However, one has a bad temper, especially a strong competitive spirit. Rong Zhi was worried about one thing, so he wrote: "It is gratifying to have a pure heart like jade; However, when he was as weak as his father's childhood, he felt strange. From the age of six, he gradually became strong and stubborn, just like his father. Fathers are particularly worried about their future as adults, but I pray that my son will quickly grind off the edges and corners. "
There is a student from 1922 Yumachi Normal School in Guxia District, Tokyo, and 1928 graduated from this school. He didn't have to worry about his studies, so he didn't go to the ordinary high school, but went to the middle school, which was the best school at that time-Tokyo No.1 Middle School (now Tokyo Hibiya High School).
The middle school with the old academic system is not compulsory education, not only that, but also elite education for children from families above secondary level, regardless of the children from poor families going to school. For example, tuition is paid on a monthly basis, and the monthly income is quite harsh. Anyone who can't afford to pay tuition for family reasons is forced to drop out of school. It is said that there are not a few students who drop out of school because of this. The old middle school "opposes poverty and denies people."
There is a family living in a paint room, the son of an old furniture dealer, and his family is poor. Such a child did not go to high school but went to middle school, which fully shows that a person has excellent academic performance and his parents have high hopes for him. However, no matter how high the expectations are, there is still no money, and parents can't afford to pay one-third of the tuition. As a result, my third daughter, who works in a school, paid a tuition fee, just like when the house was rebuilt at home after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Give up applying for art school. A student was forced to drop out of school for a year because of tuberculosis in middle school. Under the condition of not being rich, he had to rely on the hardships of his parents and sisters to go to school. In this case, dropping out of school makes people feel very sad. He has made up his mind that he can't give his family any more trouble and must stand on his own feet as soon as possible.
After graduating from No.1 Middle School, I went to No.1 Middle School and then went to Tokyo University, which was the elite route at that time. Later, people who knew Yi wondered why he didn't take the "No.1 Middle School East University Route". Inoue first entered the book world in 1950, at the age of 34. But only two years later, he left the book industry.
The calligraphy world mentioned here refers to calligraphy exhibitions with calligraphers' comments and collections and their subordinate private schools. In the past two years, a work participated in the third and fourth calligraphy art exhibitions, the sixth Japanese art exhibition, the first and second calligraphy art exhibitions and the third Japanese exhibition, and won the Japanese prize.
As a rookie in the book industry, it can be said that it started smoothly. But one of them only recorded the contents of the exhibition in his chronicle, and did not mention winning the prize. On the whole, winning the prize is a great book.
The award-winning exhibitions in recent two years have dampened his enthusiasm for creation. This is because he is disappointed that the evaluation work focuses more on interpersonal relationships than on the content of the exhibited works and the quality of the authors.
Before they started, one of them was a teacher of Ueda Sangge and had been practicing calligraphy for ten years. He started late, because this decade coincided with the unprecedented turmoil in Japanese society, and it was impossible to hold a calligraphy exhibition. 194165438+In February, Japan declared war on the United States; 1In August, 945, Japan was defeated again. During this period, life went from bad to worse. Last March, Tokyo was attacked by a large-scale air raid, and it was said that100000 people were burned to death.
A Yokogawa National School in jiangdong district was on duty on the night when the American B29 bomber violently bombed Tokyo. At the height of the bombing, there was a warehouse hidden under the stairs. When he woke up, he was lying on the campus full of dead bodies. Early in the morning, when the headmaster and his family visited the campus, they found the body of a teacher. On closer inspection, there seems to be blood on the lips. So artificial respiration was carried out immediately, and one of them came back to life. The bodies lying around are all students, parents, colleagues and acquaintances near the school. Among them, he experienced a near-death experience for several hours. First of all, this tragic night will never be forgotten.
The war with death is finally over. On the scorched earth, people are worried about tomorrow's food and clothing, afraid and frustrated by defeat, and the new system began to be rebuilt according to the instructions of the Allied General Command occupying Japan. So far, education has been completely denied, and building a new society with liberalism and democracy as its ideal has become the goal. After all kinds of twists and turns, it was not until five years after the defeat that every citizen really felt the meaning of being free from death.
