Jane Chongmin's Character Evaluation

Jane Chongmin described her childhood experience, and it can be seen that Jane Chongmin loved painting very much since childhood, especially China landscape painting. I began to learn Chinese painting and landscape painting in my teens. I entered the middle school attached to Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and came into contact with western paintings. At that time, I especially liked the paintings of Russian landscape painter Levitan. Later, I had the opportunity to see the works of impressionist Monet and Renoir at the French oil painting exhibition, and I was fascinated to show and copy them with painting tools every day. At this time, Jian Chongmin's paintings and techniques are constantly changing. He integrated the colors of western painting into the spirit of China's landscape painting. What impressed the author was that (in his hometown in the countryside, he got liver disease when he lived in a small house, and his wife left) in his self-report and the narrow residence in his hometown (there is only a bed and a square wooden pond in the room? )。 But he persisted under such difficult conditions. ? Become a real artist. Jane chongmin took the painter's eye. I saw the potential qualification of the environment around the small room. He's been painting? Your hometown, draw your own situation, Jane Chongmin table.

Painting bamboo is equivalent to painting your own home. Painting at this time is a spiritual sustenance and an emotional expression, so painting at this time is very moving. Many painters paint the most brilliant works at the most difficult time. No matter how hard and poor I am, I won't give up. I kept exploring and drew countless sketches, such as bamboo forests in the countryside and the sky in western Sichuan. Jane Chongmin has been painting for more than ten years, striving for perfection and drawing a picture of the soul with her own unique techniques. More than 0/00 pieces of high-quality goods/KLOC, most of which are overseas private collections. Six in the United States, more than 30 in Hongkong, more than 60 in Taiwan Province Province, more than 10 in Sichuan Painting Academy, and more than 20 in my own collection.

From the landscape paintings and self-reports of Jane Chongmin, this paper shows that a painter has successfully found a technique and artistic language suitable for expressing the customs of his hometown, bamboo forest and western Sichuan after a turning point in his career. He created a series of oil paintings with unique characteristics of rural areas in western Sichuan in China, and became a famous landscape oil painter in contemporary China. Walk into Chengdu Qi Li Garden (adjacent to Jinsha Bus Station) and Jane Chongmin's modern living room with an area of 150 square meters, and you will enter Jane Chongmin's artistic world. The entrance is the living room and under the roof is the studio. The living room is connected with the studio, with good lighting. A dozen or twenty pots of orchids were planted on the balcony. ) A faint fragrance wafts in from time to time; The wall is Jane's proud painting, and the easel is a landscape painting being created; On the wall hung the name "Buertang" inscribed by Li.

Jian Chongmin, who is 60 years old, still maintains the physique of a player. The first impression is: careless, straightforward, a little cruel, a little cute. But when it comes to some later topics, I feel that he is still a compassionate and filial person. When he was a child, he saved pocket money one by one to install false teeth for his grandmother; He respected his mother very much, drew a picture for her, and named her: The Virgin of the World, hanging in his bedroom. For students with poor economic conditions, he not only teaches for free, but also helps solve their painting supplies.

The painter speaks with his works. What Jian Chongmin wants to say is included in his latest illustrated album "Western Sichuan Oil Painting" Jian Chongmin (produced in 2002). 65,438+064 exquisite sketches and creative paintings have injected a green tranquility and freshness into our mood eroded by noise and turbidity. Forty-six photos of years and 60,000 words of "youthful feelings" honestly and frankly tell the painter's five tastes and artistic experiences for most of his life.

Jian Chongmin 1947 1 was born on the Yangtze River in Chongqing, and spent his germination and youth in Chongqing. In Chongqing Children's Palace, he was enlightened by Chinese and Western painting. I received basic painting training in secondary school attached to Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and was especially influenced by color master Du Yongqiao for three years. Was baptized by the blood and fire of the "unprecedented Cultural Revolution".

Jane was assigned to work in Yibin for 1 1 year, which was during the "Cultural Revolution" in Chinese mainland. He wasted the best years of his life in Yibin Acrobatic Troupe, a ruined temple in a damp alley. He involuntarily participated in the red movement, light and bright creation, painting Mao Zedong; Was sent to a remote "May 7th" cadre school for labor reform; Painting the stage scenery of the model opera ... under the torture of mental depression and material shortage, he had to find an artistic outlet in private. He wandered along the banks of Minjiang River and Jinsha River and the dilapidated old water wharf, wandered in the alleys of small towns and the countryside with red soil and green trees, sketched the landscape with watercolor and gouache, and then turned to the sketched landscape directly depicted by oil painting; Create a large number of cartoons and other paintings in a dilapidated new house of less than eight square meters. A talented painter who wants to be transferred to the Zhao Yiman Memorial Hall owned by the whole people because of the difference of social background (acrobatic troupe belongs to collective ownership) is not qualified to be an artist. 1978 transferred to Chengdu to reunite with his wife and daughter, and worked as an artist in a trade union of a national defense factory that produced fighter planes.

