-Remember the famous Dutch painter Wang Hongkai?
□ Text/Wang Jianbo
Mr. Wang Hongkai is world-famous for his work Lotus, which is based on contemporary painting. Since ancient times, many people have painted lotus flowers, but few have succeeded, and the masters of freehand brushwork of lotus flowers in ink and wash are rare. Therefore, whoever paints the lotus will paint it for everyone. For example, Xu Wei in Ming Dynasty, Badashanren, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Pan Tianshou and Zhang Lichen in early Qing Dynasty. It is well known to all women and children and is famous all over the world. Dutch students have been honing for many years. In loneliness, dullness and poverty, they have put their hearts in the vast lotus pond, revived in the spring and autumn, and have been reborn for decades, and finally achieved little.
China people have always revered the Netherlands, which means "sacred, solemn, noble, Chiang Mai, bright". From the upper class to dignitaries, literati, and then to wealthy businessmen and rich people, they all like to hang lotus flowers in the main hall and study to show their character. For painters, painting lotus flowers is one of the most enjoyable flowers in ink painting. It seems the easiest to draw, but it is the most difficult to draw well and draw your own characteristics and highlights. Dutch students draw lotus flowers, learn from the past and learn from the present, take root in tradition, absorb the essence of predecessors, pay attention to the weather of the times, and strive to innovate in two aspects: the first is the big scene. He Sheng is broad-minded and far-sighted, and his works are atmospheric in composition and clear in conception. Looking at his works, the vision is broad and the artistic conception is far away, which makes the lotus come alive in the surrounding vibrant environment.
Followed by lines. Lotus flowers are painted with leaves, stems, flowers, buds, fruits and grass. Lotus students pay great attention to the thickness of brush lines and ink blocks when painting, such as wet, dry, slow, interspersed and turning, so as to enhance expressive force. At the same time, he emphasized that ink is divided into five colors, and he is very good at breaking ink with water and changing ink with water. Others often use "wet ink to draw lotus leaves and dry ink to draw lotus stems", because the change of wet ink can greatly enrich the image of lotus flowers and produce an ethereal and beautiful feeling. However, when painting lotus stems, it is difficult for most painters to master the method of drawing lines with wet ink, and they can only use dry ink to express them, which leads to the fact that lotus paintings often come from leaves. Otherwise, "wet ink painting lotus leaves, wet ink painting lotus stems" is the unique skill of lotus. Therefore, the lotus painting lines are smart, the shades are suitable, the artistic conception is far-reaching and the weather is myriad.
Most of Dutch students' lotus paintings are mainly summer lotus, and few of them show the elegance of sharp corners, let alone the decadent scene of residual lotus. He believes that colorful summer lotus can give people beautiful visual enjoyment, which can best show the tension of objects and the exuberance of life. The fragrance of lotus seeds and the sweetness of lotus roots can all gain hope in the prosperity of summer lotus. The figure "Summer Lotus Showing Bath" shows the charm and charm of lotus flowers in an anthropomorphic way. A blooming lotus flower is as red as fire, as big as a mirror, delicate and charming, looking down at the sky. There are bees and butterflies flying in the stamens of the chick flower. Ran Yan is a gentleman in the breeze. Looking at the clouds, it seems that the goddess has dispersed and the fragrance is full. It is not difficult to find the painter's vision for the future, praise for life and artistic pursuit of beautifying the world. And the aesthetic trend of loving beauty and cleanliness, which is probably Mr. He Sheng's unique painting style that distinguishes him from the ancients and modern people. Very similar to his temperament.
He likes painting since he was a child. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Henan University. He has been working for more than ten years, but he left his roots and plunged into the National Academy of Painting to study painting. Because of this painting, he gave up his job and was willing to be a poor painter. Because of this, Dutch students take the word Dutch students and have no distractions. He knew that the painter had a long way to go, but he overreached and was lonely. Those who draw lotus must first have lotus in their hearts, and their temperament is like lotus, in order to show the wonder of lotus. Lotus students are easy-going, kind-hearted, have personality, make a wide range of friends and dress neatly. When they read "Amitabha", they are gentle in appearance, patient in heart, calm and persistent, quite like the product of a lotus gentleman. Lotus students blend with each other, and their works reflect their individuality.
Recently, I heard that he was born in Dengfeng, Shan Ye, and opened up a thousand acres of lotus village, raising lotus flowers and co-existing with them. I can't help sighing. Born in the lotus flower, wherever the lotus flower goes, a boat leaves, cherishes the lotus flower, and the lotus flower is like a fairy, indulging in the lotus world, which has made a generation of lotus painting masters in the "infinite lotus leaf".
