On one occasion, Feng Zikai was reading a newspaper at home and suddenly saw such an eye-catching headline.
He was surprised: he has never had a dispute with others. Why do people slander themselves like this?
When he finished reading the whole article, he realized that the article was analyzing the characteristics of his cartoons.
The author thinks that the characters in Feng Zikai's paintings are still vivid and meaningful even without eyes and noses.
The shirtless picture of Po is a wonderful picture of Feng Zikai's daughter Bao Xiao. Although I can't see the expression on her face, I can still feel a lively childlike interest.
Besides painting, Mr. Feng Zikai has profound attainments in music, literature, education, translation, calligraphy and other fields. But when he looked back, he said:
"My whole life is accidental. I entered a normal school by accident, painted music by accident, read books by accident, and translated books by accident. I was very happy. I don't know what kind of accidental opportunities I will encounter in the future. "
1975 September 15, one day in early autumn, this "artist who is the most like an artist in modern China" died of illness.
Mr. Feng Zikai showed us his attitude towards life with his whole life:
Don't be confused, don't fall in love. Not afraid of the future, not thinking about the past. So, all right!
The road of life often needs to turn.
Some people say that a person's life is to keep making multiple-choice questions, from which option to choose ABCD in the exam, to which school to go to, what career to choose, and who to spend his life with. All these choices make everyone different.
Every time I stand at such a crossroads, people who originally walked together will eventually go in different directions.
At this time, it will inevitably be sad from time to time, but in the end, we should pat each other on the shoulder, sniff hard and move on.
Life is to say goodbye and start again, and then say goodbye and start again.
If you miss too much of the past, you will miss the scenery after.
Feng Zikai's life is not a smooth road to the end.
1898165438+1October 9 (the 24th year of Guangxu), a child named "Feng Run" was born in Shimen Town, Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province.
He is the youngest son and has six sisters. His parents loved him very much and gave him a nickname "Ciyu".
When Feng Run was in primary school, an election was held in his hometown. The teacher said that rural people had a low level of education and too many strokes, so they changed their name to "Feng Ren", which is just similar to the pronunciation of "Run" and "Ren" in Zhejiang.
Later, Feng Ren was admitted to Zhejiang No.1 Normal University. Because of his good writing style, he won the esteem of Chinese teachers.
Step-by-step Ann felt that besides "Feng Ren", there should be a double name. "Ciyu" is a nickname, so he got the later name "Kai Zi", which means "happiness".
But happiness is happiness after all, and no one can be carefree because of the happiness of fame.
However, Feng Zikai's later life was really not as happy and smooth as the name suggested.
If you like something, you must stick to it bravely.
Feng Zikai's father was the last scholar in Qing Dynasty. After that, the imperial examination was abolished.
If you win the prize, you can't enter the official career. Anyone will be unhappy. While he was sad and frustrated, he still attached importance to the life of poetry and wine.
Feng Zikai once recalled: "Father's supper is always at dusk. A foreign oil lamp, a purple sand hip flask, a broken porcelain bowl filled with hot dried tofu, a hookah, a book, and an old cat sitting at the corner of the table. "
He grew up in such a family environment.
After graduating from primary school, Feng Zikai and his neighbor's son went to Hangzhou to take the exam.
Like many parents today, Feng Zikai's mother wants her son to have a stable job not far from home in the future, so she repeatedly urges him to take the No.1 Normal School so that he can go back to his hometown to be a primary school teacher in the future.
In fact, Feng Zikai did go to Zhejiang No.1 Normal University in the end, but not to satisfy his mother's wishes.
At that time, he applied to three schools at the same time, and finally chose the first normal school, because it was the largest and could better satisfy his thirst for knowledge.
In the first two years of school, he got good grades and often won the first place.
Who knows, I went to Li Shutong's painting class, and my grades plummeted.