There was a time when I learned calligraphy from my teacher on a temporary basis, which coincided with the turbulent period during the war and after the war. As a calligrapher, it is in the recovery period when people begin to get rid of chaos.
Freedom is hard to come by. However, the evaluation of calligraphy exhibits does not reflect the spirit of respecting freedom.
During and after the war, calligraphers who parted ways got together again, resumed their private calligraphy school, adhered to the old way and followed the old mentoring relationship. They just want to maintain the past family-style calligraphy salon in the name of the organization form of the collection exhibition. One is extremely disgusted with this.
Want to be free, why? What hardships did he go through to get it? He has infinite hope for the new things that freedom will produce, otherwise what he is doing now is meaningless. This is a critical period.
At the beginning of the calligrapher's career, one made a clean break with the calligraphy world with pure post-war consciousness. 1950, Japanese-born sculptor Isamu, as a modernist artist, flew from new york to Japan for the first time after the war. He doesn't look at positions, fame, and ranking in groups. He expressed his feelings frankly by examining and screening his works with his own eyes. His practice brought people into contact with modern artistic ideas for the first time, and was infected by his simplicity and sincerity, which was refreshing.
During his stay in Japan, Noguchi was accompanied by his friend and parent of abstract painting, Saburo Tanegawa (he died from 1906 to 1957).
Here, "behavioral painting" (also called "abstract expressionism") prevails in new york. It has become the fuse of the recent upsurge of abstract expressionism sweeping the world, and the rising American art has turned the attention of the art world from Paris to new york.
Hasegawa heard from Noguchi that Jackson Pollock developed "Drip Water", and his works, especially his painting skills, attracted much attention. Critics call it "action painting", and he found that Pollock's painting method is similar to calligraphy.
Pollock laid a huge canvas flat on the floor of the studio, holding a paint jar with countless holes in his hand, and splashed paint on the canvas as he walked. Then Pollock said, "I must be in the painting."
Generally speaking, western painting = oil painting, the canvas is stretched on the frame and then stands on the easel. The painter faces the picture like a mirror, dipping a pen made of short and hard pig hair in paint and wiping it with his fingers. This kind of painting can't reflect the vitality of the whole body on the picture. For a realistic painter who truthfully reflects what he has seen and heard in his paintings, the vitality of his whole body has become a burden, and he dare not even think about it.
Of course, Pollock didn't use "drip painting" for the whole body's vitality. In fact, sigmund freud's psychology reveals the deep connotation of human psychology. Influenced by it, painters who have always only paid attention to the external world turned their eyes to explore their inner world, and surréalisme came into being. Pollock has a unique view on surrealism. When he was painting, he began to think about how to make his inner thoughts appear on the screen.
First of all, we should liberate painting from fingering. He didn't reflect his physical activities on the paper "pen", but through his wrist, with the paint jar in his hand as the material, he reflected his physical activities on the screen. This is a copy of the "calligraphy pen", and the canvas laid on the ground is equivalent to calligraphy paper.
Locke is called "action painting school" precisely because people see this characteristic of painting action.
At the same time, Hasegawa paid close attention to the paintings of the French painter Tal-Coat, and wrote to ask about his intention of painting. Talcott replied that he was interested in Geste. The word "Geste" was recently literally translated as "behavior", when Hasegawa translated it as "gesture". From the translated text, we can see the prudent insight of the painters of this era, which not only shows that they have a deep friendship with western painters and are familiar with their painting methods, but also are influenced by oriental knowledge.
During the period of 1950, Inoue was a post-war calligrapher. Western art borrowed from the "brushwork" of Oriental calligraphy and just began to show the tendency of describing the inner world-psychodynamics. Saburo Hasegawa has mastered these trends of western avant-garde painters in active international communication. He not only wants to show it in his abstract paintings, but also wants to tell it to people who are exploring new ways of calligraphy.
