Zhang Hui's works "Mr. Tiger" and "Miss Tiger".
Quite interesting two paintings, don't you think it's funny?
Zhang Hui's works "Mr. Dragon" and "Miss Rabbit".
These two paintings are exactly the signs of the parents.
When I was a child, Brother Dog had a fairy tale book called Larry the Rabbit. The cover is a rabbit, very similar to the rabbit in the engraving above. It is not excluded that this kind of seems to be imagined by Brother Dog himself, but it is true that Brother Dog suddenly thought of the fairy tale book when he saw "Miss Rabbit". I can't remember the specific plot for a long time, but it seems to be the story of Larry the rabbit fighting wits with some villains. And it seems that that book is just one of a set of books with no ending. I just deliberately searched on the Internet, but I didn't find the results that Brother Dog wanted. I don't know if Brother Dog remembered the wrong name, or if it was too old and niche to be put on the Internet.
My mother likes to buy books for Brother Dog, "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Nights Story", "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Nights Intellectual Story", "One Hundred Thousand Whys" and so on. It's a pity that those books have disappeared with the disappearance of the old house, otherwise they should have been preserved and reminisced occasionally. There are more stories to read, and Brother Dog will tell stories to his classmates after school. Later, at the class meeting, a skit was performed based on the story read. At that time, there was no Internet and no mobile phones, and even TV programs were not available until 12 o'clock or 1 a.m., and the TV was replaced by a full screen of snowflakes, so reading became a particularly good entertainment.
Rabbit, Brother Dog has liked it since childhood. It's not the kind of rabbit that I like, my father raised rabbits when he was a child, and he was sold by his grandfather after raising a lot. The fate of Brother Dog and Rabbit is that every time my parents take Brother Dog to the provincial capital for a walk when I was a child, I would eat a smoked rabbit. Brother Gou remembers very clearly, at that time, there were not so many restaurants now, and the vast majority of them were state-run. Brother Dog's childhood memories of the provincial city are basically smoked rabbits and roast chicken at the entrance of the road, haha. One year after work, I went back to the Northeast, and when I went to the supermarket, I happened to see a smoked rabbit for sale, and I had to buy one. When I got home, I drank a lot of beer with the rabbit, and it was like going back to my childhood. Of course, I didn't drink when I ate rabbits in my childhood!
Zhang Hui's "Face 1".
Brother Gou remembers seeing a similar work at the Hubei Museum of Art called "Intersection".
Behind the hazy background of both works is a woman, and both have a feeling of seeing flowers in the fog. From Brother Dog's point of view, two forms of artistic expression are used to express the same emotion or thought. That is, you are very familiar with someone, and the relationship is very good, and then the face becomes blurred, and it often takes a while to think about it before it comes to the surface. Probably because it is so familiar, the relationship is so good that it enters the inside from the outside, from the material to the spiritual, that is to say, to see the essence through the phenomenon. Buddhism doesn't say, "All things are like dreams and bubbles, like dew and electricity, and should be viewed as such." The reasoning should be similar.
Perhaps there is also a possibility that the painter wants to express a kind of pursuit, a kind of searching, chasing the lover in his dreams, looking for the lover in reality. The "lover" and "lover" here are not "lovers" and "lovers" in the narrow sense, but should be in a broad sense, they can be money, power, dreams, ideals, and so on. In fact, many times we are not so clear about our dreams or ideals, and we always change in a hazy way.
Putting "Face 1" and "Intersection" together, Brother Dog prefers "Intersection". So the question is, which one do you prefer? What if there is another "Face 2"? Will you have a choice problem?