I mentioned Shi Feng’s book images last month and will not repeat them again. This time I will say a few words about his “portraits”.
I have been following this batch of faces for nearly a year. They were first produced in single lines and black and white, produced in hundreds and thousands, then colored, and then ink. The feelings in each series are different, but there is some surprise. It is also interesting that the face can be ruined like this.
The appearance of ears, eyes, skull, and hints of mouth and nose can all remind people of their existence. However, the clean lines are so cold, like the electronic handwriting of an animator, the coldness of Japanese painting, the hardness of a jigsaw puzzle, and the blade of a machinist.
The stacking, interspersing, and rolling of the broken pieces are not entangled, lingering, or filled with chaos. They are an uncompromising inlay of dislocated bones, flesh, and skin, dancing in a self-sufficient plane space and becoming static. The rest, time, air, temperature and emotion are frozen, expressions are excluded from the plane, three dimensions are compressed within the plane, the plane is torn outside the volume, the volume is chopped into sound and rhythm by lines, and a head twists into geometry , an abstract form that becomes an autonomous line.
The pulsation of the line is cut off and closed, the surface is within the line, and the points are also within the line. The common abstract patterns are subverted. There is no indulgent brushstroke texture, but only calculation and design, and the viewer is lost. Entering the maze of lines he calculated, from chin to top of head, from ears to eyes, searching for his own memory, in vain, finding nothing. Familiar things are so unfamiliar, leaving only an empty frame, supporting a thing called the brain, in which people's thoughts wander and wander, looking for a kind of thinking track called Shi Feng.
But as soon as the thing is given color, this feeling disappears, and another kind of weirdness arises, not profound, but gorgeous to the point of gaudy, high-saturation color that blocks the blank space of the dead soul, the white place. What was once a space of imagination for you, me and him is now filled with fashionable splendor, and the abstract brain map has transformed into pop.
This kind of computer coloring is an artistic imprint of the machine age. Industry and commerce, crafts and technology, the head that has been separated from the soul has been slapped again - the aura of the creator, that is, Handwork has completely given up on the taste of color, and traditional skills have been subverted again. Painting has been pulled from craftsmanship into machine production and printing, thus becoming a fresh symbol.
I’m asking, Shi Feng, why do you apply flat paint instead of diffuse the color by hand and restore everything to nature? But I didn't ask. He seemed to understand the pros and cons, so he tried to use ink painting to give it charm and agility again, allowing the vision to return to fun and an old aesthetic taste from coldness and craftsmanship. But this taste is still unfamiliar, because the cooking method has not changed, but the dishes have changed, and they are also abstract.
Three series, each has its own shortcomings and strengths. Is Shi Feng’s battle a vertical one, a horizontal one, a coalition with Wu against Cao, or a three-family return to Jin? He was still thinking, and I watched.
Zhu Sirui 2020.10.17
Zhu Sirui, a member of the Yunnan Artists Association and a member of the theoretical committee of the association, has studied at Yunnan Wenshan College, Yunnan Art Institute, and China Art Research Institute. He has many works He has participated in exhibitions inside and outside the province and has been published in various newspapers, magazines and albums. His artistic creations include oil painting, ink painting, installation, performance, photography, poetry, etc., which have been published and published in "Meiyuan", "Jiangsu Pictorial Magazine", "Jianghu" (paper version of the Chinese Folk Poetry Special Collection at the Leiden University Library in the Netherlands) and "Dianchi Lake" "Influence", "Art View", "Art Vision", "Contemporary", "Border Literature" and other publications have published more than 190,000 words of art criticism and poetry, and some of his oil paintings have been collected by people at home and abroad. He is the author of the Chinese and English bilingual "The Blade Cutting Through Inflated Desire—Jianghai Commentary" (2014, China Today Art Publishing House), "Intangible Cultural Heritage Painting" (author) (2016, Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House) and the poetry collection "The Scale of Time" "A Cup of Moonlight" (produced in 2019).
Appreciation of Shi Feng’s ink paintings——
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Appreciation of Shi Feng’s creative calligraphy works——
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Shi Feng is an independent artist, freelance writer and senior designer. Cultural interviewer of "International Online", cover star of "People of the Times", and winner of the New Silk Road Cultural Promotion Award. Born in Shaanxi in 1967, he now lives in Xi'an. He has been studying painting since he was a child, and his works were published in magazines and newspapers when he was young.
