Liang Yuan is an outstanding painter in China today. His landscape painting has a unique style, distinctive personality and a strong sense of modernity. On the afternoon near the Spring Festival in 20 13 1 month, "You Jing Xin Zao Liang Yuan China Painting Exhibition" was held in Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute, focusing on his works in recent years. Stepping into the exhibition hall, I was deeply impressed by the quiet and handsome pictures and the pen and ink that expressed my mind directly.
I have known Mr. Liang Yuan for many years. As a kindred spirit who has been paying attention to him, I naturally know his painting and artistic achievements very well. After reading his works carefully, what impressed me deeply was his diligence and spirit of exploration in art, followed by his mastery of the formal language of painting. A real painter, in addition to the above qualities, should also have basic qualities such as courage, perseverance and good thinking. In my opinion, Liang Yuan also has an open and introverted personality. These qualities enable him to absorb various artistic nutrients on the one hand and refine his own style on the other.
The artist's career is tortuous, and there is a saying called "pain and happiness!" "This is the painter's normal state. The process of achieving the goal is a process of seeking Tao and proving Tao. Liang Yuan is a versatile painter with good basic skills. In the 1970s, he painted oil painting figures, landscapes, gouache and watercolors; in the 1980s, he painted ink painting freehand figures, meticulous figures and cartoons. He is outstanding in many painting categories, but he is not good at landscape painting. Under the guidance of long-term painting practice and inner feelings, he finally turned his attention to the mountains and rivers, spring stone gardens and canal houses in his hometown. Since 1989, his work "Saving the Millennium Canal" won the Bronze Award in the 7th National Art Exhibition, and his works "Sparing the Woods for Spring", "A Journey to Hometown" and "The Fragrance of Yimeng River" were selected in the 9th, 10th and 11th National Art Exhibitions (nominations) successively, and other works were selected in the National Art Exhibition for many times and won awards, which can be described as fruitful.
Among the various categories of Chinese painting, landscape painting has a long history and profound tradition, and it has always been a great generation. Landscape painting and landscape poetry can best express China people's view of nature. The so-called "the joy of benevolence and wisdom" and "observing the Tao with an open mind" all refer to the rich feelings that mountains and rivers give people. Wuxi is a place with rich landscape and humanistic connotations and traditions. On the one hand, the water and soil moisten the painter's mind, which naturally breeds the unique beauty and artistic conception suitable for Sri Lanka. Liangyuan's landscape paintings are good at expressing the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River. For a long time, he has been exploring the forms of landscape painting. Under the traditional background, on the one hand, he went deep into life and was nourished by life, on the other hand, he integrated excellent Chinese and western languages, forming a leisurely and leisurely painting character with extrasensory feelings. Judging from Liang Yuan's important works in previous years, he seems to prefer to express the cold forest in autumn and winter and the snow in the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River. In the layers of rubbing and dyeing, the smoke on the screen disappears, lavender blends, and the natural rich and vivid texture is displayed in silence.
As an enterprising painter, Liang Yuan is not satisfied with his success. In recent years, Liang Yuan has re-examined his creative ideas and techniques from traditional and contemporary perspectives, and accumulated a large number of sketches. On this basis, he launched a number of new works with his hometown as the theme. Most of these works focus on Wuxi's scenic spots, such as Donglin Academy, Jichang Ancient Garden, Shandong Tibetan Snow, Bishan Yinshe, Er Quan Snow and Wuli Lake. Compared with the past, they pay more attention to the personal symbols and freehand brushwork ink expression of the picture, and the description of the scenery is more concise and simple. The strengthening of pen and ink language and the expansion of subjective images make the expression of artistic conception of his works more direct, thus completing another evolution and transcendence of his own art.
A painter's painting character, artistic conception, formal language and even painting techniques are all a process of constant selection. It can be said that this series of choices is the embodiment of the painter's current ability, which is related to the painter's character, thought, aesthetics, artistic accomplishment and cognition of life. In this way, Liang Yuan's Chinese painting is the presentation of his artistic cognition and choice. Say-Reading the Landscape Paintings of Liang Yuan, a Famous Painter
Mr. Liang Yuan is a leading figure of contemporary Liangxi Painting School and an important painter with certain influence in domestic art circles. Reading Mr. Liang's paintings, in my opinion, is always a pleasure to cultivate sentiment and soul. Therefore, over the years, I always want to have a quick look at the publication of Mr. Liang's masterpieces, hoping to get some inspiration and benefits from them.
