Wu Hufan is a famous Painter of the Shanghai School and specializes in landscape painting. At the beginning of the last century, Wu Hufan broke through the shackles of traditional concepts with great courage and persistent spirit of exploration, poured his graduation energy into studying the color of landscape painting, and made outstanding contributions in promoting the color of landscape painting. In the color of landscape painting, Wu Hufan abandons naturalism, but according to the needs of the theme of thought, uses appropriate colors to enhance the appeal, dares to break through the inherent colors of nature, and gives emotion to colors. When wu hufan creates landscape paintings, he organically combines color with intention, composition, pen movement, etc., forming a complete embodiment, showing the high degree of harmony between color and other elements, and achieving an artistic realm of fresh elegance, moist pen and ink, and blending color and ink. Therefore, Wu Hufan has become one of the most successful people in the twentieth century with his experience and techniques in color expression and treatment of landscape painting.
First, the color choice is diverse
In the color treatment of landscape painting, Wu Hufan was the first to show the variety of colors. Because traditional landscape painting has formed a tone dominated by black and white, the choice of color has a very strict limit, mainly blue, ochre, garcinia, rouge, stone green as a supplement, do not use other colors, which is very clearly expressed in the paintings of Ming and Qing landscape paintings. However, Wu Hufan broke through the color restrictions of traditional landscape painting, was influenced by the color concept of nanzong traditional literati painting, and drew on the color concept of The Hai School and Beizong, selected cinnabar, stone green, stone green, etc. in the pigment, and showed layers of rendered colors in the work, achieving the fusion of stone color, water color and ink color, the color was bright and bright, enhancing the expressiveness and tension of the picture, thus shaking the traditional color concept of landscape painting and changing the stylization and weakness of landscape painting in color expression.
2. Highlight the theme
Wu Hufan's landscape paintings highlight the tones of color and coloring brushes, requiring the local colors in the picture to be unified with the overall colors to form a harmonious relationship to highlight the theme of the painting. The color of Wu Hufan's landscape paintings is usually dominated by cool colors such as stone blue and stone green, with ochre as the background color, embellished with small red, yellow and other warm colors, and the pursuit of harmony and unity of the overall color block. On the coloring pen, Wu Hufan takes the initiative to alternately use various techniques, with mountain stone as the main color, ochre as the base, embellished with stone bluestone green or ochre, and adjust a little ink color, rendering light and shade changes at the mountain stone depression, and rubbing with pen and ink at the bottom of the mountain stone to enhance the texture of the mountain stone. In the surface color rendering, most of the stone blue, stone green and ink tones made of different green to show different mountain stone colors near and far, Wu Hufan's color is well expressed in "Cloud Table Qifeng", "Cuipa Qionglin" and other works, borrowing ancient references to the present, the pursuit of color innovation. In addition, Wu Hufan believes that the five colors of the ink are not precise enough, and white should also be added to form six colors, so in the processing of smoke clouds, the white space is converted into floating clouds, which fully reflects the gentleness and floating feeling of the white clouds, and uses white powder and ink to form layers of rendering in the blank space, forming a smoke-filled visual effect.
Three, bold innovation in color
Wu Hufan boldly innovated in the color setting of landscape paintings, emphasizing the decorative nature of color. In the painting "Red Flag Planted on Mount Everest", Wu Hufan breaks through the traditional color design mode in the use of color, boldly showing the sky in full swing, reflecting the snow-capped mountains, echoing the red flag on the top of the mountain, which sets off the atmosphere as it is, presents a very modern feeling, and makes the viewer passionate. Wu Hufan's bold color design reflects his exquisite color luck skills, the pursuit of meticulous, rigorous, fine, feminine, beautiful, clear, on the basis of absorbing Dong Qichang's painting style, integrated into Xiurun, Qingjun, showing Suzhou's Qingming spirit. In the use of color, Wu Hufan is pure and beautiful, clear and bright, which is much more than the trend of the ancients. Wu Hufan's use of color in painting far exceeds ink, especially in paintings before the age of 60, the use of color is exquisite, the pursuit of purity, purity, clarity, like a girl, radiant, beautiful and moving.
Wanton, embodying the idea of the unity of heaven and man
Chinese painting takes natural objects as references and associations, often improvised, the scenes in the paintings are not exactly the same as the scenes in front of them, Chinese painting combines abstraction and figuration, subjective and objective in a freehand style, forming a realm of the unity of heaven and man. The use of color in Wu Hufan's landscape paintings fully reflects the principle of artistic expression that combines nature and subjectivity, realism and freehand. Color is the most active, rich, most artistic expression and visual effect of his watercolor painting elements, his painting of landscape paintings are bright in color, very graphic sense, which is related to his growth in the beautiful Jiangnan, Jiangnan Lingshan beautiful water nourishes, moisturizes Wu Hufan, creating its intelligent, delicate and sensitive artistic characteristics. With his personal experience, Wu Hufan refined and processed the colors of Jiangnan objects, forming a unique color processing means and techniques to show the charm of the work. The use of color in Wu Hufan's landscape painting reflects the combination of freehand and realism in Chinese painting, with the artistic characteristics of imagery lyricism and figurative depiction, although it is not a true reproduction of the color of nature, but it is a comprehensive embodiment of the painter's subjective consciousness and thoughts and emotions, in the artistic conception of the blending of the situation, expressing the generalization and analysis of the color of nature.
Wu, the pursuit of artistic conception
Wu Hufan's landscape paintings express the natural self, and pursue the artistic conception, using color as a means to express feelings and set off the atmosphere. Wu Hufan uses pen and ink, color, techniques and other expression techniques to express the situation, poetic and picturesque, and the scene is blended. Color processing is to serve the artistic conception, only ink color is not enough, tangible and colored can enrich the picture performance, enhance visual appeal. Wu Hufan makes good use of color changes as vividly as possible to show natural changes, the transformation of the four seasons, and express the ideal artistic conception, which varies with the change of tone. The function of color in landscape painting is enormous, not only can express the sense of space and three-dimensionality of objective objects, but also can show emotional changes, as well as create different moods and moods, and better highlight the theme.