Walk into nature, experience the terroir, feel the humanities... Sketching is writing about life, but also about life. On October 17, the "2021 Shandong Art Museum Provincial Art Talent Training Project" was launched, led by Liu Yanchun, general secretary of the party branch of Shandong Art Museum, Yue Haitao, doctoral tutor of Shandong Normal University, and Zhang Minsheng, research librarian of Shandong Art Museum, respectively, as oil painting teachers and Chinese painting teachers, and together with 26 trainees, they went to Tai'an and Qingzhou to carry out sketching activities.
In the course of a week, the members of the seminar have sprinkled the majesty of Taidai Peak, depicted the years of the old alleys of the ancient city, and portrayed the fiery life of the peasant families in the new village. Using the brush as the lens, they appeal to the paper what they see and feel on the way to sketching; they talk about books and paintings, interact with each other, span the distinctions of age, experience, painting type, and subject matter, and constantly broaden their artistic language. Regarding sketching, they have their own unique attitude and expression.
Sketching Notes No. 1: Exploration – Taking the First Step in Sketching
Tai'an Bamboo Forest Temple, CaiShiXi
From October 17th to 20th, the workshop walked into the depths of Mount Taishan, from the foothills to the mountains, and the edge of the creek, you can see the undulating peaks and rapids. Everyone carried heavy painting tools and walked thousands of steps a day, looking for sketching stations and extracting creative materials.
The open and complex scenes of nature give people a strong visual impact, but also bring challenges to the creation of the scene. In the training team, there are several outstanding graduates who stood out in the seventh "Young Future", some of them have just left the college-style teaching, and some specialize in the creation of character painting, facing the new environment, it is difficult to find a suitable entry point for themselves for a while.
Yue Haitao sketched and created
Yue Haitao's sketches
Teacher Yue Haitao talked about the meaning of sketching and put forward his own insights: "Sketching is the foundation of creation, which is not only a tempering of the basic skills of painting, but also can strengthen our observation and understanding of life and the environment. In fact, framing is not so difficult, you can paint anywhere, don't try to fill all the things you see into the picture, the more simple the idea, the purer the picture. ”
Zhang Minsheng and Wu Peixuan sketched and created
Zhang Minsheng's sketches
Teacher Zhang Minsheng warmly invited young creator Wu Peixuan to sit next to him, compose and discuss together, and boldly take the first step of sketching. "I noticed that some children did not dare to write, worried that they could not grasp the laws of landscape painting, worried that they would not be able to draw well. I encourage them to sit down first, and only by writing can they see what step they can complete and slowly progress. ”
Zhao Jun sketched and created
Zhao Jun's sketches
Zhao Jun, director of the Public Education Department of Shandong Art Museum, shared his experience: "The first work is usually to find feelings, sometimes it is painted hard, one is to be familiar with the hand, and the other is to think about the relationship between color and composition in this process, open up ideas, and learn to choose." ”
Fang Hui sketched and created
Fang Hui's sketches
Dr. Fang Hui of the Academic Research Department of Shandong Art Museum believes that the essence of nature is life, not art. Art needs to be refined and generalized by the creator, and through the strengthening of aesthetic language characteristics, to achieve a spiritual expression higher than life.
Li Ming sketched and created
Li Ming's sketches
Sketching seems to be a relaxed style, but it is actually a hard work of spiritual cultivation. Artist Li Ming sincerely said, "The difficulty of sketching is no less than that of studio creation. Will be affected by the interference of objects, the constraints of the environment, want to paint a sense of scene, a sense of characteristics, a small painting, may need a whole day of polishing. ”
Xu Kang sketched and created
Xu Kang's sketches
Coinciding with the arrival of the cold current, the cold wind in the mountains is constantly testing the endurance of the members of the training. No one flinched, and everyone responded to the cold air with full creative enthusiasm, leaving a vivid sketch of the frame.
Sketching Note No. 2: Experience - Find Yourself in Creation
Tai'an Dai Temple, Shaling Village
On the last two days of Tai'an sketching, the workshop went to Daimiao Temple and Shaling Village to deeply feel the influence of Taishan culture on local folk customs, and the sketching creation gradually entered a better state.
Zhang Shuluan sketched and created
Zhang Shuluan's sketches
The historical heaviness of Dai Temple and the rural fireworks of Shaling Village are two very different experiences. Here, young creators gradually find their own creative direction.
Zhou Yuanjin sketched and created
Zhou Yuanjin's sketches
Zhou Yuanjin's creation focuses on slow work and fine work. The colors in the woods, the light and shadow on the stones, she will constantly consider. "This time I sketched with the workshop, and the biggest feeling was the freedom of creation. I will feel different emotions from these grasses, trees, bricks and tiles, and enjoy the blooming power of color expression. ”
Qiu Yi sketch creation
Qiu Yi's sketches
Qiu Yi, who specializes in figure painting, looks for his depiction objects with a keen eye. Farmers who cultivate manta, aunts who sell chestnuts, old masters at the mouth of the village, passers-by who rest in the gazebo, thousands of faces, distinctive characteristics, have become the living materials of his pen;
Wu Peixuan sketched and created
Wu Peixuan's sketches
Wu Peixuan, a fellow figure painter, actively asked the teachers for advice on landscape painting skills, and in just a few days, he gained a lot. He wrote in his diary: "Chinese painting emphasizes the charm and use of the pen, the so-called 'intention is to write first, the text to think later'. From all the teachers, I further appreciated the close relationship between Chinese landscape painting and character, heart and mind, and cultivation, and also began to explore the transformation of painting language from 'shape of objects' to 'expression of my own intentions'. ”
"How about Dai Zongfu, Qilu Qingwei." The permanent exhibition brand of "Qingwei" of The Shandong Art Museum is named after Du Fu's poem for Taishan. Nowadays, the outstanding students of "Qingwei" are experiencing and growing at the foot of Mount Taishan, like a wonderful fate, but also an inevitable connection, indicating the vigorous trend of the young generation taking on new responsibilities and stepping on the stage, and also witnessing the original intention of Shandong Art Museum to support young creators and continuously cultivate and transport outstanding talents for the cause of art.
