Shao Dazhen (Honorary Director of Theory Committee of China Artists Association, Professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Doctoral Supervisor)
Yang is a diligent, thoughtful and talented young painter. Diligence is very important for people of any profession, and it can be said that it is the foundation of success. However, only those who are diligent but not good at thinking and lack talent can hardly achieve anything, and vice versa. Yang loved Danqing since childhood, and he showed the spirit of assiduous study when he was studying in the Chinese Painting College of Guangxi Arts University. He not only learns skills with an open mind, but also pays attention to discovering and studying problems. Everyone has to finish classroom study and school year creation, but he uses his brains to find the theme he is most familiar with and express it with different language symbols. He was born in Xiangzhou, Guangxi, and there is a Hongshui River flowing through most parts of northwest Guangxi in his hometown. This red river, which he called the mother river, runs between mountains and peaks, accompanied by trees and grass. It is majestic, steep, gentle and beautiful ... with the change of climate, it presents all kinds of fascinating scenes, which deeply infects his vision, feelings and soul. He wrote Silent Valley (2003) based on this theme, and successfully completed his studies in Chinese Painting College of Guangxi Arts University. This work was selected in the Guangxi Regional Works Selection Competition of the Second National Western Landscape Painting Exhibition held in Nanning, which immediately attracted the attention of the industry. At that time, I also participated in the selection of works, and everyone appreciated the innovative edge of a young man in his twenties. Soon, the work "Red River Tour" with the same theme, changing composition and pen and ink participated in the first national youth Chinese painting annual exhibition "Li Changbei" sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and won the gold medal. I happen to be one of the judges. During the selection process, my colleagues gave me the impression that this painting was well received, which is still vivid in my mind. At that time, I once commented on this painting, saying that it depicts "the landscape with distinctive characteristics in my hometown". "The technique is mainly line, and the strength of lines is varied, combining rigidity with softness, and the density complements each other. In the overall layout, the winding rivers in the mountains are highlighted, and the mountains and rivers are written with simple strokes, which simplifies the complex and makes the contrast less. It can be said that it is well-intentioned and ingenious, and calligraphy is used for it.
Yang's exploration of the theme of Red River in his hometown and the techniques he adopted are enough to show that he is a thoughtful painter. He didn't dabble in it, but painstakingly managed the same subject matter, making full use of his accumulated material, artistically refining it, and achieving perfection. Because the objective image of the Red River has rich appearances and internal essence to be explored, artists will feel different from the scene when facing it. In recent years, the clever Yang has been exploring the Red River with different artistic techniques, creating works with different patterns and interests, which reflects his careful observation, profound experience and sincere feelings about the mother river, and of course shows the gradual improvement of the young artist's painting skills and his enterprising spirit.
If the composition and pen and ink language of Silent Valley are the beginning of his personal style exploration, then the composition of the later "Red River Tour" is relatively complete and the pen is relatively certain, while the later "Red River Soul" won the gold medal in the 2007 China Baijia Jinling Art Exhibition, showing his talent with a brand-new artistic appearance. In this work, in addition to continuing to give full play to the expressive force of lines and strengthening the artistic conception, rhythm and charm of lines, we began to pay more attention to using ink, hook, wipe, dot and dye as much as possible, accumulate ink layer by layer to add black, and seek the richness of layers in the black. Correspondingly, he pays attention to the use of blocks and colors to enhance the momentum of the picture, and pen and ink also use brushstrokes to make it look vigorous and powerful, and the language is richer and more subtle, while the spirit of innovation is undiminished. This change is not accidental. First, his knowledge and understanding of traditional landscapes are more comprehensive and in-depth, and his cultivation has improved. Second, at this time, he has moved from Guangxi to Beijing, and has extensive contact with the landscape of the Northern School, which is imperceptible. ..... majestic Taihang, magnificent, my heart is shocked, creative passion arises spontaneously. Here, the grandeur of the Red River and the grandeur of Taihang Mountain blend into the scenery in my heart. "。 It can be said that this is an important change in his artistic course. Nourished by the beauty of landscape in the South School and the magnificence of landscape in the North School, Yang's artistic vision and expression naturally changed. He consciously realized the importance of this change to his future creation and determined to "stick to this road and enjoy it."
Since Yang Yun College Entrance Examination admitted Professor Chen Ping as a graduate student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, his creative path has become wider and wider, and his direction and goal have become clearer and clearer, that is, on the basis of learning from the ancients and learning from nature, he has persistently created his own personal artistic view. He knows that the only way to achieve this goal is to improve his overall artistic accomplishment, understand the laws and principles of natural creation, improve his painting skills in a down-to-earth manner, and not stick to ancient laws or be limited by objective nature, so as to maintain his innovative spirit and give play to his innovative spirit.
