In April 2020, spring is in full bloom, but the coronavirus is still raging around the world, Chinese people around the world are supporting the epidemic in various forms, initiated by Ina, the "My Motherland and Me - World Chinese Large-scale Public Welfare Art Exhibition and Broadcasting Activity" jointly sponsored by the Organizing Committee of the APODC Asia-Pacific International Culture and Art Style Competition, the Chinese Cultural and Art Talent Pool, the World Federation of Culture and Art Circles, the China International News Network, the Asia-Pacific International Oriental Dance Federation, the Asian Dancers Association and other institutions are in full swing. Recently, the organizing committee received the registration information of an artist, and the assistant exclaimed: Isn't this the "changeable ghost talent" Xiao Kuan?
Who is Xiao Kuan? Enter the word Xiao Kuan in the Baidu search column, and you will find that since the birth of the Chinese Internet, there have been all kinds of news and art reviews about him on the Internet...
CCTV's "Struggle" compares Xiao Kuan to "comparable to Tang Bohu"; Xinhua News Agency's "Editor's Observation" published Ji Naifu's comment on "Miracle Xiao Kuan"; The Writers Publishing House publishes Xiao Kuan's poetry collection "Grass Seeds" and Xiao Kuan's statue "Drifting Grass Seeds - Xiao Kuan's Statue" as evidence.
Xiao Kuan's self-drawn portrait:
A bald pen hangs a rainbow
A few sheets of broken paper stacked on top of each other
A thousand drops of ink destroy the night
Full of blood against the dawn
Xiao Kuan's self-portraits, there is always a feeling of cold eyes looking at the world in his eyes, a metaphor of self, and a bit of lonely intention, which is the existence of the artist's "alienity", and at the same time, it has become a way to resolve loneliness.
His temperament satisfies all my imaginations and is an artist at first glance.
Always messy gray long hair and shoulders, a little untrimmed clothing, with a rugged and proud tall figure, the eyes are not very large, but whether it is looking at people or objects, the eyes always reflect the sharpness that seems to be able to see everything. Although the years have engraved many traces of weather and frost on his face, they still exude a stubbornness, masculinity and wildness of the northern tough guy who once worked as a herdsman in the Horqin grassland of Inner Mongolia.
Speaking of Xiao Kuan, many people in the calligraphy and painting industry know that he is erudite, knows the past and the present, is admirable, writes all by feeling, painting and painting all by self-realization, he has not entered the Academy of Fine Arts for a day, has not worshiped any teacher as a teacher, and even has no art foundation, but he has no teacher, his own style, far and near famous, Beijing and Tianjin, you will often see his calligraphy and painting works in newspapers and magazines or Beijing Tianqiao and other places. After years of polishing, it has been quite influential in the Chinese painting and calligraphy industry and even the world.
He is a master of Chinese contemporary art who integrates poetry, sketching, drawing, printmaking, comic strips, Chinese painting, calligraphy, murals, sculptures, modeling design, and planning. Steel Purib once advocated the establishment of the Xiao Kuan Research Association, trying to study and explore the interpretation of this cultural phenomenon... At present, there are still more and more literati artists around Xiao Kuan, and there are still many people who worship and like him. Friends all over the world, visitors, celebrities and scholars, business leaders, or news figures, or entertainment stars... Countless fans praised him, praised him, wrote for him, sang for him, all kinds of pictures and texts. Xiao Kuan's heat is still undiminished that year.
Let's enjoy the artistic comments of many famous artists on him: Guoxue Master Ba. Mr. Steel Pleib called Xiao Kuan a "great man", in other words, what the immortals could not do, Xiao Kuan also did. Mr. Barang said that human beings evolved from animals and have animal genes at will, but they are different from animals. A "high-class animal" like Xiao Kuan has almost become a rare national treasure in this world, because it is because of his versatile artistic creation that today"There is no second person who can have such a wide range of popular connections as Xiao Kuan!" There is no second person who can sweep across the land of Shenzhou like Xiao Kuan, like a raging tide..."
Mr. Jin Xuemeng, a famous contemporary lexicographer and social commentator, said: "Tianjin on the Bohai Coast, Qi Junzhi frequently appears!" First there was the master Fan Zeng, and the beauty of the talk; Later, there was the wizard Xiao Gong, who was amazed from near and far: a collection of sculptures, poems, books, and paintings, concentrating, strange, new, and strange in Jiuqi! In the midst of the Qiankun, between the Xuanhuang and the Yellow, those who have the Four Wonders of the Arts, who is there? Xiao Kuan Gong Yan! Who cares about the artists who are pregnant with the four masterpieces? Xiao Gongkuan also !......"
