Housekeeping is a bit bitter, but more happiness. Wan Xin Hou is such a staunch watcher.
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His family once lived in Youjiawan, a prosperous town on the beautiful and rich Zishui River. It used to be a waterway hub connecting Baoqing in the south and Hankou in the Arctic, where merchants gathered and culture flourished. There are amateur art troupes active in central Hunan, poets and playwrights received by state leaders, and a large number of folk artists. Wan Xin Hou has been singing, acting, writing, drawing and writing behind their asses since childhood, which is pregnant with artistic dreams.
But in the year when he graduated from high school, the reservoir flooded the fields, and a boat dragged the whole village to Dongting Lake Plain. Vast fields and vast smoke waves are of course beautiful. But his mother, who was in her sixties, was not acclimatized, so he had to accompany her back and became a wanderer living in his hometown. Without land, he can do anything if he can get a liter of rice. In every line of work, find pleasure in suffering and create art in suffering. Haircut, he designed a unique style of western-style head; Block printing, all kinds of books emerge; In order to quote Chairman Mao's quotations, he wrote the official words in pigment: sewing, and he designed patterns on the bride's dress: masons, sculpting dragons and carving phoenixes on the eaves; Carve stone locks, carve stone tablets, draw portraits, take photos, draw poker ... In those difficult years, Wan Xin Hou, a young man, was not only tempered into a man with pride, but also practiced his eighteen martial arts.
Dead wood meets spring, and he was admitted to Xinhua Normal University. After leaving the campus for a long time, he met Yan Fuchu, a talented young calligrapher, who was very interested in art. The two of them were inseparable and eagerly soaked in the classroom and library. Yan Fuchu won the first prize of calligraphy art with him in the calligraphy art competition.
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The ever-changing cool art, like his beloved hometown, has become a part of life.
When I stood on the podium, it coincided with the Renaissance in the 1980s. After class, the dormitory is an art workshop. He has a close relationship with Mr. Fuchu, and they have a lot of discussions. He took part in the literary creation reading class of the famous writer An Min, and created a large number of novels and essays. He loves folk art, and migrant workers paint "merits" with bare hands, carve bodhisattvas and dragons, and create many excellent folk art works.
When he was a township cadre, his desk was always more professional than others-Four Treasures of the Study. When I came back from a meeting in the county and city, I didn't have time to rest, so I moistened my pen and ink first and recorded my own experience. I went to the field to guide me home, washed my muddy feet and wiped my pen and inkstone copybook. If I have a good hand, I will write a poem soon and hang it on the wall. I can't help myself. I'll be grateful later. If colleagues and villagers ask for holidays, weddings, funerals and happy events, he will certainly make people happy and return home satisfied. As the word is passed down, he is naturally a famous scholar and calligrapher in the village ―― this is of course the honor and reward he deserves.
It is in this environment that Wan Xin Hou got exercise and learned a lot. It's hard to say "leak mark" and "broken hairpin", but "painting sand like a cone" has been tried. When I was a child, I never forgot the feeling of grazing and drawing characters with branches on the beach. Wan Xin Hou, who was born and raised in China, has worked in villages and towns for 20 years, and his perception is naturally closely linked with rural things. In his view, sowing with a sharp hoe is an excellent stroke, and it is also a tempering of lines: transplanting rice is a regular script written casually, but it is more lively; Shaking wheat ears in the wind, ridge after ridge, line after line, like graceful grass walking at will; Sailing against the current is the best footnote for convergence; One after another, folk songs and labor songs are echoed and interpreted. What technique is more natural and what composition is more ingenious?
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Wan Xin's thick spiritual home is of course beautiful. His poems belong to words, and his heart is vast; He earned a lot of money and dared to send spring warmth to the pen; He splashed ink and didn't want to be praised for his good color. He doesn't want to be a sage, and he doesn't want to be proficient in all kinds of arts like those masters, but his rich life experience and stubborn spiritual character force him to watch, cultivate and explore in this spiritual home with his unique personality.
If we compare his regular script to a house, we regard the generosity of the diligent monument as a beam, the massiness of painting praise as a cornerstone, the preciseness of the twin towers as a brick, the elegance of Li as a window, and the tranquility of Magu Xiantan as a shrine. In my opinion, his facial style has two obvious characteristics, one is simple and heavy, and the other is heavy and masculine. It can be said that it not only inherits the tradition of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy style, but also shows his personality characteristics.
His simplicity was deliberately cultivated by him for decades. From his traditional kung fu, to his aesthetic ideal, to his creative thinking, all focus on simplicity rather than exquisiteness. Although he naturally obtained a lot of artistic information from the outside world, he was also able to mobilize some artistic techniques and elements, and became very close to Hunan celebrities such as Yan Fuchu and Liu. Fortunately, he pays more attention to his own characteristics, while clinging to his own style, learning from Wei Bei and indulging in folk calligraphy. Although it cannot be said that his calligraphy art is original, it can definitely be said that it is obviously folk and original. It should be said that this is his character and his thinking, which is commendable.
His Shen Xiong, of course, was born with a handsome face, but his performance was different. We know that the beauty of Yan's painting style is consistent, whether it is vigorous and calm brushwork, the majestic shelf structure or the vastness of the overall style. Shen Xiong, who is thick in Wan Xin, is rare in Yan Zhenqing, but frustrated in the middle, and Shen Xiong is meticulous. In terms of structure and composition, he doesn't care about making a big deal, but he tries to make a steady response. Much like black tiger boxing, his hometown is Meishan, and his position is very low, especially Gong Zhuang, which is very aggressive and heavy. He has defense in attack, attack in defense, and doesn't try his best in boxing.
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Wan Xin's thick paintings began with folk painters painting merit bodhisattvas. At first, I took pictures from the shadows and pictures from the ladle. The purpose is just to make a living, and there is no ambition. It is this simple original intention that not only cultivated a strong interest, but also forced him to work harder and think positively.
It can be said with certainty that Wan Xin's early paintings are almost original and typical folk, and his paintings of flowers, insects, fish and bodhisattvas only stay at the level of "similarity". With the accumulation of experience and knowledge, especially the successful literary creation, he can re-examine and position himself with the aesthetics of a writer, that is, a scholar. Painting has begun to break away from the shackles of early painting and enter a new stage. Although the paintings in recent years still retain the interest of folk paintings, such as simple and vivid shapes and bold and exaggerated colors, they are more "words" and "environment"
Work hard on words-to better complete the transition from fetal interesting folk painting to sentimental literati painting. Painting Fish, in particular, is refreshing because of its profound life experience and rich expression techniques: some people are desperate to cross the river for 3,000 yuan, some people are quiet in the rivers and lakes and follow Tai Chi, some people are competing in the Longmen, and some people are full of turmoil in the game. What a world of dragons and dragons! No wonder Jiang Kun encouraged him to make continuous progress and draw stronger personality characteristics.
Just knowing the destiny, the road to art is long, and the burden on the shoulders is heavy. With his persistence and tenacity, with his good insight and understanding, he will surely make new achievements and his home will surely become an ideal paradise. It's just that I don't think his painting and calligraphy house can be built into a magnificent royal garden, nor can it be built into an exquisite Suzhou garden. I hope he will not build caves in Shaanxi, memorial archways in Huizhou, drought barriers in the plains and thatched cottages in the lake area, but a wooden and stone hut with local characteristics on Xiongshan Mountain, which says the spirit of human-god and killing people. That's enough.
Editor in charge: Jiang Hanyu