Xiding's studio is called "Finding No Zhai", which is dedicated to finding the lack of others. It takes courage to taste Mr. Siding's paintings. Pick up the painting, look at it for a while, close your eyes and think; Look and think ...
Xiding, I like painting since I was a child. At that time, because of the need of newspaper work, I was engaged in comics. In 1950s and 1960s, Xi 'an Daily regularly published Xiding's cartoons, which were exaggerated, refined and vivid, leaving many jokes for readers, and the name of Xiding's cartoonist was also deeply rooted in people's hearts.
In the 1970s, Xiding's large-scale mural "Chang 'an Treasure" appeared in Xi 'an Xijing Hotel. The painting is 25 meters long and 2.2 meters high, representing 24 scenic spots in Shaanxi. It is unique in brushwork, interesting and widely praised. Jia Pingwa, a famous writer, said in the article Reading Paintings in Xijing Hotel: "It is rare for cartoonists to make large murals in China." Later, a Chinese painting album "Xiding Art" was circulated in the society, which was even more surprising: Can Xiding still paint Chinese painting? In this regard, someone once commented: "What Xiding painted can always yield amazing achievements full of personality."
It's interesting to appreciate Xiding's paintings. The series of "City Wall Roots" includes people who drag their braids, shave their heads, wear robes and raincoats. It is based on life and higher than life. It is an artistic representation of ordinary things, giving people a sense of enjoyment. Borrowing fire, walking birds, walking ... makes people seem to see all the people under the city walls in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, which can be carefully scrutinized. The ordinary images in Xiding's works have produced vivid artistic images, which are lifelike, lovely and innocent, and people can't help laughing. What is commendable is that Xiding can find new ideas in ordinary real life and savor these vivid and natural images carefully, which makes people have to admire Xiding's keen insight and superb expressive force.
Xiding's paintings, whether ancient or modern, all reveal infinite flavor in simplicity, so as to briefly describe the complexity, and less wins more. The series of "City Wall Roots" also makes people feel fresh, interesting and full of charm. For example, in Arm-wrestling, the contrast between two images, one fat and one thin, one tall and one short, is thought-provoking. In "Hanging Throat", the two men spread their arms, held their heads high, bent over to concentrate on playing the piano, and their intoxicated expressions jumped from the paper, leaving people with unlimited room for reverie; In the conversation, two gentlemen in robes and holding birdcages let two birdcages approach, as if two birds were chatting. ...
Through personalized conception, layout and pen and ink, Xiding makes his works fully expressive, vivid and expressive, and extremely infectious, which makes people never tire of reading them. Besides being interesting, the ingenious plot structure, vivid character dynamics and vivid expressions are even more refreshing.
The joy of Xiding's painting is not only the root of the city wall, but also an anecdote: Mr. Hua, a famous cartoonist, once enjoyed Xiding's Chinese painting album when he was alive. He carefully studied the image of an aristocratic scholar listening to the cover, leaned back in the chair and imitated it, then nodded and smiled, praising the interesting characters.
Pen and ink are the basic means for Chinese painting to survive. From Xiding's paintings, we can deeply feel his great efforts in pen and ink, his extraordinary skill, moderate relaxation and vivid characters. He boldly and skillfully applied the exaggeration used in cartoons to the character modeling of ink painting, trying to highlight the appearance characteristics of characters and express their inner world with appearance, so as to achieve tangible and vivid performance. This stems from Xiding's comprehensive cultural accomplishment, as well as his animation modeling skills cultivated for decades. Xiding's ink paintings are eclectic, starting from the specific environment of the characters, transcending the time and space constraints, and pursuing the perfection of form and the profound artistic conception according to his own wishes.
Mr. Xiding's freehand brushwork, with its unique calligraphy style, constitutes a meaningful form. Once chewed, we can appreciate the wisdom based on the essence of life, full of openness, humor and wisdom. From his paintings, we can deeply feel the humanistic spirit, Xiding's unique and wonderful understanding of China culture and his unrestrained and willful talent.