Mr. Ji Naifu, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph of Xinhua News Agency, said so- "Born Xiao Kuan bi art", "Xiao Kuan art must be Huaxia", "Xiao Kuan's brush can enter the heart", "his poems - philosophical meditations penetrate the soul; His prints— into the wood three points into the bone; His Chinese paintings - "Flowing water and clouds" His comics— witty humor and laughter and tears; His design- East-West Convergence National Essence; His planning - unique positioning and personality are bright; His speeches were full of passion; His calligraphy, Tai Chi, spins out of the gods; His sculptures are full of humanity...".
Mr. Xu Guotai, the famous scholar "The Demon King of Holographic Thinking", said: "Xiao Kuan's ever-changing changes show his vertical and horizontal talents, enabling him to show his skills in many fields; Xiao Kuan's eclecticism shows his talent and excellence, and he uses poetic paintings to make philosophical meditation sculptures "My Dream"..."
Mr. Qi Shanlong, editor-in-chief of "Poetry of China", said: "Mr. Xiao Lao, the teacher of the "Poetry of China", has a wide name, and his field of involvement is also wide, he is eclectic, he never pursues similarity, but seeks divine power, he uses the technique of exaggerating most of the forms in sculpture, so that the characters under his knife show their unique charm, whether it is the Beijing citizens who carry caged birds, or the Tianqiao artists who catch sharp blades, full of thinking in humor, and voyeuristic temperament in simplicity... His poems are microscopic in the microscopic places of small grass seeds, magnificent in the eight wilderness universes, his poems can not be seen by the normal gaze, his works look for a focus, and the whimsical language sometimes deceives you. Only by finding that cutting point did we find a calm little universe behind the language of the Eight Wilds. It is wide, it is the width of the touch bypass, it is the width of tolerance, and it is the width of the integration of eternity. ”
Mr. Li Hua, a famous printmaker and educator, said: "Xiao Kuan's black and white woodcuts, known for their simplicity, are the most intriguing with their decorative folk art style and extremely rich artistic language to profoundly and subtly express the lives, thoughts and feelings, hopes, ideals, and customs and habits of the herders..."
Mr. Li Fulai, a professor at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, said: "Comrade Xiao Kuan's several woodcuts are miraculously like a fresh wind and a bright light, and the scenery displayed is refreshing. Xiao Kuan used his lark-like singing voice to praise the land under his feet and his deep love for the grassland, honesty and sincerity, showing the precious qualities of the artist. ”
The famous poet Mr. Huang Huai said: "Unique ingenuity, unique ideas, people are eye-catching, and clear-eyed people will bow their heads and praise them when they see it." Xiao Kuan's poems are also similar to his artistic creations, often taking a unique path, with new imagery and not falling behind. ”
The poet critic Mr. Ah Yong said, "Xiao Kuan, the ink has become a treasure." However, the words have not fallen into the ink, and they have already made up their minds. This is his cultural heritage. Thick accumulation, customs and human feelings, melting vicissitudes and changes, turning decay into magic; The word pays attention to the chapter, and his words, seemingly without rules, are actually strict in the rules, but this chapter is not in the word, but outside the word. Call it Shen Yun. Words are godless and not alive, words without rhyme are rigid, not confined to square inches, not rigid in straight, bold, dragons flying phoenix dance, wide open doors, calling the wind and rain, illusion is infinite. A piece of writing, at the end of his pen, will rise up, out of the blue, the waves, the clouds and the moon, the vastness... Xiao Kuan's thoughts, profound and open-minded, confessed his heart with a grass seed declaration, without controversy, without argument, without delusion, and selflessness; Frank and frank, two sleeves of fresh wind, the only broken pen in the hand, when the book is a book, when the painting is a painting, a stroll, or a song or a chant, from the state of mind... Songzhuang, China, became famous for Xiao Kuan. ”
Writer Yuanfang wrote more than 100,000 words of "Three-dimensional Xiao Kuan", Xu Jingzhong, a playwright who won the May Day Project Award, wrote the film script "Grass Seed Xiao Kuan", Yang Qingyun's hundreds of "Xiao Kuan Phenomenon" and thousands of people scattered comments...
