Xu Jianjun, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Central South University, spoke highly of Mr. Yang Fuyin's achievements in the field of art, especially in painting, calligraphy and literature. He believes that Mr. Yang Fuyin's appointment as an adjunct professor at Central South University will definitely promote the development of literature and art and talent cultivation in Central South University.
"It is a great honor to be employed as an adjunct professor at Central South University. I will try my best to make my own contribution to the discipline construction and talent training of the school." Mr. Yang Fuyin accepted the letter of appointment as an adjunct professor of Central South University with pleasure, put on the emblem of Central South University, and presented Central South University with publications such as Yang Fuyin's Painting Collection, Yang Fuyin Changling Prose Collection, Liang Miao Huai Xin-An Interview with Yang Fuyin.
After the appointment ceremony, the school leaders accompanied Mr. Yang Fuyin to visit the campus and art museum of Central South University. Yang Fuyin, a 66-year-old father, is called a "geek" artist, and Yang Yanlai, a 37-year-old daughter, is a rising star in the painting world and is known as a "landscape painter with the spirit of nature". Both father and daughter are from Hunan and live in Guangzhou. When they came to Guangzhou to look for stories from other countries, their artistic feelings for their hometown became stronger, so they all created under the background of "Xiangchu culture". It is said that artists in Hunan and Chu enjoy having a "story" in their lives and works, and the so-called "story" means "story". At the banquet of artists' gathering, everyone likes telling jokes, and in the jokes, we can feel the artist's personality and the "spirituality" of his works. When the reporter interviewed two painters, Yang Fuyin and Yang Yanlai, he also heard many "jokes" at the scene.
Yang Fuyin
Art is direct perception.
Reporter: I heard that you are very mysterious among Changsha cultural people. Some people say that you are a "god man" and a "geek". It is said that you put forward the idea of "spiritual friendship" between Chinese and western cultures. What is the "joke" in this?
Yang Fuyin: "I am not a man of God. Some people say that one is Mo Yingfeng, a writer, and the other is Zhao Shaoang, an old Hong Kong painter and a master of Lingnan painting school. Spiritual communication is the beginning without a teacher and without language. We want to talk about spiritual contact, because we want to talk about the pronucleus about the world that China and the West first realized, and we want to grasp them, because that is the most touching. Direct perception, free from theoretical interference, pure and clean. With this friendship, we can talk about future study, so that we won't lose our way and can talk on an equal footing. I teach graduate students and talk about Dante's Divine Comedy. Beauty laughs across the river, three steps apart, is a world that can never be reached, and it is a kind of beauty that is separated. Chinese-style aesthetics is also the beauty of "parting". This is a "pre-core", which is fundamental and not a question of who obeys whom. In this sense, God's communication is communication. "
Reporter: What is the beginning without a teacher and the beginning without words?
Yang Fuyin: That is to say, when human beings were still primitive, which one was your teacher? No. People can only face the world directly by themselves. Then, when facing nature directly, the ancients living in China and Rome were the same, and there was no teacher from the beginning. But what they feel is consistent with the most basic point of understanding the world, which is the basis of spiritual intercourse.
"For example, I don't know much about Cantonese. I know some words. I found that Cantonese has preserved the language of our ancestors. For example, talking about "shelter from the wind and rain" instead of "umbrella" is really primitive and vivid, because "umbrella" is something that "shelters from the wind and rain." Umbrella "is the scientific name, and" covering "is direct feeling. The direct feeling is that everyone was speechless at first, and no one told you what it was called at first. Also, Changsha people say that food is for eating, and Cantonese people call it "buying"? ? "Too accurate, too vivid and wonderful. For example, when I talk about the TV remote control at home, I always shout "press the button", which shows that I still have direct feelings. "
Art is direct perception, straight to the point, direct expression of one's own mind, excluding all kinds of interference from theory, experience and others, and direct face. This is a good art, but now people's perception ability can be degraded.
Reporter: You live in Guangzhou, but your art museum is in Changsha. Why?
Yang Fuyin: "I brought my family to Guangzhou on 1993. I just want to hide in one place and see if I can do something. Now I know that everything you want to lose is actually your favorite and you don't want to lose it. From Changsha to Guangzhou, there are too many things lost. Changsha is like a slingshot, and I am a stone. Just pull Changsha, and I will bounce to the ends of the earth. Brag, many people can leave Changsha, but I can't. In 2006, Yang Fuyin Art Museum was completed in Changsha Martyrs Park, one of the top ten martyrs parks in China. Its predecessor was a floating restaurant that was abandoned for several years and became the first individual art museum in Hunan. Now I have to go back once every quarter to create a batch of paintings and put them there for free exhibition, so as to let everyone know my heart in Guangzhou as much as possible. "
Reporter: What impressed you most about Xiangchu culture?