(The author is a senior calligraphy and painting media person, a calligraphy and painting critic, and a broker. He has been committed to the research, planning and promotion of the calligraphy and painting market for a long time. ) Born to love the Netherlands, Dutch students are crazy. He loves delicate lotus, green lotus leaf, tender lotus root and fragrant lotus seed. The purity of lotus mud, the limpidity of ripples, the straightness of the outside and the transparency of the inside, and the modesty of his life have become his self-cultivation criteria and artistic creation orientation. He often tells people that lotus is a natural stunner, brighter than peony, covered with roses and superior in posture, all carved by nature. No wonder he must clean his hands, hold his breath and get rid of all other thoughts before painting lotus flowers. In the mirror-like emptiness of his heart, he stripped off luxuriantly, acted naturally, let his emotions flow freely, and let his pen wave. The ink spilled and melancholy, the lotus was moist, the lotus was graceful and graceful, and the lotus was graceful and noble, all of which overflowed from his pen. When the lotus stems are quite knotty, when they are in full bloom, they are like Shan Weng's sick wine, graceful like butterfly dancers, cautious like Tao Qian's bamboo, and cool like children riding the wind.
Lotus is not born out of lust, but the influence of geo-culture and spiritual induction. Mr. He Sheng's birthplace, Zhaojun Township, Dengfeng City, is Dayu's hometown and a land of Dutch culture and civilization with a history of more than 3,000 years. It borders Song Yue in the north, Funiu Mountain in the south, Heyuan in the east and Luoshui in the west. It is criss-crossed, with thousands of miles of veins, rich cultural heritage and humanistic landscapes all over the place. The ancestors living here today worship Buddhism and believe in religion, and most of them love, write and praise the lotus, which has long been a totem-like symbol of civilization here. It is under the package of this Dutch culture that Dutch students played the lotus pond, watching the lotus flowers in full bloom, the lotus leaves shaking blue, listening to the lotus flowers jointing and the lotus roots singing, completely forgetting where and when they were. A little longer, you will raise the lotus, draw the lotus, watch the lotus grow, dance with the lotus, and encourage with the lotus. Don't wear it all year round, and blend in with the lotus in conscious and unconscious reincarnation. I stand like a hibiscus flower in the local painting world. Especially after the further study of painting art in Henan University and the accumulation of art for more than 30 years, the feeling that "everything is precious and everything is respected" comes from the bottom of my heart. Establishing a lotus product and being a lotus man has become his consistent life creed.
Mr. He Sheng's pen and ink take the method of Xu Wei and Xue Tao, which is the best of both schools and suits me. He used Xu Weikuo's freehand flower-and-bird painting techniques and ingenious pen and ink skills to strengthen the artistic conception of lotus flowers. Lotus draws lessons from the sweetness of Xue Tao's flower-and-bird paintings, and uses a wet pen to create an ethereal picture. Make the lotus in the pen both simple and generous, and charming and quiet. "Ten Miles of Lotus Fragrance Map" has lotus leaves like a forest, with dazzling lotus leaves and transparent lotus leaves. The lotus branches are in various shapes, and Wang Yang is wanton, full of weather and eternal trends. Lotus leaves are muddy but not stained, graceful, charming and charming, and they are vividly displayed.
Pen and ink is the carrier of expressing feelings, and it is also the language form for artists to express feelings. Mr. He Sheng's success lies in adhering to the tradition of China ink painting, deliberately depicting the connotation of lotus flowers and expressing his feelings with the help of pen and ink language. Show your character and painting with lotus flowers. The lotus flowers in his works have different styles and customs, and the common feature is tall and straight. This kind of "standing" is not blindly arrogant and pen and ink piled up, but embodies the virtues and multiculturalism of the Chinese nation, but the establishment, prosperity and rise of the national spirit in the world's national forest. Whether it is crumpling or rendering, it serves the eternal theme of its national backbone without reservation. "Noble and clean map" shows a group of lotus flowers competing to open with panoramic composition. Lotus is gorgeous but not vulgar. Lotus plants are flourishing, and their potential seems endless. Lotus stands out from many angles, the lotus leaves are uneven, the pitch opens and closes, swaying with the rank, the beauty of lotus, the purity of lotus, the love of lotus, the posture of lotus, the interest of lotus, the god of lotus, the rhyme of lotus, the eyes of falling flowers, the theme is clear and the meaning is clear, which is clearly a magnificent picture of the prosperity of the Chinese nation.
Any painter's cultural background is cultivated in his own national cultural soil, and national culture is an indestructible Great Wall for painters and citizens of this nation. Mr. He Sheng's paintings can achieve amazing success. He is proud of absorbing and persisting in national culture, and even more proud of carrying forward and developing national spirit. In order to carry forward the traditional techniques of painting lotus, he founded the magazine "Art Frontier" and "Triumph International Gallery" at his own expense, as a platform to teach art, and often invited some famous Dutch painters at home and abroad to discuss the development direction of Dutch culture and promote Dutch culture to go deep into life and go global. In recent years, on the occasion of major festivals of the Republic and the "August 1st Army Day", he also organized the activity of "Lotus Painting into Military Camp". Only in this way can we repay the society, be grateful to the motherland and make greater contributions to the development of national traditional painting art.
