Yu Tao's calligraphy appreciation.
Dalian calligrapher Yu Tao, calligraphy picture 1.
Yu Tao, a calligrapher in Dalian, pictures 2.
Dalian calligrapher Yu Tao's calligraphy picture 3
Yu Tao calligraphy figure 4.
Recall Mr. Yu Tao's past
Miyamoto Hiroshi
Does everyone in Dalian calligraphy and painting circle know? Dalian sanyu? Yu Zhiyuan and Yu Tao have the best relationship, but their art is different.
In about 2003, I went to Dalian Ancient and Modern Gallery to visit and study Mr. Yu Tao's paintings.
People come and go, and the flow is endless. Was once famous in Dalian painting and calligraphy circles? Sanjin? Yu Tao, one of the late painters, attracted my attention with more than 20 paintings and calligraphy works.
Yu Lao's daughter, Yu Wen, told us that she held this exhibition on the occasion of the Art Fair, one to commemorate the third anniversary of her father's death, and the other to realize one of her father's wishes. Mr. Yu Tao is a national first-class artist, a member of Dalian CPPCC, and the vice chairman of Dalian Calligraphers Association. His paintings and calligraphy works are collected by many museums and forest of steles at home and abroad. Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru takeshita, Junshu Haibe, former Singaporean President Lee Kuan Yew and former South Korean President Jin Yongsan all collect Yu Xiansheng's works. Three years ago, Mr Yu Tao died of cancer. Before he died, he told me that one of the biggest regrets in this life was that he couldn't hold a joint exhibition of father and daughter painting and calligraphy with me. Before the third anniversary of my father's death, I took out my father's 24 calligraphy and paintings, six works that my father cooperated with me before his death, and a couplet written by Mr. Shen Peng, chairman of China Calligraphers Association, to Mr. Yu Tao? And secular things take turns, ancient, modern, back and forth? As well as my own works in recent years, participated in this exhibition. ? Yu Wen said that although his father had left, he had to do what he had not finished. She wants to build the best boutique gallery in Dalian within a few years.
When Mr. Yu Tao published the official script "The First Word of Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he published the Collection of Yu Tao Paintings and Calligraphy. I know Yu Tao's indomitable and self-destructive spirit in a difficult situation. Otherwise, there would not be today's achievements. As mentioned in the preface and postscript, he was poor since childhood and unable to pursue further studies. Worked as a teenager. He was naturally fond of painting and calligraphy, so he used his spare time to ask for friends from his teachers, entered study classes and amateur art schools, and was improved, and his works were published earlier. However, who would have expected that the storm of 1957 came just as it appeared. This young man already has a heavy burden of work and life, and his pain and difficulties can be imagined. However, Yu Tao was not depressed, but never gave up his diligent study of calligraphy and painting while undertaking new arduous tasks. Until it's shattered? _? After that, Yu Tao's artistic accumulation for many years finally got a vast world to display his talents, and he became today. He himself quoted Lao Tzu in the postscript? Self-defeating? Proverbs, that he constantly beat himself, to achieve today's achievements.
Yu Tao is a painter who writes and draws. However, when attending special events, he rarely shows his paintings and calligraphy works to everyone at the same time. So people have different views, or think that he is a painter or calligrapher, and rarely know that he can have both. As he himself said in the postscript:? When I was a teenager, my family was poor and dropped out of school, and I took on the burden of work and life very early. But my passion for painting and calligraphy makes me take up almost most of my rest time, and the two are carried out simultaneously. However, due to historical reasons, the emphasis of publishing works and participating in activities at different stages cannot be completely consistent, which often leads to misunderstandings. Participating in painting activities and publishing paintings are concentrated at a certain stage, which makes people think that I am engaged in painting creation; On the contrary, when I publish more calligraphy works or participate in such activities frequently, people will think that I am engaged in calligraphy creation. Only those who have always understood me comprehensively can know and evaluate me not only from calligraphy or painting. Although my painting and calligraphy level is not high, the actual situation of my study and creation is indeed the case. ?
Here, he described his difficult course of learning calligraphy and painting with a simple and modest attitude. This further enhanced our understanding of him. Only in this way, his collection of works is a collection of paintings and calligraphy, but limited by objective conditions, he had to reduce the number of works as much as possible to form what he is now. If possible, he might as well separate calligraphy and painting and publish an album. The quantity is more, and there are more conditions to reflect its quality. However, it can only be so now. This remains to be seen in the future. But it should also be admitted that after the publication of this collection of paintings, at least I am willing to reduce my understanding or evaluation of his artistic achievements only from calligraphy or Chinese painting.
When it comes to his creation, it is inevitable to think of his efforts in developing calligraphy and painting activities for many years. Don't forget because of crushing? _? His role in the establishment of post-calligraphers' organizations. First, he was seconded to the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, then formally transferred to assist in the establishment of a calligraphy society, a calligraphy research society, and then to the Calligraphers Association. Whether holding exhibitions, going to factories, going to the countryside, going to the army, or disaster relief and donation, he not only actively participated, but also was mostly an organizer. It can be proved from his decades as full-time secretary-general of the Book Association. Therefore, from the collection of works, he is a calligrapher, painter and writer; But judging from his achievements in painting and calligraphy activities, he is also a diligent painter. When reading his works, people should still remember the fact that he participated in painting and calligraphy activities at home and abroad and won many awards.