Sulv
Editor-in-Chief of Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House
Friend Wei, nicknamed "Ten Idle People" in Guangxi, nicknamed "Ten Idle Hall Master". As for the names of the first nine "idle people", it is not clear. I can't imagine that those guys in Guangxi can be more "idle" than those in Wei: working at home, and that's their home on the beautiful Lijiang River, facing Nanxi Mountain, Chuanshan Mountain and Tashan Mountain; There is no leader, no registration, no chores that have nothing to do with him, and even no colleagues. As long as he wants, he can sleep 24 hours a day or go to other places in the northwest and southwest for a year or two without asking anyone for leave. Of course, he has to have solid financial support. Unfortunately, this is Wei's weakness, so he can only linger in Tibet for a month, and he can't stay with Tibetan antelopes all day in his beloved Ali Plateau. But Mr. Wei is the busiest person in Guangxi, and I prefer to call him "the tenth busiest person", although I can only piece together a list of nine people who are busier than him or as busy as him. What are you up to? Needless to say, drawing and writing, at that time, Wei's daily classes were practiced as usual every day. I remember that more than ten years ago, Wei fell in love with Wang Xizhi, and all his mouths were written by Lanting Nian Lanting. The 300-word post has been written for three years, so that the original text is confused. I thought Mr. Wei was old at that time. It happened that after practicing Lanting for several years, the young weft guy became younger and younger. It turns out that some white hair grows darker and darker, but it also grows more and more open, which makes me a little sour. You know, I'm a generation younger than him! Wei, who is getting younger and younger, naturally stopped writing "Lanting Gathering" and began to do some young things, such as watching "24 Hours Covered by Civilization" with young friends. The biggest performance art in Guangxi first alarmed Guilin citizens, and the over-enthusiastic citizens quickly reported the case to the relevant parties, which almost caused a storm. Fortunately, after chatting with friends about art, environmental protection and life, Mr. Wei's first performance art was successfully completed, occupying dozens of MB pages in Sina and other media. This makes many young people feel ashamed. Besides painting and writing as an avant-garde art, Wei also raises orchids, collects strange stones, praises Buddhist scriptures, and even has time to be an art consultant for a famous national advertising company. Even if you don't ask, you can forget it, but Mr. Wei is really whimsical and has a flash of inspiration, so such small things as creative planning and copywriting are often handled personally. Looking at Mr. Wei with Beethoven's long hair, he seems to be gasping for breath all day long, and sometimes he really wonders how the creator accidentally created Mr. Wei, a guy who is always young and full of artistic elves. Weft man's youth is also reflected in his character. Generally, at his age, he pretends to be a Taoist, plays the role of a monk, is respected, sells himself, and acts like a sour scholar or rustic, but he is not as honest, honest and easy-going as Wei Nan. Compared with his younger generation, even to his students, he always takes an equal stance. Because of this, Wei also won the respect of young artists. Weft man's youth is more focused on his art. Although he is quite satisfied with the famous monuments and paintings in ancient China, and you can definitely see Weft man's profound traditional skills from his pen and ink, Weft man just refuses to cling to the composition of his ancestors. Whether it is a landscape figure of flowers, birds, fish and insects, he always changes shape, lengthens or shortens, or leans away from gravity or simply floats in the air. This often reminds me of my childhood, when I had a lot of time to fly or float in the air. Without any tools, I can pedal my bike or flap my wings like a bird, flying freely, relaxing and comfortable. Many years later, when I struggled with my heavy legs in my dream, I realized that the dream of flying was the patent of human childhood. Wei's pen and ink is the pen and ink of his ancestors, but his heart is so young. Sometimes I even wonder, perhaps, has this young man hurt his art?
Mr. Wei is going to produce a new album, which contains his landscapes, flowers and birds, calligraphy and oil paintings. I think it may be foolish to comment specifically on Mr. Wei's art. Sometimes such elegant things as calligraphy and painting can't be conveyed by words, but the hearts of painters and viewers. Wei's art stands in a picture book, just like him: sincere, straightforward, atmospheric, old-fashioned, young and charming. No matter in the circle of "idle people" or "busy people", I think Mr. Wei's art will have his bosom friend.
Because Wei Man pretends to be "the tenth idle person", I think there are really nine idle people in front of me. Later, Teacher Wei told me that "ten leisure masters" are educating people, elegant and "ten leisure hours: idle flowers, idle birds, idle clouds, idle mountains, idle water, idle thoughts, idle books, idle days, idle bodies" and "idle husbands and idle lives". Oh! If Mr. Wei is in Guilin not far away, I think the most pleasant thing on the weekend is to sit on his knees with Mr. Wei, enjoy the clear mountains and rivers, taste Pu 'er tea, smell the fragrance of orchids and talk all night. Although the heart is idle, but the thinking is long, how about being an "eleventh idle person"
When Mr. B was in Pubei village in midsummer, the rainstorm was as cool as a note.
This article is a comment on Oil Painting and Chinese Painting.
