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"Is it that as long as it is art, it must not be bound by the laws of the country?"
When I picked up this painting, I suddenly felt that the body that Wang Nen used to paint was very beautiful, even so beautiful that it was suffocating.
Holding this painting, I even had doubts about the bottom line of art because of the beauty of the painting.
This painting will later attract controversy among netizens, what happened to this painting?
1. The art that sparks controversy.
This painting, which made Xiaoyun, a graphic designer, feel unfamiliar with the field of this kind of art, and later marveled at the beauty of this painting.
And I, holding the painting in my hand, is the little cloud that gradually appeared after the carving of time in the second year.
That is, what it looks like to be less than 30 years old.
So now that I see this painting in a museum, what kind of painting is this painting that makes me think about the origin of beauty?
Who has this painting caused controversy?
We need to start with the person who wrote the painting.
In the twentieth century, art is no longer this kind of whimsical, just look at your mood to create, this needs to be recognized by the "masses of the people", only the beauty recognized by the masses is the real beauty.
However, in this era of looking at faces, what paintings can be recognized by the public, and the difference between the scenery that can be presented in a painting and the scenery around you will be very huge.
In particular, a pair of pictures created by Wang Nen is destined to have a symbolic turmoil.
One day in September 1960, a man fell asleep in front of the white walls of his studio.
When Wang Nen came back and saw the man asleep in his studio, he couldn't help but kick him awake angrily.
Wang Nen asked the man suspiciously: "What do you mean by this, I rented this place, is it for sleeping?"
The man replied, "There are no three hundred taels of silver here, I just saw those paintings you painted, but I really can't sleep, it's so beautiful, so I fall asleep here, and I can dream of those beautiful paintings."
Wang Nen, who was standing without any desire to sleep, was a little breathless for a while after hearing the man's answer, but the man's answer made Wang Nen have the value of his own painting.
Because Wang Nen's paintings were very unique at the time, his paintings were based on the lying posture of a naked woman as the background, connecting various body parts into a whole style.
This form of expression challenges the traditional aesthetic and makes the audience have mixed reviews of this kind of painting, and some people think that it provokes people's visual desires and is low-grade taste.
Others believe that after a preliminary appreciation of Wang Nen's paintings, they can understand that the ideas and meanings carried in the paintings are a kind of art of the human body.
Some people think that the perception of beauty is different from person to person, and they did not accept Wang Nen's paintings at first, but after learning Wang Nen's paintings, they feel that they have never seen such paintings, so they think that Wang Nen's paintings are unique in contemporary art works, and the aesthetics of the times can be seen how different.
2. Art and aesthetics.
So where is the content of these controversies about Wang Nen's paintings?
It is the woman depicted in Wang Nen's painting, but the background of the painting is not a lying on a bed or a standing background, but a bicycle.
Wang Nen is different from the traditional painting style, his painting style is very bold, able to challenge the viewer's aesthetic bottom line, the woman in the work that can be seen in the vista is relatively simple, her head, waist and ass chest are painted in a relatively simple way, and the style of painting the female private parts in the painting is very different from contemporary artworks.
While this bold style will shock and provoke the viewer, Wang Nen's breakthrough in his paintings is that he is able to unify factors such as age and gender, challenging the audience's stereotypes of the female body.
The biggest breakthrough of Wang Nen's paintings for the viewer lies in his painting skills, from the front of the painting, you can see a series of parts such as women's thighs, hips, abdomen, etc., Wang Nen outlines these parts with curved lines, which also contain the outline of light and shadow, so as to outline the curves of these bodies very three-dimensional, as if they are real.
At the same time, the painting technique gives the skin a real texture, creating a sense of layering under the illumination of light, giving people a three-dimensional beauty.
This bold composition and painting style often makes people have a sense of beauty, and Wang Nen himself believes that this kind of breakthrough and boldness is a kind of pursuit of beauty, just like the process of pursuing aesthetics, which will inevitably make people dispute, this is beauty.
As an artist, he has his own aesthetic for his works, and he believes that the reason why an artist is an artist is that he can break through his original aesthetics.
In the things that others don't think are beautiful, the artist strives to find something different and make a breakthrough in beauty.
In a bold breakthrough, I believe that there must be someone who will be the leader of this pursuit of beauty, leading the navigation light of others' aesthetics.
In this kind of aesthetic innovation, the audience will discover the beauty of diversity and accept the beauty of being challenged, and at this time, we are also in the process of being deepened in the ocean of beauty.
3. Art and Society.
Every artist draws inspiration from real life, and in the improvement of social material civilization, it often brings a lot of different aesthetics.
From architectural art to music art, to body art, every link in this is endlessly attracting people's eyes and hearts, and in these people's lives, it is also the presentation of various social and cultural phenomena.
As society progresses, people's aesthetics are constantly changing, but we can't always see an artist's breakthrough work as art.
When we look at Wang Nen's paintings, we will find that his paintings are not just about physical expression.
When he paints, he often selects women who are older and have wrinkled skin, not only to create body art, but also to show the beauty of a woman who is regarded as "outdated" by social shemales, and he challenges not only aesthetics, but also stereotypes in society.
An artist's works must also have profound social observations and reflections behind his works, in other words, his works are also an artist's criticism and presentation of society.
When the audience looks at this painting, what they see is also a presentation of social phenomena, and his works have attracted people's attention and controversy, and it is this controversy that allows us to discover that people's aesthetics are diverse and constantly adjusted.
From this, we can find that the controversy of a work is not only a judgment of a painting, but also a blend of social and cultural backgrounds and personal understandings, and more importantly, as a social group, we must think about the behind these controversies.
epilogue
Xiao Yun took the painting in his hand, asked the people around him in confusion, and said: "Do you say that this painting is art or coquettish, is it that as long as it is art, it must not be bound by the laws of the country?"
What is the background of this painting, and what is the woman in the painting like?
These will be explored in the next article.