【Viewpoint】Pay tribute to life
——Appreciation of Guo Feng's character painting creation
The bottom of the pen smiled triumphantly
Autumn color autumn fragrance a shot harvest
The chest is really comfortable without hindrance
Yaquitu
Fun map
Xue Qingyu
Guo Feng's figure paintings have always adhered to the path of realism, and his works are full of strong atmosphere of the times, earthy atmosphere and affinity.
The affinity of his works is prominently reflected in his vivid and vivid creation of children's themes. Most of these works are based on the child's free and spontaneous game or reading and art status, which are not only derived from the life around them, but also rooted in traditional art, the pen and ink are flexible and elegant, the shape is interesting, and the color is harmonious. The manifestation of this affinity constitutes guo feng's unique personal style.
The realistic color of Guo Feng's figure painting art is more reflected in the synchronization with life and the times. He has always set his sights on the land where he lives. The out-of-home troublemakers, the homecoming people who are timid, the hometown people who look forward to the return of their relatives, and the people who appeal to the pen are all our well-known fathers and brothers. He loves them deeply, which is a great love from the bones, a strong guarantee that the creation has sufficient emotional concentration. This strong feeling, through the works, infects us and makes us get a different aesthetic enjoyment in the infection.
"Spring Wind Blows Taiping Tune" is a large scene creation, reflecting the scene of rural people leisurely enjoying themselves, the local atmosphere is strong, and the local music and nostalgia are coming to the face. The composition of the picture is clustered and staggered, and the character group portraits are unified and harmonious. Focusing on the subtle expressions and body language of the characters, in order to reveal the personality and heart, and to make the viewer empathize with the spiritual world, this is the charm of Guo Feng's character paintings.
His work "Golden Wind" won the Excellence Award of the Yellow River Cultural Theme Art Works Exhibition in Gansu Province, and his creative testimonial was: "For thousands of years, the fertile soil of the Long River has nurtured generations of yellow river sons and daughters, and has bred a brilliant and brilliant Chinese civilization." The people take food as the sky, and the country is based on agriculture. What I have depicted is a microcosm of the farming life of the Loess people- the picture of the harvest field. There is the sweat of toiling under the scorching sun, and there is the joy and hope of harvesting in the golden wind. This is a tribute to the hard work and self-improvement of the people of The Yellow River, and it is also a gratitude for the nourishment and nourishment of the Yellow River loess soil and the generous virtue. ”
We not only rejoice with him for the joy of contemporary Chinese farmers, but also awaken our memories of our past lives. This is where the ideological value of his works lies, which is what Guo Feng often calls "nostalgia".
Technically, these two works are shaped by sketching and rubbing their bones, dyeing their atmosphere with ink color accumulation, ink painting is the mainstay, ink color is intertwined, dry pen is vertical, and the green is moist. The character's frosted appearance and dusty clothes are abstract and textured. So that the work has a strong formal meaning outside the theme. Guo Feng not only deeply understands the essence of modern and contemporary Chinese painting, but also successfully absorbs and digests the nutrition and spirit of contemporary ink painting and expressionism.
Guo Feng was deeply influenced by famous painters such as his teachers Li Baofeng, Du Ziling, Chen Yuming, etc., and constantly explored the language and spiritual connotation of pen and ink. The richness of his pen and ink language comes from the truth of his life in the long-term sketching practice, but also from the truth of his own heart. He pays tribute to life with humility, simple language and dialogue with life. Not only let every scene in life, the smile of the characters, deeply imprinted in the mind, but also refine and reorganize it, highly generalize, so that the creation reaches the depth and height it deserves, so that the individual can obtain great inner freedom in the process, and let people get both familiar and unfamiliar aesthetic feelings.
(The art work in this article is created by Guo Feng)