Lin fengmian
Lin Fengmian was born in Meizhou, Guangdong. He likes painting very much since he was a child. 19 19, 19-year-old Lin Fengmian learned from his friend Lin that there was an opportunity to work and study in France, so he bid farewell to his father and went to France to study. After arriving in France, Lin Fengmian entered the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, worked in Coleman's studio and was exposed to various art forms.
During 1924, Lin Fengmian participated in an exhibition held by the Rhine Palace in Strasbourg, which was discovered by Cai Yuanpei, then ambassador to France. Many of Lin Fengmian's works were exhibited at the World Expo held in Paris on 20 15, and many of them were collected by overseas collectors. From 65438 to 0926, Lin Fengmian was appreciated by Cai Yuanpei, who taught at Beijing National Art College and concurrently served as the provost.
1927, Cai Yuanpei adopted the proposal of organizing the National Academy of Art, and decided that Lin Fengmian was responsible for organizing the National Academy of Art, the predecessor of China Academy of Fine Arts. The following year, 29-year-old Lin Fengmian became the first president of the National Academy of Art, the first art institution in China. Later, Lin Fengmian devoted himself to painting and education. 1938 The Ministry of Education merged Beiping Art College and Hangzhou Art College and moved to Sanyuanling, Hunan. The school was reorganized and forced to dissolve. After that, Lin Fengmian devoted himself to art and experienced ups and downs in his career. During the Cultural Revolution, he was also suspected of being a Japanese spy, so he was imprisoned for four years. 199 1 year, Lin Fengmian died of heart disease in Hong Kong An Hospital.
Painter Lin Fengmian's works
Lin Fengmian is an advocate and an important representative of the artistic concept of "combining Chinese and Western". In his paintings, he absorbed the essence of modern painting after Western Impressionism, and also incorporated the elements of China ink painting, which can be said to be the pioneer of the combination of Chinese and Western.
Lin Fengmian's Double Heron
Lin Fengmian has many very famous works, so I won't introduce them one by one here, but only some representative works. For example, Catch, a work created in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This painting depicts the women and children in the fishing village celebrating the harvest in a harvest season. At Sotheby's 20th Century China Art Auction in Hong Kong, this work fetched a sky-high price of HK$ 65.438+06.34 million.
Besides Catch, there are Two Herons and Fishing Village, which show Lin Fengmian's painting skills well. In "Double Heron", Lin Fengmian accurately shows the feathers, feet, tail, beak and neck flexion and extension of the egret with thick and thin brush and ink. There is also a vitality of life interaction between two egrets. However, in Fishing Village, we can realize the obvious application of western realism. Although there are only a few strokes in the painting, the simple composition, clever color matching and accurate description show the comfort and ease of the fishing village, which shows Lin Fengmian's super high painting level.
In addition, Lin Fengmian's works are mostly paintings of ladies and other themes, among which Reading Ladies can be said to be his masterpiece. The quiet posture and drooping eyelids of the ladies in the painting all show the aesthetic pursuit of China's classical art, so I won't elaborate on other works of Lin Fengmian here.
What are Lin Fengmian's artistic reforms?
Lin Fengmian is a practitioner of art reform, and he has made great contributions to the integration of Chinese and western painting arts. As a practitioner, all the understanding of painting and the reform of art are also reflected in Lin Fengmian's works.
Lin fengmian
Lin Fengmian's impression should be his contribution to the integration of Chinese and Western arts. Therefore, we can see from Lin Fengmian's works how Lin Fengmian integrated Chinese and Western arts and how Lin Fengmian's artistic reform developed.
Lin Fengmian began to study Picasso in 1930s, and also dabbled in cubism of Braque and others. He also translated many articles about European contemporary art and taught in person. In 1948' s lecture "Picasso and Modern Painting", Lin Fengmian felt the greatness of Picasso, so we can trace back to Picasso's works in many of Lin Fengmian's works. Especially after watching the opera, Lin Fengmian felt deeply, and felt suddenly enlightened. So I created some works of Beijing opera characters, which are also very Picasso-like.
In his work "Cosmic Frontline", Lin Fengmian further abstracted the wide robes, big sleeves and gorgeous costumes of Peking Opera characters into triangles piled up with each other, which is very similar to the deconstruction and reorganization of cubism. This is Lin Fengmian's combination of China traditional art and painting art, and also the reform of China's painting. Later, Lin Fengmian's painting style changed a lot, approaching abstract art and coming together with international abstract pioneers. After 1950s, his works not only have an expansive picture sense, but also have the dynamic effect in western abstract art, abandoning the flashy and aggressive content of the west, but maintaining the feminine charm of oriental art..
The reason why Lin Fengmian misses his hometown but doesn't want to return to China.
"I was born in a mountain village on the edge of Meijiang River in Guangdong. When I started to learn painting at the age of six, I had a strong desire to express what I saw and felt. Later, when I was studying in Europe, I still thought of the floating clouds next to my home, the clear stream, the pine forest and bamboo forest in the distance from time to time during the rushing war. I feel everything is growing and trembling. Of course, what I have pursued in my life is not only my childhood dream, but also the ideal of my youth. " This is a passage that Mr. Lin Fengmian said at the Japanese edition exhibition when he was 90 years old.
Lin Fengmian took a photo with her daughter and grandson.
It can be seen that Lin Fengmian is attached to and misses his hometown. His hometown is also his impression, and many of his creations are also due to his feelings for his hometown. Presumably, his fishing village series is also because he was born in a small fishing village in Meizhou, Guangdong. Moreover, every once in a while, Lin Fengmian will write an article recalling his hometown. He spoke Hakka until his death. He also said, "I hope to go back to my hometown and see the changes after decades."
But in fact, Lin Fengmian did not return to his hometown. Why does Lin Fengmian miss his hometown but don't want to return to China?
19771June19th, Lin Fengmian left Shanghai and came to Guangzhou. I spent a few days in Guangzhou and then went to Hong Kong. Although Lin Fengmian was already in Guangzhou at that time, he still didn't go home to have a look.
Lin Fengmian misses his hometown but doesn't want to go home. Probably because of her mother, because when Lin Fengmian was very young, her mother ran away with a boy in the village. At that time, this kind of behavior was greater than that of women, so they were arrested after ten days. People in the village also poured gasoline and burned his mother to death. Later, people in the clan bought his mother, and Lin Fengmian and his mother never met again. Later, I asked someone to find out that her mother had been sold as a servant to a nun several times and had passed away.