I believe that with his diligence, good thinking and understanding, his artistic future is limitless.
20111October —— On Yang's Works
Zhu Daoping (famous painter, director of China Artists Association, executive director of National Chinese Painting Society)
Gao Yun is a landscape painter with great talent and creative desire. In his paintings, there are both the rich beauty of the northern landscape and the agility and delicacy of the southern landscape. The first masterpiece I saw was Soul of the Red River, which won the gold medal in China Baijia Jinling Art Exhibition in 2007. The vast and quaint mountains are spinning, and there is a red hill or Xia Hong at the top of the mountain, which is radiant. Such as sharp strings, such as wild waves, shocking people. The whole work is brilliant and talented, and it really has a unique conception and performance, which makes people unforgettable.
Gao Yun is good at painting large-scale landscape paintings, capturing characters with momentum and expressing emotions with pen and ink. There are traditions and creations in his paintings, and he has a strong and endless love for the landscape of his hometown. As it says, it is a kind of "endless, ups and downs, like endless feelings in heaven", which appears repeatedly in the picture, like a melody, alternating, making people move again and again and fall asleep again and again. On the other hand, he is trying to explore his own new vocabulary of pen and ink, so we see many vivid features in many of his new works: something in the gray, something in the dark, a pleasant landscape, amazing simplicity and ethereal spirit, rich interest and extremely poor change. He also incorporated many colors and symbols of modern interest into his schema, which made people read the confidence and courage of the younger generation of painters to pursue artistic creation and change with a broad vision.
In recent years, Yun Normal University has obtained a master's degree from Mr. Chen Ping, a famous painter professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. On the other hand, it was absorbed by Nanjing Painting and Calligraphy Institute to cultivate outstanding talents. It can be said that it is the right time and the right place. I hope it can take this opportunity, step by step, and walk out of its own brilliant road!
20 13 10 Shicheng Cool Bookstore-the artistic world of China painter Yang.
Wen/Xu (famous art critic)
Fan Kuan, a famous landscape painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, once realized after painting for many years: "The method of predecessors is not unreasonable. I am the teacher of others, but I am not the teacher of everything; I am a teacher of physics, I am not a teacher. " From "learning from many people" to "learning from all things" and then to "learning from all people's hearts", Fan Kuan transformed Zhang with his own artistic practice. It further explains the artistic view of "nature is outside and heart is inside". The passage of time makes the insights shine more and more. Among Chinese painters in the 265,438+0th century, Mr. Yang, the gold medal winner of "The First Annual Exhibition of Young Chinese Paintings" and "China Hundred Jinling Paintings Exhibition (Chinese Paintings)", confirmed and carried forward Fan Kuan's theory with his own creative exploration. Throughout Yang's artistic course, it is not difficult to find that he has integrated tradition and nature in his creation, and he has gradually formed a distinctive artistic language, which is unique and unique.
Mr. Yang is a painter who left Guangxi and began to study landscape painting. He started with the Yuan people. When I was in college, I liked the literati atmosphere in the paintings of Ni Zan, Wang Meng and Huang in the Yuan Dynasty, especially in the study of Huang. He carefully understood the rock layers in Huangshan water paintings and made a long appearance. He carefully copied Fuchun Shan Jutu, which lasted three times in half a year. In the process of copying, he realized the tradition of "viewing the scenery by reason" in Chinese painting, that is, showing the scenery in his eyes in the form of lines, which reflected the artistic meaning and unique aesthetic value of lines and had a far-reaching impact on his frequent use of "lines" in his later creations. For example, his "Journey to the Red River" created in 2003 attracted attention as soon as it appeared in the "First National Youth Chinese Painting Exhibition in Lichangbei", and finally won the championship and won the gold medal.
The literati painters in Yuan Dynasty opened a door for Yang to reach a distant and profound artistic conception, but he was not satisfied with it. For him, "learning from others" means flooding other schools and learning from others. He caught up with the Northern Song Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, carefully copied Guo's "Early Spring Map", and carefully realized the mystery of "watching the scenery of Song people like a mountain at night"; He studied Huang's calligraphy, vigorous and colorful, and learned from Li Keran's thick black and heavy business position; Understand the painting style of Shi Tao, an innovator in Qing Dynasty, and appreciate his innovative and pioneering spirit. At the same time, as a painter who has experienced the training of modern college mode, he draws lessons from western modern art and tries to explore and summarize lines and compositions beyond images from modern and contemporary art, which not only enriches the expression techniques, but also adds more modernity to his works.
