Text丨Cui Jianping
Poetics is one of the cores of traditional Chinese culture, which oversees all aspects of Chinese literature and art, whether painting, calligraphy, music, drama, and literature. Mr. Shen Peng, a famous artist, pointed out: "Literati painting is the highest pursuit of combining poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing. In fact, this pursuit should not be regarded as the ultimate goal, the ultimate goal is still in poetry, and poetry is not only the inscription poem itself, it is the soul that permeates all works. ”
High Autumn, 120cm×79cm, 1989
"Yugou Spring", 58cm×78cm, 1983
Lin Fan is a poet, painter, calligrapher, and scholar in one, rushing and calm, maverick. Whenever someone asks him which of these identities he values the most, the gentle and introverted Lin Lao replied affirmatively: I am a poet! All my arts are nourished by traditional cultural poetics. It can be seen that Lin Lao has respect and love for poetics in his heart. Lin Lao's poetic roots are Tong Zigong. His grandfather and father were both well-known scholars in Hunan at that time. Lin Fan has been influenced by it since he was a child, and he has a penchant for poetry, and has extensive knowledge and Xi of the Book of Poetry, Tang poetry, and Song poetry, especially Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Li He, and Li Shangyin. Pursue the ethereal, secluded, treacherous, and desolate beauty of poetry. When he was a child, he failed math exams, but he was the first in the five liberal arts joint subjects. He is sentimental, quick-thinking, weak and slender in heart, enthusiastic and unrestrained, sincere and kind to people, low-key and indifferent, and is a typical poet's temperament and endowment. In his more than 70 years of artistic practice, he has always adhered to his artistic proposition: "I can't climb those tall and majestic peaks, but I like to follow the mountain vines and go down to the bottom of the secluded valley to listen to the mountain breeze and the mountain wind." I seldom paint the crowns of trees, but I love to paint the roots, and I rarely paint mountains, but I always look at the wrinkled rocks and nameless grass. With his unique insight and spirituality, Lin Fan discovered many natural scenes and life things in the little-known poetry and poetry that others have not understood, and wrote thousands of poignant and cold, romantic and peculiar poems, becoming the most fruitful poetry among today's painters, and some poetry unions are still praised at home and abroad, such as "A New World of Spring Breeze, Ten Thousand Lights in San Francisco" won the "Special Award for Sino-American Cultural Exchange", and was favored by Brown, the mayor of San Francisco. For example, "Sansheng poetry and wine become a macro structure, and a hundred zhang Luofuna small building" and "learn insects and fish into a career, and rely on plants and trees to be immortals". They are all popular and widely circulated masterpieces. He used this kind of couplet poems as "two-line poems". In today's Chinese art world, his poems are unique, distinctive, and have very different styles.
Profound poetry is the soul of artistic creation
Lin Fan has a famous theoretical article "Yigong Theory", which is well-known inside and outside the region. He said: "Raising the level and setting the high level are all due to the high intention, the low level, and the low level are often the low intentions, and they have nothing to do with the work and writing! The meaning here is the poetry of the theme, and it is the soul of artistic creation and painting. It is precisely because Lin Lao has such a clear and high-level guiding ideology in artistic creation, so his artistic creations are full of poetry. In his more than 70 years of artistic creation, Lin Fan is good at discovering the poetic beauty that ordinary people ignore from ordinary, weak, humble and ordinary things, and pays attention to the pursuit of poetic themes in artistic creation, whether it is painting creation or calligraphy art, whether it is writing criticism or art design, poetry in creation is his tireless pursuit. Lin Fan's poetic painting does not care about plain and plain, does not pursue profound and careless, but explores the profound, far-reaching, bleak and cold poetry with his own unique aesthetic taste. The poetry he brings out in his paintings is not a simple combination of words, not a superficial and vulgar title, but through the discovery and depiction of ordinary objective objects, from this to the other, from the inside to the outside, materializing the author's thoughts and feelings, fully reflecting the author's life experience and soul interest, and expressing it through wonderful, secluded, poignant and melancholy images, perhaps lines, perhaps brushwork, perhaps rhythm, maybe color. The author is fortunate to observe his painting creation, on the huge white rice paper has not moved any pen and ink first to write two lines of poetry on it, but then according to the poetic conception of the picture, depiction of the picture, lay out the brush and ink, color rendering, so that the composition, brush and ink, lines, and colors are closely around the poetic unfolding, blending and contrasting, meticulously carved, arranging the scenery of mountains and rivers, and the characters of the house. At this time, I asked him curiously, "Do you inscribe the poem at this time, is it the title?" He said that at this time, his heart is full of poetry, and he is full of emotions and does not write in time, for fear that the poetry will be fleeting, so he inscribes the poetry at this time, and the rest of the painting revolves around the poetry with pen and ink, so as to better render the poetic theme of the painting.
