Oil painting art has developed in China for more than 100 years, and oil painters who call themselves "masters" abound, but oil paintings that can be called classic masterpieces by the public are rare.
It's almost negligible, so why doesn't any painter of classic masterpieces dare to call himself a "master" or accept the praise of others? This problem, which has not been solved for decades, should be that no one wants to say the real reason for it.
However, Chen Danqing, a famous contemporary painter, said the reason for this, and Chen Danqing said: "Art for the sake of life will surely become a master, and Mr. Xu Beihong is such a person."
Carefully understand Chen Danqing's words, it makes sense, "art for life" is to dedicate the entire life to art, or to fight for art for life,
This is also Xu Beihong's artistic values, we look at every oil painting he writes, whether it is landscape painting or human body painting, the most intuitive feeling for people is that the work is full of age,
The so-called "sense of age" is that the character scenes in the picture are not exaggerated because of the modification of color brushstrokes, and are still consistent with the current or past character scenes.
These are all character scene spaces that have happened and existed in real life, so paintings with a "sense of age" can always make people nostalgic.
Even if some people have not experienced the same era as the painter, because of the "nostalgic" effect, so there is emotional resonance, Xu Beihong's oil paintings are like this,
So what does "this look" look like? Or how does Xu Beihong make the scene space of the oil painting characters in his pen full of "sense of age"? From the perspective of the effect of line strokes, the morphological characteristics of the characters in the picture are completely in a state of "plausible rather than similar".
The simple understanding is that the character scene space is not particularly clear, nor is it very vague, Xu Beihong's "plausible" line brushstrokes,
It is the realism of the deep meaning, not only the appearance of the characters, but also the atmosphere of the environmental space in which the characters are located, but also the emotions generated by the characters because of the environmental space.
When we look at Xu Beihong's human body oil paintings, it is very real, women because of their experiences in life, emotions, thoughts, etc.
And the overall state expressed is a very natural state, the painter did not use delicate line strokes to modify, nor did he use very rough line strokes to depict,
Because these two ways will lead to the character is not in line with her era, which is exaggerated, and there is no way to achieve the meaning of deep realism,
If it is said that the current painter depicts the brush stroke lines of the human body oil painting with extreme delicacy, this is understandable, because now is an "era of beauty", and the painter has made the character extremely "beautiful", and now people can also accept it.
However, Xu Beihong's era, there was no "beauty", so Xu Beihong himself will not deliberately "beautify" the characters in his pen, of course, Xu Beihong can achieve the effect of "beauty",
However, his artistic values make him not to do this, the "realism" of oil painting is like the process of a person's life experience, what he has experienced, will be reflected in color brushstrokes; those who have not experienced it will never be portrayed by imagination.
Of course, Xu Beihong is not only well depicted in the human body, those women who wear clothes are also well portrayed, and the form is generous, which reflects the environmental atmosphere of the era in which they are located.
It should be said that "secular atmosphere and secular beauty" are vividly displayed, and such an effect can be achieved, that is because Xu Beihong is an art for life.
It is worth noting that "art for life" does not mean to make a living through art, but to express the entire life in an artistic way, and to reflect the real life in the art work.
To understand in detail Xu Beihong's oil painting style and character emotions, it is not a simple thing, and it is not something that can be clearly explained in three or two sentences.
Through Xu Beihong's artistic values of "art for life", we can understand the artistic value of "art for art's sake" a little simpler.
Obviously, the phrases "art for life" and "art for art's sake" mean very different things. "Art for art's sake" This is the attitude or state that most painters have,
The form of art is complex and diverse, including virtual imagination, in this creative process, the painter's personal emotional imagination is reflected in the work, and these emotional imaginations may not be understood, so "art for art's sake" is a way of expression that contains impracticality, which is the vast majority of common creative methods, so that the "cookie-cutter", not to look, so that the vast majority of contemporary painters we see the oil painting works of the characters always appear so false and exaggerated, The characters in the paintings do not show their own attitude towards life, which is because the painter himself lacks the value of "art for life". Finally, we must understand that color is the carrier of oil painting art, color can replace all emotional emotions, and the painter's artistic values determine their own attitude to art, different attitudes, emotional emotions are naturally different, and the way of expression when creating is different, or real or empty.
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