Amateur artist Wang Hua: Anyone who has a dream is great.

How far is it for a girl from a mountain village in Fujian who has only attended school for five years, and a working girl who started painting at the age of 30, to become a famous artist?

Wang Hua proved with her life that anyone who has a dream is great!

Wang Hua, 198 1, was born in a small mountain village in Pucheng County, Nanping, Fujian. He only went to the fifth grade of primary school, and Wang Hua dropped out of school because he couldn't read books.

16 years old, she began to work all over the country to make a living. After changing a lot of jobs, Wang Hua was once confused and didn't know what he could do. When she returned to her hometown in the countryside, she was even more at a loss and felt that "there is no exit in life." Wang Hua was also annoyed by his parents' forced marriage. She can understand the feelings of the elderly, but insists that "feelings are related to fate, and people can't get married in a hurry."

Until one day, Wang Hua saw the photography textbook of the New York Institute of Photography at the stall. On a whim, Wang Hua drew a portrait of a modern woman in the book. "The girl in the photo is fresh and elegant, just like the heroine in the movie Roman Holiday. But why do I feel that my painting is more beautiful than the photo itself? The freedom of writing is unprecedented. " Moreover, when painting, in her eyes, the originally gloomy world seems to be shining! Since then, it has been out of control.

In this way, 30-year-old Wang Hua began to draw a world with black and white lines to vent his inner depression.

Gradually, she felt the beauty of painting-she could express her heart directly and quickly with a brush, and this pleasure could not be described in words.

200 1, Wang Hua came to Shanghai alone. In an art exhibition hall run by a company, she stays for hours at a time. This neurotic enthusiasm gave Wang Hua the opportunity to work in this art museum!

Wang Hua said that in fact, she didn't know what art was at first, but her colleagues told her: "Art has no boundaries. Just insist on painting what you think and do it to the extreme. "

After that, she began to try to create long scrolls. The refill of Wang Hua's paintings is a 50-cent oil pen, 0.5 mm thin. Every day after work, she will spread 15 meters of drawing paper in the corridor of the art museum and bury herself in painting. Watching a flower, a gust of wind and a sea gush from his pen, Wang Hua can feel an indescribable joy and satisfaction.

On 20 12, Wang Hua came to Beijing. She often goes to the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In order to maintain his life in the north, Wang Hua went to the canteen manager of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and said, "I want to find a job, as long as I have food and shelter, I don't need salary." I just want to stay here. " Because she used to be a waiter, the manager kept her. But she said she could only work for half a day, because the rest of the time would be spent painting. The manager also agreed and put her in charge of catering and cleaning, with a monthly salary of only 1000 yuan.

Wang Hua rented a simple basement near the Academy of Fine Arts, with a room area of 10 square meter. She gets up at 5: 30 every morning and finishes her work, which is her own time. After school, the clean dining table and classroom became the place where she painted to her heart's content.

Monthly salary of 1000 yuan, in addition to rent, but also to buy brushes and paper, so that Wang Hua's life has been very poor. But painting always makes her forget all this. A painting 30 meters long, she will paint for a whole year as soon as she starts writing. But she just painted one picture after another ... when she is not at work during the holidays, she can paint from early morning until late at night.

Wang Hua also likes to take part in professional courses and lectures by famous teachers at school, and takes notes more seriously than anyone else. "I found * * * Ming here. Although it is very difficult and lonely for a person to wander in Beijing, what I feel most is satisfaction. "

What attracts Wang Hua most is the library in Central America. Although she doesn't know these words, such as scripture, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Maya, she likes the structure and lines of these words. While watching, she practiced in the notebook and copied it more than ten times a day. With the help of a dictionary, she can read books on sculpture, philosophy, politics and art, as well as picture books with different styles and contents. Then train your vision in your own way, and transform the materials you collected from books and life into colorful line drawings, which are expressed in a unified way.

By chance, a student took Wang Hua to Yuan Yunsheng, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The old artist stared at her painting for a long time until he finished smoking. He said that in all his teaching career, he had never met such a unique student.

Wang Hua burst into tears and kept muttering: thank you, thank you. It never occurred to her that the paintings she loved and the graffiti in others' eyes would be affirmed by the master.

In the spring of 20 13, Zhang Nan of CCTV heard that the waiter in Yangmei canteen was painting, so he found Wang Hua and made a documentary. Later, this film named "My Lifeline" won the Best Nomination Award for French Sunshine Documentary! Nan said:

20/kloc-in June, 2005, a student saw Wang Hua drawing at the dining table, so he couldn't help taking pictures of her works with his mobile phone and casually sent a Weibo: "There is a beautiful waitress on the second floor of Yangmei No.1 canteen. She graduated from elementary school and didn't take any art classes, but she painted well, which made my major students feel ashamed. "

Although Wang Hua's unique line drawing is a unique innovative painting method at home and abroad, behind his majestic artistic style, it also shows the shadow influenced by the "Central American School", which is called the Water Tower School. She knows how to use large-scale, complex textures and flexible decorative lines ... netizens are amazed. In just a few days, this Weibo has been forwarded 60,000 to 70,000 times, and Wang Hua has also become the "Yangmei inspirational sister" who is popular on the Internet.

Subsequently, some people expressed their willingness to provide venues so that Wang Hua could have a better painting environment; Someone wants to help her organize an exhibition of paintings and include her works in the album. Beijing Museum of Modern Art wants to collect one of her "amateur painter" paintings at a high price of 6.5438+0.5 million yuan! Wang Hua's first reaction was to flatly refuse. "She said,

Wang Hua has always resisted the commercialization of art, despite her poor life. For several years, she has been renting in a basement with less than 10 square meters, and she is immersed in painting.

Despite such a hard life, Wang Hua turned down the opportunity to hold exhibitions and sell paintings. Friends and fellow villagers say she is pedantic, but Wang Hua feels that she needs a breakthrough in artistic concept more than the improvement of economic conditions.

As early as a few years ago, because she couldn't start a career, her parents put their expectations on marriage. Her family once told her about a marriage, and the other was a gambler, a rich man in a neighboring village. As the wedding day approached, Wang Hua fled hastily and hid in other places to work.

At the beginning of 20 16, her father was ill in hospital, and she wanted to sell some paintings and take all the money home. Afterwards, I felt sorry for the organization that collected her paintings: "I always felt that those works were not perfect." But a famous art critic said that Wang Hua's works are full of chaos and religious aesthetic elements, and those lines have no beginning or end, which are very much like life.

April 20 16, an art museum in Beijing finally discovered Wang Hua, a "potential amateur painter", and changed her from a part-time job in the canteen to a contracted artist. In June, curator Liu Yi brought Wang Hua's long scroll works to the 798 Amateur Art Group Exhibition, and then the company held a solo exhibition for her. Two exhibitions * * * sold 17 paintings, which brought hundreds of thousands of yuan to Wang Hua. She donated 200,000 yuan to an art foundation in Beijing. Wang Hua said that many artists, teachers and students of Chinese Academy of Fine Arts have nourished themselves with culture and knowledge, and she also wants to repay the society.

Now, as a contracted painter, Wang Hua appears in the art museum every morning 10, and with the fragrance of coffee and soft music, she creates a "line drawing" that only she can know in the world. Laying paper and holding a pen, lines pour out from her pen, as natural as walking and breathing, or ups and downs, or surging, or calm as water, as if Lang Lang Gan Kun were all in her pen. "

When painting, I am my own queen, and I feel very cool. "She said with a smile.

From a canteen worker to a radiant female artist, Wang Hua did not attribute the butterfly change of his life to talent. She said: