When I first stood in front of the painting, I didn't look at the explanation board, what was my impression of the painting? Western oil painting, abstraction, "mixed Chinese and Western"? No! No, all of these can not be labeled on this painting, this is a picture of Guanyin by Jin Nong.
Guanyin itself has the feeling of a stick figure, with a few lines and full of artistic conception; the brilliant colors in the background and the clouds that seem to be vortices, the color scheme does not look like "The Scream", and the shape does not look like "Starry Sky"? If it weren't for the fact that this painting was painted about 100 years earlier than both the Scream and the Starry Sky, we can't help but suspect that Jin Nong was a progressive, breaking through the isolation and isolation of the country and being the first to see the Western art revolution!
In the painting, Guanyin is dressed in white, and the serenity and serenity of her demeanor are in stark contrast to the colorful but chaotic background.
This work by Jin Nong is really a painting in an ultra-modern style. The color setting and expression method are so special, and the picture is full of curly curves and color blocks that are so active that it makes people a little uneasy, a bit like the feeling of people approaching the world of illusions. This "Statue of Guanyin", like "Moonlight", looks particularly magical, and is an externalized expression of the interweaving of his thoughts and reality.
However, the beliefs of the Oriental people are stable and noble, and in the second half of the painting, the flowing folds of the statue of Guanyin, who is clean and serene, seem to let the revolving and chaotic time and space slowly settle, as if the emotions and worldview of the people who have stabilized after the chaos and intricacies have been settled.
The so-called words are the voice of the heart, and so is painting.
Jin Nong (1687-1764) was a famous painter of the Qing Dynasty. The word Shoumen, the number of winter hearts. There are many aliases, including: Golden Bull, Lao Ding, Guquan, Zhuquan, Qujiang Waishi, Jimei Lord, Lotus Body Layman, Longsuo Cyclamen, Shame Chun Weng, Shou Daoist, Jin Ji Jin, Xin Twenty Liulang, Xiantan Flower Sweeper, Jinniu Lake Meeting Lao, Baier Yantian Rich Man, etc. Originally from Renhe, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou), he has lived in Yangzhou for a long time. Good sex travel, "footprints half the world". He is curious and studious, works in poetry and calligraphy, and is good at distinguishing ancient and strange poems. The calligraphy creates a flat pen book body, and has both regular and subordinate body potential, which is called "lacquer book". His collection of gold and stone scripts is as large as 1,000 volumes. In the first year of Qianlong (1736 AD), it was recommended to be erudite. He didn't paint until he was fifty-three years old. His paintings are strange and ancient, and he makes good use of light ink dry brushes to make floral sketches. The first painting of bamboo, followed by the painting of horses, painting Buddha statues, painting plum can be more original, for the first of the "Yangzhou Eight Monsters".