Elegance, elegance and simplicity
——Appreciation of Chen Danhui’s flower-and-bird paintings
Wenbo Month
A famous artist commented on Chen Danhui’s flower-and-bird paintings The power is flexible and the structure is unique. When reading his paintings, he feels clear and noble, elegant and simple. The momentum required by freehand painting is an expression of the painter's emotions and will, an inner catharsis, and expresses the painter's soul with the help of the depiction of flowers, birds, fish and insects. On the basis of "learning from the Song and Yuan Dynasties", "foreign masters of nature" and "Zhongde Xinyuan", Chen Danhui is committed to the pursuit of a style that combines indulgent moods and delicate painting techniques, with distinctive personality, elegance and vulgarity. ***reward.
Reading Chen Danhui’s flower and bird paintings, one can see his character and feelings from Qi Qingge High School. Undoubtedly, freehand flower and bird painting is the category of flower and bird painting that is most closely connected with human emotions. It is so difficult that it requires the artist's lifetime wisdom; it is so high-minded that it overlooks the beautiful life state of all living things; it is so valuable that it can inspire future generations and protect people's lives for hundreds of years. Painting is an explicit cultural form, and it also has implicit cultural meanings. The author's mental state defines the cultural connotation to be displayed in the picture, and also determines the style and pattern of the picture. It is not unreasonable that we should have stronger hearts now than the ancients. Today, the pace of life is changing rapidly, and what we experience in time and space is more dimensional and three-dimensional than the ancients.
Reading Chen Danhui's flower and bird paintings, one can see his accumulation of pen and ink in the elegance and simplicity. Pen and ink are like language. It can express the artist's knowledge and aesthetics, express the shape and quality of objects, write various images and charms, express various emotions and interests, and also express the unique aesthetics of the Chinese people and the accumulation of thousands of years of traditional culture. . When reading paintings, the most chewy and fascinating thing is the pen and ink. Pen and ink have independent vitality and expressive power. Pen and ink have their own shape, color, quality, and even different characters. Pen and ink are the sediment of the artist's life and the traces of his soul. Whether an artist can leave a name in our history depends mainly on whether he has created his own style of writing. "In one stroke, the pen has three folds, one point of ink, and several colors of ink, and then one becomes a master." (Huang Binhong said) Brush and ink are the carriers of the language of Chinese painting and the embodiment of the spirit of painting. The key to Chinese painting is the good use of brush and ink. When the pen and ink reaches the realm of beauty, it must transcend nature. People who really know how to paint appreciate pen and ink. Qi Baishi knew that destiny was like that, so he saw clearly the realm he wanted to pursue in his later years. "Ivy Snow is a far-off mortal child, but the old fou is old and has a unique talent. I want Jiuquan to be a running dog, and the three families will turn around." It expresses Qi Baishi's aesthetic judgment and understanding of pen and ink, with a high degree of self-consciousness.
When reading Chen Danhui's flower and bird paintings, you can see both the ancient meaning and the poetic flavor in both refined and popular appreciation. Some scholars praised Chen Danhui's flower and bird paintings as "rough but not rough, small and large. There is vitality in the antique, and elegance in the gloomy mottled. Chen Danhui's paintings are poetic. Reading his paintings is like reading poetry. The beauty of poetry lies in the wonderful scenery. The meaning cannot be conveyed in words, and the beauty of painting lies in what can be understood but cannot be conveyed in words. When Chen Danhui paints, he embodies the true feelings of people, the heroic feelings of doing things, the literati's temperament that washes the heart with flowers and birds, and the pure and silent feelings that pour out of the pen and pour into the ink, which is impressive. "Chinese painting is an art that integrates the state of mind and the state of matter. This requires the artist to maintain a free mind in order to reveal the vitality surging from the depths of nature, and then achieve the harmony between nature and man. The selfless state of oneness. Painters use pens to express their emotions, feel the changes of the times, and understand life. Painting is elegant and vulgar, painting vulgar is elegant, and elegance and vulgarity are all appreciated. If a painter's creations have both the richness of the subject matter and the diversity of the methods, that is very valuable. Chinese painting is a form of artistic expression that embodies the soul. No matter in the selection of subject matter and content, or in the creation of artistic conception and the pursuit of atmosphere, we must pay attention to showing culture and humanistic spirit. In his painting practice, Chen Danhui pays attention to injecting traditional humanistic spirit into the painting, using flowers and birds to express his personal spirit and promote the beauty of Chinese culture.
The graphical interest of freehand flowers and birds all reflects a person’s knowledge, temperament and skill. It not only requires profound traditional skills and rich cultural content, but also requires not falling behind the stereotypes of the predecessors and having artistic personality, just as Painting master Pan Tianshou said: "Artworks are a reflection of the author's entire personality.
Without special genius, noble character, profound knowledge, far-reaching knowledge, or hard experience, it is impossible to make extraordinary contributions. Therefore, there are people walking all over the streets, but there are only a few special authors in the past few decades. "Art is a special language. Painters all want to show their own personality, but artistic personality is not easy to fully display. This is because artistic personality requires appropriate language description, and the form of language will directly affect the effect of expression. May Chen Danhui make the most tenacious journey on the road of art!
(Wang Huachao, pen name Wenda, Wen Zhujun, Wen Boyue, Bai Publisher. Writer, calligrapher, calligraphy and painting critic, news columnist Writer, CCTV "Ziwu Letters" interview scholar, winner of the "Five One Project Award", former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, and now president of the Xuzhou National Reading Promotion Association. He has worked in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, and Wen Wei Po, Xinmin Evening News, Times Trend and other publications have published more than 2,500 poems, prose, remarks and essays, and published more than 40 books, among which 5 are represented by "Looking Up at the Stars" and "Living Facing the Sun" recommended to the country by Hongqi Publishing House. . )