Due to the limited space, too many artists and celebrities wrote poems for Xiao Kuan, and the opening of the altar was numerous and admirable, and I will not repeat them here. Xiao Kuandu went with the flow and went with the flow, and Shou Rou lived under the elephant and did not instrument...
The acquaintance with Master Xiao Kuan was due to the anti-epidemic art activities. In the days of first acquaintance, most of us communicate through WeChat typing, because of busy work, the conversation between each other is intermittent, but Master Xiao, who is over the age of flower armor, will always reply in time. He is easy-going, passionate, witty, always profound, heroic and powerful, clear words, like a clear thinking blurted out of the orator, with rich cultural heritage. He talked to me about the seriousness of the epidemic, about his special trip to Tianjin to accompany his elderly mother during the epidemic, and occasionally talked about the Tao Te Ching, and occasionally sent me some news or cultural activities links that kept pace with the times. He was recently hired as an expert of the Beijing Innovation Society, admiring the portraits of leaders of various countries sent by the circle of friends, anti-epidemic heroes Zhong Nanshan, Li Wenjuan, etc., large and small, all kinds of paintings, no less than 100, as well as all kinds of cartoons and anti-epidemic declarations he created for the fight against the epidemic, it is difficult to imagine that people of the same age in the republic are always so full of creative passion, I think, behind this passion contains his deep feelings of home and country. "Painstakingly attacking thousands of ancient and modern books at home and abroad, and skillfully painting thousands of paintings of human emotions and physics", he also sketched for many people. Of course, I painted it for me. Gradually, we began to talk about calligraphy, poetry, planning...
Xiao Kuan's calligraphy
Song Ouyang Xiu has "Learning Books to Become a Family", which basically states that when learning calligraphy, one should become an independent family. Calligraphy, like poetry creation, is the most expensive and original. Beginners in calligraphy, of course, should copy various inscriptions or imitate others, but on the basis of imitating famous artists, we must continue to innovate and gradually form our own style characteristics, in order to become self-contained and achieve higher achievements. But Xiao Kuan has never had a large number of postings, writing is all based on feelings, all by self-realization, his calligraphy is "full of Chinese philosophy of Taiji two instruments and four elephants of dialectical thinking, he believes that calligraphy is a nation's "fingerprint", the particularity of fingerprints, but also determines the special quality and disposition of Xiao Kuan's calligraphy. This miraculous man, who has never been exposed to any inscriptions, or even paid attention to the browsing and research of the history of Chinese calligraphy, wrote his own "Xiao Kuan body" as soon as he moved his pen. Many people who study him believe that he integrated traditional Chinese culture into calligraphy creation, combined Western expressionism with Chinese imagery painting, and created a landscape that leads to the spiritual world with the purpose of returning to the self and returning to the heart...
And I read his calligraphy like reading a series of changed Tai Chi diagrams, the pen is full of ink, the knowledge of white and black, all kinds of gua elephants are hidden in that divine pen, with a unique artistic melody beauty and "the first writing of the Yellow Court, just right". You see him writing books on the spot, or as heavy as a cloud, or as light as a cicada wing; The lines of the book are as strong as the arrows of the warriors, bending like spring worms and autumn snakes, and Juan Xiu is as colorful as a beautiful hairpin flower; The bustle is like a spring breeze blowing flowers... The gestures fly, or are deep and cold, or like the north wind into the back of the paper, or the birds are floating in the phoenix, or the dragon and snake flying without being bound at all; Often a stroke down, as if the reins of the horse took off and came to the dust; Another example is the dragon flying in the sky, coming from nothingness and returning to emptiness, and this almost crazy primitive life force seems to envelop the aura of heaven and earth, brash and unbounded, and in one breath it becomes a god-like indulgence, coming and going without a trace. His calligraphy and paintings are integrated with the fortitude, courage and enterprising of Confucianism, and also contain the vanity, dispersion and calm leisure of Lao Zhuang, and often have a meaning of not seeking rich changes, and omitting earthly glitz in the pen to seek the true taste of emptiness.
Xiao Kuan said: "Tracing back to ancient times, the oracle bone marks, the pictogram to seek charm, the metaphor for the soul. The mountains and rivers are all in the glyphs, the human mentality is all moist, the true grass is full of seal schools, and the shapes and meanings of pen and ink styles are very different, becoming the national essence of the Chinese nation and the treasure of the world's art forest. Once the calligraphy is standardized, it is easy to rigidize, and the font enters the computer and becomes a craftsman. Calligraphy is soulful of individuality, and it has a unique charm." His calligrapher is not ancient, has the law and cannot, and has a unique personality.