At that time, under the guidance of a teacher, Sang Jiu, Morita Zilong, who edited and published The Beauty of Calligraphy, met Hasegawa. Hasegawa suggested that the magazine should set up an "alpha" column, try not to write words, and use the pen line structure instead, so that Hasegawa can choose works. Introduce some unconfident works in Hasegawa's monthly review to make the author more courageous. Although I can't explain this groping clearly, I experienced the happiness of not being bound by the model.
Hasegawa's family lives in Tang Di, which is lucky for both Yoichi and Hasegawa. A family lives in Mao Qi. He was entrusted by Zilong to go to Hasegawa's home to help him choose his monthly works and record Hasegawa's oral comments.
According to a lady, she ran to Hasegawa's home every day after school, where she even learned the news of the birth of her eldest daughter.
From Hasegawa's Talking about Modern Art, I feel that I have a completely different feeling from my previous education in calligraphy, and I am deeply impressed.
Among them, especially Van Gogh's deeds made him deeply moved. Van Gogh cherished his feelings so much that he didn't sell a single painting before his death because he painted a completely different style. Nevertheless, he was not discouraged and continued to write letters to his friends, telling them why people didn't understand such true feelings. Firmly adhere to your beliefs in poverty; Finally, he reached his ideal artistic conception, but eventually committed suicide because there was no way out. He stuck to his belief and explored it to the end. Van Gogh's belief reached such a high level because he was inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e prints; Wait a minute. Although I have read some books about Van Gogh before, it seems that Van Gogh described by Hasegawa is just around the corner. As a dynamic person and artist, his image is deeply imprinted in his mind, from which he has waved away all the previously unformed knowledge.
Hasegawa said: "At the end of 19, Van Gogh lived in an era of underdeveloped information. Therefore, the Ukiyo-e painters did not know that their prints actually stimulated the painters in Paris, which became the driving force of the new painting art of Impressionism and pointed out the artistic direction of the 20th century for later Impressionists. "
"It's very different now. Information is not spread casually, but exchanged with each other. You have mastered precious calligraphy expressions. There is no need to acquiesce in Ukiyo-e painting as it did half a century ago, which nourishes the situation that western painters can only get out (it is shameful that some stupid painters actually want to replace Ukiyo-e painting with oil painting to save the loss of this half century). You don't have to watch people take it away. You have to study how people take it away, how I use it, and then take it back. In that way, the expression that belongs to us will produce works that surpass them. "
Saburo Hasegawa, who translated "gesture" into "stroke", must be very aware of the range brought by "stroke" and know that its effect will be more fully reflected in the practice of calligraphy.
In other words, Hasegawa realized that his long-term painting as a foreign painter could not achieve this artistic conception. In fact, some of Hasegawa's works skillfully use pen, ink and paper, but most of them draw some marks on natural wood grains such as Moto boat boards, which does not challenge the "pen gesture".
There is a portfolio. In 195 1, a work is a collage of marked Oracle Bone Inscriptions embedded in ink, surrounded by ink-removing and splashing method, with the title "Zhuangzi". The next year, newspaper clippings were posted on Moto's old straw mat with the title "DOKUTYAN". From these two works, we can see that one of them is working hard in Saburo Hasegawa's studio.
1952, 65438+ 10. In October, Kazuo Morita, Cao Xuan Kawaguchi and two other colleagues set up the "Ink Club" at Long 'an Temple in Kyoto. They wrote the name of the group denying the will of calligraphers and calligraphers, and vowed to take a new step: we are not calligraphers, but live for ink and let ink shine!
Prior to this, Zilong stopped the publication of Beauty of Calligraphy and founded the calligraphy art magazine Mo Mei. On the cover, the works of new york's fledgling abstract expressionist painter Franz Klein were published, and a special collection of Klein's works explained by Hasegawa was edited. "Mohist Society" decided to publish Mohist magazine, and Jing took office as editor-in-chief. Zi Long, a critic who is familiar with calligraphy art, shows a keen sense of the times.