China contemporary painter and calligrapher
Member of Fujian Painting and Calligraphy Association
Mo Weng, 1967 was born in Putian, Fujian Province. He graduated from Fujian Normal University and studied under Mr. Weng Zhenxin, director of China Artists Association. He was born in a scholarly family and studied painting and calligraphy since childhood. His landscape flowers and birds series works are the best, winning many awards, and are favored and recognized by Chinese painting collectors all over the world!
Artistic features: vigorous brushwork, light and rich colors, magnificent, painting is good at drawing materials from life and blending into folk consciousness. This painting has its own unique color style.
Under the pale sky, the mountains are solemn and the mist rises. The milky white yarn separates the heavy mountains, leaving only the blue peaks. The whole hillside is lush green, and the lingering fog is like a faint worry, wrapped around its waist. The trickle flows into the endless river, and the shadow of the mountain tower ripples on the vast river.
Mo Weng's landscape paintings inherited the tradition and blended the hope of contemporary landscape in the tradition. While innovating, he is also keenly aware that innovation should be based on the rich and excellent traditions of our nation. You see, Mo Weng's works must come from tradition. He can absorb the essence of tradition well and apply it to his own works. It is said that there are three main points to appreciate Chinese painting: verve, pen and ink, and composition. We can clearly feel these three points from Mo Weng's paintings.
The first point is charm. That is the sum of spirit and charm. Tang Dai in Qing Dynasty said: "The six methods are based on verve, if there is spirit, there is rhyme, if there is no spirit, it is dull." Xun said: "Vivid charm, we must understand the word vivid charm. If we can be vivid, we will be free." Due to the analysis and summary of artists in past dynasties, vivid charm has become the first essence of painting, the highest goal pursued by artists, and the main standard of China's painting appreciation.
In a word, vivid charm is a kind of overall induction to painting, a kind of spiritual dialysis and an understanding of life state. Good works are always accompanied by charm, and excellent works handed down in history have the characteristics of vivid charm.
Second, pen and ink. Appreciating works and reading brush and ink, Chinese painting is composed of lines, which is inseparable from China artists' special liking and unique feeling for lines. The lines used for painting are alive. Thousands of lines with different textures and feelings, such as thickness, straightness, rigidity, coarseness, urgency, solidity, smoothness and simplicity. These emotional lines gradually change, arrange, combine, cross, divide and echo, forming various modeling forms on the screen. Rhythm, density, speed, truth, light and shade, dryness and wetness all show the artist's talent and skills.
The third point is composition. The composition of Chinese painting has many forms, and there are also many formulations. Traditionally called "composition" and "layout". In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Gu Kaizhi called it "Chen Bushi" and Xie He called it "Guan Zhi". Although the formulation is different, its meaning is the same, that is, the author organizes and arranges the content and form to form a whole picture that embodies personality, presents momentum and is harmonious and unified. The realm of a work is high or low, strange or mediocre, and composition is the key.
Look at Mo Weng's Long History. Although he wanted to express the verve of the river, from the overall picture, when dealing with the river, a seemingly huge lake was built here to express the prosperity of wealth. As for where the river flows, it is not the theme of the picture. The picture shows people who like art and feng shui fortune. Such a composition, wealth does not reveal wealth, and liquidity is also there. This is the environment on which Chinese civilization depends. It is necessary for people to look forward to a bright future, even if it is not reality, but philosophical thinking, hoping to be inspired and move towards the goal in inspiration.