Text, photo/ Wang Zhongshan
On a summer morning, the sun just emerged from the eastern horizon, shining with a soft light that doted the sky and the earth with great beauty. On the banks of the Shali River, next to the Moon Bend Lake, Chen Chunsheng opened his easel and looked at the lotus flowers on the lake, drawing lines and paintings with one stroke, and the outline of the lotus flowers gradually appeared on the paper, vivid.
Who is Chen Chunsheng? His pen name is Chunrun, a member of the Henan American Association, a native of Xu Shen's hometown and Zhaoling District of Luohe City, whose grandfather was engaged in carving and carpentry, and because of his family's influence, he liked to paint since he was a child. Because there were many brothers and poor families, and they could not afford to buy pens, ink and paper, Chen Chunsheng used pencils to draw comic strips, or went to school to pick up pen heads thrown away by others.
Living in the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s, painting and painting seemed to the villagers to be "not doing the right thing", because of painting, Chen Chunsheng was not less scolded by his father. His mother was kind, and every time she scolded, she could always get her mother's protection, and to this day, she always has a special feeling for her mother.
The plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold. Chen Chunsheng graduated from junior high school and joined the army, and engaged in publishing and newspaper work in the propaganda team of the army. After changing careers, he went to Beijing to work hard, and by chance, he was favored by a company and sent him to the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts for further study, and then entered the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts for four years. After graduation, Chen Chunsheng returned to Luohe to open a company, still engaged in painting, and later served as an assistant teacher in the foreign training department of the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he worked for another three or four years. During this period, he successively visited Huo Chunyang, Yu Jigao, Wang Qingsheng and other famous teachers, and received face-to-face guidance from famous teachers, which benefited Chen Chunsheng a lot, and the level of paintings became more and more mature.
Since then, Chen Chunsheng's works have continuously appeared in various exhibitions across the country, and various honors have followed. In 2001, the work "Majestic" was selected for the National Fine Arts Exhibition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China; in February 2016, the work "Memory of the Old Garden" was selected for the 14th Chinese Painting Exhibition; the Consulate in Houston of the United States specially customized its painting "Xiongguan Tu"... Chen Chunsheng is currently a director of the China Calligraphy and Painting Association, a member of the Henan Artists Association, the deputy secretary-general of the Luohe Artists Association, the deputy director of the Art Committee, a member of the CPPCC Yuanhui District Committee, and the vice chairman of the Yuanhui District Artists Association. He is also a painter of Luohe Calligraphy and Painting Institute, a painter of Luohe Municipal CPPCC Calligraphy and Painting Institute, a member of the Jiusan Central Calligraphy and Painting Institute, a deputy director of the Fine Arts Committee of the Jiusan Henan Provincial Calligraphy and Painting Institute, and the vice president of the Jiusan Luohe Municipal Party Committee Calligraphy and Painting Institute...
Although he has achieved a lot, Chen Chunsheng has never been ostentatious, always low-key and calm. In his WeChat message column, there is such a sentence: Red dust ordinary people, engaged in art, do not flow in empty talk, do not rush to the false name. He believes that painting is an expression of art, an expression of mood, and a communication away from the hustle and bustle and embracing nature. The love of painting stems from the happiness in my heart.
A flower is a world, a leaf is the same. Looking at his paintings, it is a celebration of life. The line is not drawn with a pen, but with emotion, and the red of the flower and the green of the leaf are all inner vitality, hiding the spirituality of life. The lotus flower dots, containing the power of nature, give people a high momentum and visual impact, both the strength of the strength of the force, but also the spirituality of the condensation of the qi, and the inner strength of the whole body, such as the colored movement of one breath, composing a chorus of life, swinging the intestines. As one philosopher put it: to give such majestic and great feelings and manifestations to the earth to which all things belong.
Some people say: writing is writing the heart, and painting the scene is the painting of the heart. Chen Chunsheng's paintings are derived from nature and are higher than nature, and each of his paintings is the display of his soul. In order to find inspiration from nature, he often went to the wild to sketch, and the spring, summer, autumn and winter never stopped. In order to paint the lotus flowers in summer, squatting by the pond is a day, that touch of red, a bush of green, that watery tenderness, both depth and concentration, very emotional. As Wang Guowei said: "All scenery is love language." Painting is the painter's spiritual world, but also a sustenance expression of the emotional world, while Chen Chunsheng depicts the landscape, it is more of a perception of life and life, and between the inches, there is a "big me".
I don't know how to paint, but I feel that the colors are bright, calm, bright, elegant, and have a power to grasp people's hearts, which is difficult to find in ordinary paintings.
In Chen Chunsheng's studio, there is a painting "Mother", the mother's kind face, white hair, old house, and the yang link on the door, it is fascinating, as if the mother is standing next to you, it can be said that the painter has integrated his filial piety, love and emotion into the painting.
"It's really a painting!" I couldn't help but sigh.
Nowadays, many of the famous artists who are active in the Central Plains painting circle are Chen Chunsheng's former friends, or teachers and friends.
Chen Chunsheng was gentle and elegant, with a calm breath on his body and a pair of eyes that found beauty. We went to the mountains to sketch, and he liked to pick up some strange stones and strange wood like me, and when he came back to do a little modification, it was a natural and exquisite work of art. This is the impression of the famous calligrapher and painter Zhang Fujun on him.
In Zhang Fujun's view, Chinese painting has a pen and freehand, but all emphasize writing, pay attention to the use of pen and ink, color and composition of the cloth white, dispersion, echo relationship, not only the composition is wonderful, but also a little, line, surface, black, white, gray pen and ink blend to support, every point, every line is given to the rhythm of life, the work can be vivid and vivid, endless aftertaste. "Chen Chunsheng is a painter of flowers and birds, his works inherit the ancient tradition, imitation of the ancient but not the mud, solid lines, clear colors, natural composition, elegant and popular appreciation, a flower and a leaf show the world, a unique flowing and gorgeous style, highlighting the charm of art." Talking about Chen Chunsheng's paintings, Zhang Fujun was amazed.
"In our Luohe, Mr. Chen Chunsheng is a leader in the field of brush strokes, his paintings from the rules to the structure, the colors are bright, generous, grounded, both realistic and flexible, but also freehand tone, it can be said that elegant and popular appreciation, elegant but not vulgar, with the pen is very powerful. With high artistic content and thickness, rigorous style and tireless viewing, he is a painter with great potential in Luohe. Zhao Ximin, a famous painter and chairman of the Luohe City Artists Association, commented on Chen Chunsheng's works.
Tao Li does not speak, and the next is a mystery. While painting, Chen Chunsheng often teaches students, and many well-known painters are now his disciples. He commented on the homework of his classmates, the speed of speech was not fast, the words were pearlescent, the sentences were concise, humorous and sincere.
Those who know do not speak, and those who speak do not know. Chen Chunsheng's story, and many more, just like his name, floated in the spring wind. Bless the spring life, the art is evergreen, and the fragrance is fragrant!