Text/Feng Haitao Painting/Lu Jianmin
Regarding "pen and ink should be with the times", some people proposed: "Either you draw a car or you are with the times!" This question is very good, and it is said to be the formalism of the painting world now. However, painters should not understand another deviation, that is, they think that painting a car, a train, or a high-rise building is a formal "brush and ink should be in time". Painting has the role and responsibility of recording the times, of course, now that there are cameras, video cameras and other technological equipment, calligraphy and painting have the responsibility of recording society and the times. However, don't forget that there is also a humanistic consciousness in the record, which is related to the humanistic background and the background of the times such as cognition and perception. Therefore, the development and inheritance of painting is inseparable from the expression of the scenery and objects of the times.
Works by Lu Jianmin
I personally think that the reason why Shi Tao proposed that "brush and ink should be in line with the times" rather than "the picture should be in line with the times" is that "brush and ink" is the core of painting, and as for the object of the picture, the painter can choose according to his own preferences. "Brush and ink" is the epitome of the culture of the painter's era, and the continuation and development of thousands of years of civilization. What is revealed by the "brush and ink" itself, the form of objects formed by the "brush and ink", and the scene layout condensed by the "brush and ink" are all history and times, as well as the present and the future. However, if the objects and humanities represented in the current era are purely ancient and historical, then the picture will lack soul. Because, what we know best at the present is the present, history is only the words left by the annals of history, and what the ancients showed was also the humanities, society, and nature of their time and before the era. If a painter has brushwork and ink from the ancients, and the landscapes and humanities he paints are historical, how can the picture really give a complete soul.
Works by Lu Jianmin
"Brush and ink" is not an individual object, nor is it a specific reference to an object. Rather, it is the cultivation of the painter, but the soul of the painter's work. The appearance of a car in a picture is described as "pen and ink with the times", which proves that this is very ignorant. However, it is not excluded that the products of modern science and technology and the products of the current era appear in the picture. Because, the development of the times and the progress of civilization are the embodiment of beauty, and the painter is to discover and express beauty in nature and society, and the society of your time and the objects in the society are the things you should praise with additional thoughts. However, in the works of the painters of our time, they either eat the food of the ancients, or they are expressions of formalism. There is no painter to think about the times, and no painter to dig out the soul and value of the objects in the background of the times. Therefore, the brushwork of current painters is almost not in line with the times. There is only a formal shadow of the times.
Works by Lu Jianmin
Works by Lu Jianmin
Works by Lu Jianmin
Works by Lu Jianmin