Under the cultural background of China, Mr. He Sheng inherited and continued the core and deep genes of lotus spirit, explored and innovated the language and modeling style of lotus ink in the artistic context, and opened up an outstanding and independent painting art form. With his solemn composition and relaxed pen and ink, he wrote a graceful and powerful body of lotus, which was connected with the majestic sky and elegant and graceful cultural scene, showing the most aesthetic style with Central Plains characteristics in today's multicultural atmosphere. May Mr. He Sheng's lotus painting art climb to a new peak, and may Mr. He Sheng's lotus flowers be warm and fragrant in five continents.
Wang Hongkai, a young ink painter, studied under Wen/Liu Feng, vice president of the World Artists Federation, and was born in a scholarly family. His grandfather was a senior Kuomintang officer who loved calligraphy, and his father was a famous calligrapher. Influenced by family culture, Professor Wang Hongkai likes painting very much since he was a child. The clever characters and smooth lines in the popular comic books A Dream of Red Mansions, Fighting Tigers in Song Dynasty and Romance of the Three Kingdoms are all his imitations.
In an art class in the fifth grade of primary school, a lotus flower drawn by an art teacher suddenly attracted Wang Hongkai. More than 20 years have passed, and judging from today's aesthetics, this painting is even a bit tacky. But at that time, it was the whole spiritual world of Professor Wang Hongkai, and it was the dawn of his artistic enlightenment.
The enlightened father attached great importance to this son who loved art, and he began to subscribe to professional and authoritative art publications for his son at that time and even the whole country, which had published works by famous artists such as Fu Baoshi. According to Professor Wang Hongkai's recollection, he collected and preserved the "Fine Arts" publication for more than ten years, and began to sort out all the pictures about the lotus theme.
After graduating from the Art Department of Henan University, in order to continue to improve his artistic accomplishment, Wang Hongkai visited the art museum many times, especially in exhibitions outside the province. He won't miss the exhibitions of Huang, Liu and others held by the National Academy of Painting and the China Art Museum. In order to save time, he often waits outside the art gallery for hours without eating or drinking. He also secretly filmed the works of the exhibition when facing the "danger" accused by the security guards.
"I have seen many exhibitions, but I rarely copy them from the book and deliberately copy them. This is like Zhang Dagan's sentence: "If my people die, those who are against me will live. "I hope that through systematic theoretical and practical thinking, I will form a set of my own artistic style and complete a transition from' having the law' to' not doing it'. The picture conveys the natural expression of the painter's own heart. He may confine himself to a circle and cannot get out. " Professor Wang Hongkai said.
As far as painting is concerned, lotus is a common theme, and there are countless experts who draw lotus from ancient times to the present. For example, Xu Wei in Ming Dynasty and Zhang Daqian in modern times all have their own mature lotus style.
Buddha Cloud Lotus Land is the highest realm of art and sacredness. Since the initial enlightenment, Wang Hongkai has always had a soft spot for lotus flowers and goes out to sketch every year. Most of the ink lotus flowers in his works bloom in the lotus pond in midsummer and the bleak scene in autumn and winter, symbolizing a kind of vitality and unremitting pursuit of life; The branches of the lotus are straight and upright, which means going forward bravely and striving for self-improvement; Panoramic composition is harmonious and complete, fresh and elegant, seemingly without trace, but in fact there are hidden rules.
In the view of Professor Wang Hongkai's agent, Mr. Fu Chang, lotus is also called lotus, which is cheap and good. The theme of Lotus is very suitable for the current clean and honest social environment. Mr. Fu Yong also told a little story: One night, Wang Hongkai tossed and turned, and even wrote 36 poems praising the lotus in one breath, which made others unbelievable.
The lotus flowers written by Professor Wang Hongkai are fresh and elegant, free from vulgarity and turbidity, which quickly set off a craze in the art world. Military friends, political friends, business elites, auctioneers, collectors and art media all focus on this young artist.
"He only knows how to pay for others all day, and he keeps running around. It's really too thin, too thin." At some point, Mr. Fu Chang, who has deep feelings with Professor Wang Hongkai, turned red slowly.
Wu Lun is an unknown idiot who devoted himself to studying lotus flowers, and is also an artist who is well known and valued by everyone. Professor Wang Hongkai has always been humble, obsessed with lotus, painting and writing lotus, and established a thousand acres of lotus painting base-Xianhe Bay in Dengfeng, his hometown.
He studied under Han Ye, Cao Xinlin, Chen, Chen, and others, and held art exhibitions for teachers, donating more than 100 works collected by Chen over the years to teachers' families for free. For some students who come here to study art, he also gives free guidance, carefully teaches and dispels doubts.
After Professor Wang Hongkai became famous, some rich people spent a lot of money in the hope of winning Amobao, and he always tried his best to satisfy it. During the Wenchuan earthquake and compatriots' suffering, Professor Wang Hongkai generously donated paintings and organized large-scale charity sale activities. He often said: "In today's materialistic world, people can't pay too much attention to interests. Some things deserve more attention than money. Some feelings have nothing to do with money. " Buddha said, when you pay to a certain extent, the natural harvest will come naturally.
The lotus blooms in midsummer, and the beauty is speechless. I sincerely wish Professor Wang Hongkai's artistic path evergreen all the year round.
Text/Yachang Art Network Senior Editor Shark Wang