Shen Wei, the owner of the Endless Book House, is a military painter. Engaged in The creation of Chinese painting for more than 20 years, he has studied under Liu Dawei, Liu Tiancheng, Yuan Wu and other teachers, and later been taught by Wu Yueshi, Liu Huaishan, and Mr. Gu Zizhu. His works have participated in many exhibitions inside and outside the military, and won numerous awards; his landscapes are clear and cold, the weather is sparse, the vitality is popular, the intention is tense, the clumsiness is not domineering, the elegance is quiet and atmospheric, the pure use of evacuation and elegance, the extremely empty and long-distance; and Mr. Shen Wei's large-scale freehand flowers and birds are even more indulgent, vigorous and round, and his pen is ancient, flying with ink, swinging freely, full of life, simple and clumsy, and pursuing the artistic realm of "the table of the eight wildernesses, the resistance to the heart between thousands of autumns".
First, the landscape image of "the gods are out of the ancient, and the light cannot be harvested"
As the most basic painting language, pen and ink is an important carrier of the soul of Chinese painting; the painting master Pan Tianshou said: "Pen and ink are taken from things, originated in the heart, as the image of things, the traces of the heart." Therefore, pen and ink are traces of the true expression of feelings, and in addition to shaping the image, its more important role is to convey the voice of the painter. As liu Xizai, a literary and art theorist of the Qing Dynasty, said: "Pen love and ink nature are based on their human temperament", and the most prominent pen and ink characteristics of Mr. Shen Wei's landscape paintings are "simple" and "heroic", which is also the natural reproduction of Mr. Shen Wei's noble personality.
First, The Qing Dynasty Cheng Zheng said: "Painting is not difficult to be complicated, it is difficult to use subtraction, and the force of subtraction is greater than complexity." The so-called 'get a cart of weapons is not as good as an iron murderer.' And Mr. Shen Wei's landscape paintings dare to delete all the complexity, leave the essence alone, and return to the basics. The image in the painting is concise, the pen and ink are condensed, and the richest ideas are expressed with the least amount of brush and ink. Objects and images mostly use flower and bird painting freehand techniques, a wave, never deliberately carved, with a few strokes to express complex connotations, whether it is mountains, trees, pavilions, characters, all in one go, so as to use limited pen and ink to pin unlimited feelings, with concise images to express a deep and broad artistic conception.
Second, Mr. Shen Wei was originally a soldier, and his military career lasted for more than thirty years, and his heart was full of pride and ambition, stirring up the bold loyalty to serve the motherland, which was the fundamental reason for the formation of his pen and ink heroic characteristics. His landscape works have a touching and heartfelt power, rushing with a strong sense of life, decisive with the pen, extraordinary courage, heroic and powerful. This method of painting is the easiest way to express the block in his chest and pin his pride and ambition. In particular, he used a large pen to break the edge, quickly transport the pen, vertical and horizontal, thick and without losing the aura, obliquely sweeping out the rain; the handwriting flew vertically and horizontally, the ink rain was dripping, the sky was vast, the recovery was cloudy, the momentum was magnificent, and the people's hearts were shaken.
Second, the love of elegant ink and strange and dignified large freehand flowers and birds
Mr. Shen Wei's large-scale freehand paintings of flowers and birds pay attention to "conveying the gods in form", can seek change in the law, seek lubrication in the sky, "do not resemble it", lively and spontaneous, simple and naïve. He is good at using rich imagination, breaking through rigid imitations, ingenious composition, and strange layout. The works are widely used in materials, fresh in intention and rich in charm, forming an artistic style of condensation and elegance.
First of all, in Chinese art, "brushwork" is the common identity between painting and calligraphy, and it is the link between the two; Mr. Shen Wei has loved calligraphy since childhood, and he has made full use of his profound calligraphy heritage, simplifying all paintings through the changes of brushwork and lines, forming an almost abstract form of brush and ink, breaking through the gorgeous surface of objects and images, and expressing its inherent spirituality, taste, style and aesthetic value.
Secondly, the virtual reality is born, and the charm is self-sufficient. The ancient painting skills have the six words of "the real place is easy, the virtual place is difficult", and the clever painter is not only good at expressing the artistic conception from the real form, that is, the image, but also good at expressing the artistic conception from the virtual place, that is, the image outside the image, that is, the image of "blank" and "virtual place". Blank and imaginary places are not without images, and if used well, they can play a role in winning more with less, seeing more in the small, and having infinite meaning, as Pan Tianshou said: "Real, painting materials, must be real and not stuffy, only to see ethereal." Void, blank also, must be in the void, in order not to be empty. That is, the real is virtual, and the virtual is also the truth", and it is also said that "painting things can know the truth and seek the virtual, and seek the truth with the virtual". As a thoughtful painter, Mr. Shen Wei not only knows how to present his strong individual consciousness in the elephant, but also reflects a superb artistic level in the treatment of the virtual place outside the image, exhausting his mind in the virtual place, seeing the pen and ink in the place without pen and ink, simple but not ugly, sparse but not scattered.
Mr. Shen Wei has been immersed in reading books for more than ten years, studying the theory of painting history and painting, and immersing himself in the art world created by pen and ink day and night, just as Shi Tao said: "In the sea of ink neutral spirit, the pen sharpens the life, the scale is replaced by the hair, and the light is released in the chaos." "I believe that in time, Mr. Shen Wei's persistent spirit of establishing a solid foundation, having no distractions and being dedicated to art will inevitably make him achieve greater achievements in the exploration of Chinese painting."