Yellow Birds, 79cm×77cm, 1988
Broken Dreams and Floating Spring, 86cm×118cm, 1998
Lin Fan's fine brush painting "Yugou Spring". A deep and secluded pond occupies the whole picture, several different levels of different colors of ink color present the deep and unfathomable of the pond, ink is the main color of the picture, is deep, is gloomy, is bleak, and floating on the quiet water surface of the emerald green duckweed into clusters, the vigorous growth of the branches is gray and vigorous, the vitality is very strong, three pink and white white cranes are painting eyes, white eye, delicate, vivid and warm. The contrast between movement and stillness, the contrast between black and white, and the combination of gloom and brightness play a hymn to life and a poignant poem. On the other hand, some painters have no poetry and no ink, no disease and moaning, whether it is the composition of the idea, but the layout of the article, there is no poetic pursuit, the composition of the painting is just a copy of a certain part of the natural world, the picture has no sense of beauty, not to mention the author's unique poetic beauty of the creation, vulgar and unbearable, only in the shallow level of skills to play, no aesthetic connotation, not to mention poetic poetry, is really blasphemous Danqing art.
Poetry is the wings of artistic creation
Lin Fan's calligraphy and painting art has a flourishing poetry and is recognized in the industry. He said that I sailed in the ocean of art, and I did not have the traditional wind channels to which I was Xi, but I stubbornly raised the sails of my spirit, and moved forward with difficulty, letting it go as it came. I believe that the road that I have not traveled is always strange and strange. I wandered outside the mystical art halls, and it was difficult to get in. The schools of contention, the harsh jurisprudence, and the harsh teachings are all unattainable to me. Lin Fan's artistic propositions are not grandiose words, but simple and ordinary heartfelt words, which are the expression of self-confidence and self-restraint. Mr. Lin Fan always aimed his sense of touch at those deep ditches and low streams that few people have visited, gurgling streams, inexplicable flowers and plants, and withered vines to dig out beauty and discover poetry, which is his extraordinary aesthetic pursuit, and also his wisdom that is different from others and subtle. He finds beauty in the weak and weak, and takes the trouble to depict and praise it, raising the beauty of the ordinary to the top of elegant and noble poetics. Coincidentally, the great writer Su Shi praised Wang Wei for "tasting the poems of the Maha Jie, there are paintings in the poems, and observing the paintings of the Confessions, there are poems in the paintings" ("Dongpo Inscription and Book Maha Jie (Lantian Smoke and Rain"), as if there is an echo of time and space with Su Shi Wang Wei's poetic and picturesque meaning. Lin Fan likes to paint vines, grasses, moss, duckweed, and boulders...... And to some unknown, difficult to climb the elegant hall of the nameless grass mountains and rocks, poured full of love, repeatedly depicted stroke by stroke, tirelessly smeared every place of fine brushwork, expressing his rich and elegant poetry, sought after by the industry.
