Peach is a common fruit in people's daily life. It is fresh, tender and delicious. On a hot summer day, it's quite romantic to blow and eat air conditioning with your beloved. However, in the painter's pen, peach is also a common material. Among the painters we are familiar with, Qi Baishi painted Maotao and Xue painted Maotao. These two are representative painters, one is a master of Chinese painting and the other is a master of oil painting. The peaches painted by the two of them have been sought after by quite a few fans, but they are not as good as those painted by Leng Jun on scrap iron. Why did the peaches painted by Qi Baishi and Xue lose to those painted on scrap iron?

Qi Baishi

Qi Baishi's works

Let's take a look at the peaches painted by Qi Baishi first. Needless to say, Qi Baishi is a great master in painting. The materials he wrote are all things that we can often see. Or mice, or bugs, or shrimp, or persimmons ... and so on, are very daily things. He drew several peaches to outline their freshness and delicacy. The peaches written by Qi Baishi are very childish. The peach he painted pursues artistic conception, which is also a kind of artistic conception beauty of Chinese painting. There is no denying that Qi Baishi's Chinese paintings are first-class masters. I'm afraid the price of peaches outlined in those years is unimaginable for ordinary people now.

Xue's works

Secondly, let's take a look at Xue's Peach. Xue is a representative of young painters in oil painting. His peaches are mainly ultra-realistic and lifelike. The peaches he painted are either placed on bricks or on boards ... no matter how they are placed, they always give people a different feeling. The most vivid peaches he painted were four peaches on a brick. Whether peaches are fresh or not, bricks with peaches always attract people's attention. The bricks he painted often attract people's attention and successfully attract people's attention to bricks. In fact, the peaches he painted are still wonderful. The auction price of Xue's paintings mostly starts at 65,438+10,000, and the strength is not bad.

Xue's works

But Qi Baishi and Xue painted peaches, but they could not compare with the cold iron painted peaches. What is unique about the peaches painted by Leng Jun? In Bian Xiao's view, the cold painted peaches have an indescribable charm. There are five or six peaches on the rusty iron sheet. This unique background arrangement makes his peaches more artistic. In fact, cold painting pursues a feeling. To put it bluntly, cold surrealism painting is for feeling. Qi Baishi's peaches are naive, but practice makes perfect, while Xue's peaches are realistic. Both of their peaches have high artistic value, but they are far less "sensible" than the cold peaches.

Leng Jun

Cold work

Therefore, when a painter creates a painting, the most important thing is to have feelings. This feeling is the most precious, which can make the work last forever and become a classic. Cold paintings may be rare classics after many years. This is not to belittle Qi Baishi and Xue, but to illustrate the importance of feeling to art. In today's impetuous society, art is more subordinate to interests, and so-called "masters" driven by interests are often difficult to produce fine products. However, it is a blessing of this era to have such a painter who focuses on art following feelings. Time will give an answer to history, and coldness will last forever.

Cold work

Qi Baishi's painting of peaches is embarrassing; Xue's peach painting is vivid and provocative, but it is not as cool as the iron filings peach painting. Bian Xiao has explained above that cold paintings have feelings, so they have true feelings. We might as well take a closer look at the peaches on the cold iron sheet. Every time I appreciate them, I will always have a different experience, and I will learn something new by reviewing the past. This is the infinite charm of cold painting.