Text/Photo All-media reporter Li Hejian
Julia has loved calligraphy and painting since she was a child, and when she was a child, she painted on glass slides and then showed them on the wall with a flashlight, surprising her friends around her. After retiring, Julia immersed herself in the road of painting, studied seriously, and gradually embarked on the road of art from interest. Throughout the ages, life, cultivation and skill have been the three main internal factors for the growth and success of painters. Julia has always maintained a strong vitality and unremitting spirit of hard work. She is simple and peaceful, attaches importance to traditional techniques, but also pays attention to absorbing new things, and in her artistic career, she perseveres and seeks art. On the basis of the creation of teachers, the knowledge of tradition, and the emphasis on cultivation, his works are enlightened, eclectic, and integrate majestic and broad with qingxiu elegance, with vivid charm, profound skills, pure charm, and independent style. She draws the essence from copying and reading paintings, starting from her own personality and interests. Her ink lotus, wisteria, peony and other works are bold and interesting, written at will, and informal. Anyone who knows Julia knows that she is a learning painter who never says much, never shows up, is versatile, thinks diligently, has the courage to practice, and is bold and innovative. Whenever someone talks about her, she will appreciate her works and her low-key artistic personality from the heart.
Unremitting pursuit and hard study are the inexhaustible driving forces on her painting art path. As the saying goes: "Freezing three feet is not a day's cold." "When the painting addiction comes up, she can paint until dawn without feeling tired. After studying with Peng Ligui, former vice chairman of the Zhumadian Artists Association, she broadened her horizons, understood the basic theories, and began a new artistic pursuit. After studying fine arts at the School of Fine Arts of Renmin University, he drew on his strengths and strived to grow into an artist with both virtue and art.
Julia adheres to the creative concept of "one flower, one world, one grass and one spring and autumn", and the external expression of her works is rich and colorful. Looking at her works, some are light and brilliant, with unique styles, some are accurate in shape and use clear colors, and some are sudden inspiration and divine strokes. Although these works have their own characteristics, what they have in common is that they see the big in the small. Let her paintings of flowers, birds and animals glow with vitality, and show extraordinary from the ordinary, expressing her ideal of caring for nature and yearning for harmony. These works use thick and thin lines and free colors to make the picture bright and vulgar, beautiful and not turbid, light and clear, heavy and deep, and at the same time, due to the participation of emotions and the expression of intuitive image imagery, it generates artistic beauty.
Julia is easy-going, generous, indifferent to fame and fortune, and her works also pursue a kind of casualness, pursuing a kind of skillful combination of the vigorous vitality of nature and the thick accumulation of humanistic temperament. "Flowers become trees, get from nature", it is precisely with a broad mind, can be with nature, it is precisely because of the reverence for nature, in order to be upright in painting. In her own words, "every creation comes from nature, and in the end it returns to the human heart."
Her hobby is painting, and Julia waded through mountains and rivers in order to integrate into nature and pursue art, and her skills were sublimated step by step while getting close to nature. Julia pursues natural brushstrokes, simple, simple and free in her heart. "Kung Fu pays off", Julia is diligent, hard-working and persistent, and her paintings are becoming more and more mature through her own fantastic ideas and artistic skills. She has a bamboo chest before she writes, and when she writes, she is calm and concentrated, the color of the work is quiet, calm, gentle and vast, and the flowers, birds, fish and insects she paints are quite charming, the imagination is rich, and the topic is clear.
"The sword blade comes out of the grinding, and the plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold." Along the way, Julia has worked hard in painting, winning her work a good reputation and general recognition. Her works have been frequently published in newspapers and exhibitions, and have been well received by the art community. She is good at absorbing all beautiful things from nature, taking simplicity, innocence, tranquility and harmony as the expression style, integrating a passion into flowers, plants, fish, insects and human beauty, and strives to hide the theme as much as possible in nature, blending "imagery" and "metaphor", sending meaning to the clouds and the sky, lyrical strokes. Dan Qing writes the sun and the moon, and Han Mo paints the spring and autumn. Julia did not forget her original heart, was a person of great virtue, explored the study of painting theory, mastered famous teachers, and created more teachers, and constantly climbed on the peak of art. The famous painter Lei Jingtao said: "She has a pair of eyes that find beauty, a love that is close to nature, and a pair of hands that can express the beauty in her heart." ”