Xiao Kuan's poetry
Xiao Kuan has written a lot of poems, and as the chief planner of the China Poetry Garden, he believes that chinese classical poetry often changes the form, and what does not change is the content. That is to say, the form is to serve the content, just like Xiao Kuan's "Crashing into the River and Striking the Heavens" written in honor of the famous poet Qu Yuan's proud and ink-pouring Chinese paintings: long hair straight into Haoyu / Lifting the Curtain of the Jade Emperor / Where is the Pangu Giant Axe hidden / Why is the Colored Stone Greedy / / Return my Chan Juan Jade Pot / Prove My Loyalty and Courage / Wind Xiao Xiao Xi Yin Li Soul / The History of the Drifting of the Waves / / The National Martyrs Smashing a River / Dongjun Zhao Huan Fu Sang Tian / Hebo and I Shoot the Waves / Mountain Ghosts Turning the Sky Upside Down... His modern poetry breaks through the characteristics of ancient poetry "gentle and generous, mournful and not complaining", although they are all written for the sake of feeling things, but they are not informal to format and rhythm, free in form, rich in meaning, image management is more important than rhetorical use, and more emphasis is placed on free and open and blunt statements and communication between "perceptible and unsensceptible", in short, they are the reflection of the soul.
The first thing he liked about Xiao Kuan's work was the beginning of his widely praised poem "Grass Seeds": Grass seeds weaned in the arms of the weeds / And then slapped by the autumn wind / Became a tramp / Did not know where to settle down to make a living / Fell to the end of the world Acacia green / Give fate to the wind / But not for the sake of flying yellow Tengda / Willing in the stumbling career / Pounce into the arms of the spring girl / Grass seeds fell on the cliffs / The hope of not breaking the green / Here is not green Elsewhere / And the spring breeze of the coming year / Grass seeds are abandoned and never depressed / As long as there is a handful of dirt in the crevices of the rock / Lay down the roots of life / As long as there is a land of lying cattle / Weave a corner of spring / The harsh winter does not exhaust the green / Because green is the poem of grass seed life condensation / Engraved on the heart of spring / The grass seed is rotated by the white hair wind to the nine clouds / And fell into the Wanzhang Canyon / Then fall down / Fall down / Fall out of a piece of green.
Of all the poems, the most widely praised is probably this modern poem "Grass Seed". Because he describes himself as a grass seed, the fate and experience of this grass seed is his fate and experience. The "Grass Seed Poetry Collection" also became a popular reading of inspirational poetry in Horqin zhiqing in that era. The poem "Grass Seed Declaration" was also used as the first lesson taught by Li Zhenshun, China's first certified speaker, and published in the first chapter of the "Towards Success" textbook, in which Li Zhenshun wrote that "to say that this book shocked me no less than the occurrence of the "9-11" incident"... Excerpt from Ji Naifu's "The Ever-Changing Ghosts of the Capital" - Xiao Kuan"
Xiao Kuan's earliest poetry inspiration came from the 23 years of Zhiqing life, from that era. The arduous experience of not seeing people for several days allowed Xiao Kuan to learn to feel life, and he began to write poetry in the face of the vast grassland. "That era was a repressive era, and even love could not be mentioned in that era...", and later, before the "Grass Seed" poetry collection was about to be published, the editor-in-chief suggested that the poem be revised due to the consideration of the age, and Xiao Kuan refused to revise it, because this was the real environment in which Xiao Kuan created thousands of poems in that era. Zhiqing's nomadic life experience, that arduous experience made him reminisce is still a little intimidating, but the steppe gave him a generous emotion, the vast and beautiful land of Inner Mongolia brought him strength, but also provided him with creative inspiration of the artistic soil. The poems reflect the life of his time, and some of the spiritual life of his time, some of which may not be understood by the younger generation living in the present.
