Ma Peitong's encounter with the Angkor Grottoes inspired him to get inspiration from his hometown Han portrait stone "Cutting Stones with Knives", explored the "Pengcheng Carved Stone Stones" method, and successfully created the sensational "Angkor Grottoes Jiaomo Group Painting".
Photo: Wang Zhaopeng
When Ma Peitong created the "Qin Terracotta Warriors", he imagined painting a movie advertisement and writing the "Terracotta Warriors Head" with a radiance. The terracotta warriors were close-up, and the pupils of their eyes also had images and language, becoming a talking "Qin warrior".
What about the background of the close-up Terracotta Warriors? The simple way is to add a little scene of the Xi'an Terracotta Warriors, which is too sketchy, too thin, and lacks a sense of richness, heaviness, and history.
Suddenly, Ma Peitong remembered the composition of the Xuzhou Han portrait stone, and also thought of the patchwork of the ancient rock paintings. Why not absorb the composition essence of Chinese paintings and petroglyphs to create a "new Chinese painting" with both close-up portraits "fresh" and rich and diverse backgrounds.
The composition of the Han portrait stone is colorful and has strong local characteristics, which is a source of the principle of Chinese painting creation. The Majesty, Thickness and Depth of the Xuzhou Han Portrait Stone are closely related to its compositional layout. Its composition has five main characteristics, one is the harmony of the grand scene and the precision of details; the second is the organizational form of "repetition"; the third is the variety of rhythms; the fourth is the clever treatment of symmetry and balance; and the fifth is the expression of time reproduction.
Xuzhou Peixian painter Ma Peitong
Ma Peitong, who lives in the artistic atmosphere of Xuzhou Han portrait stone, mobilizes many elements of Chinese painting and integrates into the exploration of "new Han painting". Therefore, on the background of the terracotta warriors close-up, there are mountains, there are rock paintings, mountain stones, Buddha statues on the mountains, there are solemn and scattered agility of the mountains; with the Han portrait stone of the car and horse travel, the xuzhou car and horse travel map of the rubbing is famous throughout the country, so the terracotta warriors and horses close-up has a group of rubbings; with calligraphy, the Chinese portrait stone with inscriptions is the most precious, so that the inscription symbolizes "picture description", giving the painting years "the finishing touch"...
Therefore, the background of the close-up image of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses has static and moving, there are pictures and texts, there are thick and broad, there are historical memories, there are multiple pen and ink, and the main characteristics of Xuzhou Han painting are skillfully integrated into new explorations, and the whole painting becomes a realistic version of "Jiao Mo Han Painting", giving readers a reading space that is both kind and strange, both grand and subtle, thick and vibrant.
Calligraphy: Yang Shiming
A modern "Jiao Mo Han painting" has successes and flaws. Draw a second painting, play to the strengths and avoid the shortcomings; draw a third painting... Jiao Mo Pengcheng's new Han paintings sparkle in Ma Peitong's studio.
May Mr. Ma Peitong create more "Jiao Mo Pengcheng New Han Paintings" and let the Xuzhou painting world blossom into new flowers.
Yang Shiming in "Iron Bull Bookstore"
Morning of November 2, 2021