Sketching Notes No. 3: Breakthrough - Seeking a New Leap Forward in Sketching
Qingzhou Ancient City, Yangji Village, Jingtang Ancient Town
If it is said that sketching Tai'an Station is to cultivate the state of mind in natural landscapes, then Qingzhou Station focuses on understanding human feelings.
The original old city, the traditional bazaar, the wooden signs are full of cracks, and the bluestone bricks have been worn smooth as mirrors. Whose footprints have been left here over the long period of time?
Sun Chunlong sketched and created
Sun Chunlong's sketches
Artist Sun Chunlong took photos of a few melons, fruits and vegetables on the stall, and he said that these common life scenes, if they can be expressed on the picture, will actually be very interesting; some artists love ancient street buildings, standing on street corners to record with pen and ink. Sometimes, only painting can express those unspeakable thicknesses.
Sun Qian sketched and created
Sun Qian's sketches
In addition to the streets and alleys of the city, the seminar also went into Yangji Village and Jingtang Ancient Town, went deep into the countryside and into the peasant households, felt the local atmosphere that came to the face, and the new rural life in full swing under the construction of the new countryside.
Duan Zuoqiang sketched and created
Duan Zuoqiang's sketches
Among the members of the seminar, several artists have participated in the sketching activities organized by the Shandong Art Museum for many times. Some of them are young painters who have grown up from the independent planning brand "Yicai Xinfeng" of Shandong Art Museum, and there are also senior artists who have enjoyed a reputation inside and outside the province. They are looking for new breakthroughs in their studies.
Fan Luming sketched and created
Fan Luming's sketches
Artist Fan Luming believes that the biggest gain of sketching is to adjust the way of thinking, and the meaning of sketching is to go out from the closed studio and go out from the established routine in the mind. Daily sketching is a new breakthrough.
Yang Dalu sketched and created
Yang Dalu's sketches
Artist Yang Dalu painted six sketches in one morning. Although it is a sketch, most of them can be painted separately. As a senior artist, he consciously breaks through some so-called sketching norms, such as using oil paint to directly draw lines to make Chinese paintings, he is not obsessed with writing scenes, but clearly defines his own spiritual pursuit in sketching.
Haizhu sketching creation
Haizhu sketches
Artist Haizhu said, "Every time I participate in the shandong art museum art talent training project, it is an opportunity for experience. Through sketching, facing life, facing nature, and facing civilization, the thinking can be inspired and touched, and the Chinese landscape painting can truly enter the folk and go from the folk to the temple. ”
Hou Bohan sketched and created
Hou Bohan's sketches
Artist Hou Bohan said, "In the process of sketching, I feel very relaxed and comfortable, when a painter is really in nature, accepting the nourishment of natural life and the nourishment of traditional cultural spirit, his creation has personality and inner strength." ”
Sketching Notes No. 4: Innovation - Raising the New Height of Training
Hongchuan Museum of Modern Art, Qingzhou Peasant Painting Institute, Qingzhou Museum
To truly understand a place, you must not only look at the local scenery, but also go deep into its humanities and history. The works created under this historical and cultural influence have bones and souls.
Visit the Hirokawa Museum of Art
On the last day of sketching, the seminar walked into the Hongchuan Museum of Modern Art to appreciate the fine works of famous artists, experience modern art styles, and exchange diversified aesthetic values; walk into the Qingzhou Peasant Painting Institute to feel the unique expression of the peasant paintings with bright colors, exaggerated shapes and lively scenes; walk into the Qingzhou Museum to gain an in-depth understanding of Qingzhou's long history and brilliant civilization...
Li Sheng sketched and created
Li Sheng's sketches
Li Sheng, director of the Academic Research Department of Shandong Art Museum, elaborated on the organizational innovation and deep significance of this art talent training project: "This sketching activity has two themes, one is to promote the integration and development of culture and tourism. We consciously arrange the sketching route in places that have both natural scenery and cultural connotations, using fine arts as a medium, promoting tourism with culture, and highlighting the characteristics of local cultural tourism; on the other hand, we go into mountain villages to depict the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in those originally barren places in the new era, and we hope that we can also do our part to let more people see here and further promote regional development. ”
Secretary Liu Yanchun and his party visited the Qingzhou Peasant Painting Institute
Liu Yanchun, general secretary of the party branch of Shandong Art Museum, was pleased with the spirit of dedication, unity and perseverance displayed by the group of this seminar, and affirmed the results of sketching, "The Shandong Art Museum's provincial art talent training project has been held for six consecutive sessions, aiming to build a platform for art workers, especially young creators, to guide artistic creation to go deep into life, take root in the people, excavate local customs and customs, and strive to launch a group of top-notch creative talents who are determined to innovate, bravely climb the peak and have full potential for Shandong." ”
The members of the training class took a group photo in front of the Qingzhou Peasant Painting Institute
Through the activities, the new generation of creators and senior masters create and communicate with each other to promote the qualitative change of young people's artistic standards; the older generation of artists understand and learn more trendy concepts, and promote the development of art to a higher level. Their exchanges extend from art to all fields, and their camaraderie extends from activities to everyday life. As Teacher Yue Haitao said, "Art is a lifelong thing", after the end of the training, the discussion and refinement of art will go to a farther place. (Zhang Chuhang)