Xiao Kuan wrote many poems in the later years, and also gained more achievements and praise. His poems are rich in strong language and art charm, which comes from his study of literature at Jilin University and his years of life and artistic precipitation, and his poems are always full of rich artistic imagination. Imagination is one of the main means of expression of literature, imagination is a process of image creation in the mind, and then recreated through the omnipresent symbol of language. Imagery is a language art image with specific meaning produced by selecting, refining, and recombining subjective ideas and objective objects in people's minds. I like very much that he exerted his own unique imagination when he was tired to the point of drowsiness and struggled with sleep, and carefully constructed two artistic images of virtual reality, which is "the god of sleep and the god of poetry". He took the intangible image of no "life" in the abstract sense, and with the help of the concrete and perceptible object of "man god", he gave the intangible thing a tangible form, and used "real" to express "virtual", or "virtual" to express "real". The virtual reality is born, which gives birth to the poem "Sleeping God and Poetry God Fight", which is interesting and fascinating to read.
Xiao Kuan's sculpture
In addition to poetry, Xiao Kuan's sculpture works are also many, and the themes, techniques, materials, styles and concepts of art show richness and uncertainty, and he has participated in many regional and domestic and foreign sculpture exhibitions.
Xiao Kuan's artistic growth as an artist and the formation of his artistic temperament are inextricably linked to the background of his grassroots life. The concern, sympathy and respect for the non-mainstream and vulnerable groups in the social structure is one of the sources of the touching power in his works, which is revealed in his cultural thinking and research and creation in the face of the public sphere and public art of contemporary society, such as the sculpture "Mother's Love Like Buddha" created to commemorate the Wenchuan earthquake, which reflects his compassion for the artist's feelings, that is, the beauty of art, but also the beauty of tenacity, kindness and simplicity of human nature; His masterpieces of the folklore series of sculptures "Happy in It", "Laughing Often", "Starting from the Beginning" and "Sweet Life" created for the reconstruction of Beijing Tianqiao show the classic scenes of Tianqiao folk culture and once became the focus of Beijingers. He uses these realistic sculptures with the theme of these small people in the city, thick and simple, bringing people poetic comfort and spiritual shock, leading people to nostalgia at the same time, thus reflecting the realistic meaning and sincere humanistic care in the work.
Xiao Kuan's comic "Tao Te Ching"
Speaking of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, according to UNESCO statistics on the Internet, the sales of world cultural masterpieces in the Western Tao Te Ching have surpassed the Bible, leapt above all classics, and have now topped the world book list. I don't know if it's true, but I read this book in college, and every time I read a chapter, I almost understand a philosophy. I like to read ancient texts, I am often surprised by the wisdom of the ancients and the charm of the ancient language, I really like and want to read through that book. But it is undeniable that at that time, many places were more obscure! So it's like a dragonfly skimming through the water!
Over the years, Xiao Kuan has not only achieved great achievements in poetry, painting and carving, but he is also committed to promoting traditional Sinology culture, and he feels that the book "Tao Te Ching" is too profound to be easily understood, so he draws him into a cartoon and annotates each cartoon. The comic strip Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching was published by Xinhua Publishing House in December 2010. In May 2015, he created a huge oil paint comic "Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching", composed of 81 single cartoons, with a length of 40 meters and a height of 5.36 meters, and is preparing to apply for the Guinness Book of Records. "Logistics Times" high-speed rail special distribution of his Tao Te Ching, each issue of 50,000 copies of circulation, published more than a dozen issues. His understanding, cultivation, knowledge, taste, are all integrated into the works...
Xiao Kuan's declaration
Xiao Kuan is perhaps the artist who wrote the most manifestos in this era, and he created many declarations for his poetry, painting and calligraphy, such as the cartoon Mountain Ghost Has Mountain Ghost Declaration, the poetry has "Grass Seed Declaration", "Lonely Declaration"), sculpture has Mother's Love Like Buddha Declaration (inspired by sculptures created to commemorate the Wenchuan earthquake), digital declaration... "Unveil the hijab of the heavens / Erect the Pillar of Heaven / Fix the Five States / Sculpture the Sun and Moon / Plastic Kunlun / Leave the Mysteries of the Vicissitudes of Haoyu / Capitalized People / --- The Heavens and the Earth / Flowers Blossom and Fall / Clouds Cirrus Clouds Shu / Love Rhyme Water Flow Long / Dream Fleeting / Inspiration / On the Five-Colored Earth / Contemplation / Keep the Smile / Let the Teardrops Last / Music Solidified / Poetry Dumb / Elephant Invisible / Loud Sound Is Rare / Big Complexity is Simple / Big Color is Empty / Big Luck Is Humble / Big Truth Is Virtual / Great Wisdom If Foolish / Great Wisdom Is Foolish / Great Wisdom Is Foolish / Great Love Is Speechless / Great Love Contains / The Great Path of Wuji / Enlightenment is Zen / ... Venus's broken arm / interpreting history..." "Xiao Kuan used his unique romantic calligraphy to engrave his artistic conception of sculptural poetry on the base of the sculpture, adding the charm of oriental national culture." Xiao Kuan's sculpture declaration is a testimony to his sculptural realm" (excerpted from the comments of Mr. Li Zhiyuan, vice president and secretary general of the Xinhua Academy of Calligraphy and Painting of Xinhua News Agency, vice chairman of the Calligraphy and Painting Association of organs directly under the CPC Central Committee). His "Grass Seed Manifesto" is widely praised, without too many flowery words, "a cry from the depths of the soul, so natural and simple that it is enough to shock the reader's heart, like a melody that pierces the soul, because it is an inspirational poem, the most powerful declaration of the strivers to fight against fate" (excerpted from Butterfly An'an's comments).
