Chen Chuanxi
As the saying goes, "one side of the soil and water support one side." My brother Wen Kang was born in Zhao Yan, but grew up in Hebei and Liaoning. He is full of local flavor and moist folk customs, which makes him have an awesome chivalrous spirit. Friends get together and drink two glasses of hot wine, and Kang Ge's chatterbox opens, and everyone is in high spirits. The Wenkang brothers also have naive childlike innocence. He does everything according to his own temperament and emotions move in the middle. He has likes and dislikes, laughs and scolds. It can be said that an adult has not lost his childlike innocence.
—— Ye Kangning
Art is innovative, and it is impossible to establish its own face by painting alone, let alone reflect the painter's contribution to mankind. Many people with poor qualifications are just victims of art. Wenkang actively draws lessons from tradition and devotes himself to the deep excavation of folk art, giving new vitality to tradition; This is not only a revolution in painting technology, but also a revolution in traditional aesthetics.
He realized that only by judging tradition with his own eyes can we prove that we are panting and thinking. A clever man like Wen Kang is determined to innovate. If he is not careful, he may become one of the few great artists.
Liu Yufeng
The higher characteristics of painting art should be the product of rationality, not just handmade products (Dana's artistic philosophy). Wenkang's paintings can show that the painter is rational, which comes from the painter's pursuit and absorption of knowledge, experience and technology. At the same time, it is not difficult for us to see the irrational side of the painter. Looking at the painter and his paintings from this aspect can help us understand the freedom in the painter's mind and art. His intelligence and rationality, even his non-intelligence and irrationality, all come from Wenkang's own temperament. It can be seen that his expanding mind and contradictory emotions that limit the expansion of the mind are properly depicted in his love paintings. He has his own experience and expression of beauty and ugliness, truth and falsehood, good and evil of temperament. Let the benevolent see his benevolence, the wise see his wisdom, the shallow see his shallowness, and the deep see his depth.
-Li Wenling
Wenkang's paintings can be regarded as illustrations made by contemporary people for those books. It runs through the desire to dissect human nature and human feelings, trying to publicize personality and show different faces, which is consistent with the ideal in Lu Xun's On Cultural Compilation. There are childish and weak places, but not slender and fragile. In addition, his works also reveal a leisurely and peaceful farming mentality. The characters are alive and blood, can go out and enter, can sing and live, and can talk about intimacy. Formally, it has also achieved the perfect combination of tradition and fashion, turning mulberry leaves into bright silk, winding them on personalized spiritual shuttles and weaving their own brocade.
-Ke Wen Hui
Wenkang's paintings have a literary narrative. His narrative is not in broad daylight, but at night and in dreams. His paintings reminded me of Li Yu's words, and I thought, "When are the spring flowers and the autumn moon? How much do you know about the past? " . Wen Kang has his own choice to learn from the ancients. He wants to find his own understanding with the ancients. For example, he has a soft spot for Jin Dongxian. Obviously, Wen Kang's literary accomplishment and calligraphy nourished his paintings. This makes Wenkang's paintings different from other painters as soon as they appear. His paintings are like "hidden chapters", giving people a distant imagination.
Hiroshi
Today is an era of self-esteem, but what this era lacks most is self, especially in art, people pay too much attention to others' evaluation and recognition of themselves-self is controlled by other things, and material self enslaves spiritual self. Therefore, Wen Kang's childish practice of "letting his temper go" and his artistic efforts and experiments with this attitude first satisfy himself and then arouse the audience's resonance and singing, which can be described as his true self-I think this is the correct way to paint. However, the transformation between "letting temper" and triggering viewers needs to be found hard.
-Chen Zhensheng
Wenkang's paintings
Text/Chen Zhensheng
Wen Kang, 39, is still like a "ga" child. If he is congenial to you, he will immediately show his true colors and deal with you. He is very humorous when drinking tea and after drinking wine. As soon as the chatterbox opens, he is like a crosstalk performer, saying that learning to sing is omnipotent and everything is wonderful. It's really hard for you to hold back.
There are too many elegant affections around you that obliterate your true feelings, and too many boring decadence that make you lose your head. Therefore, I like Wenkang's straightforward authenticity, even if it is a little simple and rude, but it is true after all.
Truth contains the necessary qualitative and insight. In addition to humor, when talking about some so-called famous painters at present, he showed a kind of polite and pleasant contempt for those who put their hands on their backs, such as Li Bai and Du Fu, or the eagle cock without sincerity and pen and ink on paper. In addition, sometimes, he will tell me about his pursuit of the true beauty of art-being different and being understood by others, in a serious tone that surprises me and makes me feel a little funny, and that such beauty can only be obtained in the process of expressing his true life sentiment and true spiritual cultivation.
Besides, any other explanation, no matter how beautiful and noble, is either stupid or just stupid.
Wenkang said to me: people who don't understand think I'm too lazy to write more. In fact, I don't want to simply repeat myself, like the egg pancake stall in the morning market; People can't always do things with their heads down, but always raise their heads and handle the direction so as not to deviate from the track. Although my painting is not good enough, I have been trying to draw things that others, including myself, have not drawn yet.