Source: People's Daily
Phoenix Spreads Its Wings (printmaking)
Sha Yonghui
Flying Dreams (Chinese painting)
Sun Juanjuan
Chinese Speed (Chinese painting)
Zhang Jing
Guizhou "Heavenly Eye" (print)
Zhou Jirong
"Shenzhou" flew in the sky, "Chang'e" ran to the moon, "Tianwen" probed the fire... From Made in China to Manufactured in China, China's scientific and technological strength has achieved leapfrog development, and the industrial structure has been continuously optimized and upgraded. The innovative vitality of China's intelligent manufacturing has attracted the attention of art workers. They go deep into the front line to experience the rhythm of reality, strive to excavate the humanistic spirit behind China's intelligent manufacturing, present their inner feelings with the concept of walking with the times, and show the new achievements and new heights of China's intelligent manufacturing with creative visual language. This batch of art creations around China's intelligent manufacturing, good at capturing the epitome of the times, mostly present large themes with small incisions, visual shock, strong spirit, meteorological grandeur, vividly showing the heavy equipment, major equipment, major projects, etc., deeply reflecting the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, but also to promote the theme of art creation provides a certain enlightenment.
Experience: The Age of True Feelings
As an artistic expression of the national narrative, thematic art creation should not only reflect the "grand" characteristics with technical rationality, but also convey the temperature of the times. How does thematic art creation create an artistic context when representing a specific historical or realistic fragment?
The true feelings of art workers are indispensable in creation. Only by perceiving the times with true feelings can we cut into the essence of the object being represented, and then discover the "meaning" it contains, and find the "secret recipe" of art creation. When creating the print "Guizhou "Heavenly Eye"", the painter Zhou Jirong crossed the mountains and mountains just to appreciate the style of this major project. When he saw the 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST) embedded in the lofty mountains of Guizhou, he was deeply shocked. In his creation, Zhou Jirong transforms this experience into artistic expression, not only making full use of the linguistic advantages of printmaking, highlighting unique visual feelings, but also introducing the wisdom of traditional Chinese painting in spatial processing, and at the same time combining the stars and celestial phenomena in traditional Chinese astronomy to romanticize the background of the picture. At night, the "Eye of Heaven in China" harmoniously blends with the vast sky and the vast mountains, quiet and tranquil, reflecting the grandeur of the scene.
Having an authentic emotional experience is only the first step in creating a good work. On this basis, we can deepen the intention of the work by digging deep into the theme around the object of expression, feeling the spiritual power contained in it, and thinking from the aspects of ideological height, cultural connotation and aesthetic taste. For example, Zhang Jing's Chinese painting "China Speed" shows the familiar high-speed rail. The creators take "speed" as the intention, appropriate and appropriate, which not only symbolizes the continuously improving speed of China's high-speed rail, but also represents the rapid progress of China's manufacturing industry and witnesses the rapid development of China. With a sense of design, concise and general language, the works highlight the sense of science and technology and scene creation, and have a strong atmosphere of the times, which well shows the development speed and innovation of China's high-speed rail. Ma Jiawei's oil painting "Height: 5G Xiong'an" is intended to be "height". The works not only show the physical height of 5G base stations, but also show the significant improvement of China's information technology innovation capabilities. In addition, Sha Yonghui's depiction of Beijing Daxing International Airport's prints "Phoenix Spreads Wings" and Sun Juanjuan's Chinese painting "Flying Dreams" showing the development of the aerospace industry are also distinctive and appropriate, and their ingenious conception and visual effects are very impressive.
In the artistic experience of going deep into real life again and again, the artists see the unseen with torch-like eyes, unfold artistic ideas with a sense of truth, and present a deep understanding of China's intelligent manufacturing with visual images.
Discovery: The Beauty of Technology
From smart phones, household appliances to the country's heavy equipment, the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry is inseparable from the support and leadership of scientific and technological innovation. A number of major scientific and technological achievements have brought people the intuitive feeling of seeking truth and innovation, and have an irreplaceable and rich beauty, which contains a deep humanistic spirit behind them. Through careful observation, the artist skillfully captures this special beauty and expresses it in the work, bringing the viewer a unique aesthetic experience.
From the different beauty of science and technology, some artists have realized the ideal light contained in the heavy equipment of a big country, combining it with the beauty of artistic modeling, color and composition, so that poetic technology applications and aesthetic scientific research results can be artistically presented on canvas. Deng Yi's oil painting "Iron Stream" takes all kinds of equipment of our army as the main depiction object. The creators use strong colors and strong lines to shape the image, the picture is clean and neat, both with the beauty of flowing rhythms, but also rich in rough and fierce aesthetic taste. Zhang Zhenjiang's oil painting "Heavy Equipment - Offshore Oil 981" focuses on the sense of science and technology and power of the drilling platform. The creators cleverly use the upward look composition and use red as the main color to create a sense of solemnity and sacredness. The ships cruising around the rig and the planes lingering in the sky together with the platform form a magnificent picture of fighting for the country.
The combination of science and technology and art provides a rich space for artists to imagine and create. With the continuous advancement of the "integration of science and art", the beauty of science and technology and the beauty of science and technology will be reflected in more fine art works.
Expression: Strive to sublimate ideas
With the experience and aesthetic discovery of the object of expression, it is also necessary to integrate it with the relevant thinking and implement it in the work. No matter how good the intention and discovery, if the artistic image is missing the cohesion of emotions and the sublimation of ideas, the work is inevitably limited to simple illustrations, and the form is not interesting. Especially when the content of the performance is a major theme such as Chinese intellectual manufacturing, the expression of the work is more different from the depiction of ordinary objects in daily life. In the face of such new subjects, it is often difficult for artists to carry and accurately express the rich connotation of such themes due to their previous creative experience, familiar expression methods and usual presentation methods. The vivid expression of such themes depends on the new development and new creation of art workers based on reality, so that the creative ability avoids problems such as illustration, homogenization and lack of sense of the times.
Some works reflect the artistic wisdom of transformation in innovative expression. For example, Fan Chunxiao's Chinese painting "Made in China Goes global - C919 Big Aircraft", after comparing various creative perspectives, finally selects the front perspective of the aircraft in the assembly workshop, uses symmetrical composition, integrates a variety of manufacturing processes into the same picture, and shows the development process of C919 more comprehensively and deeply. The exquisite brush stroke method creates a tense and orderly picture rhythm, with traditional Chinese aesthetic taste, highlighting the deep meaning of the large aircraft carrying the dreams of generations of Chinese. The Chinese painting "Flying Dreams" created by Anjia, Xia Hesheng, Zhao Yunchuan and others skillfully combines several aerospace heroes in the form of triptych paintings. The dark blue space and the calm and resolute look of the astronauts not only show China's increasingly advanced manned space technology, but also reflect the spirit and will of Chinese astronauts. The works not only express self-confidence and heroism, but also lose their feelings and poetry. In the creative artistic transformation and ideological expression of art workers, different innovative achievements have been better presented, and there has been obvious progress in the expression of artistic interest and the improvement of aesthetic taste.
At present, China's intelligent manufacturing is changing with each passing day. Art workers should continue to use innovative ideas and full of enthusiasm to deeply feel the rationality and sensual beauty of China's intelligent manufacturing, strive to excavate the humanistic meaning behind it, use paintbrushes to provide people with spiritual food, and paint a beautiful chapter for the times.
(The author is a professor at Nanjing University of the Arts)
Typography: Cai Huawei