Mr. Sun Molong (1931-2021) is a native of Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province. Professor Sun Qifeng, a cousin of Shi Cheng, became a professional calligrapher and painter. He has successively served in the Shandong Provincial Art Museum and the Shandong Academy of Painting. Before his death, he was a national first-class artist, a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, an art editor of Shandong Youth Daily, a professional painter and director of the creative department of Shandong Art Museum, a first-class artist of Shandong Provincial Academy of Painting, an art consultant of Shandong Academy of Painting, an advisor of the Provincial Artists Association, an honorary chairman of the Shandong Youth Artists Association, a professor of the Oriental Art Research Institute of Shandong University, and a member of the Shandong Provincial Art Appraisal Committee.
Mr. Sun Molong
As a painter who grew up in tandem with the Republic, Mr. Sun Molong pursues truth, is open-minded, humble, does not tend to fashion, does not seek to be heard, as an upright person and a sincere artist is his goal in life, and it is also what he has been diligently pursuing for more than 80 years of life. Watching his flower and bird paintings, mostly based on the interests of mountains and countryside, inadvertently tends to combine with landscapes, which not only broadens and deepens the space of flower and bird paintings, but also creates a fresh artistic conception. Entry is to enter the love, to write the scene is to write the love, immersive, to get the love. Sun Molong's figure paintings are mostly based on rural girls, folk customs, and ancient people's songs, touching people, and Mo Xianhu is affectionate. The mellow and sensuality of his calligraphy contains a kind of elegant atmosphere of the scroll, frank and simple without sticking to the rope ink, simple and transparent without kitsch and sweetness. In his works, we not only read the breath of life and artistic beauty, but also read his own personality taste and ideals and beliefs, there is no doubt that he is an old artist with good character, good art and high moral standing, and he flows out the power of the art of life and art between pen and ink.
Works by Sun Molong
Calligraphy and painting are expensive in tong zi gong
Mr. Sun Molong was born in 1931 in Shuxiangmendi, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province, received a good family education at an early age, adhered to the national culture and moral traditions, handled people decently and open-mindedly, and laid a solid foundation for his future life and artistic journey. "Calligraphy and literature are the most advantageous to learn as a teenager." Mr. Sun Molong said. In his mind, the time when he learned to read and paint as a child was also the most beautiful and unforgettable.
"I was born in The Shuxiang Mendi of Zhaoyuanshi Opposite Village. Father and four brothers. His brother is the eldest son and grandson, 11 years older than me. From an early age, he was instructed by his uncle Wang Youshi to write and learn to draw. I often snuggle up to the edge of the table and watch my eldest brother paint and my sister-in-law dye window flowers. My dream of learning to paint began then. I started writing, and I also painted ink strokes like dead wood jackdaws. His brother Feng also gave me the word Moqing according to the allusion of the name Chi Ao, which was later changed to Mo Long. Later, he left his hometown to go to Beiping to learn painting, and I continued to study at the primary school in my hometown. There is a Mr. Yan who is particularly fond of teaching ancient Chinese, and often reads it in the class, which is delicious. So we brought candles or small oil lamps and went to school to endorse them before dawn. By the time I left elementary school at the age of 15, I was able to memorize many ancient texts. Since I was a child, I have had daily classes, and I began to study calligraphy, Linyan Zhenqing and Qian Nanyuan, and a little longer, I studied the books "Ode to the West Narrow", "Xian Yu Huang", and "Zhang Qianbei". Cursive calligraphy is studied and read Zhang Xu, Zhang Zhi, and Huai Su's "Four Ancient Poems", "Champion Post", "Xiaocao Thousand Character Text", and Huang Tingjian's "Li Bai's Old Travel Poems". Unexpectedly, this ancient calligraphy and calligraphy of the boy skills made me benefit for a long time on the road of later calligraphy and painting. Mr. Sun Molong said.
Mr. Sun Molong is good at Lishu, especially "Zhang Qianbei", loves its square pen, thick and changeable, he pays attention to absorbing the common elements of other Hanli in his years of study, and also draws nourishment from cultural relics such as Hanjian stele stones, bronze inscriptions, brick and tile dang, etc., and complements and trades off the Lishu in various styles, and finally forms his own humble and simple, flexible and frank Lishu style. Calligraphy is not only an art, but also a culture, an intrinsic value art that truly nourishes the country, society and mankind. In Mr. Sun Molong's calligraphy, we see and feel a realm, which is cultivated by a higher cultural and artistic accomplishment and a beautiful soul cultivated by this cultivation.
