Text/Zhou Qingqing
Since ancient times, the horse's vigorous posture and valuable spirit have been praised by people, and the theme of the horse has always been one of the themes of Chinese painting. The theme of horse painting began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties with Mao Huiyuan in the Southern Qi Dynasty and Yang Zihua in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Cao Ba, Chen Hong, Han Gan, Wei Yan and other famous horse painters in the prosperous Tang Dynasty pushed the theme of horse painting to maturity. Later, famous horse painters left many classic horse paintings for people with their own good painting forms, such as Li in Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. In modern times, master Xu Beihong changed the painting style of his predecessors and became a school of his own. There are many schools of contemporary horse painting, and famous artists come forth in large numbers. Xu Beihong's disciple Lei is a master of horse painting with this theme. Lei Zi studied under the famous painter Zhao, a famous art educator, theorist, painter Professor Liu Ruyi and contemporary artists, specializing in Chinese painting and sculpture, especially in horse painting. In the years of painting horses for more than half a century, he learned from others, gathered ancient and modern Chinese and western cultures in one furnace, persistently pursued painting horses all his life, kept pace with the times and was unique, and was praised by the painting world. "
Keep pace with the times, and show the majestic appearance of the prosperous times.
Lei tirelessly explored the theme of horse painting. His art is both traditional and modern, permeated with the spirit of the times and aesthetic connotation. His creation puts sketching and learning tradition in a very important position. He believes that learning tradition is not a rut, but learning the spirit of the ancients, thus creating his own art and eulogizing the righteousness of the times with the spirit of horses. His paintings broke the traditional tradition of sketching the horse's body dynamics with lines and describing the horse's structure with ink and wash, while Lei absorbed the essence of ancient and modern horse painters, especially in inheriting and developing the master's horse painting techniques, boldly innovating and practicing, and overthrowing the dogmatism that traditional painting emphasized the pen as the center of calligraphy. The horses in his paintings have a middle wing, a flank, a rear wing and a twist. In short, they are colorful. It magically shows the brave spirit of horses and greatly broadens the pattern and expressive force of previous horse paintings. He mastered the pen and ink skills freely, and integrated all kinds of excellent plastic arts techniques in western painting into his horse's works without showing traces. The horses in his works are rigorous in structure and distinctive in personality. The agility of horses gives people agility, fluency, agility, handsomeness and passion, and its freehand brushwork spirit is full of China charm. This formed the language and aesthetic characteristics of Lei Ma's paintings, and created a unique prosperous steed. Professor Zuo, a famous art critic, once wrote a summary for Lei at an art seminar: "There are few gods and horses in the world today, only horses on paper." It can be said that it is true. His creation, with a unique aesthetic perspective and exquisite brushwork, depicts a fine horse with long hooves and long hiss, or a step.
The majestic posture of the wind, or the towering distance, perfectly shows the shape and appearance of the horse in its natural state, as if it were real and tangible. The horse's manner, posture, hissing state and ever-changing manner jumped out of the paper and almost rushed out of it. In appreciation, let the viewer suddenly feel the collision and intercommunication of hearts, and experience the vitality and strength of a dragon and horse spirit! "Huma has a big name, angular and skinny. Its ears are as sharp as a piece of bamboo, and it runs like four winds, as if its hoof had not been trampled. The horse galloped, never in an open way, riding it all very comfortable, dare to roam the battlefield, and even share life and death. If there is such a thing, it will be rampant. "Du Fu's" Poems of Cao Xu in Fang Bing "accurately describes the dynamics of drawing a horse by Lei. His galloping horse is full of the beauty of wild power. The strong grass lying under the horseshoe reflects the wind speed and the speed of the horse, reflecting the heroic spirit of galloping horses. Has a strong visual impact. However, his horse is different from that sad and thin horse. What he created is a horse that embodies the spirit of the times. He intends to highlight the part of the trunk that best reflects the horse's spiritual temperament with the simplest brush strokes, and his bones and muscles are magnificent without losing beauty. His horses are full of masculinity and feminine beauty. This is a rare observation of horses in past dynasties, and the meticulous description is unique.
The first contemporary horse painter.