Jane Eyre has been in Chengdu for more than 20 years, which coincides with a major historical turning point in the mainland, and is also the prime of life and artistic maturity of Jane Eyre. The spring breeze of reform and opening up ignited Jane's hope and passion. He was full of ambition to take the postgraduate exam, but he was blocked by the Academy of Fine Arts because of his poor English. He paints like crazy. In the past two years, he has painted nine works, such as Clear Snow, Cinderella, Climbing and Heavenly Craft, and participated in various exhibitions in China and Sichuan, and won the Excellence Award of China Artists Association twice, one of which was collected by China Art Museum. 1982 was admitted to China Artists Association. 1983 transferred to Chengdu Painting Academy to become a professional creator. Less than half a year after coming to Chengdu Painting Academy, he was seconded to Sichuan Artists Association to organize oil painting exhibitions in Sichuan for four years. From then on, I stood on a relatively broad stage, talking with artists from Sichuan, other provinces and even Hong Kong, while doing my own creation. "1985, several famous artists from Sichuan and I came back from Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to collect materials and drew more than 30 sketches of Tibetan scenery and customs in a novel way, preparing to complete a series of joint exhibitions at China Art Museum in Beijing. Unexpectedly, overnight, all the photo albums and materials were swept away by the studio, and there were still three months left. What should I draw? I feel extremely depressed. One night, I was walking in the field with my mother and two little girls. They are the daughters of my daughter and my brother. The little niece pointed to the farmer surrounded by a bamboo forest in the afterglow of the sunset and said,' You don't want to be with them, just draw a hole in this bamboo forest!' The power of God made me suddenly look back ... The next night, two little girls accompanied me to draw the first sketch of rural landscape painting in western Sichuan, Green Curtain. Since then, I have left the Sichuan art circle, which pursues the theme of Liangshan Tibetan area and ethnic customs, and embarked on the road of rural areas in western Sichuan alone ... "Since then, Jane has roamed the land of western Sichuan and drew thousands of sketches on the spot. In the smiling face of success, there are often many sorrows and pains that ordinary people can't imagine. Jane has experienced the great fission of modern art in China, the confusion of various thoughts, the tossing of diseases, the pain of mother's death, the divorce of husband and wife, and financial difficulties ... It seems that all the blows are coming one after another, which makes Jane suffer deeply. Mr. David, the president of Greenwich Art Company, extended a hand of understanding and help, cooperated with Jane, and provided timely help to encourage him to rekindle his hope. Later, Mr. Zhuang Shaosui (the son of Zhuang Chongwen), whom I met in Hong Kong, also gave Jane strong support-creating a good working environment for Jane during her stay in Hong Kong, supporting Jane to hold large-scale art exhibitions in Guan Shanyue Art Museum and Chengdu, and subsidizing Jane's large-scale picture books ... Many tutors and friends helped Jane. " Their friendship has continued my artistic creation journey to this day. "

Many people say that Jane's landscape paintings have a distinct personal style. "On the one hand, it is extremely realistic and meticulous, on the other hand, it is the pursuit of artistic conception. The two are very ingenious and unique. This is the characteristic of Jane Chongmin's painting, a brilliant realm written by an oriental oil painter. " (Shu, curator of China Museum of Modern Literature)

"His works can be said to be the product of the perfect combination of Chinese and Western painting arts. They are excellent landscape oil paintings with China characteristics, which have been affirmed and praised by many famous artists at home and abroad. " (Hong Kong Zhuang Shaosui).

In May 2005, the author, photographer Gou Jianhua and painter Yang Jiantao went to Chengdu to collect folk songs and visited Jian Chongmin. He bought a new suite near his home as a studio. In his studio, we saw his new oil paintings in recent years: A Beautiful City in Spring, Returning Home to the Caotang, Memories of Bedford Castle, Spring Warm in Longquan, Spring Breeze Blowing through Yuan Ye, Heritage, Looking Back at Old Rongcheng, Pond in My Hometown, and More. Mr. Chongmin is a diligent and prolific painter.