"Learn from others" means learning from predecessors' techniques, summing up their creative experience and appreciating their aesthetic concepts. However, if we only rely on "learning from others", how can we write real landscapes? "Learning from everything" means emphasizing nature and taking true mountains and waters as teachers. It can be said that the "sketch" teaching in the teaching system of modern Academy of Fine Arts is the best interpretation of "learning from everything". Personal sketching makes the theme of life collide with natural passion in the most primitive, vivid and concrete way, and Yang also benefits a lot from it. He often wanders in the natural landscape and enjoys himself. Whenever he meets a good scenery, he writes it down and lists it on his chest. In his works, there are many descriptions of hometown scenery. He described the mother river of his hometown-Hongshui River, because this river is full of infinite life and hope, winding and flowing thousands of miles, full of vitality; He wrote about the karst lava landform in his hometown, and explored day and night, observing scattered rocks, lush trees and rapidly changing clouds. In the painting "Red River Soul", he depicts his hometown at sunset. The painting is big and dense, with red and black as the contrast, magnificent and magnificent. He wants to show people his love, gratitude and attachment to his hometown through painting. Indeed, these paintings also aroused the audience's infinite yearning for this magical land in the south.
After graduating from college, Yang lived in Beijing. On the one hand, he still can't forget the mountains and rivers in his hometown as the content of his painting. On the other hand, his footprints are printed on Taihang Mountain. Taihang Mountain stretches for hundreds of kilometers, and the mountains rise from the ground, magnificent and the peaks are magical and beautiful. Moreover, the distribution of mountains and canyons is complicated, the terrain changes greatly and the space fluctuates greatly. This is completely different from the landform in the south, and it also gives Yang Xin inspiration and enlightenment. He created many works reflecting the scenery of Taihang Mountain. In the series "The Man on the Cliff", he changed the composition from overlooking the Red River to looking up, and the visual center of the picture was concentrated in the middle and upper part, which vividly and meticulously described the fields and clouds, enhanced the visual tension of the picture, made people feel as high as the sun, and reproduced the magnificent landscape of Taihang Mountain.
What really distinguishes Yang's paintings is his "learning from others". The so-called "learning from all hearts" is to transform all external feelings into creative thinking on the basis of "learning from all people" and "learning from all things". This is exactly what the ancients said: "The hand has a painting machine, and the vitality is exhausted", achieving the majestic appearance of undressing. In this process, the painter completely listens to his inner call, and the subjective and objective are unified, and the heart occupies the world and expresses his unique feelings about nature. In today's painting world, the impetuous wind is very dramatic. Some people use the dribs and drabs picked up by their ancestors to draw pictures, without seeking innovation or exertion, until they deviate more and more from their ancestors' methods. Once some people's language or skills are unveiled and recognized by the market, the so-called "schema" is formed, and imitators are eager to enjoy their achievements without seeking a breakthrough; There are even some painters who turn around popular painters all day, similar to "super fans", whose painting style completely plagiarizes idols, taking a piece of cake as fun and becoming a veritable mouthpiece ... Yang can't miss these trends in painting. Fortunately, he repeatedly questioned his heart, kept a clear head, sketched and created as always, and lived a simple and fulfilling life. It is precisely because I listened to my heart's guidance and my pen followed my heart that fascinating masterpieces came into being.
Many a mickle makes a mickle, and his hair is sparse. However, with the determination and tenacity of sharpening a sword for ten years, Yang trudged through his paintings and made unremitting efforts. Heaven rewards diligence. Over the years, in a series of national exhibitions, such as "Li Changbei National Youth Chinese Painting Annual Exhibition", "Art Special Exhibition of the 16th International Conference of Plastic Artists" and "China Baijia Jinling Painting Exhibition (Chinese Painting)", his paintings are refreshing with elegant style, novel schema, unique appearance, broad momentum and full composition. Even in the exploratory joint exhibitions of some China painters, his paintings still make people stop because of their unique personal features. Now, Yang's paintings have been affirmed and paid attention by more and more art theorists and collectors. We have reason to believe that he will fly higher and farther in the art sky!