Here's the thing:
On one occasion, Li Shutong praised him: "Your painting has made rapid progress! Among the students I teach, I have never seen you make such rapid progress. "
Therefore, Feng Zikai was greatly encouraged, abandoned all subjects, immersed himself in studying western painting, and often skipped classes to sketch in the West Lake.
You see, the master used to be a wayward boy!
"My heart is still like catkins in late spring, wandering with opportunities and wind directions, holding different opinions."
Chance and chance are often twin sisters.
Feng Zikai, on the other hand, followed his heart and put it into action.
Because he loves painting, Feng Zikai has no time to take pedagogy courses.
After graduation, he didn't go back to his hometown as a teacher. As an amateur, he can't cross the threshold of western painting.
Later, Feng Zikai went to Shanghai and worked as a western painting teacher in a university normal school founded by a friend.
In this process, he gradually found that his level was not enough. He wanted to study in Japan, but he couldn't because he had no money.
A similar situation has happened to many young people nowadays, such as "I don't like my major" and "This job is so different from what I expected"
"The dream is full and the reality is very skinny." Young people can always come up with a ridiculous catchword to laugh at themselves.
However, this embarrassment is not a personal experience.
The turning point of the crisis is not so much resistance as a gift of fate.
Figure out what you want to do, and then try bravely. Keep walking, keep walking, and the road will get wider and wider.
Later, Feng Zikai, a poor young art teacher, went to Japan.
He borrowed money from his sister-in-law, father-in-law and friends to study in Japan for ten months, studying painting, music and Japanese.
In ten months, even he felt that he was in a hurry and what he wanted to learn was not really solid, but this experience was a turning point in his artistic life.
Give the world a little more innocence and warmth.
As the only boy in the family and the youngest, Feng Zikai grew up surrounded by warmth, so his eyes always showed tenderness and pity.
This characteristic can be seen in the writing style, which is manifested in the plain writing style and pure painting style.
His works, whether written or painted, are mostly about people around him.
The trivial things that everyone has to experience in daily life can always generate new interests in him.
I don't know if it is because I have been to a normal school that Feng Zikai pays special attention to children.
He will stand in the father's point of view and record the child's growth in words:
"Deep, deep! You are particularly admirable. You are a real person, and your body and mind are open. You are desperate to deal with everything with all your energy.
A little depressed, like a peanut turned to the ground and chewed its tongue, and the kitten refused to eat the cake. You cried your lips white and fainted for a minute or two. Grandma Putuo went to burn incense and bought you a clay figurine. How devoted you are to holding him and feeding him;
One day, you broke him by mistake, and your sadness is more real than the bankruptcy, lovelorn, heartbreak, bereavement and total annihilation of an adult. "
Although I can't bear to watch my children grow up, I also expressed my father's expectation and blessing for them:
"All your ambitions and dreams in the past failed, and you began to restrain your own demands, endure your own desires, and seek the happiness of others; You have stepped out of the golden age of egoism and started to taste the pungent taste of human love. "
In the eyes of many adults, children know nothing. Give them strict discipline and discipline when they are naughty.
Feng Zikai is different. As a father, he holds this attitude:
"The most perfect eye of the mind between heaven and earth, only the child's possessions, the truth of all things in the world, only children can see the most clearly and completely. Compared with them, my eyes have been blinded by the wisdom of the world. I am a poor cripple. I really dare not be called' father' by them, if' father' is respected. "
His cartoon works often focus on children, and there are many thoughts on education, which are not out of date even today.
What is the size of a mold?
Mechanical rote memorization, which doesn't care about children crying!
Different degrees, all on the same line.
He was just an ordinary teacher, but later he became an outstanding painter, essayist, art educator, music educator, calligrapher and translator.
As he himself said, "I accidentally entered the normal school, accidentally fell in love with painting music, accidentally read books, and accidentally translated books."
However, it takes more than chance to become a great master.
Facing the opportunity, he chose to follow it bravely instead of waiting for it to slip away.
So, please, like Mr. Feng Zikai, look for one thing and work hard.
So, all right!
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