Yang Fuyin: "What impressed me most about Xiangchu culture is its desolate beauty, which is different from the tenderness and preciousness in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and the desolation in the northwest. What is the beauty of desolation? I wrote such a passage in an essay: "In the early winter, dead willows were moored on the shore, and the boat was broken, so there was no need for fishermen on board. "The beauty of desolation, that is, the beauty of tragedy, is a great beauty."
Reporter: I heard that you admire Badashan people very much. Someone has seen your painting, saying that there are shadows of eight mountain people. what do you think?
Yang Fuyin: "My child Dongdong said, Dad, why does your painting look good and feel new? I think I kept the tradition. Many people just want to be new, but they can't see clearly after practice. There is a saying that if you want to innovate every day, people will become nervous. "
"But I dare not look at traditional things, such as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Shaanxi and Huo Qubing's Tomb. I saw it once, and the second time I would say, "Go in and have a look. I'll wait outside. "Art can't let passion run away like this."
"But don't look at traditional things, traditional painting is to learn. I want to tell you directly that I am still seriously learning from Badashan people. "
Yang Yanlai 197 1 Born in Changsha, is a freelance artist. 1989 studied in folk art department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, 1996-2002 was employed by Guangzhou Painting Academy.
Yang yanlai
Painting landscapes is about people.
Reporter: Do your father and daughter usually work together?
Yang Yanlai: "We have all lived in Guangzhou for a long time now, but we have not lived together. His paintings often show me, and so do mine. After painting for a while, they will communicate with each other. My father knows mountains and rivers, flowers and birds, but he mainly paints people, so I only paint mountains and rivers. Although the subject matter is different, the onlookers are clear, and we can all express our opinions. "
Reporter: Are you looking for the "story of another country" or "story of your hometown" in art?
Yang Yanlai: "We have settled in Guangzhou, and our works naturally have the feeling of Guangzhou, but after leaving for a long time, the feeling of hometown is even stronger." My father wrote a collection of essays on Changlingshan, the title of which is actually a place name in Changsha, and all the articles in it are also about Changsha's decades of experience. Although our creation does not necessarily reflect the theme of our hometown, it is actually created under the background of "Xiangchu culture". After reading our paintings, critics also said that one feature is "Chu culture". "
"I didn't think there was such a culture in my paintings before. Later, I saw Li Zehou's The Course of Beauty. In the book, I talked about "Chu culture" and said that the imagination of sculptures and paintings under "Chu culture" is very rich, even a little weird, and very energetic. This kind of thinking coincides with my artistic thinking and practice, and I have unconsciously touched the edge of "Chu culture". "
"I have a strong artistic imagination, and painting is" very open ". I like painting by nature. After reading The Course of Beauty, I found that I still adapted to the background of my hometown. So is my father. We are all in our bones. If you know Chu culture, you can feel that kind of thing from our paintings. In fact, the concept of "hometown" has always been integrated into the artist's own blood. "
Reporter: Critics say you are a "painter of natural scenery". How do you understand it?
Yang Yanlai: "I think this refers to' mind and aura'; They think that I have been painting by my own' nature' and my painting is different from others. "
Reporter: Tell me a few special works in which your father and daughter have "jokes".
Yang Yanlai: "In this exhibition, my father's work" Scene "outlines a person, a lotus flower, without" Duanzi ",but full of lines and artistic conception; His "Three Music Pictures" uses his usual three elements of "lotus, fish and bird", which was originally in the traditional theme, but it has its own charm when painted. "
"I'm not saying that each of the eight works in this exhibition has a story, but there is a" segment "in the painting, which is a" segment "of people; The theme of my landscape painting is "people", and there are some "villains" on the screen, and "villains" have some "plots." "Clear Night" depicts a quiet night where people talk. The environment is elegant and people are interesting. Please come back. It's interesting to ask you to go back when you leave. Walk, walk together. That's what I do, painting landscapes and talking about people. I mainly want to express the "human feelings" and "spirit" between people in the elegant landscape world.