Tex / Liu Shouxin
Freehand brushwork in painting with cursive,embodies the unique design concept and Chinese realm view.The freehand brushwork painting is not only the art of self but also the art of highly selfless.There seems to be a contradiction between self and selflessness,in fact,it is unified.Only the conscious pursuit of freehand painting this unique realm,this can really make this magnificent art carry forward.Freehand brushwork;self;selflessness,in essence,Chinese paintings are freehand,the so-called meaning,that is,the main body of the spirit of the feelings and images.Zong Bing called"praising God",Wang Wei called"indulgence",Zhang Zao called"Resource form the heart",all emphasized in painting to express the heart contains the image of feeling."Freehand"as the core China painting aesthetics in the Northern Song Dynasty directly have been proposed,such as Ou Yangxiu proposed"painting meaning not painting form",Su Shi put forward"on the shape of painting,see neighbors and children."These art giant thought has profound influence on the development of later paintings.The Yuan Dynasty painter proposed Writing Conception in theory,such as Tang Hou in"painting Quan"said:"painting plums as writing plums,painting bamboo as writing bamboo,painting orchid as writing orchid,of bamboo painting writing,writing for the LAN LAN,why?These flowers painted the meaning,not care about the shape."After the Ming Dynasty,the freehand aesthetic idea has gradually become mature for the painting history of freehand painting of a successor generation.
"Small and large freehand brushwork painting,freehand brushwork highlight a lot of characters,not only on the amount of paper,never is relative,but in the spiritual realm,and great boldness.If you can write a large picture of the landscape in the small landscape or flowers and birds,only to show the characteristics of freehand brushwork.Large freehand painting"strokes",it is closely related to calligraphy in cursive,and some even in cursive art.Li Kuchan once said:"art is the highest when pushing cursive."Qi Baishi modestly recalls:"my life is that I haven't reached the point in cursive painting.""Kuangcao"is one of the most difficult to master China style of calligraphy,a majestic realm is also the most difficult to achieve.China freehand painting painted the same is not only a kind of sublime,is also a kind of extraordinary painting.Chinese art essence has an eternal charm.The fundamental spirit of freehand brushwork painting shows the crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese painting art.
Liu Shouxin|"flowers and moonlit by spring river"|100 x 200cm|1982
Early in the two period of the Song Dynasty Liang Kai being wild,dissolute,with coarse wide style,shades of ink,concise and bold painting style,created a large freehand brushwork painting of fresh air.Among the painters in the past dynasties,the representative of Xu Wei's spirit of freehand brushwork.Because of his rough life and talent,he has a unique artistic temperament.In the middle and late Ming Dynasty,the gradually mature language and aesthetic system,Xu Wei put the brush and ink expression ability to an unprecedented level.In his painting with calligraphy,especially in cursive calligraphy,with the swift,enjoy and indulge,combined with ink and line,good ink and ever-changing,make the picture an unified entity,to briefly trace and far realm to be above all material desires.Xv Wei is passionate,although crazy strange reason,but control freely,freehand spirit to play incisively and vividly.He has a poem:"Half of the life is abjection,independent den whistle breeze,at the end of nowhere to sell pearl,idle throw it into wild vine."The poems reflect the painter's personal fate frustrations caused by emotional trauma.Although,freehand painting can not be completely dizzy with success."The independent den","pen bottom pearl"and"left idle at leisure"reflect the image of Xv Wei the self-image in the real life,the embodiment of ink dripping grape image is almost conceited,cynical,mad,helpless painter.
In modern times,Qi Baishi,a master of freehand brushwork painting,wrote the spirit of flowers with a high degree of concise writing.He also took the literati painting of the Song Dynasty and the release of the meticulous,creating a simple and rich art world,the formation of another peak freehand painting.
The freehand brushwork painting pays attention to the expression of the spiritual feeling,and does not emphasize the true representation of the physical representation.Freehand brushwork painting emphasizes the spirit,this spirit is not only the artist's personality,but also with the spirit of heaven and earth and the great freedom and liberation.So,large freehand painting emphasizes the real feelings of the artist at the same time,must be stressed at the same time,in all things,grasp the rhythm changes in the objective world by time and space,life and growth in nature,no bound of color and perspective of decent physical phenomena,this is the pursuit of the China culture harmony high realm.The unity of heaven and man is not only the environment with me but also the environment without me.The unity of with me and without me is the realm of freehand brushwork painting.The essence of freehand brushwork painting is the courage to go beyond the objective image of the world,showing the spirit of man and the universe,is a kind of life consciousness.
Liu Shouxin|“single hook in the river”|58 x 82cm|2014
In the early Tang Dynasty,landscape painter Zhang Zao proposed"nature outside,acquired in the heart”the thought,the"cardiac"and“source”two words is a painter’s inner cultivation;the imagine of heart produced by the"source"of"heart"is the modeling concept of freehand painting.The art of painting and calligraphy contains the sky,the earth,the essence of human,gas and the spirit of the people,including the multi meanings of humanity,image and personality,so-called"lotus out of the clear water,natural carving",this is how high the realm of art!
Summing up the long experience of art,I think a large freehand painter must do three kinds of work:
One,practice mind:art is the person with the blending of the mental perception of regent universe.Works of art level,elegance,change,form are the reflection of the spirit,the mentality of the painter."Painting,is heart painting",freehand brushwork painting is the artist's self-expression art.A painter strokes,including self.What kind of self is what kind of painting,so that cleanse soul,strengthen the cultivation of the self is essential.Generally speaking,the artist should have an independent and bright personality,there is a certain above utilitarian freedom of mind,in order to draw the otherworldly works of art.