The author and Mr. Liang met in the mid-1980s, and it has been more than 20 years since then. Mr. Liang Yuan is a typical talented painter in Jiangnan. Born in an ordinary class, he is very talented and diligent. Therefore, he has a wide range of knowledge and profound knowledge, and he is not surprised by ordinary life, and he is frank and sincere in practice. Every time Mr. Wang talks about painting, it seems handy and careless, but it is often a person who expresses himself and surprises everyone. With this true temperament and talent, it is not difficult to understand that he is outstanding and a painter of his peers.
China landscape painting became an independent specialized subject from Sui and Tang Dynasties, and entered a comprehensive and mature period from Song Dynasty. Landscape painters in the Yuan Dynasty did not persist in reproducing real landscapes, but expressed their personal feelings and aspirations with pen and ink. Landscape painting in Ming dynasty tends to be refined and popular, while landscape painting in Qing dynasty obviously shows the distinction between orthodoxy and wildness. Since modern times, China's landscape painting masters can be roughly divided into two categories: insisting on traditional pen and ink and striving for the combination of Chinese and Western. In the stormy course of China landscape painting 1000 years, it can be said that there are many wonderful masters. There are always differences in the landscape painting circle, which is better or worse. What is certain, however, is that every painter is persistent about how to establish his own genre and create his own face.
Liangxi is an important town of landscape painting in China, from Ni Zan, who refused to be an official in seclusion in Yuan Dynasty, to Qian Songyan, the leader of the New Jinling School in modern times, to Qin Guliu, a master of landscape painting who was called "the sage of contemporary painting" by Mr. Yaming. These masters who shine brilliantly in the history of painting have nourished and influenced many painters. Mr. Liang Yuan is no exception. However, it is commendable that he pays more attention to the inheritance and learning of the conduct, realm and spirit of these sages, rather than the simple imitation on the technical level, so his paintings have opened the distance from many painters in the current Liangxi painting world and are unique. His works were selected for the 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th national art exhibitions, won the bronze award and nomination award, and were collected by China Art Museum, Jiangsu Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum and overseas art institutions.
Mr. Liang Yuan is a generalist with extensive knowledge and great achievements. He painted cartoons, posters and watercolor oil paintings in his early years, and then from traditional Chinese painting characters to freehand brushwork landscapes. The author thinks that he is best at and the essence is image landscapes. He created a quiet, solemn, clean and distant spiritual pure land for readers, a spiritual home that transcends the natural state and is full of ideological connotations. Looking back at his imagery landscape paintings, it is not difficult to find that he pursues the past rather than mired in the past. His landscapes catch up with the elegance and agility of the famous landscapes in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and at the same time have the artistic language and expressive force of contemporary painting. In his image landscape, he completely got rid of the fetters of traditional landscape programs, and touched Danqing with pen and ink from a new perspective of modern artists. Without the program of traditional landscape techniques, he has the charm of pen and ink, and the real world is hard to find and full of homesickness. In his works, bleak trees, stubborn residual lotus, calm pond in the mirror, winding paths, towering snow peaks and ethereal and clean sky are as real as fantasy and poetic. Standing in front of his paintings can make people avoid the noise of the world and enjoy the tranquility of nature, thus gaining spiritual comfort. Through his paintings, we can also fear the greatness of life, feel the grandeur of all things, and inspire pride in facing life and surpassing ourselves.
The author has always believed that artistic activities are nothing more than three levels in terms of their levels and development stages, namely, technology, art and Tao. The former is an introductory stage, and the intermediate stage can bring aesthetic enjoyment to the audience. The latter is external and spiritual, with both entertainment and enlightenment functions. Undoubtedly, Mr. Liang Yuan's landscape painting art has completed a leap from art to Taoism, leaving a unique stroke in the art history of Liangxi.
Hometown feelings in the interest of painter Liang Yuan's ink painting
Tao Jie Evening News reporter
Liang Yuan, 1972, graduated from Wuxi Art School and studied at Nanjing Art Institute. Member of China Artists Association, national first-class artist, vice president of Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute, and chairman of Wuxi Artists Association. Director of Jiangsu Artists Association, member of Jiangsu Art Senior Title Evaluation Committee. His works were selected for the 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th national art exhibitions and won prizes. He has published personal albums and monographs, and his works have been collected by China Art Museum, Jiangsu Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum and overseas art institutions.
Extensive exposure brings more emotion.
