I often watch Shiraishi paint, contrary to what many people think, he does not paint quickly, but very slowly; not casually, but very serious. The larger the ink painting, the more careful it is, because it is not easy to express rich content in a few simple strokes. Great artists are like this, not to mention beginners!
Li Keyan served and observed Qi Baishi's paintings
Although I have painted hundreds of landscape paintings, I still feel very difficult and difficult in the face of new objects.
In addition to being smart, the artist must also be honest, and the person with the personality of a city servant cannot become a big artist, because he has a lucky psychology of opportunism, and he has made some efforts in the morning and wants to make profits at night. Good artists have a simple quality. As Lu Xun said: "Eat grass, milk milk", and unconditionally contribute yourself to the people and to your cause.
Fear of bad painting is not out of the ordinary. As long as you paint with your heart, it doesn't matter if the painting is broken. I have a stamp called "Three Thousand Waste Paintings", which is to encourage myself not to be afraid of bad paintings. Because I am afraid of painting badly, I stick to the rules, do not dare to break through, and always turn in my own circle, which is a manifestation of depravity and it is difficult to progress.
Artists should be good at learning, learning from tradition, learning from contemporaries, Mr. Huang Binhong said, learning art to "make friends", he widely collected ancient and modern Chinese and foreign works as his own reference.
When I went to visit him, I found that his house was full of picture books and paintings, and there was really only a place left.
We learn not only from successful artworks, but also from art that has a circle point and even fails. For example, someone has a good idea and mood, but he does not behave well, and after your efforts to draw it well, this is inheritance. This has always been the case with many scientific inventions, which have been the result of sustained efforts by many people.
It is important to learn from tradition, artists are the explorers of the laws of nature, and so many talented artists in our country have been discussing there for thousands of years and accumulating rich experience. Losing tradition is the biggest fool.
Wouldn't it be ridiculous if modern people abandoned their scientific heritage and didn't want atomic energy, but reinvented the steam engine? The so-called creation is development, and there is no creation in a vacuum. From the perspective of the history of painting, the role of the individual in history is very small, and it is remarkable to be able to promote history, so the experience of predecessors must be seriously studied, and the inheritance must be inherited.
Some young people love to use the thoughts and feelings of modern people to ask for the paintings of the ancients, which is the biggest obstacle to learning traditions. Some young people look at the paintings of the ancients and feel that the distance between them and their own thoughts and feelings is too great to accept, and some even use the viewpoint of Western techniques and scales to demand the works of our ancient painters, thus denying them all.
In the past, there were paintings of Mr. Huang Binhong hanging in the school, which some people could not understand, and some even objected, saying that these paintings were not interesting. In fact, Mr. Huang Lao's paintings have many advantages for us to learn and learn from, but his artistic conception is relatively old, and we cannot completely use the thoughts and feelings of modern people to demand him.
To study traditions, we must have analysis and the spirit of teachers and teachers. Mr. Huang's paintings have a strong sense of whole, the level is very deep, fully expressing the delicate and complex relationship between various objects and images of nature, if they are separated, they are integrated, some paintings look at the lush grass and trees, the mountains and stones overlap, and a stone cannot be found up close, and some paintings fully express the rich atmosphere of the Jiangnan landscape full of water vapor, and have achieved high achievements in pen and ink, which are worthy of our good learning.
Learning ancient painting is the same, good pen and ink is pen and ink, good lines on the study of its lines, in the past I did such work, ordered some small books, the ancient paintings in the mountains and trees characters and so on copied separately, good mood on the entire composition, their own special favorite copy of the full width, which is of great help to me, learning the tradition needs to work hard.
However, the purpose of painting is, after all, to express the painter's own personal feelings, so from the perspective of the painter's creation, direct experience is more important than indirect experience, and only by feeling strongly can I create something, and the predecessors can always say their inner feelings freely. The times have changed, thoughts and feelings have changed, the content has changed, the technique must change, and the technique has developed. Mr. Lu Xun said: If the old form cannot adapt to the new content, it will be added and deleted, and there will be some reform.
Some people specialize in antiques, do not have their own feelings, naturally fall into the formula, this is not the correct attitude to learn heritage, the dross of Chinese painting, I think it is formulaic.
After the Yuan Dynasty, the formulaization is very terrible, many landscape paintings have no feeling at all, out of life, out of reality and become a lifeless shell, many painters in the Ming and Qing dynasties divorced from their own personal feelings, peaks and peaks will imitate Ni Yunlin. Wang Yuanqi's ability to draw lines was incredibly good, but his paintings did not have any artistic conception.
To avoid formulaization, we must go to the life zone, where nature itself is colorful and unpredictable, and it can help us overcome formulaization.
Some people ask me why I love to draw shadows, and why don't I show beautiful shadows in my life? There are many things that the ancients did not paint.
Opposition to formulaization is not a lack of laws, formulaization is the simplification of laws, and any art has its own laws.
Mr. Lee Ke Yan
The essence of Chinese painting, I think it has always been against naturalism, both law-oriented and full of vitality, and works like Fan Kuan's "Travel Map of Xishan" are very exciting.
The greatness of Qi Baishi, I think, is also that he has both a strong traditional foundation and a strong personal feeling, so his paintings can be accepted by modern people, and they also feel coordinated in modern buildings.
In addition to profound traditional knowledge and rich personal experience in artistic accomplishment, painters must also uninterruptedly hone kung fu, and art should not only be studied hard, but more importantly, hard work.