Introduction to Sun Gang's art
Sun Gang, male, born in 1968-05-09, experience: wall painting for about 20 years, mainly art and industrial characters. People are simple, generous, low-key, simple and easy-going. Be generous with facts. Such inadvertently Presented Painting by Sun Gang, elegant, fresh and natural, he is a painter who honestly paints the self in his heart, and has a very natural sense, there is no vanity, no worldly atmosphere, the painting is more of a taste of innocence, painting the most authentic thing in his heart, simple and natural, rotten and true.
Calligraphy and painting are not flashy things, but the essence of life that has been accumulated over the years and has been full of vicissitudes. And the works of calligraphy and painting also show the calligrapher's perception and creativity of life! Calligraphy and painting is such a "god paper", once you fall in love, it is a lifetime of exploration!
"One hand reaches out to tradition, the other hand reaches out to life" is the profound enlightenment left by the Chang'an School of Painting to future generations. Only when painters love life and go deep into life can they continue to create good works. Tradition and innovation are two topics that are constantly debated in the art world. However, deviance and breaking through barriers are the vitality of art. How to find a breakthrough in the rules and laws and use contemporary consciousness to find your own painting language is a struggle and a rebirth after nirvana. Scatter its embrace, arbitrary, do not care about clumsiness, do not care about the advantages and disadvantages, the release of nature in pen and ink is the state that Sun Gang has been trying in his creation, there have been failures, occasionally there are surprises, the more failures, the more methods, there are also valuable lessons in failure.
Sun Gang uses the pen to work finely, the portrayal is meticulous, and the character image is vivid and realistic. Between the mountains and rivers, the trees are shaded, the cottages are strange, the chickens and dogs smell each other, the adults are busy with intense labor, the children graze and deliver food, or play around the knees, holding clothes and looking at each other, so that the viewer is immersed in the scene and comes to life. A kind of labor joy of abundant food and clothing, living and working in peace and contentment jumped on the paper, like a picture of the pastoral style of peach blossom source.
In ancient times, although there was no Labor Day, in order to persuade farmers and encourage farming and weaving, rulers would also order people to draw farming and weaving maps to publicize and promote labor. Sun Gang's vivid paintings of cultivation and weaving vividly depict the scenes of ancient laborers who are naturally simple and diligent in farming and silkworm weaving, and from these paintings, they can also deeply feel the joy of the people's labor of having enough food and clothing and living and working in peace and contentment.
Sun Gang's character paintings with unrestrained lines and enthusiastic colors have created an unprecedented, heroic and cheerful style and a rich atmosphere intertwined with emotions in the history of Chinese painting, which not only laid an aesthetic tone that meets the needs of the times for the creation of ethnic minority theme art creation - optimism, heroism, excitement and enthusiasm, but also shaped a generation's imagination of ethnic minorities and frontiers.
Sun Gang's artistic creation benefits from life, and his artistic expression benefits from his sketches. He uses sketches to realize his artistic concept of painting with lovers, and uses sketchbooks to quickly record the living situations of ethnic minorities. He said that he did not record his true feelings in life at any time, and his artistic life was nearly exhausted.
Sun Gang's paintings strive to use pen, ink and color, in the use of pen free, flexible, wonderful in the movement of the pen up and down, with calligraphy with the pen in one go, the intention to seek charm, the point must be hidden, subtle and delicate. The pursuit of ideals is "light and not frivolous, thick and not flowing into the stagnant, the more new the dyeing, the more ancient the light and the artistic effect." That stroke and line, that little ink, all convey his inner life and aesthetic pursuits, which have long exceeded the general sense of the skill. "Created in the chest, the pen is used for the meaning", "Qi rhyme is hidden in the pen and ink, pen and ink are all qi rhyme", so that the traditional freehand pen and ink language of Chinese painting is loaded with a subjective spiritual connotation, so that the pen and ink have a kind of strength and value of life.