He has been engaged in multimedia and Internet-related design work. He has engaged in a wide range of cross-border art and art categories. He is now engaged in contemporary art creation and theoretical research.
Adhering to the artistic style and painting concept that combines magical deconstruction and geometricism, we use artistic methods and angles to reveal the essence of human nature, dissolve the appearance of things, deconstruct real life, and create art with soul and faith.
Excerpts from "Shi Feng's Paintings"——
The personalization, uniqueness and freedom of the artistic expression form and language of Shi Feng's Paintings are deeply rooted in the essence of human nature, realistic situations, The depth of thought and the philosophy of the story; the core lies in values, problem revelation, consciousness deconstruction and direct access to the original phenomenon; the simplicity lies in looking from the outside to the inside, visual creativity and soul-stirring.
Shi Feng’s art of painting and thinking is complicated and trivial, but his way of thinking is extremely simple and clear. In short, thought is synonymous with values. Since there are valuable concepts, there must be valuable judgments and standards of right and wrong. In this case, black is black and white is white. You cannot reverse black and white, which will mess up the basic Taoism - the original composition mechanism of things. Otherwise, people's natural sexual desires will exceed and blaspheme the Tao and go against the law, and they will eventually be warned and punished by the Tao. And the value concept and value judgment of thought are also reflected here. Otherwise, what is the function and existence of thought? What value and significance does it have for advanced intelligent life? !
Shi Feng’s paintings say that sensibility and rationality are necessary elements of human thinking ability. Sensitivity is directly related to people’s aesthetic consciousness or value experience, and rationality is directly related to people’s value pursuit and creative vitality.
Shi Feng’s paintings suggest that all human explorations and discoveries not only lie in the specific study or invention of a certain thing itself, but also in the updating and optimization of various industries and fields, so that people can continuously gain ideological emancipation and innovation. The power of freedom and civilization.
To define something in Shi Feng’s painting language, one must gain insight into and understand its essential attributes through appearance. Otherwise, any definition will be obscured by the definition itself. Moreover, definitions are like barriers. Specific things are much more complicated than the definitions. Its uncertainty is not affected or controlled by people's cognition and behavior caused by definitions. Its operation and deduction naturally have their own Taoism and heavenly rules.
The dimension of Shi Feng’s paintings is continuously interpreted as the original way and unit of existence of things. It has not been stagnated or paused due to human mind or cognition, and the dimension itself will follow it. It operates based on logic and scope. For high-energy wisdom in life stages, if one can continuously improve a cognitive dimension and observation fulcrum, one can gain a deeper or more complete understanding of the truth and appearance of things.
Shi Feng's painting language is casual yet controlled, with a moderate balance between rationality and sensibility. If individual aesthetic elements such as composition, rhythm, melody, and color are well resolved, an ideal abstract work can be completed.
The surrealism of Shi Feng's paintings breaks the expression forms and patterns of the objective world and gives art freer creativity. Secondly, the picture elements of this style still present specific objects in real life, providing people with a relatively clear thinking clue that is easy to understand or lead to bartering or homogeneous associative thinking. Unlike pure abstract art, Very challenging and exercises one's imagination.
Shi Feng’s painting art depicts objects and life, transcends reality, looks forward to the future, and establishes an artistic life and the art of life. As a carrier and expression of cultural richness, art also stimulates thinking and creates concepts. An important way and value of order. It is true that the trend of art is the same. Starting from the initial simple recording and imitation, art has gradually formed a development and interpretation in multiple dimensions along the way, laying its own context and ethics for the renewal of artistic concepts and the ever-changing forms of expression. and basics.
As one of the ways of human creative thinking, Shi Feng's artistic creativity runs through the concepts of art in any field and development direction that humans can touch. For example, social functions and structural elements such as the art of management, the art of education, and the art of investment. The independent characteristics and path methods of artistic thinking optimization and enlightenment of conventional thinking are the most forward-looking explorations and forms of thinking in human "mind maps" and evolutionary trends.
Therefore, how to cultivate children's creative thinking is the basis for us to inspire children's imagination and creativity. It is also related to the future and an unshirkable mission and major event for us as parents!
The creative teaching of Shifeng Painting Language is similar to the comprehensive education, with different paths leading to the same goal. Through creative ideas or specific works, another idea or work is inspired, inspiring and cultivating people's consciousness and ability to draw inferences from one example!
