic skills. For this unique experience, Wang Mingming said that a good artist must first be a good student, must learn to think and self-study, selectively absorb, but also retain their own thinking, otherwise they will lose their own style.
Wang Mingming's freehand paintings are very good, not only good at character images, landscapes, flowers and birds are also cleverly conceived, not only can paint the magnificent momentum of "big products", but also can paint the "small works" of the dashing and flowing, both pen and ink interest, but also send affection. Wang Mingming believes that the highest state of Chinese painting is inseparable from the foundation of calligraphy, even if it is innovative, new ideas cannot replace real kung fu, and the lines in calligraphy and Chinese painting are incomparable to any other art in the world.
"In the face of nature, my brush is powerless." Wang Mingming has always longed for Ouyang Xiu's "leisure and strict quietness", yearning to return to nature, returning to the truth, nature is quiet, silent, inclusive and full of spirituality, which not only gives him creative inspiration and passion but also allows him to experience the artistic conception of life.
Although Wang Mingming has also studied abroad, he did not use Western ideas to transform Chinese painting, but absorbed and digested it, and then integrated into the context of Chinese culture, and eventually became an artistic language with Chinese characteristics, and for the traditional Wang Mingming has always emphasized the need to reconcile with the times and his own life experience, rather than copying and pasting, which is the most important. What do you think of the style of his paintings?