Xiao Kuan also has the "Declaration of Integrity", he said: "To be a person, we must first take honesty as the basis, people always have to have some spirit, and the lifeblood of the spirit is integrity; People always need respect, and the personality of respect is integrity; People always need to cooperate, and the basis of cooperation is integrity; People always have to leave traces of life, and the trajectory of life marks is honesty!". Xiao Kuan successfully planned the 3.16 International Integrity Festival in 2012, and more than 200 people raised the Chinese flag the size of two basketball courts in Songzhuang, China, engraving the declaration of integrity in people's hearts. The Festival of Integrity is still being held every year.
Hai Na Bai Chuan, Avenue to Jane
Today's Xiao Kuan has won many heavyweight awards at home and abroad, and there are too many awards, but he has achieved fame in the field of art, and he still regards himself as a grass seed artist, and his path to fame when he was poor as a child is indeed like a grass seed, with a difficult journey, tenacity and tenacity, and full of enthusiasm for spring. He always smiled and said: "My life is like a grass seed, drifting around, making home in all parts of the world, and being at peace with the encounter, but doing my best and working hard." "I don't have any ideals or ideals, and when I was a farmer, I was the hardest time, and I was still optimistic." I dug wild vegetables until the sun went down, didn't eat, was exhausted, and I was still optimistic. Nothing was my most miserable or glorious thing. Joys and sorrows, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace, are all processes that I must go through in my life, but my mentality will always remain in a state of going with the flow, and will always be the realm of human law, earth law and heaven, heaven and earth, heaven and law, and dao law. ”
The so-called art is the character.
Disciple Qi Shanlong commented on Teacher Xiao's "leniency in words, leniency towards disciples, and leniency ... The teacher always answered questions for me, planned my life and career, and he spared no effort to introduce me to his friends, so that my touch will always be engraved in my heart... He acted spontaneously, achieving the true disposition of everyone in art, and he was rigorous in his studies and did not let us let go of every detail. ”
Ah Yong commented that he "every time he goes to his studio, everyone who has been there knows that he will enthusiastically introduce all the friends present to you and let everyone exchange business cards with each other and contact each other later." So we met friends and friends and friends of friends and friends of friends of friends. Xiao Kuan loves his friends, but he never takes them for himself and becomes the private property symbolized by "connections". He wants the more friends the better, and the more friends he has, the better. Of course, there seem to be people here who don't want to be friends, but he doesn't care, he tolerates, he is generous, he tolerates, he allows such people to exist. He said, "I want to be a hundred rivers!" He laughed all the time, pretended not to see it, and even tolerated a few rare "friends" among his friends to take away the cigarettes on his coffee table... Mr. Xiao Kuan's carelessness is really a kind of "willingness" for too many and too small trivial matters in life, and he has one of his principles called "big complexity to simplicity". Everything is huge and detailed, everything is tantamount to leaving the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds, how can a narrow chest that focuses on sesame seeds make himself broad? People who do not have the same feelings as the sea can never write the ink words with the same feelings as the sea, only Xiao Kuan can and turn this ink into waves, the waves into waves, the vast into the sea, the sea and the sky are colorful, the waves are endless... We admire the ever-changing ghost Xiao Kuan, his simplicity, his chic and frankness, his talent and handsomeness, his wisdom and elegance, his simplicity, his indisputable ease, his integrity and righteousness, his agility and insight, his goodness, and his sword and guts. Further, we appreciate his virtue carrier, we appreciate his haina hundreds of rivers. ”
Author's summary: This is the ever-changing ghost talent in the impression of me and some admirers - Xiao Kuan, who has the characteristics common to artists and has characteristics that many artists who are not on the same side of thousands of people. All in all, Mr. Xiao Kuan staged a "changeable" life in the art world. However, from his grass seed poems, I read that he was strong, and from his poem "Xiao Kuan drunkenly returned to Ah Yong Yuling" he was lonely:
The crescent moon draws out the tears of the stars
The tip of the grass picks out the dew song
Vicissitudes brew a pot of wine
The soul is difficult to meet a few people to drink
Perhaps in his heart, the voice is always difficult to find, perhaps no one can fully understand him imitating him and surpassing him; There may be many uncontested careers, and there are still no one who can reach the ideological realm that makes people feel that they can't reach the desire to talk and rest-------
But I don't think that matters anymore. No matter how complicated life and the world are, as one person who knows him said, this master of art is always so enthusiastic and unrestrained, always teaching us to constantly understand life and life, and always be full of confidence and hope. I think that's what it means for me to study Xiao Kuan.