"A Rush to the World", 124cmX248cm, ink and color on paper, 2020
"It is the April Day in the World", Lin Fan, Chinese painting, 124cm×248cm, 2020
After the ring of life into the ninety years of Lin Fan's enthusiasm is undiminished, the poetry is blazing, he lives in a corner of Hainan every time he observes the air roots of the banyan tree, sighs, he said to me happily several times, you see the wisps of air roots floating like a gossamer, soft and slender when it does not touch the ground, like a filament, once it penetrates the ground, the roots are as solid as a rock, the official quality is like steel, and the texture of life is suddenly sublimated. These perceptions touched the hidden poetry in his old heart, and he spread out the 15-meter-long and three-meter-wide rice paper, and spent more than a month creating the 15-meter-long masterpiece "The Pace of Life" The picture is thick or thin, soft or steel, like a tree like a branch, and the green banyan branches and vines are singing in the air, chanting and singing in the wilderness, eulogizing the tenacity and tenacity of life, praising the great power of nature, and expressing the heart's poetry of life to nature, to the weak and the weak, and to the warmth of the heart.
The poetry of Zen is the banner of artistic creation
Lin Fan's calligraphy and painting art traces the mantle of Jin Nong's "only good at solitary blowing, difficult to harmonize with the ears". Most of them have a realm of silence, indifference, desolation, and depression. From the material, composition, color, and picture, all of them present a secluded Zen feeling. The distinctive Zen character is his aesthetic purpose that distinguishes him from others. He has always set a reverse aesthetic standard of "low angle, narrow field of view, and small pattern" for his creations, and firmly believes in the law of "wonder is small". Most of the compositions in his creation are low streams and deep ravines, a corner of the cliff cliff, he does not like to express the high mountains and mountains, the tones are mostly silent and gloomy, secluded and gloomy, the vines and grasses climbing on the cliff are strong and upright, complex and depressed, intricately entangled, sinking in the secluded pool at the bottom of the ditch, Shen Bi is quiet and beautiful, unfathomable, as if it has been waiting for thousands of years, giving people a bleak and lonely and desolate feeling. The occasional bird, a touch of green, or a vine is a symbol of life. It is a painting of the eye and a poetry. For example, his well-known works in the art world, such as "Broken Dreams and Floating Spring", "Yellow Bird Communication", "Hantan Yin", "High Autumn", "Autumn Valley", etc., are all poetic expressions of Zen. The painting "Broken Dreams and Floating Spring" is Lin Fan's masterpiece, the whole picture is a clear and turquoise spring water, a huge stubborn stone stands on the side, the spring water is gentle and rippling, the stones are hard and resolute, one soft and one hard forms the impact of perspective. There is a strong contrast between a large and a small, these superficial landscapes, set off the quiet and deep spring water, as if it has been forgotten by the world, no one knows, there is only a vein of spring love, those floating on the water a piece of duckweed full of vitality, like a poem of life is lyrical. There are also a few dead trees in "Yellow Bird Communication" standing strongly, there is no color of life and texture of life, and there is no fresh breath at all, but a few yellow mountain birds like spring flowers stand on these dead trees and rotten trees, giving the dead wood the hope of life, and a few weak buds are awakened on the dead wood, as if it is a Zen machine, so that nature is full of vitality.
"Singing 100,000 Spring Streams", Lin Fan, Chinese painting, 124cm×248cm, 2020
Sunset, Lin Fan, Chinese painting, 367cm×248cm, 2015
In Lin Fan's calligraphy works, Zen-like poetry couplets also abound, especially the most prominent one is a mellow and self-sufficient, noble and secluded poem: "If the bright moon does not come, who will wipe the tears; "Half a penny cold wind, half a boat of green dreams, a pool of bright moon, a clear wind." In Lin Fan's two-line poem, the lotus pond in his hometown, the shadow in his dream, and the miserable waiting, or elegant or simple, or noble or sad, all of them are casual and euphemistic. Such works are written with calligraphy and stretched lines, between black and white, thick and dry, sparse and intertwined, yin and yang, and the release of poetry, poetry, and poetry infects readers, influences the audience, and allows everyone's soul to be baptized.