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Wen Cao Xi Frog
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I have been following and studying the drawings sent by the circle of friends of The Same Master, so that I can know his cultivation, condition, and state of mind, and I can see the vigorous new atmosphere of an artist.
"Take the body as a furnace, the law as the fire, and the wisdom as the craftsman..." This is a message from the same master in the circle of friends one day.
"The withering of obscurity, or the vigorous nirvana, will eventually return to silence..." This is also the sigh and realization of Master Tongjin in the circle of friends for another day, day after day, every day.
"The spring stone leans on the pine bamboo, and the nostalgia begins to see the poem." The mountains lie tall, and they are more eternal than Si..." This is a poem about poetry that Master Shi Tongjin posted after pasting several freshly completed landscape paintings.
Makihi Bird Diagram (The free bird hides half its head, its eyes are bright, the vines on the trunk, that is the ring)
Muxi Budai Monk (Crutches are like rings, Budai monk still loves freedom, cloth bag fills his freedom)
China has literati painting, while Japan has Zen painting, the two have a great influence of the vast depth of the depth of the two only known to their own people, China has a broad sense of literati painting, Japan has a broad sense of Zen painting, here the broad meaning refers to the deep bone marrow into the gene. Japanese Zen painting, the full name of the "Zen Yu painting school", this "Yu" refers specifically to the leftovers, Maki and Yujian are known as one of the originators of the Japanese Zen Yu painting school. Zen yu aesthetics is a bit like an informal, the meaning of the sketch, and the contemporary art of coaxing aesthetics is a bit similar, no mannerism, a little casual, the image point is to chew the taste of bagasse that has been eaten, it is said that Muxi really takes the bagasse ink painting residue, really a bit of postmodern taste, the average person is willing to dig the so-called rich mineral, and this Zen yu aesthetic put the rich mine not to develop the beauty of the poor mine, a kind of Zen weak aesthetics, just like two martial arts masters to the end, there is no strength, the stronger one wins with an unexpected one , looking very weak, but won. Master Shi Tongjin experienced the Zen aesthetics in Muxi's paintings, and in his paintings he also refined a beauty that seemed to have no realm. To some extent, Chinese Zen painting does not seem to have established a historical status like literati painting or Japanese Zen painting, although Zen painting and Zen art are often mentioned, but there is still a lot of room for modern Zen art. The Zen pen and ink mentioned here should be modern Zen art in the strict sense, and the mention of Muxi here is also completely looking for the source of modern Zen art, and the mention of Shi Tongjin is also for the contemporary construction of modern Zen art.
Artist Shi Tongjin
"Even as idle dwellers" (Shi Tongjin Zen verse), the lotus flower is his favorite subject, often accompanied by the most ordinary fish, birds, in fact, these fish and birds are also the embodiment of practitioners, are here to transform mortals, or the artist himself to taste the portrayal of life. He has a painting, very interesting, there are two fish, a small, a big, big fish in dialogue with the temple lotus whip on a settled bird in dialogue, the fish's two eyes and mouth like Amitabha Buddha said so, the bird's eyes are rarely bright, it should have been no problem to go elsewhere to inspect, suddenly moved by the big fish's Midas epiphany, you see it twisted, the small fish seems to be attracted to the topic of the big fish. The hanging lotus whip is the main axis of the whole work, at this time, like a bow pulled open, very powerful, the inscription of the painting is like a shot arrow, the lotus leaf field and the calligraphy of the inscription echo each other, constituting a thick gable that stretches like a building in the whole work, and a quiet and far-reaching "water folk song" is played between the water and the sky, which can be called a masterpiece of flowers and birds by Master Tongjin.
Painting of Master Shi Tongjin (that whip, that ring, that eye, that heart, that freedom)
"Endure listening to the premonition, opening up and dissolving the hazy" (Shi Tongjin Zen verse), symbolic and mythological Buddhist characters are the subject of his love, often with landscapes, flowers and birds as the background, Buddhist immortal figures in the art world are often: "The shadow of mercy enters the rock", the heavens and the earth are the same as the sun and the moon, and this Zen Buddha-nature is the most ordinary compassion. This is also a painting sent by Master Tongjin in the circle of friends, with the title "If you see that the phases are not phases, that is, if you see them as they come...", the calligraphy pen and ink also has a sense of non-phase ethereality, echoing with the background of the old bamboo, the high knot of the old bamboo is the cultivation of the monk, and the front waiter is like a small shami is a fine bamboo with aura, and a few strokes will see the foundation. And ochre mountains, such colors are ochre brown, ochre yellow, ochre red, are natural mineral pigments, commonly used in Chinese painting, the mountain has a human form, and is a bearded face with closed eyes chanting, giving people imagination space. From the inscription of calligraphy, to the old bamboo in the background, to the ochre mountain in the shape of the mountain, like the Buddhist music with melody, a small movement, a small movement, slowly blooming, spreading from the plane to the dome of the human brain, sending out the swaying movement of the Buddha, from the visual schema of Rulai to evoke the auditory rhythm of music, and then to the philosophical wisdom of consciousness, presenting a unique variation of modern society expressing spiritual upwards.
