NO.1: Abstraction and symbolization

All art comes from life and is higher than life.

The reason why art is different from life and higher than life is that art summarizes our life and abstracts and symbolizes our life and the world.

On that day, Mr. Wu took me and Mr. Xie moderator to visit Mr. Jia of Shenda University and have a tea talk. Moderator Xie suddenly asked if it was necessary to buy an external hot shoe flash. My opinion is that it is not necessary yet. Of course, the opinions of Mr. Wu and Mr. Jia think that adding a flash will help realize the creativity. I have reservations about this. I always think that for a beginner, the equipment in his hand is actually secondary. (The technology is not good, and the top of the equipment is definitely the talk of the merchants.) What we need to do first is actually to slow down our life and pace and carefully observe the world around us and the people around us. One day, when we look back casually, in fact, poetry has emerged, which is the basis for the birth of "art" above life. Of course, I am not against beginners to study and familiarize themselves with the equipment in their hands. In fact, I am very much in favor of beginners to study the equipment in their hands. As the saying goes, "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first." Make good use of the existing equipment in your hand. When one day you feel that the equipment in your hand can no longer hold the world in your eyes, it is not too late to consider replacing or adding equipment.

back to the point we want to talk about-the world is not short of beauty, but of eyes for discovery. How should we look at photography and the world recorded through the lens? Photography has been inextricably linked with the art of painting since it was born more than 1 years ago. In fact, both painting and photography are a way for us to record the world and express our emotions.

There have been countless great artists in the history of western painting art. I love Van Gogh and Picasso alone. Because I can easily see the essence of art in their classic works. Speaking of Van Gogh, a famous Dutch painter, of course, people will think of his masterpiece Sunflower. Still life, a common decoration at home, a handful of sunflowers in a bottle-art comes from life. The painter painted the sunflower bottle crooked, with a wall and a table. It is also difficult for us to observe the beauty of light or the law of perspective from the picture. If we want to evaluate "Sunflower" from the "form" of painting, then we have defiled "Sunflower" too much. Look carefully at a bunch of flowers in the bottle. Some have just opened, some are thriving, some are beginning to wither, and some are drooping and dying. This is not a flower, this is the course of life, and time is invisible and intangible. However, when you carefully examine this cluster of flowers, time has become so concrete and vivid-art is higher than life. In the eyes of the artist Van Gogh, Sunflower is an catharsis of his powerlessness over the passage of time.

Picasso became a billionaire with his paintings in his lifetime, which is unique in the history of painting. When we look at Picasso's portrait works, most of them are not like "people". He will use a triangle to represent "face" and a rectangle to represent people's "body", which is very bizarre. In most of Picasso's paintings, we can't see human anatomy, the proportion of the golden section, perspective, light and shadow. Most of what we see are combinations of lines, geometric figures, color blocks and so on. People are different from other species because we have emotions, can think and ask questions. Facing different situations, we will have different reactions, either fear, joy, anger, sadness or calmness. Picasso became the top painter in the history of mankind because he discovered the essence of "man" and described these essence of "man" with his keen brushwork.

Photography, like painting, will eventually move towards "abstraction" and "symbolization".

So, young photographers, please be careful with the shutter of their cameras before shooting. Before shooting, we'd better think about why I shot it, what it is, where it touches me, and what meaning I can give it through the lens.