What a love word
Art is the language of emotion, to have feelings and hair, hair and feelings. Looking back at Mr. Sun Molong's artistic path, I don't know when this word of love and meaning has become the supreme and persistent realm of his art under pressure. Speaking of this, Mr. Sun Molong said: "Maybe it is the teachings and imperceptible teachings of my mentor and cousin Professor Sun Qifeng, perhaps the profound traditional art essence of the Chinese nation that inspired me, perhaps the spirit of a whole new era inspired my soul, maybe it was when I was a reporter for Youth Daily, I traveled all over the land of Shandong, and many rural young friends gave me cordial friendship and encouragement, and maybe there are other reasons, but my artistic career has indeed formed a strong and strong national feeling, the era and life. Firmly constructing the ideological foundation of my creation, which makes my works carry a strong attribute of the times and life! ”
It was 1985, Mr. Zhou Sicong came to Jinan to hold an exhibition, she said: "Art is the crystallization of emotions, is the spark of emotion, a person with indifferent emotions can not become an artist, without talking about form, there is no art, and form must be created with emotion." It is also this brief sentence that guides the direction of Sun Molong's artistic pursuit. He successively worked as a cadre of the Youth League, a reporter of the Youth Daily, and an art editor, and in order to work, he traveled all over the land of Qilu, made many peasant friends, and drew countless sketches and sketches. The experience of life and the tempering of work have cultivated his spirit of diligence and studiousness and keen observation of life, so that his art has been closely linked with real life from the beginning, and empathy and materialism have become the spiritual fulcrum of his painting creation, and have become the source of his search for poetry and painting and the embodiment of a kind of vitality and beauty attributable to authenticity.
Mr. Sun Molong's figure paintings are divided into modern characters and classical characters, of which modern figure paintings are mainly based on the rural girls he is familiar with, and he paints simple and ordinary labor scene poems as ink pictures, showing his love for real life and poetic attention. Keen observation and the ability to capture the beauty of new life make his rural life and characters show the characteristics of full of interest and endless meaning. Among the classical character works, Li Qingzhao, Pu Songling and Liaozhai characters are Mr. Sun Molong's favorite themes, reflecting his understanding and understanding of classical aesthetics and the spirit of traditional culture, otherwise, it is difficult to condense complex meanings, moods and emotions in a concise picture with such concise pen and ink, simple language, and just right.
Mr. Sun Molong often said: "Characters, as artistic images, should have their own spirituality, quality and different emotions in a specific environment, and should be moved by the emotions of the characters, and cannot only be used as a carrier of pen and ink or a prop in the form of pictures." Now looking at works such as "In Front of the Door of the Martyrs", "Mountain Spring", Li Yi'an's Word And Painting "Gaze Map", "Liuquan Resident", etc., I am still full of emotions and cannot be myself. Or that sentence, what a love word. ”
Take inspiration from nature
Once the artist grasps a natural object, the object no longer belongs to nature, and this "nature" that does not belong to nature contains the artist's affection. This "nature", which does not belong to nature, is a kind of "prejudice" against nature, an "illusion", this "illusion", which is different from others, is related to the artist's feelings, and the so-called illusion here is the author's emotional discovery. This is the true meaning of artistic creation that Mr. Sun Molong realized.
Mr. Sun Molong has been painting flowers and birds in recent years, and most of his favorite subjects and objects of expression are taken from the countryside, he said: "Contemporary painters can not only focus their eyes on literati paintings and a few painful brushstrokes and ink sprinkles and ignore creativity, the era of yibi sloppy is basically over, painters should practice what they preach, discover and create in life." Therefore, his plum blossoms are clean and cold, arrogant and elegant, fresh and beautiful, which contain his own spirit and emotional sustenance, and have the symbolism and metaphor of expressing the chest. Painting bamboo painting lilies, Mr. Sun Molong is quite original, he directly faces the bamboo in life, captures its endless vitality of life, although it follows the double sketching method, it is full of the fresh breath of new life. And a TV series "Cliff Lily" made him really fall in love with the lilies, especially the implicit, elegant, calm, natural and frank quality of the wild lilies makes him often think about it, his wild lilies and branches are accompanied by ink lines as soothing curves, different curves are staggered and combined, constituting the order and level of space division, the branches and leaves are staggered, the flowers have different postures, he uses his own observation and sketching as the basis, writes love on paper, empathizes, makes it full of emotion and vitality, showing natural innocence, Refreshing and plump breath and beauty.
Many people say that Mr. Sun Molong's sparrows are interesting, he said: "This is related to the fact that I fed small sparrows as a child, from just growing feathers to familiar human feelings, you can release them, fly to the roof, and arrive as soon as you call." Nature is even more difficult to show its habits when painting. I remember the division of labor to see the garden when I was a child, and in the evening, the old trees on the side of the field reflected the sunset and the scene of the flock of birds gathering noise, which often aroused my feelings. As I grew older, I was asking from time to time in my heart, and there were several degrees of sunset red outside the sky on the side of the field in my hometown, and a few more birds were calling. ”
"Fifty years of pillows and stones looking for dreams, trance, god and things, or flowers or grasses, looks out of god, return to the truth; sixty years of ink sea dragons, deep and shallow, running snakes and walking, is upside down, intoxicated with ink rhyme, I am in it." Advanced culture and art should advocate national feelings, advocate truth, goodness and beauty, and advocate the sense of the times, it is not easy to do this, it requires artists to change their concepts and be sensitive to the pulse of the times, and Mr. Sun Molong is starting from the essence of art, carefully understanding the collision and enlightenment of real life on himself, summarizing and summarizing the spiritual labor process from nature to art. He always stood on the commanding heights of the spirit to create his own artistic world, so he deserved to be the singer of the times. Wen Fu Xiaoyan