I have always agreed with the following statement: "The artist should first like art, or a hobby, but once he can be called an artist, it is not enough to like and love, art should be the mission of giving everything for his life, this mission itself will push the artist to the depth of life, and its values, outlook on life, and spiritual things are reflected in the work and affect everyone." Xiao Kuan's success cannot be denied to have the genes of talent and intelligence, but this is by no means the decisive factor for the achievement of genius, and the efforts of the day after tomorrow are an inevitable ladder for an artist to succeed, and I am convinced that his persistent pursuit of artistic career and the exploration and innovation of cultural inheritance are never stopped.
(Never met, epidemic invitation, do not understand the art relationship)
(2020.4.26 Finished)
Attached: Xiao Kuan Introduction:
Xiao Kuan: (Xiao Kuan) was born in Tianjin in 1949, his ancestral home is Cangzhou; He is a member of the China Artists Association, the China Printmakers Association, the China National Conditions Research Association, the China Planning Expert Committee, the Calligraphers Association of the Central State Organs, the Expert Judge of the Ministry of Culture's Artistic Talent Pool, the Planning Expert of the China Planning Management Steering Committee, the Senior Painter of the Xinhua News Agency Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the Art Consultant of the Asia-Pacific Economic Leaders Summit, the Dean of the Generation Tianjiao Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the Part-time Professor of the College of Literature of Jilin University, the Visiting Professor of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Arts, the General Planner and Initiator of the International Integrity Festival. Chief planner and initiator of the International Romantic Festival.
Chronology of Xiao Kuan (Xiao Kuan):
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Born in Tianjin in 1949, he went to inner Mongolia in 1968, graduated from the College of Literature of Jilin University in 1977, and is now a senior painter of xinhua calligraphy and painting institute of Xinhua News Agency, nicknamed "Changeable Ghost Talent". In 1974, he created a print (chromatic woodcut) "Red Propagandist" and was selected for the Fourth National Art Exhibition; In 1984, he created the comic strip "Modern Office" and the comic strip "Julima" and was selected for the 6th National Art Exhibition; In 1985, he joined dozens of state-level art institutions such as the China Artists Association and the China Printmakers Association. In 1999, the poetry collection "Grass Seeds" was published by writers publishing house; In 1998, Xiao Kuan's calligraphy "Wanting to be poor and go to a higher level" won the "Gold Award" in the large-scale calligraphy and painting exhibition of the fourth anniversary of the founding of zhongyuan calligraphy and painting in the fourth anniversary of the founding of zhongyuan calligraphy and painting; In 1999, the poem "Inscription of the Old Zhiqing Cultural Village" won the first prize in the Cross-Century 99 Chinese Poetry Competition; The poem "Inscription of the Old Zhiqing Cultural Village" was selected into the "Selected Works of Chinese Poetry" and was awarded the "First Prize"; His calligraphy won the special gold medal of the "National Folk Arts and Crafts Calligraphy Exhibition", and in 1999, he won the honorary title of "Artist of Virtue and Art on Both Sides of the Strait"; In 2000, he was the best overall planner of Chinese enterprises", and his participation case was awarded the "2000 China Enterprise Gold Award"; In 2003, the large-scale sculpture group "Beijing Tianqiao Shijing Characters" was located in the North Square of Tianqiao Xie Street; In 2005, the styling design [Detoxification Devil Car] won the "Best Illusion Award" of the China Automobile Styling Design Elite Competition; In 2006, the series of lectures on "Xiao Kuan's Spiritual Planning" was successively broadcast on 100 TV stations across the country; In 2006, the statue of Mr. Gongmu, a poet educator who edited the lyrics for the "March of the People's Liberation Army", was located at Jilin University; In 2008, [The Third Way] launched