Appreciation of Fang Zengxian's works.

As one of the representatives of New Zhejiang School, Fang Zengxian has been innovating. 1955, his "Every Grain is Hard" became the pioneering work of new figure painting. The figures in this painting are vivid, accurate in perspective, precise in brushwork and vigorous in lines. The close-up in the painting is the image of an old farmer, wearing a white Baotou and a blue and white cotton-padded coat. The right hand reached diagonally ahead and was about to pick up an ear of wheat; He is holding a long stemmed Chinese pipe bag and some newly picked ears of wheat in his left hand. A dark red face, drooping eyes staring at the ears of wheat on the ground. Wearing black cloth pants. Wrinkles are written in Jiao Mo and slightly smudged with light ink, which not only makes the effect of pen and ink virtual and real, but also shows the bone structure properly. Barefoot under the trousers is covered by a long white sweat towel, and the exposed place is accurate. The long sweat towel is less smudged, and the texture is composed of calligraphy lines, which is more tense. The foreground can vaguely see two carriages full of grain, and the use of light ink and light color has successfully stretched the sense of space in the picture. In the lower left corner of the painting, the words "every grain is hard" are written in official script. 1June, 955, the words "increase first and then decrease" were added. Because of the success of painting, Fang Zengxian painted the same works on different occasions, some of them were all, and the painting of 1963 was relatively complete.

Compared with the French painter Miller's gleaner, this painting is similar in composition and character dynamics, but the ideas expressed in the two paintings are completely different. Miller's "gleaner" shows the miserable situation that farmers have no food under the harsh exploitation of feudal system. Gleaner in the painting is hunched over. Thick hands and drooping head imply the hardships and helplessness of life. In the future, under the whipping and reprimanding of the supervisor, farmers handed over the fruits of their labor to those untidy and fat-filled nobles, but they could only make a living by picking wheat ears. How sad {Fang Zengxian's "Every Grain is Hard" is a tribute to the virtue of diligence and thrift of farmers in China and the positive outlook of the times in the new period. Those rough big hands are the hands of laborers, creating rich material wealth; The carriage behind him is full of the joy of harvest and the reward of labor, which truly belongs to the beautiful life of ordinary workers. The old farmer in the painting is an ordinary one among hundreds of millions of farmers in China. But he exudes the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation: hard-working, simple and kind, as simple and kind as his hometown brothers.

Since the new era, Fang Zengxian has never stopped exploring ink figure painting. The characters in his paintings are slightly exaggerated, and the pen and ink are elegant. At the same time, he also absorbed the essence of China traditional ink painting and the use of calligraphy, which enhanced the lyricism and appeal of the picture.