Tradition is Aesthetic Life —— Wu Shanming on He Ren Wei
Wu Shanming
Professor of China Academy of Fine Arts
The first time I saw Mr. He's works, I felt quite creative. This picture, which is composed of different figures, has a unique artistic conception and a strong modern interest. Because He Laoshi paid more attention to his traditional cultivation, he used a traditional and free brushwork in the combination with western consciousness and the concrete expression of composition, so that the whole picture he supported still maintained the distinctive attributes and characteristics of Chinese painting. The style pursued by Mr. He often pays attention to the pursuit of formal beauty, but it downplays the closeness to life and has a certain distance from the usual psychology and emotion. He Laoshi, on the other hand, discovered and strengthened some beautiful elements that exist everywhere in life and are often overlooked. These elements, through the author's unique artistic conception, sublimate into aesthetic feelings that adults can understand. Different from life itself, it may make people feel deja vu in life. Perhaps because of this, Mr. He's pursuit has been recognized by a wide range of people and the possibility of success. Many painters have made similar explorations today, but Mr. He is undoubtedly a mature person who pursues clarity in art and is mature in practice.
2003.8
This article is a special comment on He oil painting and Chinese painting.
Published in the 6th issue of Jiangsu Pictorial in 2004.
Harmony but Difference —— Liu Xin on He Ren Wei
Xin Liu
Associate Professor, Art Historian, Guangxi Art Institute
The value orientation of China's oil paintings should be diversified, and it has always been diversified. There are Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China and Latin America ... Even in the monotonous sixties and seventies, our oil paintings still have such interesting and personalized values as Liu Haisu, Wei Tianlin, Guan Liang, Lin Fengmian, Ni Yide, Wu Dayu and Wu Guanzhong.
Don't think that our oil paintings only have the so-called "mainstream" or "official" opinions about history, so that China's oil paintings are completely regarded as a subordinate stream following the West and the Soviet Union without any autonomy.
In fact, I think we have made the mistake of suppressing another monotonous and narrow populism with the same monotony when we reflect and criticize the value of following the West and following the Soviet Union. We thought we were China, so we got the right to speak in oil painting, and thus gained the independent status of oil painting. In fact, the evolution of art and political independence are not the same thing. It is a pluralistic and prosperous situation, and people also need this situation. On this basis, there is the legal existence of such things as difference and personality. That is to say, pluralism is a basic value level. Whether it is impressionism, roving painting, modern postmodernism, or the weather of Han and Tang Dynasties and the artistic conception of Ming and Qing Dynasties, as long as it comes from the painter's sincere, natural and artistic choice and expression, it is a part of the normal ecology of China oil paintings and should be a part of people's aesthetic happiness. I don't think China's oil paintings have an impressionism. With a Soviet fashion, China's oil paintings have been shortened since then. However, those who stick to the concept of authentic oil painting are even more critical of their respective expression techniques and some alternative techniques similar to China symbols, and the biggest hat is probably "no oil painting flavor". This is almost a rebound of populist values from one extreme to the other.
China's oil paintings are slowly moving forward in this kind of tossing, foot-binding and foot-letting. He put a headbinding spell on himself, and then from time to time, someone read some spells like "no oil painting" to you, so that you wouldn't dare to move forward boldly like making mistakes.
It's really time for China's oil paintings to have an inclusive concept. Here, art will be enriched, more new methods and styles will appear, and then society will have a free and democratic value base.
After a long discussion, it is nothing more than some thoughts, affirmation and appreciation of He oil paintings.
However, strictly speaking, this is really an episode in his ink painting career. He also knew his duty and closed the new oil painting door.
However, in the year of Jiazi in 2004, a group of painters and poets from China, Britain and Australia went to Guilin to paint the Lijiang River in a freehand way. Mr. Dai Shihe and his party visited the "Ten Leisure Hall" in the evening, where they observed less than 40 oil paintings. After staying for a while, Mr. Dai Shihe immediately invited the Central Academy of Fine Arts to hold an exhibition. Therefore, at the strong request of Mr. Dai, He decided to bring oil painting and Chinese painting to Beijing in 2006.
In order to add color to this exhibition, He Ren Wei stretched many canvases, picked up an oil painting pen that he had not seen for several years, and drew nearly 30 oil paintings.
He's oil paintings always combine his own ink thinking and practice. This is the first time, and so is this time. I believe,
For talented people, painting is an advantage that young people can't learn and catch up with. A few years ago, when I was reading Mr. Feng Fasi's sketches in his later years, I deeply felt the strength of old age, which was also found in many old gentlemen such as Liu Haisu. Of course, He Ren Wei's transparency, self-confidence, arbitrariness and bad thinking in oil painting are also obvious, which is also highlighted in his understanding of harmony and difference. He painted taboo big flowers and birds, old factories, brick houses on the hills in the urban-rural fringe that he was familiar with ... and his imagination and methods were everywhere.
His practice of harmony in Ren Wei is different. I think it is not only the national ancestral training that is meaningful between China and the West, but also the value and pursuit direction he firmly believes in.
Written in Banzhouzhai in July 2005.
Why is this article prefaced with Album, Oil Painting and Chinese Painting?