Using Chinese painting to shape the northern Shan’xi
In Chinese painting circles,it can be said that almost no one doesn’t know Liu Wenxi.Liu Wenxi is the founder of contemporary china painting circles,his painting representative of the development direction of the realistic style of Chinese painting,the artistic spirit is the epitome of the spirit of unremitting self-improvement of the Chinese nation,he is a bright pearl in Chinese contemporary history.
Feeling to the Loess Plateau
Liu Wenxi is famous for painting with local customs in northern Shan’xi,it can be said that the achievements of northern Shan’xi,he also shaped the northern Shan’xi,in early 60s he created the《Four generations》to bring people shock,in this painting,Liu Wenxi with the depth of the theme thought,the characters to shape the vivid and the development of brush and ink skills,established his status in Chinese art history.He with the dickey of looking far and aiming high,the wisdom of strategically advantageous position,created many northern Shan’xi series works of caring for society and human and life.From《Chairman Mao and shepherd》to《Happy together》,from《Party secretary and the old poor peasant》to《People in the gutter》,each of his painting will bring highly praise.
In general,Liu Wenxi’s art not only rely on form,language,skill to win,but also it is his work in the creation of the image of the unique,vivid,true to occupy the leadership position.His heart tied on northern Shan’xi people,feeling to the Loess Plateau,footprints all over the town of northern Shan’xi,painter several thousand farmer portraits and several ten sketches.For this reason,his true feeling ready to come out,and shown in the writing.The exploration of the form is important,he is through the form,language,skills and other means to express,to continuously strengthen the image of the expression and infection of the inner meaning.Liu Wenxi should be a flag of contemporary China painting circles.
In a variety of art trends in the frequent rise,Liu Wenxi in the show a place of great ingenuity and tolerance.He put his art life place on northern Shan’xi loess ground,he believe that those beauty touched him deeply should be touched others.
He never stopped the step of the creation.Although he was advanced in years,but in recent years,he with the great passion along with Yellow River,began to the creation of Yellow River series,in the creation of 2014,《The Yellow River offspring》、《The Yellow River man》were created.The figures in the painting are vivid,real,nature,revealed the human beauty of Chinese farmer in sincere and faithful,it can be regarded as a classic of thought connotation,artistic value and historical value,its creative methods and artistic style are consistent with the past.He is constantly exploring innovation,in the history life and real life to find their own subject matter,typical thinking and refining,and maximize the ability to use their own painting to portray characters and deal with the elements of the coordination and integration,strive to achieve the unity of the depth of thought and the art of high degree.At the present times,Liu Wenxi’s methods and rules of the creation are more valuable.
Hand in hand“tradition”and“innovation”
However,Liu Wenxi is not stick to the traditional and not to change.He advocated innovation,and that innovation should start from the deep life,start from the extension of the concept,use own thoughts,vision and feeling to observing life,this become the originality is different from the history and others.
Liu Wenxi’s quality creation since the beginning of 1960s in the last century,fully showed his originality.The performance of leaders,praising the people’s work,there is the Tibetan Plateau,the Loess Plateau of the figure painting,and visited Europe scenery description;The expression technique and the language rich and colorful,has broke through the Chinese painting old esthetic program,creatively absorb the achievements of western modern art,open up the new realm of Chinese ink painting in art exchange of western and eastern.
Throughout the contemporary China painting circles,many masters often were limited by old style,or based on the ancients,or the meaning from the ancients,or bow down for the foot of the western tradition,or follow the modern genre approach,to repeat the previous or the repetition of other.Liu Wenxi is not in this way,he has“a hand stretches the tradition”,and has“another hand stretches the life”,more than half a century of vicissitudes decades a symbol of war in ancient China,nourish Liu Wenxi.When the concentration of the world into a global village,he developed a higher artistic goals for themselves founded the“loess school”,this is also must“hand in hand to the world”.He wants to practice his art with limited life.
Liu Wenxi walk in the way of break through the tradition,he made the traditional Chinese paintings open up a fresh outlook.
Established the Loess School and created the fine era paintings
The Loess school is rooted in the Loess Plateau,the rise in the Loess and glorious in the Loess Plateau,the main figure painting.The Xi’an Academy of fine arts as the main body of the college school,make the Loess School formed vigorous and full of bold,masculine,magnificent to the ideal and realistic style.the foundation and development of the Loess School is using culture art to serve people,therefore,the theme word is“people”.
The purpose of the Loess School is promoting the whole nation thoughts,moral,cultural quality,inspiring people to build socialism with Chinese characteristics,strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization and meet the people’s spiritual needs.The creation and prosperity of culture and art for the people,is the historical duty of Loess painters.To draw people’s performance of the era rooted in loess,a boutique,this is the purpose of the school.
The Loess School is the college art school,therefore,including oil paintings,prints,sculpture and other forms of integrated art should be raised to the academic level.The school of art philosophy is:people familiar,strict style,speaking text,innovation.
The Loess School in order to carry out“orientation and the”double hundred“policy,deep into the masses,always insist on improving the ideological content of the work and the diversity of art,advocating creative personality and creative spirit,artistic works with the general style of artistic characteristics in the loess region of northwest China,carry forward the main melody better,to promote diversity,with excellent works to inspire people.
The Loess School,has been adhering learning attitude to the life,to the people,to the traditional,to the times,to the excellent art of the world,fully absorb nutrition.The Loess School emphasizes the creation of figure painting,figure painting to inherit and carry forward the traditional modeling art and ink expression,but also absorb western painting’s basic model skill of strict and in-depth,the inner world of the characters and the personality of the people also have strong local characteristics,to improve the level of the figure painting creation,so that the figure painting has a profound personality and artistic charm;landscape,flower and bird painting innovation to broaden their horizons,expand the subject matter,has a strong local color and bright color of the times,create the landscape and bird and flower painting of infectivity and innovative.The Loess School should be created for people better.For the creation of the people and the people will be to establish the emotion of flesh and blood with the people,absorb abundant nutrition in the life,continues to gather experience to promote the creation.The creation is tough,as a painter should be closes to life and people,should be minded people.just the painter long term blend in life and get along with the people,can be understood why did people paint,and how to paint.The painter put the life and people in the mind,the work can be accepted real popular.Work is the painter’s life good quality,the painter rely on works to speak,painting is dedicating to people also dedicating to the history,the painting’s good or not just people and history give its location.