Fan Zeng and Huang Yongyu, some people commented that they are the "east evil and west poison" in the contemporary art world, both of them are "old monsters" in the painting world, both have the ability to paint with a pen worth ten thousand gold, and each has a maverick stinky temper, the two masters have also persistently scolded each other for half a lifetime, and want to come, with the legendary exchange story between them, the future must be able to be recorded in the anecdote book of contemporary art history.
Fan Zeng
As the saying goes, peers are wrongdoers, and it is common for peers to complain, even the most elegant art industry. For example, in the last era, Xu Beihong and Liu Haisu were a pair of famous wrongdoers, and the two criticized each other, and they almost made a life-and-death situation to catch and kill each other.
Just like the reincarnation repeats itself, the dispute between Xu and Liu has become a thing of the past, and the contemporary art world has staged the drama of Fan Zeng and Huang Yongyu catching the "fight".
Huang Yongyu
As the saying goes, it is not that the wrongdoers do not get together, and it is said that the depth of hatred is because of the love of the past, probably even so in the dispute between Fan and Huang - when they first met each other, they cherished each other and loved each other, and after the fight, they became a pair of wrongdoers who scolded each other for half a lifetime, and they almost beat each other in person.
Fan Zeng's life can be said to be a work of equal body, and the articles he has written are not known in geometry, but if you want to say which of his articles is the most widely praised, perhaps, his "crusade" against Huang Yongyu's "essay" can be regarded as one of his most well-known articles.
The title of this article is called "The Tale of the Cockroach", although it is an article, if the illustrations are well typeset, it is almost made into a book the size of a "storybook".
Cockroaches are exodus
"The Tale of the Cockroach" can be called a strange story in the contemporary art world, revealing many secrets that Fan and Huang secretly do not know, and expounding the various causes and effects of the two people's grievances from Fan Zeng's own perspective. The article recounts an experience in which the two almost fought:
One day, Fan and the Huang Hotel met by chance, about the enemy met with a very red eye, huang Yongyu at the neighboring table suddenly got up, shouting that he wanted to hit people, Fan Zeng naturally knew who he wanted to hit, so he looked at a bottle of beer on his table, ready to "hit the bottle" when the other party's fists and feet attacked.
Of course, the scrappy Huang Yongyu was eventually stopped by his brother and wife at the same table, and the bottle that Fan had targeted also escaped.
Illustration of the cockroaches
Because many of his colleagues in the art world at that time did not see the whole situation, it was later rumored that Fan and Huang met in the narrow road of the hotel and fought a big fight, punched and kicked and knocked on the bottle, Fan once clarified in the text that this was only "interpretation" and not a fact, and said: He (that is, Huang Yongyu) is not my opponent at all.
Fan once said that if he really did it, with the few loose fists he had learned when he was young, it would be enough to beat the skinny Yellow to his knees and beg for forgiveness.
Of course, some people say that this is just his blunt words after the fact, after all, this "all-armed action" has not come true.
However, according to the description in the "Tale of the Cockroach", I am afraid that when Huang Yongyu wanted to fight Fan Zeng, his heart may not have put the tall and powerful Fan in his eyes.
Decades have passed since the "Tale of the Cockroaches" was written, but the beams under the Fan and Huang knots have not been forgotten by the world with the passage of time, on the contrary, all people who have seen the "Tale of the Cockroaches" want to see the final ending of this strange article.
But these two "young and vigorous" giants of the painting world have now entered the old age of their lives, perhaps the older they are, the more relieved they are, and they rarely publicly criticize each other.
Huang Yongyu painting
In his later years, Huang Yongyu said: Although I don't like him (referring to Fan Zeng), I still agree with some artistic views; and Fan Zeng said: I remember him well. As for the period of attacking each other like a rendition, Fan Zeng also sighed: It is not what secular people think.