Looking closely at calligraphy and painting, calligraphy is close to Huang Tingjian and mixed with sages such as Wang Duo and Fu Shan, while painting is absorbed and blended in many ways, including Huang, Li Keran and Fu Baoshi. For example, Mr. Long Rui, president of China National Painting Academy, said: "Based on the understanding of Chinese painting, Chen Shibin put his creative vision on the basic idea of transforming from traditional law to realistic feelings, from natural mountains and rivers to pen and ink expression, and put pen and ink into his own picture, so that pen and ink can be perfectly unified with emotion, nature and heart."
As for the understanding of Chen Shibin's paintings and calligraphy works, the author thinks that courage, knowledge, strength and moderation are his creative state and the creative direction he has been practicing. Chen Shibin's "knowledge" in the whole painting world is a different route from fashion and popularity. Like fashion, it is a cognitive tradition, and even a worship tradition to some extent, which will not make him biased towards pen and ink. What is different from the times is his consciousness of "intervention". Intervening in nature and surpassing nature, intervening in the contemporary without intervening in the avant-garde, maintaining abundant "internal forces" and blending with them, and maintaining his own state and the most advanced "dialogue" and even "whispering" discussions in the contemporary era can all happen to him. This is his strategy and his qualitative academic direction. This kind of "knowledge" is naturally created under the influence of human nature. "Nature knows art" (same poem). Nature always shows a special talent to a special person in some form, and what is displayed is eye-catching, as if seeing that shining talent, just as Chen Shibin did in front of him. If you can write and draw, your wings are colored. Don't show your color. For his "knowledge", Mr. Fei Xinbei saw "the charm of Sichuanese". He said: "Where did Shibin's spirit come from? We have to start with Sichuanese. Sichuanese have a yearning for the north, a sense of awe and a feeling of wanting to get out of Sichuan. This is very strong. In particular, people who engage in humanities or fine arts want to be associated with the atmosphere of the Central Plains, and I strongly feel this message in his pictures. There is an impulse in Spencer's heart to break through the region. After arriving in the Central Plains, he was associated with the atmosphere of painting after this boldness. The so-called Mencius said that I am good at cultivating my noble spirit, which is the foundation of life and the foundation of learning and pursuing art. "
Chen Shibin's "knowledge" is closely related to his own practice. There is an atmosphere in his heart, which is turbid in law, melted in image, "knowledge" in writing and destroyed in material resources. "Only people who fall in love with heaven can plant this wonderful place and wait for countless times, but they can also take off their clothes, be magnificent and get it at the same time. Therefore, there is no waiting plan instead of a plan. " "... filter the reality with the true feelings of reality, sublimate the freely used pen and ink language, and show the throb in the depths of the soul. "Chen Shibin's paintings and calligraphy works, no matter from its big face or delicate brushwork, give people a magnificent, seamless power and majestic infection. Here we should interpret his "strength" from two aspects. On the one hand, the chest itself has a kind of dignity, on the other hand, it absorbs from calligraphy and creates its own calligraphy. Therefore, his paintings and calligraphy works are full of masculine beauty, a surging momentum, heroic and spirited, full of enthusiasm. Judging from his works, he has a strong aesthetic will and has been integrated into his own creation. In this state, Chen Shibin consciously applied his years of calligraphy skills to painting. When analyzing his paintings and calligraphy works, Mr. Zeng thought that there were three aspects that contributed to his strength. "The first is his calligraphy, the second is his writing, and the third is his lyricism." These three qualities bring him charm, momentum and weather. Mr. Sun Ke commented on Chen Shibin's paintings and calligraphy: "His traditional landscape paintings highlight the quality of lines. He transformed the beauty of lines in calligraphy into paintings, many of which were written, unlike many people who painted and brushed them. This is an important reason why his paintings are attractive. " This is the difference between Chen Shibin and many painters.
The power of Chen Shibin's creation is an inner powerful spirit, and it is the calmness of "interacting with the spirit of heaven and earth alone without indulging everything". And this kind of strength, he used a normal and indifferent way to express. His strength, itself has a kind of ability to dissolve, from calligraphy, from pen and ink, from composition, from conception, all kinds of illusions, into one. "Qifeng Cliff, water hanging, strange rocks, pines and cypresses, quiet guests, mostly ink drops, smoke full of paper, lawless and dense." Chen Shibin held an exhibition for himself called "No Road". If there is no door, Tao will exist in it! The "degree" of China's ink painting is quite subtle. It coexists with its profundity and compatibility. With the passage of history, the influence of various concepts and the impact of foreign art, it has been constantly adjusted and integrated to achieve an ideal state of moderation, justice and peace. The realm pursued by China's landscape painting is essentially the ideal orientation of this realm.
Chen Shibin's "degree" is orderly, dignified, tangible and spiritual. "In essence, traditional classics and French styles are stylized and programmed objects. If we don't master it with great strength or transform it with great ability, it is only a superficial imitation of tradition and has no real effect on the contemporary development of Chinese painting. Chen Shibin has been adjusting his creative path, starting from focusing on scenery to focusing on temperament, from focusing on external style to focusing on internal brushwork, and from focusing on line structure to focusing on brushwork. This major change in artistic creation thinking is closely related to his in-depth exploration of China traditional culture and Chinese painting itself. "
Throughout Chen Shibin's paintings and calligraphy works, he changed and surpassed constantly through observation. He maintains the "degree" of ink painting and melts into the "Tao" of nature. He seeks his own artistic language and expressive language in the process of change, integrates the nourishment of masters and classics, and confirms his emerging personality and appearance.
Chen Shibin's painting and calligraphy works are not unique in the contemporary painting world, but they are also unique, close to tradition, natural, close to the ancients and highlight the modern spirit. He is cultivating the sky of his own art world.