three sets of Xiao Kuan's poetry series; In 2008, Chinese calligraphy and painting artists won the gold medal for promoting the Beijing Olympic Games and supporting the Beijing Olympic Games; In 2009, more than a dozen sculptures of the "Harmony House" series were located in the Population and Culture Park of various districts in Beijing; In 2009, Nanyang Liquor in Moutai Town launched the "Xiao kuan Laotai Dionysus" art wine as a gift for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China; In 2009, the work "Bull Rushing to the Sky" in the "Long Live the Motherland - Excellent Works of Chinese Contemporary Calligraphers and Painters" was collected by the China Cultural Relics Conservation Foundation; 2010 World Expo Chinese Elements Ink Painting Finale Exhibition; 2010 Asian Games book French painting exhibition; In 2010, he created 81 comics of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching [Lao Tzu Dao Te Ching]; 2010 You [Yuanfang Publishing House Published [Nine Candidates for Contemporary Chinese Poetry] Xiao Kuan topped and inscribed the title of the book; In 2010, Xinhua Publishing House published [Xiao Kuan Lao Zi DaoDeJing Comic] as a national ceremony in the Great Hall of the People's premiere ceremony for global distribution; Xiao Kuan won the 2010 China Construction Annual Conference [2010 China Urban Sculpture Innovation Award]; Xiao Kuan won the 2010 China Influence Annual Conference [2010 China Influential Outstanding Person Award]; In 2010, Xiao Kuan won the "China Harmony Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award"; In 2011, Xiao Kuan's creative Jingbian [World Sculpture Park] was officially launched; In 2011, Xiao Kuan won the "Changxing Cup" National Calligraphy and Painting Hundred Masters Gold Award for the 90th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China; 2012 Xiao Kuan planned and launched the first [3.16 International Integrity Festival] successfully lit the flag; 2012 [East-West Artists Association (New York)] Awarded to Mr. Xiao Kuan: [Lifetime Achievement Award]; 2013.3.16Plan and initiate the "Second International Integrity Festival" and establish the "International Integrity Volunteer Alliance"; In 2013, Xiao Kuan's calligraphy "CaiZhi Life" was compiled into the sixth grade book of "Calligraphy Education Book for Primary and Secondary Schools"; In 2013, the 18th National Congress of China Stamp Album (Beautiful China) issued the "Xiao Kuan Art Stamps"; In 2013, Taiwan's "Cross-Strait Tengrui QiZi Shu Le Xiang Year" Famous Artists Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition; On March 16, 2014, we planned and launched the "3rd International Integrity Festival" and held a summit forum at the National Convention Center; January 2015 "Grass Seeds Welcoming Spring" Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition; On March 16, 2015, the 4th International Integrity Festival Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition was held; On March 16, 2016, the 5th International Integrity Festival Shaoshan Summit Forum was held; On March 16, 2016, he was hired as the honorary village chief of Shaoqian Village in Shaoshan City; On April 16, 2016, he was appointed as the planning expert of the China Management Steering Committee (the first session).
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Xiao Kuan said that the chronology is too cumbersome, in fact, it is the artist who crawls out of the ditch and only sees "Tomorrow's sun is the brightest!"
Or end with Xiao Kuan's "dialogue" with tomorrow -
dialogue
Xiao Kuan
My language has dried up —
Your eyes are crystal clear and you don't need to be hanging in the mouth
My vocabulary withered —
Your lips are euphemistic and subtle, and you don't need a leaf to know the autumn
My voice faded —
Your ears don't need to be impetuous
My heart is far away —
Your back avenue does not need to say goodbye
Telepathy requires no words
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Emotional communication requires no vocabulary
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No sound is required
- Thought resonance
There is no need to explain
- Quantum entanglement
I went straight down alone —
Hear footsteps behind you...
(Xiao Kuan2020.4.26 at Xiao Kuan Caotang, Tianjiao Painting Institute, Beijing)