For more than 40 years from the early 1970s to the present, the painter Liang Yuan has been active in the art field related to artistic creation, dabbling in comics, posters, watercolors, oil paintings and other aspects, and each has achieved excellent results, providing a lot of nutrition for later artistic creation. Liangyuan, from the characters in Chinese painting to the images and landscapes that brought him countless praises, is unique and unique. Among Wuxi painters, it is rare that five works have been selected for the national art exhibition and won prizes.
Among many contemporary painters, Liang Yuan is recognized not only for his outstanding awards and excellent painting skills, but also for his hard work in the field of Chinese painting for many years. China's landscape painting has a long history and profound tradition, and Liangxi has always had a large number of people. As a descendant of "Taihu Painting School", after middle age, Liang Yuan thought that with his spiritual cultivation, artistic accumulation and purification of understanding, he began to devote himself more to the field of landscape painting, in his words, "returning to nature". After long-term artistic tempering and innovation, Liang Yuan has a more independent view and clear artistic expression of landscape painting. His eyes focused on the mountains, rivers, clouds and mountains near Taihu Lake in his hometown. Since 1989, his "Saving the Millennium Canal" has won the bronze prize of the 7th National Art Exhibition. A series of works, such as Leaving the Woods for Spring, Traveling to Hometown, Cold Lin Xue, and Snow on Lihu Lake, depict the scenery and things with the most Jiangnan flavor in the eyes of an innocent child who is passionate about his hometown with fresh, refined, peaceful and distant artistic conception. The unrestrained homesickness and sincere praise for life in the paintings really moved the viewers.
Liangyuan's landscape paintings are elegant in color and plain in composition, which shows the wonderful combination of Chinese and western languages and the carefree character of Yunlin's landscape paintings. He constantly explored the forms of landscape painting and sketch in his hometown and abroad. His works have formed a painting style, which contains a feeling of super excitement in silence and loneliness. He prefers to express the cold forest and snow scene in autumn and winter in the south of the Yangtze River, forming a personal schema through the accumulation of ink and dyes, and showing the rich and vivid texture of nature in silence.
Hometown element is an inexhaustible source of creation.
Over the years, Liang Yuan has been trudging on the road of change, seeking the tentacles of the times in silence, and highlighting his true feelings in the present. He expressed his deep life consciousness and love for real life through the mountains and rivers in his hometown. In such an impetuous era of quick success and instant benefit, Liang Yuan has always been firm in himself, taking strong personal experience as the creative power and promoting the expansion of personal artistic language. Wuxi is a good place for everyone to get together. On the one hand, the water and soil on the soul of Liangyuan will naturally breed an artistic conception that conforms to its personality and personality. In recent years, he has published a number of new works with hometown as the theme, and these works are mostly based on Wuxi classical gardens, such as "The Breeze Sending Chang Garden", "The Moon Reflected in Two Springs", "Donglin Academy" and "Hidden Snow Map". Pen and ink are elegant and smooth, and strokes are healthy but not open. The rockery in the garden originated from sketching, but it is also a natural expression of the blending of mind and self. It is ethereal and remote, beautiful and wild, mainly reflected in "light" and "quiet". "Light" is an "elegant and holistic" style, which can show endless imagination. "Quiet" can make the picture far-reaching, and it is a display of the author's pen and ink and self-cultivation. His new works participated in Fu Baoshi Prize Jiangsu China Art Exhibition, China Jiangsu Modern Ink Painting Exhibition, China Hundred Jinling Art Exhibition, Jiangsu Young and Middle-aged China Painter Jin Jing Exhibition, and took his works to Taiwan Province Province to participate in the invitation exhibition of famous artists on both sides of the Grand Canal.
Also with deep feelings for his hometown, Liang Yuan and his team, as the chairman of Wuxi Artists Association, have planned influential local art exhibitions such as Wuxi China Art Exhibition, Wuxi First Sculpture Exhibition and Wuxi Centennial Oil Painting Exhibition in recent years, showing the world the powerful strength of Liangxi art, which is of great significance to further promote the artistic career in his hometown.
"It's very important to have one's own painting language" Talking about the award-winning experience of the national art exhibition, Liang Yuan believes that in addition to talent, one should also maintain one's own unique artistic views and attitudes, adhere to originality and the irreplaceability of the schema, abandon all conformity, pursue "famous mountains and rivers" without using a pen, and prefer to choose themes familiar to oneself and his side to express simple, peaceful and calm ideal feelings from a smaller but simpler starting point.