Lao She and Qi Baishi are good friends. On one occasion, Mr. Lao She visited Mr. Qi Baishi's house. He picked up a book from his desk and turned to a poem looked up by a poet in Qing Dynasty. He deliberately chose a sentence from the poem,' Frogs croak a hundred miles out of the mountain spring', and wanted to ask Mr. Qi Baishi to express the feelings of the hearing organs with pictures. This is really difficult. It involves a deep topic in art and is also a difficult problem. After Qi Baishi learned about it, it was said that after several days of serious thinking. It can be seen that the old man Baishi has realized that this is not an ordinary topic, but a deeper topic in the art field, which is a severe test. For such a test, the old man Baishi, with his decades of artistic accomplishment and insight into art, finally completed his task after careful consideration, and expressed the specific phenomenon of' frog sound' through hearty pen and ink. Mr. Lao She opened Qi Baishi's painting and read it. He was extremely happy and amazed. I saw the old man with a simple pen and ink, flowing a torrent from the rocky mountain stream. Six tadpoles wagged their tails downstream in the rapids. They don't know that they have left their mother frog, but they are still playing in the water. People can associate the tender tadpoles with the frog mother outside the painting, because there are no tadpoles, and they are still singing loudly. Although there is no frog in the picture, people can vaguely smell the sound of frogs in the distance and the sound of running springs, playing a sweet movement, connected with the sound of frogs. With the poet's cultivation, the painter's genius and the literati's temperament, the old man Baishi created such a beautiful artistic conception, which integrated poetry and painting, accurately expressed the connotation of poetry and reached the high realm of Chinese painting. "
Draw a frog, only a few tadpoles swim upstream, next to rocks. It is said that this is Lao She's topic, and many painters are involved. Finally, Qi Baishi was recognized as the best. Why?
It turns out that the appreciation of works of art (including literary works, especially poems) is inseparable from the life experience of the appreciator. Based on the images entrusted by Pingping, people arouse the accumulation of life, expand association and imagination, from which they will feel an artistic beauty and restore the picture to the reality of life.
Specifically, from the tadpoles in the picture, we think that tadpoles are the eggs of frogs, and naturally think of frogs; Frogs have a love affair before mating and keep chirping. This is called "listening to frogs". So, without frogs, there would be no tadpoles. In other words, if there are tadpoles, there must be frogs.
Look at the tadpoles in the picture. They swam against the current, not downstream. This means that this is their hometown with their parents. They can't leave here. What about their parents? Perhaps, they are hiding under a big stone next to them and watching their children play with great interest. However, they will not be drawn on the screen.