Where there is a will, the next sentence is: Breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, the one hundred and two Qin Passes will eventually belong to Chu;
The hard-working people do not live up to the sky, and the salary tastes the gall, and the three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu.
Perseverance and success are not sufficient and necessary conditions, because there is another saying that "if the direction is not right, the effort will be in vain", and there is another saying "hard work and opportunity will lead to success".
I was confused, the road to success was so confusing and unrepeatable. You have to have talent, you have to work hard, and you have to work in the right direction.
But the reality is, who knows that this road will be successful? No one knows, because whoever knows, he himself has succeeded. Therefore, those who achieve great things must not only have supernatural talents, but also have perseverance.
Today's protagonist is called Xu Rongfa, born in 1956 in an ordinary family in Ganzhou, for decades, he dedicated all his youth and energy to his favorite "painting" career. His wife left him, and he lived on subsistence allowances, but he still did not stop painting.
"Others laugh at him for being too crazy, and he laughs at others for not being able to see through it", perhaps, geniuses and madmen are a pair of brothers, and Xu Rongfa is regarded as crazy, or maybe it is just a touch of scenery on his road to becoming a god. A work is a form of expression of art and thinking, but any work that can express the author's thoughts can be called art.
Why some art is valuable, while others are considered worthless, has something to do with the general perception of the times and has a lot to do with the market.
Art itself has no value, and the reason why it produces value is determined by market supply and demand after being recognized by others. Van Gogh's paintings can be called the peak of art, but when Van Gogh was alive, he could not support himself by painting.
As mentioned earlier, works are a form of art, and Van Gogh's works are a carrier of Van Gogh's artistic thinking.
In the West in the 19th century, Van Gogh's thinking at that time was far ahead of the times, his advanced thinking in painting was not recognized, Van Gogh was depressed, he lived in poverty, and at the age of 37, he ended his life.
But after Van Gogh's death, his artwork slowly became popular, and Van Gogh was poor during his lifetime, but became famous after his death. History proved Van Gogh in the end, but Van Gogh never proved himself.
Xu Rongfa is also a person who regards painting as everything, in 1977, Xu Rongfa passed the college entrance examination and became the first college student in the country. After finishing college, Xu Rongfa entered a vocational high school as an art teacher.
At that time, it was a happy thing to have an iron rice bowl, but Xu Rongfa chose this profession not for this "iron rice bowl", but to be able to continue his dream of painting.
In the 16 years he has been in office, he has not coveted any fame and profit, let alone making friends.
Xu Rongfa is like Van Gogh back then, his strange temper and personality can't get along with the people around him, perhaps, only such an arrogant and uninhibited temper can become an artist.
Lu Xun also said that "beasts are always mavericks, and sheep always like to be in groups." Talented and forward-thinking people may really be different from ordinary people.
Xu Rongfa's wife couldn't stand him and chose to divorce him, and Xu Rongfa also lost his job because he went south to Guangdong to develop his "painting career".
Originally, he thought that in the 90s, with the rapid economic development of Guangdong, his works would be promoted, but how could a person who painstakingly studied the art of painting understand the "hype" of commerce.
In those days when people were just having their stomachs full, who would exchange the bread in their hands for that daffodil?
Xu Rongfa continued to insist, he used all his savings for painting, he didn't even have a complete set of clothes, and in the later stage of development, he could only rely on receiving a subsistence allowance to live.
In 2004, Xu Rongfa suffered a stroke due to illness, and lost sensation in his right hand and foot, and Xu Rongfa's painting career seemed to come to an abrupt end.
But he was not defeated by the disease, but began to create with his left hand, and after a lot of practice, his level even surpassed that of his right hand.
Since he didn't have enough money to buy brushes and paints, he changed his mind and chose to use chalk and charcoal as brushes to continue working on cardboard and wood.
With the rapid development of the Internet, in 2008, a video of Xu Rongfa drawing with his left hand was uploaded to the Internet, and the story of his whole body attracted widespread attention.
Like me, many people called him "China's Van Gogh", so Xu Rongfa's paintings began to attract attention, but to his heart, experts said that his painting level was simply not enough to join the Artists Association. At the same time, experts also reminded not to overhype Xu Rongfa, who was hot and soon cooled down again.
But Xu Rongfa has not changed, he still continues his creation.
For Xu Rongfa, I admire his dedication to hobbies, maybe I am also a layman, I think he should be estimating his wife and son more. But from his point of view, art should be fanatical, and this fanaticism is what art itself brings to us. If an artist is deprived of this enthusiasm, is he still an artist?
Xu Rongfa should persevere to the end and do one thing with all his life's strength, I think, this is also a great and happy thing. Perhaps, a hundred years after Xu Rongfa, it is not impossible that he will become as famous as Van Gogh.
"If people don't have dreams, what's the difference between them and salted fish", if you live a mediocre life, I think, Xu Rongfa's life may be more meaningful, more worthy of these decades of life, what do you think?