Painting of Master Shi Tongjin (bamboo, also like the ring in Muxi's painting, even if you sit like a rockery, you still love freedom)
"The clouds and forests float wild water, often ringing the bell of desire" (Shi Tongjin Zen verse). I am willing to look at the artist's paintings that have not yet been finally cleaned up, guessing the mystery of the artist, a painting just posted by Master Tongjin in the circle of friends has not yet been inscribed, and the artist should still sleep in the excitement of creation. There are crane-like water birds on the painting, whether it is a crane or not, the picture has been filled with a fairy breath, the place where the crane claws step, like a stone, more like a lotus leaf, the bird looks back at the sky, and the rhizome of the lotus leaf is whipped into the soil, from the upper end of the entire frame all the way to the bottom of the painting, the late autumn lotus leaf is like a skyscraper blowing a mighty heavenly wind, it is simply a paradise on earth, a touch of ochre can not see what it is, anyway conveys to the reader the feeling of a solid wall, at this time the reader seems to be blind as if he happened to touch the wall, I also smelled a fragrance of lotus, and the artist was actually only half a lotus flower at the top right end, which was really enough to cherish the ink like gold. The crane's most desirable or common thing should also be the vast silence...
Painting of Master Shi Tongjin (whipping the same stem, very exaggerated)
It is not clear how the artist's untitled painting was finally titled, nor how his painting was named. However, Master Tongjin just made a paragraph under the painting, which had a different artistic meaning: "The same life, the situation is different. The same people's hearts, the same enlightenment is different. The same sky, the clouds are different, the same autumn, the leaves are different..." Maybe different pursuits are just different leaves.
(To be continued, see you next week)
link:
Cao Xi Frog: Zen Writer's Pen and Ink: From Muxi and Kierkegaard on the Contemporary Zen Art of Tongjin (part of the series)
Cao Xi Frog: Sartre's Existential Philosophy and Ding Qiufa's "Seeing the Zodiac"
Cao Xi Frog: Nietzsche's Philosophy and Shen Shubin's Painting of the Animal Will
Shi Tongjin's artistic resume
Shi Tongjin, The Number Hualing, the Character Bang Yao, came to the Zen Spirit House Master.
Commonly known as Zhao Wenjie, he once used the name Shi Renshuo and once used the character Dongsheng.
Born in Jilin in 1976.
In 1998, he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts of the Central University for Nationalities.
In June 2000, an exhibition of Zhao Bangyao's works was held at the Ethnographic Museum;
In May 2001, he participated in the exhibition of experimental ink paintings;
In May 2002, he participated in the Urban Anthropology Double Exhibition, Capital Normal University Art Museum;
In June 2005, the exhibition of Zhao Bangyao's new works was held;
In August 2005, he participated in the 12th China Art Fair and his works were collected;
In November 2005, he participated in the China-Korea Modern Art Exhibition and won the Excellence Award;
In March 2007, zhao bangyao painting art exhibition was held;
In May 2007, Travel TV broadcast the TV film "The Art of Walker Zhao Bangyao";
In August 2008, Red Space Gallery held a solo exhibition of Zhao Bangyao;
In July 2010, Guanyin Hall held an exhibition of Zhao Bangyao's works of Zen Yue;
In June 2014, Guozijian and confucius temple museum held an exhibition of Mu Ruo Qingfeng - Zhao Bangyao's works;
In July 2014, Quanzhou Wenze Art Museum held an exhibition of Zen Heart Ink Rhyme - Zhao Bangyao's works;
In August 2019, Tianjin Renmei published "Chinese Contemporary Masters Painting Collection Interpretation Tongjin".
Muxi's Budai Monk has a kind of freedom, as clear as the waterfall that Master Tongjin saw at this moment
attach:
Zen Writer's Pen and Ink- Selected Pictures of Master Shi Tongjin's Art Research Archives (Part 2)
Tongjin Master Art Research Archives
Planning Editor Xu Qiuming
Photo courtesy of Artist Studio