Today's headlines, Jianghuai Fax, April 15 (Author Zhao Guoqing) Mr. Han Qian, an 88-year-old painter in Anhui Province who has been clean and self-conscious all his life and has been kind to others, has been very busy at the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, and he proudly sent Mobao "Phoenix Yu Fei" to his children; he congratulated the old man on his birthday, and he did not hesitate to paint a painting of "Wings in the Cloudy Sky" to congratulate his company; and he gladly accepted the invitation to go to every street, community, and township to carry out cultural activities, splashing ink......
All of the above-mentioned acts of kindness are completely devoid of the reserved arrogance and arrogance of his artists. For Mr. Han's 60 years of painting life, his "gentleman does everything" to build a harmonious and beautiful society, should focus on the big picture, start small, both virtue and art, good behavior, the public praised.
After emerging from a young age, he benefited from "Shanghai style"
Mr. Han Qian was born in 1937 in Chuzhou. My grandfather, father, and third brother were all influential calligraphers and painters at that time. Mr. since childhood love to learn and think diligently, ears and witnesses, 8 years old to learn to paint, landscape figures, flowers and birds widely, in the peer of the coquettish. At the same time, he is also good at folk music, especially erhu, a song like a song like a cry "Erquan Reflecting the Moon" penetrates a living tragedy of the times, and he will also make his own erhu, thus winning the title of "Chuzhou Little A Bing".
In 1956, Mr. Han joined the army and engaged in full-time art propaganda work in the logistics department of the Shanghai Garrison District. His 17-year military career has benefited him for life. He used his youth and life to explore and pursue in the tide of Shanghai-style art, and watched hundreds of Chinese and foreign art exhibitions, drawing nourishment from them; every shop window decoration in the world of flowers is a place where he uses his feet to measure his thirst for learning; and even the neon advertisements on the market have become his teachers. The watering of the Huangpu River made him have a deeper understanding and grasp of the accurate vividness, colorful and elegant characteristics of the Shanghai School paintings, and laid a solid foundation for the future Gongbi flowers and birds to dig deep into the tradition, timely integrate Western classical methods, and broaden the traditional artistic path with the past and the present.
Diving into the work of the strokes of the lonely sixty autumns
In 1972, Mr. Han was transferred from the army to the former Chuxian Department Store as the head of the secretary unit with a strong spring breeze of Shanghai-style art, and his main business was window commercial art publicity. The first Spring Festival window art show organized by him caused a sensation in the entire Chucheng at that time, bringing an unprecedented new look to Chuzhou's commercial art promotion, and undoubtedly becoming a leader in commercial art in eastern Anhui.
In the decades that followed, he mainly studied Gongbi flowers and birds. Because of his solid foundation and outstanding modeling ability, he likes to paint figurative paintings, mainly human flowers and birds, and especially likes to paint large birds, such as cranes, goshawks, phoenixes, peacocks, golden pheasants, etc. Especially the painting of the phoenix, because the phoenix is the legendary bird, there has always been a dragon for the emperor and the phoenix for the mother, so the ancient painting of the phoenix is mostly based on the single phoenix as the theme. It is rare to paint two phoenixes, and it is difficult to distinguish between male and female. And Mr. believes that birds must have male and female, so the advantages of a variety of birds are concentrated on the phoenix, cleverly with the golden chicken as the basic image, pretending to be the male rooster as the head, the golden chicken as the wing, the peacock long compound feathers as the feather, and the crane with long legs as the claw (tarsus), constituting a beautiful image in people's hearts. Mr. said that the love story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun, a great genius in ancient times, and the song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" on the guqin interprets the origin of the phoenix and promotes a story through the ages. Therefore, according to the obvious division of male and female birds, he dived into the technique of breaking the brush and silk feathers, painted messy feathers and three-dimensional feathers, and created the image and color of the female phoenix, which conformed to the laws of zoology and made the audience pleasing to the eye. He took the new day as the way, a painting is 60 years, and at the same time in the subject matter to find a new way, and strive to be different, and finally it came to fruition, and now it is unique in the domestic Gongbi flower and bird painting, forming his own "Korean School" painting style. Mr. Yu Jigao, a famous painter in mainland China, once said: "Han Qian's paintings are prosperous and abundant, dazzling, elegant and beautiful, graceful and generous, and the magic is unique, reading is like listening to a cadenza movement. ”
Although Mr. Han's Gongbi flowers and birds can be compared with the domestic first-line people, but because he never shows off, outsiders think that he is only good at Gongbi, in fact, his freehand landscapes, people, and animals are also quite good, but they are just submerged in the more prominent Gongbi paintings. Mr. Tao Shujun, a disciple of Xu Beihong, a disciple of Fu Baoshi, and a disciple of Wu Linsheng, said as early as 15 years ago: "The solid shape and perceptible texture in Mr. Han's works, thanks to the long-term unremitting sketching training, the virtual reality and space processing of the background come from the cultivation of freehand landscape painting, and he can also promote his strengths and avoid weaknesses, integrate traditional brushwork with modern elements, and use the black and white, light and shadow transitions and contrasts of Western painting to set off the main body of the picture, how can such works not be deeply loved by the audience!"
The sunset is infinitely good, teaching the profession and enjoying the pottery
"The old cow knows that the sunset is late, and he doesn't need to raise the whip to work hard." Mr. Han, who has achieved fame, should have rested after retirement. But he arranged Zhang Chi's life in his later years in an orderly manner, with "health and healing, righteousness and ambition", reading books and newspapers every day, or painting mountains and rivers and cats, or expressing it with a beautiful erhu: The pretty girl stretches out her crisp hand from the red squill with jasmine language, and fragrances a river and mountain. For more than 20 years, he has spared no effort to bring two universities for the elderly and a vocational high school art class, which is good and tempting, and the students are stubble after stubble, even during the epidemic, he is not idle, through online and offline and WeChat groups, he is happy to teach and busy.
Although Mr. Han is a celebrity in the painting world with many disciples, he is modest and low-key, kind and welcoming, cheerful and open-minded with many friends, men, women and children do not give up, his paintings benefit thousands of families, never charge a penny, he does not understand the rivers and lakes, and he will not hype up the momentum. There are often friends who advise: "You are everyone, Luoyang paper is expensive, and the paintings should not fly in the sky, so you have to exchange some silver." Mr. smiled and said: "Danqing does not know that the old man is coming, wealth is like a floating cloud in me", life has an end and art is endless, I am just an ordinary painter, not to mention a painter, painting can not look at 'money', as a 63-year-old Communist Party member, should contribute the artistic image of beauty to the society, entertain the public, this is the goal of my life. [Editorial hair: Liu Guoxin]