65438+February 2008 in Jinling —— A Record of the Peak of Yang Yun Painting Art
Tang Feng (Master of Arts, Peking University)
The husband painter has a long history, and generations of outstanding artists have emerged in large numbers, and many outstanding works have been passed down to this day. Now, however, people are learning more about western painting, abandoning my exquisite national quintessence and pursuing western painting. The essence of painting has spread slightly, which makes people sigh. If the world is like this, there will be few young people who can continue the old ideas. My friend Gao is a person who enjoys the ancient meaning in order to get it. His paintings incorporate the exquisiteness of ancient sages, especially Mu Yunlin and Zi Jiu, into his own paintings. His works are a fusion of ancient and modern, innovative and gratifying.
Gao Yun's works are magnificent and full of majestic spirit. The fundamental reason is to show his perseverance, perseverance and vigorous spirit. Throughout his Red River series, the charm is vivid, the brushwork is proper, the layout is meticulous and full of vitality. This painting not only shows the natural features of Hongshui River, but also inherits the tradition of attaching importance to meaning in ancient painting. His brushwork is particularly eye-catching. This kind of brushwork comes from the landform of Hongshui River basin and becomes a unique brushwork. Now, we can see that no one used ancient works, and its innovation can be comparable to that of ancient Niu Maocun. The people who made it were not created to create a new production method, but to show the appearance of mountains and rivers. For example, Mi Dianzhen, the son of Mi Yuanzhang, was created to represent the characteristics of Jiangnan water town. The same is true of Brother Gao Yun's painting method. In fact, it is accompanied by Hongshui River day and night, which stems from its mountains and rivers. Therefore, it has become a sharp weapon of painting and a unique style.
My nation has loved mountains and rivers for generations, and has given many feelings to them. The feelings of mountains and rivers are really the feelings of loving home, and so are brother Gao Yun's works. The ancients said, "All scenery words are sentimental words." Brothers Gao Yun pays attention to the feelings of mountains and rivers in his hometown and depicts the warm and elegant southern feelings.
Brother Gao Yun is a talented young man who has won many awards in recent years. What is the reason for his outstanding performance? I said:
First, the heart of "thinking about names". Painting is the achievement of the times. In ancient times, there was a Yunlin saying, "Look at vulgar things with white eyes, and clear words are inferior to English. Rich and black feet, thinking about names. " Brother Gao Yun is very worried about this. After his lifelong pursuit of painting, every work shows people with fine works, and there is nothing to deal with perfunctory.
Second, the journey of hard work. Thinking of his original masterpiece, Kaohsiung went to Hongshui River, Huangshan Mountain and Taihang Mountain several times, regardless of difficulties and obstacles, went to places that ordinary people had never been to, saw things that ordinary people had never seen, got things that ordinary people didn't get, and made selfless contributions in Da Le. After winning the gold medal of Li Changbei Youth Art Exhibition in 2004, he sought to change himself, followed the road of "learning from foreign teachers and winning the heart in China" of his predecessors, and went forward bravely, thus winning the gold medal of the 2007 Hundred Jinling Art Exhibition. Hey! Heaven rewards diligence, and ancient times were not enough to bully!
Third, the wonderful communication between China and the West. The so-called "zhong" means that the works follow the wonderful method of ancient painters, and the scenery written combines the ancient meaning of Song and Yuan Dynasties and obtains today's mountain scenery. Its scenery is faint and the mountains are majestic and picturesque. The author once wrote a poem for one of his works: "Autumn is plain and leisurely, and can't be arbitrarily imprisoned." This is enough to show his talent. His works are "abstractions" of western painting methods, which can really be an interesting thing connecting China and the West, or a valuable exploration of contemporary ink painting. His brushwork is similar to that of Van Gogh, and his brushwork is similar to that of Pollock. Finally, it refers to the complex and rich emotions of human beings. His brushwork is emotion-driven, so if we look at Kaohsiung's works, we can only focus on his dynamic brushwork without the appearance of his ink landscape, which is an abstract painting with strong modernity. It can be seen that Chinese and western paintings have their similarities. Are they both art?
Fourth, the spirit of the times. The era I live in is an era of rapid development and rapid change. Gao Yun's works contain infinite vitality, which also coincides with or confirms my spirit of the times, which is different from the leisurely and quiet scenes of the ancients. If today's works are still landscape paintings, then their landscape paintings must be very different from those in ancient times. What can they call good? People have changed now, and times have changed. The same is true of people's income from seeing mountains and rivers. How can the painted mountains and rivers remain the same? Isn't it strange that it doesn't change? Gao Yun's landscape meteorological update shows the spirit of the present era and the landscape in people's eyes, so it is really a masterpiece.
Brother Gao Yun stopped at the age of 30 and has established his own style. I believe that his painting skills will last for a long time.
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