Lei believes that as a painting and calligraphy artist, we should learn from the strengths of ancient and modern schools with an open mind, learn from others, boldly explore the true meaning of art, and boldly innovate, so as to establish our own artistic style and embark on our own path. He firmly adhered to the "three paintings" thought of "realistic creation, artistic painting with aestheticism style and compassion for others". Realism can be said to be Xiao Ning's creative belief. He believes that painting should be written in form, and he hates the mysterious things that are abstract and experimental at present. For decades, Lei has been observing, painting, loving and studying horses, and sincerely worshiping their natural beauty. The beauty of a horse lies in its strength, posture and shape. Some painters, under the banner of literati painting, only know that horses don't know why, and mystify, philosophize and religiousize the art of painting and calligraphy. The reason is that these painters do not have excellent modeling skills and understanding of horses. How do they express the spirit and beauty of horses with the most concise brushwork of Chinese painting? After more than half a century of hard work, struggle and struggle, Lei's horse rhyme is more mellow and concise, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. In 2004, China Guoli Art Research Institute awarded Lei the title of "the first horse in China" and issued a certificate. In 2003 and 2004, the Great Hall of the People in the capital and the National People's Congress invited Lei to create giant Chinese paintings "Maxima" (1.6×6 meters) and "Wan" (2.7×7 meters) for the Great Hall of the People, respectively, and issued collection certificates. His long scroll "Wan Ma Benteng Tu" is undoubtedly a rare masterpiece of Chinese painting. Show its huge flying figure, flying and hissing, if it is broken. The agitation, pentium and prosperity of an era are vividly on the paper. In this large-scale work, the painter combines realism with freehand brushwork, showing Ma Benteng's majestic poetry in nature, showing the majestic beauty of agitation, unifying the formal beauty and connotation beauty of the picture, and effectively conveying the passion of positive energy in the new era of forging ahead and advancing with the times. Lei's huge freehand brushwork of ten thousand Chinese paintings has profound artistic conception, grand scenes and natural composition, which puts people in the torrent of ten thousand frontier fortress. Thousands of fine horses neighing hooves and manes, galloping freely on the vast grassland and hillside with red sun, amazed the viewers. From this point of view, it can be said that he is "the first horse in the contemporary era", and it is not an exaggeration to call him Cao Ba and Han Gan today!
Search up and down, land to the tiller, fruitful.
Lei Xiaoning is a diligent and prolific artist. He is good at Chinese painting and sculpture, especially at depicting students. His works have participated in national, provincial and municipal exhibitions for many times, and have been published and collected by domestic foreign enterprises, institutions and individuals.
He has painted for the Great Hall of the People for many times, and held a large-scale solo exhibition in China People's Revolutionary Military Museum entitled "Praise of Strength and Beauty" sponsored by China Association for International Friendship, and exhibited such masterpieces as Wan, Moonlight, Endeavour, Nine Armies Noisy, Prairie Love Song, Father-Son Affection and Harmony between Heaven and Earth. The scene is grand and full of three-dimensional movement. His Two Horses was also collected by Xu Beihong Memorial Hall in Beijing and praised by Liao, director of Xu Beihong Memorial Hall.
He built the world's largest statue of Laozi for the Maoshan Scenic Area in Jurong, Jiangsu Province, with a total height of 33 meters, and won the national patent and the title of "the best in the world". On the premise of deeply understanding Lao Zi's spirit, Lei savored Lao Zi's thoughts and intentions, combined his thoughts and observed the ancients, so that the idol fully showed Lao Zi's spirit, sage-like demeanor and magnanimous and deep eyes. It was not only a replica of human figures, but also had the elegant and superb wisdom and supreme authority of the Taoist ancestor Taishang Laojun.
In 2007, Lei was selected as "One Hundred Artists with the Most Collection Value in China" and "One Hundred Artists with the Most Collection Appreciation Potential in China" by China Collection magazine.
In Guangzhou Phoenix Auction Co., Ltd.' s winter precious collection art auction in 2007, Lei's small freehand Chinese painting "Wan" was sold for 1.2 million yuan, and the market price of this work in that year has reached 55,000 yuan per square foot.
In 2009, the China Military Museum held a large-scale "Lei Art Exhibition" in Beijing for the first time. Central Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy, Administration of the Great Hall of the People, Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, China Artists Association and China National Painting Academy attended the exhibition and presented flower baskets. A few years ago, Lei was inspired and began to create a huge meticulous Chinese painting "Shi Shengxin Six Horses", which was 347 cm long and 280 cm wide. The creation time of six giant meticulous paintings is as long as 18 months. On July 20 1 1, the creation of a huge new version of Wanwan with a height of 7 meters and a height of 2.7 meters was completed. At present, a series of freehand brushwork Chinese paintings such as The Other Side (347cm×2 10cm), Love between Father and Son, Flowers and Teenagers and Eight Horses have been completed. Lei is preparing to hold the second "Lei Large-scale Art Exhibition" in Beijing.
Art shows the beauty of pen and ink by carrying Tao.
The reason why Lei's works are so attractive is that he has a profound artistic foundation. I can never afford to draw a sketch line when I see that my creations are big, small and huge. He just scratched the paper with his nails to locate the marks, and then applied them vertically. If God helps him, a picture of a horse will gallop on the paper in a moment.
Zhang Yanyuan's Record of Famous Paintings in the Past Dynasties in the Tang Dynasty said: "The ancients painted horses ... all of them stabbed the dragon's neck and galloped with electricity, unlike horses." The ancients endowed the horse with extraordinary spiritual symbols, and it is difficult to show the beauty of this implication simply by drawing horses with graphic descriptions.
