Painter Ma Huilong explains to visitors the work "One of the Steel Mills of the Years" photographed by Bi Peng
"This is Tiger Leaping Gorge!" At the exhibition of new classic academic oil paintings "Entering Cai Yunnan and Welcoming COP15", a work that paints the rushing waves in front of the eyes comes to life, attracting many citizens to stop and watch.
Tiger Leaping Gorge, 170cm x 110cm
The popular painting is called "Tiger Leaping Gorge" and written by Ma Huilong, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Yunnan Normal University and a master tutor. As an oil painter of the new classical academic school, Ma Huilong insists on combining the art form of oil painting with traditional Chinese aesthetics, pursues the aesthetic realm of "Chenghuai Guandao", and uses the language of oil painting to express the oriental artistic conception.
"Tiger Leaping Gorge" is one of the six oil paintings exhibited by Ma Huilong this time. From a distance, the waves roll, the water and stones roar, and the surging waves; up close, the colors are thick, the brushstrokes are precise, and the layers are clear. Ma Huilong introduced: "This work was created in August this year when we walked into the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Lijiang during our 'Sketching Yunnan' wind collection activity. At a time of abundant water, this realistic work vividly shows the beauty of the power of tiger leaping gorge. ”
While adhering to the original and qingyuan artistic style and traditional oil painting techniques, Ma Huilong also tried to explore and use comprehensive materials to enrich the artistic expression of figurative painting. "The reason why this painting has a visual sense of heaviness is that on the one hand, the knife and pen are used together to restore the details of the rapids shooting the shore; on the other hand, the comprehensive materials are used, and the thick bottom is made of sand, which makes a more appropriate preparation in color and texture." Ma Huilong said the key to the three-dimensional visual effect of "Tiger Leaping Gorge".
Ma Huilong in the creation of "One of the Years of Steel Mills"
Among the works in the "Years and Years Steel Mill" series on display, there are also the shadows of comprehensive materials. Ma Huilong explained: "This painting is 2 meters high and 1.6 meters wide, and it took two days to complete it in the old factory of Kunming Iron and Steel Factory during this year's National Day. Because the painting objects belong to the national industrial heritage, iron red pink was tried when choosing painting materials. The use of this material appropriately shows the mottled feeling of the old factory, which helps to reflect the significance of the times that Kungang has. ”
"Years and Years Steel Mills No. 2" 120cm x 120cm
How to skillfully integrate the artistic beauty of Chinese painting with the figurative beauty of oil painting? In Ma Huilong's view, the artistic creation of oil painting in the new era dimension can not only use comprehensive materials, but also mobilize other art categories such as lacquer painting, paper cutting, New Year painting, Chinese painting and even photography, and use oil painting materials to express, so that painting can present more possibilities and convey a more characteristic artistic conception of Chinese painting.
"Cascading Ancient Villages" 80cm× 150cm
"Cascading Ancient Villages" is such a work. In the picture, the earthen warehouses are layered on top of each other, "your roof, my courtyard", so that the audience can know at a glance that it is the "Chinese Historical and Cultural Village" Chengzi Village located in Luxi, Honghe. This oil painting with the composition of Chinese landscape painting vividly reflects the light and beauty of the 300-year-old village.
"Leisure Time" 80cm× 120cm
"Oil painting is about language. I strive to convey a Chinese spirit, a kind of beauty of strength, in my works, using Western materials, but what I really express is the freehand spirit of Chinese painting 'meaning to brushstrokes'. Ma Huilong interpreted the creative process of "Cascading Ancient Villages" in detail: "On the composition and use of the pen, I will unconsciously rub the techniques of Chinese painting and oil painting into the picture. ”
"One of the Stories of the Jujube Red Horse" 100cm×120cm
Also depicting the magnificent landscape of Yunnan is the "Story of the Jujube Red Horse" series of works. In the past three years, Ma Huilong has gone to the Jinsha River four times to paint and sketch: "The sunrise and dusk of the Jinsha River are very beautiful, and the rushing Jinsha River arouses infinite emotions. The water of the river shines like a brilliant jewel in the sunlight. The south bank is full of rugged turquoise reefs, and the shoals are full of reddish-brown pebbles and river sand left over from the waves. This may be the spectacle of the 'Sun Can Golden Sands' recorded in the Old Chronicle of Yuan mou! ”
"The Story of the Red Horse Ii" 100cm× 120cm
"The Story of the Red Horse No. 2" is a work that Ma Huilong is quite satisfied with: "The power of the mountain and the spirituality of the horse are in harmony." Painting techniques are also used both east and west, the mountain part of the brushwork is rough, partially rewritten; Gunma part of the brushstrokes are delicate, side rewriting realistic. Virtual reality is born, and light and shadow are flexible. This is also the spirit and character inherited and carried forward by the new classical academic school. ”
Looking at the above oil paintings, it can be found that the authors are all based on Yunnan. Ma Huilong said: "Writing for the people and singing songs for the times is the mission and responsibility of our art workers. The organic integration of Western painting techniques with traditional Chinese culture, showing the beauty of Natural Landscapes, Ethnic Customs, History and Humanities, and Biological Diversity in Yunnan is also a major feature of the New Classic Academic School, which has built a bridge between the contemporary, popular and classic. ”
Zhou Shengfu, "Grand View Building", 30cmx60cm
The exhibition of new classic academic oil paintings "Entering Cai Yunnan and Welcoming COP15" is being exhibited at the Yunnan Literature and Art Museum and will last until October 30. The exhibition selected nearly 100 fine oil paintings by jiang gaoyi, gao lin'an, Sha Lu, Duan Yuhai, Du Longqi, Sun Hongde, Hu Xuebo, Ma Huilong, Wang Shaoti, Hu Jun and other academic oil painters inside and outside the province. It is worth mentioning that in the 1920s, Zhou Shengfu, an oil painting enlightenment educator in Yunnan Province, created "Daguanlou" in 1926 and many other works have been unveiled.
Yunnan network reporter Bi Peng