In late spring in Bing Xu, on a clear night, I saw the folding fan landscape created by Li Ming on the second floor of Henan Daily Newspaper Group Building, and I gained a lot.
Folding fans are exquisite, practical and easy to carry, and are deeply loved by the public. Qu You, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem about folding fans, which was very beautiful. Let's record and read it:
It is unusual to open and close half a piece of breeze paper and roll it up at will.
The golden ring has a thin waist, and the Yumen weaves phoenix wings.
It is said that tourists carry sleeves and don't bother the maid to hold flowers.
Gong Luo's old gift is to be jealous of each other and to reunite with you at night.
In fact, fans can not only enjoy the cool, but also have an inseparable relationship with painting and calligraphy. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi wrote an inscription on fans to sell old fans, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, Hui Zong also painted on fans. Fans can be described as one of the most natural and compact carriers of artistic life. Masters in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties all have excellent fan-shaped works handed down from generation to generation, such as Tang Yin's Gao Shi map, Shen Zhou's green pavilion, Yun's Jianmen map, Wang Shigu's paddy field map and Gong Xian's Xishan Bookstore.
Stop to look at the picture and have a cup of tea. In Li Ming's open studio, the dialogue is frank and the heart is open.
Li Ming said: "My batch of folding fan landscapes were created in my spare time before and after meals."
I said, "In winter, people are over 30 years old. In the dark, during the day and in rainy days, this ancient people is the' third watch'. I think you have' three leisure', that is, you can't be idle before meals, after meals and before going to bed. "
Li Ming said: "It takes a long time to create large-scale landscape paintings, which consumes a lot of physical strength. I was very tired after painting for a day, and I wanted to sit down and have a rest, but I was not willing to let time rest in vain, so I thought of painting a folding fan landscape. "
I asked, "Why did you choose the form of folding fan landscape?"
Li Ming said: "first of all, it can show more delicate taste and rich pen and ink skills;" Second, you can relax your nervous creative nerves and relax your spirit; The third is to understand the tradition through the creative form of folding fan, and systematically sort out the fan creation of masters in previous dynasties. "
Although the format of folding fan is small, its artistic value can not be underestimated. Conventional landscape composition, pen and ink, all in folding fan landscape. Folding fan creation has technical difficulties that square and rectangular styles do not have. The creation of folding fans has its special structure and special creation rules. Folding fan creation not only pays attention to the general trend, but also pays attention to exquisiteness, and pays more attention to the exquisiteness of pen. Or Li Ming put it well: "Folding fan creation is my attempt at new ideas and techniques, and this attempt is also an effective way for me to capture the inspiration of painting." Personally, I think that Li Ming's choice of folding fan landscape style is more from the creative and academic level.
Judging from these works, his paintings attach great importance to the expression of "Shang". The blooming plants, changing smoke clouds and flowing springs in his paintings are very "commercial". Scenery Pavilion in the Cloud, Mutu's Poems and Paintings, Scenery in the Cloud and other works fully show his praise for the biochemical significance of heaven and earth and his yearning for poetic life.
Judging from these works, he is good at discovering and expressing poetic images from Tang and Song poems, and refining and recreating them. The pride of his painting "Bell in the Mountain" lies in the word "Zen". Looking at this painting, I suddenly felt very quiet, and my mind was suddenly far away from the noise of the world, which made people get a natural heart in silence. Under the influence of this quiet and profound artistic conception, our hearts let go of the struggle and utilitarian thoughts in the natural pulse.
Judging from these works, pine trees have become a special symbol of their emotional tendency. Pine is full of moral and noble flavor. His "Song Yin Zen Residence", "Double Pine Flows" and "Song Feng Quan Yun Tu" are either vigorous and lofty, or vigorous and old, or tall and straight. He has put the pine tree into a personalized situation to express it. "The life of the pine tree is also wasted, but it is not curved. Speaking of intimacy, it is lush and green, self-directed, and not low ... like the virtue of a gentleman. " Maybe Hao Jing can make a footnote in this passage.
Judging from these works, his imitation of previous masters is extensive and comprehensive.
Song painting, Yuan painting, Ming and Qing dynasties, he has a rational selection standard in his creation; His study of previous masters is not only the reference of techniques, but also the blending and refining of verve and realm. He has profound pen and ink skills, and these works reflect his passionate love for mountains and rivers. The value of these folding fan landscapes lies in that he inherited and absorbed various painting methods of ancient and modern landscape masters, and formed his fresh and elegant landscape style in the process of imitating the aura of natural landscapes. (Yang Tiancai)
For a long time, Li Ming has painted a lot of scenery in his creation, even in the sketch composition of the album. Chai Men Dog Barking Map and other works with small scenes of farmers as the main body are rare, so they are precious. This work is dominated by the midline, with elegant and subtle colors, clever and reasonable composition and patchwork. In the painting, a black dog barks at the courtyard, showing a strong flavor of life and pastoral taste, which makes people feel back to the mountains. The pale blue distant mountains are hidden by white clouds, which makes the whole work more quiet and profound, and it is a quiet place far from the hubbub that contemporary people yearn for. (Comment: Duan Baozhen)
In his early years, the painter yearned for the land of Bagui, Guilin Qixingyan and reed flute cave, which were wonderful, just like the picturesque Lijiang River, and it took him 30 years to finish it. This "Bagui Wandering" is entirely the painter's feeling after experiencing the South China. The peaks, paddy fields, trees, houses, paths and white clouds in the painting are sublimated into modeling symbols representing the mountains and rivers in Guangxi, so that viewers can know at a glance that they are Bagui mountains and rivers, rather than sticking to the specific description of one peak and one place. This painting shows the artist's superb freehand brushwork skills. It is a rare masterpiece of fan, with loose brush and ink, deep painting and high realm. If we can pursue some personality changes in the shape of the mountain peak, it will be a perfect work. (Comment: Duan Baozhen)
Li Ming is good at discovering and expressing the poetic scene in Tang and Song poetry, and refining and creating it. His "Mutu Poetry and Painting" is the representative work of this style. The success of this painting lies in his combination of the expression of "Shang" pursued by Confucianism and the transcendent and refined realm of peace pursued by metaphysics, so this painting has the depth of enduring aesthetic feeling and the significance of being chewed repeatedly. (Comment: Yang Tiancai)
"Don't go to dinner, sit in the poor spring valley." It is a good way to feel the joy of mountains and rivers in painting. The tranquil realm created by Li Ming's "Lin Quan Lie You Tu" can satisfy people with such needs. The Gu Song in the picture is vigorous and powerful, the clouds surrounded by mountains, the gurgling spring water beside Mao Ting, and the noble scholar sitting on the Mao Ting are full of quiet and ethereal interest. With lyrical pen and ink and carefree mood, painters regard painting as an excellent Dojo for empathy. (Comment: Yang Tiancai)
Li Ming's paintings, with exquisite brushwork and fresh and bright scenery, are characterized by reflecting emptiness with reality, not deliberately showing a tree and a stone on the screen, striving to highlight the central theme of the screen, reflecting the steepness of rocks and the verdant trees with wet pen and light ink, and expressing the changes of clouds and smoke with large blank spaces, so as to achieve the artistic effect of accumulating reality in the virtual without accumulating emptiness in the middle. The artistic conception is boundless and thought-provoking. (Comment: Yang Tiancai)