The way of art lies in mutual integration. Lei is good at oil painting and sculpture and has a solid sketch foundation. At the same time, study the meaning of pen and ink under the guidance of everyone and famous artists. Therefore, having both can be handy and well-intentioned. A closer look at the axis of the steed he painted shows that whether it is a single steed roaring proudly, or a vast herd of horses in droves, or landscapes, animals, insects and fish, you can splash ink freely, vividly and vividly, and the ink color is completely refreshed.
Lei's creative teacher turned his brushwork into Mo Yun with the heart of the ancients. His in-depth collection activities and superb realistic skills laid the foundation for Lei to express horses from the aspects of structural perspective and physical expression. On this basis, he "conveys the spirit with form", which endows his brushwork beauty with unique charm.
Charm of sketching in fairyland racecourse
The theme of horse painting is single, and many painters who draw horses inevitably have 100, which makes the viewer look like overlapping images, several like one, and many horses are parallel and similar, which is nothing new. Lei's paintings are full of emotion and philosophy, depicting the galloping horse in his chest. The Ma Benteng in his paintings is like electricity, showing the inspiring beauty of life and flying with the indomitable spirit of dragon and horse. The horses he painted are diverse in style, vivid in posture and completely different in changes, reaching a wonderful state. All these artistic achievements are due to his skillful sketching, diligent sketching and in-depth observation. Lei has visited many racetracks for many times and personally experienced the magnificent sight of horses running in the natural state, so as to improve his creation. Ma Zhen in the works is the most dynamic and complicated in the history of horse painting in ancient and modern times, so it is not an exaggeration to draw a horse alone in ancient and modern times.
In order to show the sweaty BMW with four hooves flying, he went to several racecourses to observe, experience and sketch. In order to experience the inner strength of running horses and understand the unruly temperament of bloody BMW, Lei also broke his calf. This kind of effort, he thinks, is worthwhile. During his visit to the racecourse, he wrote and watched horses with great interest every day, and accumulated extremely precious sketching materials and creative inspiration. Bloody BMW's unruly eyes, dragon-like roar, flying mane and tail, lightning and thunder of Mercedes-Benz are all engraved in his mind and perfectly reflected in his paintings.
After decades of natural sketching activities, Lei traveled all over the country, which enabled him to better master the habits, dynamics and spirit of horses. When talking with friends about how to draw a horse, he often gushes and revels in it, naturally imitating the horse's head, ears, neck and trunk, including the bending of the horse's legs, the lifting and landing of the horseshoe. His movements are vivid and impressive, which shows that he has deep experience, careful observation and thorough research.
By observing the natural state of running horses, he accumulated creative materials, techniques and creative inspiration. The horse image he painted is real and has a general spiritual display. At the same time, he understands the law, adopts the tradition of not sticking to the rules, integrates Chinese and western thoughts, and is good at summarizing the subtle expression and dynamic changes of horses in ink painting, making the horses in his works the carrier of his life thinking, aesthetic pursuit and the spirit of the times. In this way, Fang achieved the accomplishment of being the first horse in the world. Lei's horse painting art shows the feelings and intentions of the world, which is national and traditional and integrates horses with the life of the times. The unique form forms the language and unique style of Leima's paintings. It is no wonder that the master of imitating art wrote the title of his work before his death: Metaphysical Wonder and the title above: Master Lei's Title. Xie Yongquan, vice president of China National Painting Academy, saw the title of his horse painting: "The First Horse in the Contemporary Age". Mr. Xu Hong, a famous general and poet in Nanjing Military Region, wrote a poem for Lei:
Xiangzi
Ten thousand arrows leave the string, and a thousand miles raise eyebrows.
I like the east and the wild wind.
Striving for the sun, heroic spirit permeates the rainbow.
The thunder is near, the tide is urgent, and the drums are loud.
China is a horse, reincarnated in sorrow.
Praise the wizards, take a new look with your pen.
The true feelings are freehand brushwork and wonderful.
It's Dan Qingshi, Song Qingshi and Han Qingxiong.
The old horse's journey will be whipped again.
The most fundamental, critical and reliable way of literary and artistic creation is to take root in the people and life, "record the great practice of the people and the progress requirements of the times, and show the beauty of faith and sublimity". Isn't this the artistic principle that Lei, an artist, has been practicing and pursuing?
No pains, no gains? Lei often said: "Artists should not only create beauty, but also shoulder social responsibilities." As the grandson of Lei, an old soldier of the League, the spirit of serving the country and the people for generations always reminds him of his social responsibility. In his spare time as an artist, he actively participated in various charitable activities in the society, giving paintings and donations, which has been widely praised by the society for many years.
Art says that Lei's greatest wish is to carry forward China's traditional painting art and contribute to the inheritance of Chinese culture from generation to generation and the world of traditional art ... He will show the spirit of prosperous times with his steed, convey the positive energy of the times to the society with high spirit and courage, and contribute more fine works of art to the country and the people.
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