Cover news reporter Yang Fan
The Mid-Autumn Festival is an auspicious and festive traditional festival, and the crane is also an animal with a very auspicious meaning of Chinese culture. What is it like to watch the moon while watching the cranes? During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the solo exhibition of Cao Weiguo of "The Queen's Girl" was held at the Chengdu Red Art Museum. As an artist famous for painting cranes, Cao Weiguo's cranes are varied, triggering the audience's reverie, looking at these smart and beautiful cranes, some people even imitate its movements in the exhibition hall and dance.
In the eyes of many people, the crane is black and white, and there is a touch of red on the top of the head, but in the 34 paintings about cranes in the exhibition, you can see pink cranes, purple cranes, and green cranes. Since ancient times, there have been countless works on cranes in traditional Chinese paintings, but only a handful of modern painters have painted red-crowned cranes in the form of oil paintings. Cao Weiguo paints red-crowned cranes in a contemporary art way, but also pays attention to drawing nutrients from traditional Chinese painting. While the brushstrokes are meticulous to each feather, they also reveal a unique charm from the eyes and forms.
Cao Weiguo said that he painted the red-crowned crane by accident. In 2013, Cao Weiguo was a guest at a junior high school classmate in his hometown of Hunan and saw a red-crowned crane hanging in his home, and it was this somewhat bland painting that touched him.
Cao Weiguo said: "At that time, I was just looking for my own painting language. The crane is the mascot of the Chinese cultural tradition, known as the crane, and both rich and poor people can hang pictures of the crane at home. "Words are the voice of the heart, and paintings are the heart." In the red-crowned crane, Cao Weiguo saw his own shadow. So he borrowed the words of the lone crane, in the superposition of objects, the struggle of people, pride, inner trembling trajectory, melted into the painting, let it bloom and soar.
It can be seen from the paintings on the scene that the cranes painted by Cao Weiguo pursue the texture and texture of the oil paints, or stack, or smear, or flat, or sprinkle, making the paintings have significant personal characteristics. Under the background of dead branches, peach, flowing water and ya stones, the wonderful fusion of Chinese ink and Western oil paint makes the texture of the picture more vicissitudes, showing a long and deep taste.
Wang Hong, an art critic, associate professor at the School of Art of Southwest University for Nationalities and a master tutor, said that Cao Weiguo's painting crane has also been innovating and turning, "mainly through changes in background and light sources." The audience can find that he did not particularly highlight the light source in his 2018 works, but after 2020, he began to express the light source, especially in a series of works such as "The Queen's Girl" created this year, the light and shadow effects became more and more obvious. ”
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