The painter Zixi (Wang Chenguang) once said to me that what you miss is the most beautiful, and what you pass away is the most painful. In the space of human existence, there is nothing more sad than experiencing the moment when a beautiful life is about to pass away. It is like standing on the wall of the rings of history, looking back at the tragedies on the earth that were artificially created due to ignorance: the fall of the Roman Empire, the disappearance of the Mayan civilization, and the disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan...... When those endangered beautiful dreams are presented around the field of vision, colliding with the brain, and hitting the impulse in the depths of the heart, people always have to do their best to call for the cherishing of endangered species! to protect these beautiful creatures that are about to bid farewell to the earth! I want to express the pain in my heart with a paintbrush!
Every day, too many endangered species, including animals and plants, are at risk of extinction due to their own reasons or as a result of human activities or natural disasters. The known history has left us with too many relics, above and below the ground, such as cities under the sea, remnants of deserts...... The changes in geology and landforms have submerged the past civilizations and thoughts of human beings, but the remaining memories seem to be forever immortal in the time and space of the universe, especially those words and pictures seem to be easier to awaken people's minds.
Changrui Magnolia - Yanyu Ling Smile|138cm*69cm
After inspecting the endangered plants in Yunnan and other places, Zixi selected nine representative species, including Artemisia viridis, Timberia sinensis, Magnolia longiflora, Golden Iron Lock, Fritillary fritillary, Hibiscus dryland, Camellia yunnanensis, Yew and Dendrobium officinalis. Among them, Huagai wood is known as the "giant panda of the plant world", which shows its rarity. The name of this species has shown its unique charm, "canopy" has multiple meanings in ancient times, first refers to the umbrella cover on the emperor's car, Cui Bao of the Jin Dynasty "Ancient and Modern Notes, Yufu": "Huacani, made by the Yellow Emperor, and Chi You fight in the field of Zhuolu, often have five-colored clouds, golden branches and jade leaves, stop at the emperor, there is the image of flowers, so it is also a canopy", and later extended to the umbrella cover on the car of dignitaries and nobles. The canopy is also the name of the ancient star in ancient astronomy, belongs to Ziweiyuan, a total of 16 stars, on the constellation of the five emperors, resembles an umbrella, and now belongs to the constellation Cassiopeia. In metaphysics, the person who owns the canopy is extremely intelligent, lonely and empty, and has a religious feeling, the flowers of this plant bloom for a very short time, and only bloom once every one or two years, when the flowers bloom, the fragrance of the flowers is strong, and the color of the flowers is more narrow and long. The golden iron lock is the main ingredient in many Chinese patent medicines, and the pink flowers are delicate and elegant, blooming between the crevices of the gravel...... As early as in the "Book of Songs, the Wind and the Carriage", it was mentioned that "Zhi Pi Aqiu, Yan Cai Qi Zhi", that is, fritillary, it blooms in June, with blue-purple or yellow-green flowers, stretching and blooming from the cliffs, like a fairy smiling in the wind......
Zixi found that most of these endangered species live in snow-capped mountain meadows, alpine shrubs, flowstone beaches, sandy and gravel fields or crevices of quicksand rocks at an altitude of 3,000-5,000 meters. Among them, the green velvet artemisia represents tenacious life, its flowers are blue and clean, and the petals as thin as cicada wings are like fairies dancing in the mountains. Magnolia longifolia belongs to the Magnolia family, is a rare monospecies plant of the Magnolia family, its stamens grow over the core of the flower and enclose and wrap, contained in the center of the petals like snow, like a woman born all over the body exudes the charm of the ancient, the feeling of overlapping buds on the branches can instantly evoke some reverie.
华盖木-大美无言|39cm*138cm
From her paintings, I feel a kind of loneliness and pathos, but also soaked in the ethereal beauty of the sky, the whole presents a strong realm of selflessness, and the limited number of expressions of flowers can stir up the mystery of the infinite overlapping space realm. Her painting method of splashing flowers and birds is different from the techniques of boneless flowers and birds and traditional freehand flowers and birds, and even creates a new way to create a style of painting that splashes landscapes, flowers and birds and integrates panoramic composition, and its style highlights the incisiveness of the best imagination space. When the colors of various Chinese charms blend and moisten in the picture, ethereal and restrained, the subtle and profound meanings leap onto the paper, and the layered splashing technique makes the parallel world instantly break through the three-dimensional space-time, and even pass through the five-dimensional and eight-dimensional space-time realm, and those bizarre illusions are led outside the picture and endlessly.
Her compositions are diverse, ranging from traditional S-shaped, zigzag-shaped, and triangular compositions, to novel and unique compositional modes with a strong sense of composition. In terms of color, compound colors are used, especially focusing on traditional Chinese colors, highlighting historical elements and vicissitudes. The treatment of flowers and branches is just right, the lines are strong and flexible, or smooth and elegant, and the shades and dryness contrast with each other, making the picture comfortable and natural. The style and content of the style are more quaint, which can enhance the antiquity of the painting. Just as she inscribed "Smoke and Rain Ling Smile" for Changrui Mulan, these paintings are like being placed at the peak of the artistic conception of Chinese painting, trying to overlook the most beautiful moments of nature, and like listening to the sounds of the world at the cliff, the viewer's ears are also touched, and even touch the soul.
绿绒蒿-绝舞危崖|138cm*56cm
Ms. Zixi, a former civil engineer who later studied calligraphy and fine arts, came across the beauty of Yunnan in the process Xi of writing and painting ink, especially the brilliant life that bloomed on the cliffs and quagmires and dangerous currents. She focused on these endangered flowers, and spent more than two years searching for them, and the magic of nature instantly inspired a mind that was already good at thinking.
(Author: Yan Zheng, a master of Chinese painting, calligrapher, film and television director, art critic)
Source: Guangming.com