Two,learning:the painter must have profound cultural accomplishment,the so-called traveling a great distance in today is not difficult,but to read ten thousand of books,this point to contemporary artists are lacking.At the same time,it is the way to improve the cultivation of culture,and it is also the required course of cultivating spiritual realm.To a certain extent,is full of rich learning created as an outstanding painter Xv Wei,is a scholar artist model in the late Ming.The Song Dynasty scholar Zhang Daiyou saying"heart for the world,destiny for the life,inheritance of the previously master lost knowledge,peace open for generation after generation."This is not only the Chinese intellectuals should repair the spiritual realm,but also Chinese painter should be great mind.
Three,practice work:the painter must cultivate skilled,superb skills.There is no certain skill,the work is not up to the height,this is a very common truth.The basic skill of Chinese freehand brushwork painting contains many contents,and the skill of calligraphy is the most important one.Chinese freehand brushwork to concise summary of the point,line,surface,the brush in calligraphy can be found the answer.The calligraphy line is not a simple line,center,front side,round brush,square brush,folding brush,pen spinning,strokes,be the most changeful.The large freehand painting pays attention to the strength and the power and the charm of pen,the painter's emotion through changing the brush and ink.Calligraphy is the lifeline of freehand brushwork painting,so the process of freehand brushwork painting is not called"painting",but called“writing”.
Liu Shouxin|"autumn wind is comfortable"|58 x 128cm|2014
Today,the real"production"of many artists,can"write"artists are very less,the era of progress,but the brush has degenerated.The strokes of the bones by contemporary artists indifferent,and emphasizes the schema decoration,emphasizes the skin texture effect,become a mainstream phenomenon in today's Chinese painting,the true meaning of the freehand painter is very rare,the full of soul of the gas works of Chinese nation is hard to find its traces in modern Chinese painting.
It is necessary to advocate the importance of calligraphy in Chinese freehand brushwork painting.Chinese characters are the most general and abstract painting,it has an important guiding significance for the choice of the image of the freehand brushwork,in the history of painting is also fully proved this point,Wu Changshuo wrote several decades to seal stone,profound and dignified,pale male line art,reversed weak trend in the late Qing Dynasty painting.Huang Binhong's brush does not see the shape,put all the shape into calligraphy line,totally forget things,forgetting self,a piece of sublimation,given a large freehand painting the development trend of the guiding significance.
There are two kinds of different views in the contemporary freehand brushwork painting:one is the idea of"new tradition out of the new";the other is the idea of"integration of Chinese and Western".I think these two ideas are objective reality,there is no need to integrate or fight.Stick to the traditional is not desirable,for example,in the lively cross overpass,a rickshaw to walk backward has no way out.The new era of the art of painting is a colorful time,classical Chinese is to imagine the vernacular poetry,from the metrical to freedom of poetry,drama by Chinese and Western combined to pop rock,China painting has to face the challenge of the era of similar.
The new era of pluralism is the symbol of China's transformation from traditional agricultural culture to modern industrial information civilization.Therefore,the Chinese freehand brushwork painting can not be updated.Chinese is an ancient civilization,has a long history,thick culture Chinese with leaves and deep-rooted,immersed in extremely tolerant stomach to digest the western culture.As long as we remember that the Chinese nation meteorology is irreplaceable,regardless of a"new tradition"ideas,or still hold the"fusion of Chinese and Western"opinion,every idea is our way out,China large freehand painting basic spirit is:with the simple modeling language,and describe self feelings with the changeable relationship,expression of the love in the heart between of the earth and the heaven.
The brush and ink in the freehand painting is very important,but neither inexpressible secret skill,nor mysterious ghosts of national culture,it should become the people of the world can accept skill.The ink is not xenophile it as zero value,it has the extremely important position in the Chinese national spirit.The relationship between brush and ink and artistic conception,like the inseparable relationship between the body and the soul,is similar to the dialectical relationship of traditional Chinese medicine,rather than western medicine local anatomy.Western philosophy often content and form,the spirit and the body,the purpose and method of two element analysis,this way of thinking has greatly affected the Chinese artists and critics in recent decades,so that the controversy over the painting circles.If the Chinese Zan and Toist are vanity,so western matter is easy to arrest in appearance,the spiritual core of Chinese culture is compromise harmony,free from paranoia.
Liu Shouxin|"Spring eternally flows among the pines"|126 x 67cm|2014
I draw freehand brushwork,the first consideration is that I have a lot of good things about the imagination of nature,is the feelings of pure feeling and pure spirit.I naturally attach importance of brush and ink in the freehand painting,so actively absorb nutrition from the seal,official scribe,running scribe,cursive calligraphy.But I think the skills and tools are not the first important,my friend Mr.Wu is editor of the Chinese dictionary,he can know more than 10 thousand Chinese characters,but did not write a letter.We know that although Gao Yubao only know five hundred words,but can write a"Midnight Cock Craw".Therefore,the artistic feeling is the first,the spirit of freehand brushwork is more important than the form of freehand brushwork.Secondly,I once in the process of using ink,will gradually forget self,for general laws also ignored,achieved the way of no law,whether traditional or modern;folk or western,I used it all.Only through mastery,there will be endless changes.This is the broad road of freehand painting.
My personal collections published by Tianjin people's fine arts publishing house,I asked the China Academy of Art professor Yang Jinsong teach me,he said:"your picture is personality,also very passionate,but can not represent the academic,passion can not get into the market."He thought for a moment close the eyes said:"of course,personality and passion is the best thing."In a word,the freehand brushwork painting is the art of highly self,but also the art of highly selflessness.
May 6th,2006