The variety of artistic languages ??and expressions brought about by the evolution of Shi Feng’s painting techniques and tools not only enriches the conceptual needs and diverse choices of artistic creators, but also provides readers and audiences with new visual experience and psychological feelings. At the same time, it breaks or activates conventional and traditional creative models and concepts, lays a theoretical and practical foundation for the development of artistic creation methodology, and provides new opportunities and expectations for artistic creation and independent personality.
Shi Feng’s artistic creation under contemporary technical conditions provides infinite possibilities for the language expression of visual art. Whether it is the use of various materials to give them expressive characteristics, or the combination and composition of various visual elements under digitalization, the forward-looking and unpredictability of their efficiency and effects provide the basis and conditions for the continuous reproduction of artistic creativity. .
The so-called "creative calligraphy" in Shi Feng's painting language is to create based on the original meaning of the words, or to expand other meanings, and it must have certain logic and relevance to make the expression of calligraphy more expressive. Power or fun, etc. Secondly, the specific structural characteristics of the glyphs should be developed based on the overall creativity and conception. It should also break through the control of people's thinking by the original glyph structure, making the layout and design of the glyphs more personalized or creative.
The composition principle of the word "art" in Shi Feng's painting language not only means that they are mutually external and internal, but also an integral whole. It also appropriately explains that "art" comes first and "skill" comes first. The basic structure at the end aims to emphasize the logical order of art and the fundamental meaning contained in "art".
Shi Feng’s paintings reflect the shapes of life, words, and ideologies. They complement each other well with people’s cognitive level and inner concern. At the same time, they also form a relatively clear and clear picture of people’s mental state and soul recovery. clues and context. It is true that writing conveys the truth, is poignant and brilliant, and is the solemn and solemn aesthetic and value orientation of writing. It can only form a person's thoughts, conduct, and behavior when it is integrated with people's knowledge and behavior to form the same vibration. Complete and unified to achieve true exploration, truth-seeking and life improvement.
The knowledge reserve of Shi Feng’s painting language constitutes the material for thinking. As a manifestation of the value of knowledge, it is understandable. As for knowledge being power, it depends on whether knowledge can be transformed into creative energy. At the same time, this energy must be integrated with value aesthetics and conceptual order in order to be the foundation and purpose of creation and truly benefit oneself and society. As for the reverse and destruction of desire formation.
However, the formation of people's thinking ability is naturally a subtle and silent process. It comes from the education methods and enlightenment received in childhood, as well as whether they have cultivated it during their growth. It has become a habit and strength to think diligently and gain insight into things.
On the contrary, if the foundation of the thinking structure is not established well, a single solid thinking mode will invisibly harm a person's life. This situation is just like Mr. Nietzsche's alarmist statement - some people may live to be a hundred years old and go to the grave, but they may be dead at birth.
Shi Feng’s Paintings/To Lenovo Thinking Lenovo thinking is one of the forms of human thinking. Its greatest feature of mind maps is that any form of element composition, image creativity, and modeling design can be transmitted to people’s minds. The reactions of the heart and brain will produce their own image sequences based on personal observation methods, aesthetic tendencies, and experience accumulation. It is true that the phenomenon display of this sequence and logical thinking form a perfect stimulating effect, but it is still associative thinking that takes the lead and creates the sequence conditions for logical thinking.
And the natural attributes of the human body or the human brain to expand spatial thinking can bring this potential of human beings into full play.
That is to say, when people face the real life or the whimsical art world such as virtual reality presented in the works of art, or they are exposed to the breathtaking and great works of the master of outdoor creation - nature, all the human body is affected. All organs will show their magical functions with their respective responsibilities, missions and tentacles, and all associative thinking will be opened and expanded accordingly, making people's emotions, thoughts and minds completely calm and passionate. Surging and doubtful, it is integrated into the wonderful feelings and experiences of the harmony between people and works, people and situations, and people and nature.
And correspond to and search for their respective aesthetic elements, target objects and related questions prompted, further maximizing and expanding people’s ability and potential of associative thinking, and providing enlightenment and inspiration for people. Explosion offers all possibilities.
Shi Feng’s painting says that truth is a cat and lies are mice.
As a carrier of culture and its fundamental function and core value, Shi Feng's painting art is to inspire people to universally establish awareness and methodology of creative thinking, and ultimately to provide people with value pursuits, aesthetic systems, and conceptual order. Provide enlightenment and basis for imagination and creativity.