Liu Jian: Looking for emotions in life

　　　　　　　　　　

　　 A pure ink painting of "Zen Lotus", surrounded by ink-colored darkness, a few bunches of full-grained lotus puffs, as if trying to break free from the worldly clouds and mist. This work, hanging in an important position in the studio of veteran media personalities, is particularly eye-catching. The moist picture, between the buckets, integrates the skillful thick, light, dry and wet, kitkat unique composition, Zen-filled dreamy conception, highlighting the artistic conception of life tension, and very much lamenting the wisdom of the painter.

　　Not long after, I met the painter and had a lot of admiration.

　　On the third floor of the afternoon, a bright ray of sunlight shone directly on Liu Jian's youthful and handsome face, igniting his rich sensual thoughts, from the Central Plains to the Qinling Mountains and rivers, back to the roots of the imperial city, a winding and tortuous road from art to the reporter clearly presented in front of the reporter.

　　He did not smoke, he was fond of tea, he took up his cup, smelled the incense professionally first, and then sipped slowly, and enjoyed it familiarly; he had no long hair, no beard, ordinary attire, not a painter of painter image. He is active in his thinking and good at talking, with a wide range of topics, trends in the art market, the quality of human nature, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism; he is intelligent, sincere, happy, straightforward, and has gestures when he talks about unsentimentality.　

　　 As if at first sight, a pot of fragrant tea rhymes like wine, floating away from the topic of our interview.

　　"Just came back from Thailand, and now I'm sorting out all the way. The quaint Thai island of Phuket, the small town of Chiang Mai, every time I go to a place, I will be idle and elegant, and my lover is busy taking pictures and picking up the scenery, but I am from the perspective of painting, paying attention to the things precipitated by history. Flowers and grass, bricks and tiles, mottled walls, moss between the crevices of the stone slabs, with rich feelings to find creative materials, and then, with pen and ink symbols to interpret the deep feelings of the heart. Liu Jian said.

　　Chinese painters can now be described as overcrowded, and Liu Jian is taking the times as a pole, using life to form branches and leaves, absorbing the elements of the combination of East and West, and blazing new trails to make them icing on the cake, so that they can make their own artistic tree full of vitality. ”

　　Since elementary school, Liu Jian's paintings in his student days have frequently won awards, and in 1998, he entered the Beijing Academy of Painting for further study, and his art was mr. Peng Peiquan, whose flower and bird painting layout was rigorous, the artistic conception was fresh and not unusual, and he sought novelty and became his own style, leaving him with a deep imprint.

　　In the interview, Liu Jian figuratively compared Xi'an to the root of a tree and Described Beijing as the canopy of a tree. Therefore, he still left the capital that was gradually familiar, and set his sights on the cultural ancient capital Xi'an, because the ancient city of Chang'an had the longest construction time in history, the capital city with the most dynasties and the greatest influence; the starting point of the Silk Road, the birthplace of Chinese civilization, he regarded it as the foundation of traditional culture and art, so he decided to stay here and began a long eight-year work and study journey.

　　Here he became acquainted with An Zhengzhong, the former secretary general of the Shaanxi Provincial Artists Association, who was both a teacher and a fellow countryman, and whose social and artistic status was so high that he had to be reverently admired. However, Teacher An lives a simple life, treats people sincerely, is comfortable in the narrowness of one room and one hall, revels in the happiness of working the case, and the good works come from good character and valuable words and teachings, and Liu Jian benefits from it.

　　The Chang'an painting world is full of talents, and the artistic masters such as Shi Lu and He Haixia of the Chang'an School of Painting have become liu jian's good teachers, although their art has its own advantages, and the thickness of the eight-hundred-mile QinChuan affects them and also infects Liu Jian. The atmosphere of the northwestern people is heroic, forming the unique artistic style of that fertile land, he shuttles through the streets and alleys of the ancient city, experiences the folk customs at the bottom, looks for emotions, and occasionally, he is burned with fiery sorghum, and he can also roar a few high-pitched and loud Qin cavity long tones.

　　In the creation of Liu Jian's paintings, there is gradually less impetuousness and thinness, and more heavy thickness. He was a painter who was particularly good at planning his own future, and was able to soberly steer his own wheel of art. From the Central Plains in Nanyang, Henan, to the bustling Beijing, then to Xi'an, and finally to the capital Beijing. It is the political center of China, the window of culture, the strong modern atmosphere and the ancient charm of the imperial city tempt him, and opportunities and obstacles coexist here. Thinking several times, in the autumn of 2007, he once again took root in the ground, settled down here in a down-to-earth manner, actively absorbed the essence of various painting schools, quietly felt the gentleness and pleasantness of Peking Opera, and obsessively admired the gorgeous tension of abstract oil paintings.

　　Liu Jian sighed: "China's traditional culture has been passed down like that for thousands of years, and it is very difficult to inherit, carry forward, supplement and improve. Everything goes with the flow, and the heart follows nature. Close to life, find ordinary people inadvertently discover, through their own touch, and then use their own creations to infect others. When he was sketching, he found a bunch of dry grass swaying in the cold wind at the root of the farm wall, which inspired creative inspiration, respected and compassion for every weak life, between dry and fresh, reflecting the great beauty of nature, after several times of deliberation and contemplation, wild grass and wildflowers became a painting of the rhythm of life, and "Dancing Lightly" naturally came out.

　　An inconspicuous magnolia tree next to the road in Beijing, the main pole was cut off by the gardener, the round stubble, the six or seven vibrant flowers around it, the beauty of the strange number of the earth in spring, was conceived and created by him, and it jumped on the paper to achieve his work "Loneliness". In front of the White Temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the koi swimming freely in the pond also gave him more inspiration, admiring his newly created fish music diagram, the pen and ink are flexible, the spirit is flying, compared with the traditional fish painting technique, the style is similar. The fusion of ancient and modern times in his fish is new and new. Once, when he returned home, he was pleasantly surprised to find his lover's cat lying on the wall with great interest, concentrating on catching the fish in his work "Jiqing Youyu".

　　"Lotus, in Buddhism there is a causal meaning, it blossoms when it bears fruit, there are many painters in ancient and modern times obsessed with it, Xi'an has a Lotus Lake Park, there is a pool full of lotus flowers, Liu Jian often went to sketch to collect several books of creative materials, almost every week to the lotus pond to see the lotus. In the summer, the lake is wafting in the wind with the fragrance of flowers and plants, and there are the songs of various insects; in winter, the residual lotus stands proudly there, crystal clear ice, white snow, and a beautiful mood; in spring, the lotus is spitting buds. The beauty of the lotus pond in spring, summer, autumn and winter made him taste too much of his life feelings

　　It is precisely because of such profound thoughts and skillful expression techniques that collector Ms. Li Mengru will be thrilled by his work "Lotus QingDi Heart", when she was in the stage of life and emotional depression, breaking free of the mud and sonorous blooming lotus