Extreme refinement is like no refining
——Reading Chen Lei's landscape painting art
Author:Zhang Ming(Unit:Beijing Vocational College of Economics and Trade)
In the "Outline of Art", Liu Xizai of the Qing Dynasty advocated that "extreme refinement is like no refining, excellent and true, and people's evil returns to heaven." Clearly put forward the dialectical unity relationship between "extreme refining" and "non-refining". The simple "refining" is too revealing, and only when the "extreme refining" reaches the level of "no refining" can it be regarded as reaching the extreme of art. Chen Lei, a teacher at the School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Art of the China Academy of Art and the head of the Department of Chinese Painting, shows us a masterpiece of art with his simple emotions and simple and idyllic brushstrokes.
Song Han humble said in the "Complete Collection of Pure Landscapes": "The pen stands in its shape, the ink divides its yin and yang, and the landscape is made of pen and ink." "Brush and ink are the basic skills of Chinese painting, and also reflect the artistic characteristics of Chinese painting. Chen Lei believes that pen and ink is a unique spiritual expression of Chinese culture in terms of vision, which largely determines the cultural and spiritual realm of traditional painting. Although his own works are very different from traditional Chinese landscape painting, he firmly grasps the importance of "writing" in Chinese landscape painting.
West Lake Jade Belt Bridge Chen Lei/Painted
Chen Lei's landscape paintings draw on Huang Binhong's creative experience of "five strokes and seven inks", especially the "ink accumulation method", but his "ink accumulation method" combines traditional Chinese painting brush and ink with the expressive language of Western modern art. At the same time, he combined the scattered perspective of Chinese painting with the focal perspective of Western painting, and chose a different and reasonable solution in the overall composition and specific shaping.
Through landscape painting, Chen Lei strives to express his spiritual understanding of nature. Taking his garden sketches as an example, he makes bold choices for the garden landscape in reality, and through artistic expression, draws out the inherent elegance and tenderness of jiangnan gardens with a faint ink blend, and the composition is unique, with fun into reason, rational and interesting.
"Love and situation, image and image", is the ideal realm of landscape painting, but also the soul of landscape painting art. In landscape painting, the beauty of nature has been transformed into a self-aesthetic contemplation, and the landscape in the pen is not a natural image of an image of an image, but a poetic inner image.
Chen Lei is well versed in this. Long-term teaching practice and creative research have provided a strong guarantee for the creation of his picture mood. In his writings, the images are based on real natural scenes, and the mountains and rivers and hills are both "scenery language" and "love language", that is, "scenery" gives birth to "love", and because "emotion" creates "realm".
Qi Baishi said that art is between similarity and dissimilarity. Works of art are a true reflection of real life and personality, Chen Lei's exploration of landscape painting art is still in progress, communicating with the ancients and communicating with the present, he insists on going deep into life, constantly expanding his creative space, thus producing new forms of expression and means.
Guangming Daily (2021-08-20, 16th edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily