Huang Yongyu's poems are full of visual effects and pen and ink interest, and the language is concise and clear, with a sense of rhythm and music.
Huang Yongyu was born in Fenghuang county, Hunan province in 1924. As a teenager, he became famous for his excellent woodcut works. He taught himself art and literature, and was a "genius" for a generation. The monkey tickets of the zodiac designed by him are well known. He is well-read and versatile, with excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting, and is also a master of poetry, essays, essays, novels and scripts. This man who didn't finish high school and have no systematic art training has become an excellent woodcut, Chinese painter, sculptor, writer and poet with his natural talent and extraordinary hard work the day after tomorrow. Huang Yongyu has always said that he is a "cultural tramp" and has started a colorful artistic life since he was 14 or 15 years old. In Yuan Ye, a vibrant art, his footprints are all over woodcut, sculpture, painting, literature and other fields
Some people think that the essence of Chinese painting lies in the ink and wash landscape, which is very elegant and shows the temperament of literati's birth, but most of Huang Yongyu's paintings are full of colors, so some people once said that his Chinese painting is not authentic. But Huang Yongyu didn't take these people and these words to heart at all. His main purpose in painting is to study painting, instead of painting what he is familiar with all day. He always tries to draw a picture that he hasn't painted before, explore some themes with strange skills, or overcome difficulties, or overcome its color problems, or other problems, sometimes for years.
In his paintings, lotus is a very stylized theme, but the lotus painted by Huang Yongyu doesn't give people the feeling of being born very lofty, but it is a very gorgeous and brilliant temperament. Huang Yongyu joked that where did the lotus grow? What is sludge that grows out of sludge? That is, the soil mixed with water is called sludge, which is the kind of soil full of nutrients. It grows from the mother of the land, and later scolds it as sludge, which is called forgetfulness.
At that time, Monet, a French impressionist painter, kept a pool of lotus flowers and painted many masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. Of course, the lotus flowers in Huang Yongyu are not as charming as Monet's, but their robustness and brilliance also have a very distinctive personal style. In fact, lotus flowers have been painted for so many years, and their form and spirit are already familiar to the heart. Even when sleeping, there are "1, crazy flowers falling asleep".
Actually, apart from marveling at Huang Yongyu's superb painting skills, I'm afraid he is more impressed by his open-minded and detached attitude towards life.