Xiaosong Cai's reference to Xiaosong Cai's paintings

1. "Search the Qifeng and make a draft" is a famous sentence of Shi Tao, but there are two deadly words of Master Shi Tao that are often ignored. "Mountains and rivers come from giving, and giving comes from mountains."

"Murphy's upbringing is not work, and his pen is not life." People who don't understand think that obscurity is close to mystery, but in fact they know too much and accidentally tell their secrets.

2. Scholar-officials in China are all eager for nymphs, so painters should use this as a means to create their own environment, and literati should also use this as a means to judge. Among them, the core question is, what kind of landscape nymphs are literati's longing? My understanding is that the feasibility is not as good as being able to swim and live, and at the same time being able to enter and retreat, and being able to go out and enter. Yearning for seclusion in the mountains stems from Buddhism and Taoism, but don't live in a wild place, because birth is temporary and the ultimate goal is to join the WTO. Seclusion is essentially a gesture, behind which is a call. So people living in the temple are talking about mountains, and people hiding in the mountains are worried about the rise and fall of their home country. Therefore, if the landscape is too beautiful, it will be vulgar; If it is too desolate, it will be affected; If it is too elegant, it will be weak; Suitable for long-distance travel and temporary residence; The above feelings had better be related, heavy and light. Therefore, to understand China's landscape philosophy, the essence is a word-"hidden place". China's wonderful books about "Yin" are numerous, as if "Yin" is synonymous with height. But "concealment" also has its fatal place. It pays attention to leaving the greatest ideas in the depths of the mountains, without promotion or understanding. This is a pity, so it has become a secret game of the leisure class, and it is inevitable that the road will get narrower and narrower. Like old wine, intoxicating is also wrong. Therefore, whether it is popular or not, the detachment of ideas can only be a matter for a few people, and the affairs of a few people will not miss the great events.

3. As the old saying goes, the vertical painting is three inches and the height is one kilometer; A few feet of ink is horizontal and a hundred miles long. In today's world, after all, the vision is broad, the viewing methods are different, and the exhibition space is even different. Three inches, a few feet, the literati's play is a problem, which is why I prefer the vocative.

4. Guangya said, "Painting is also a kind." What do you mean? That is to say, a painting looks like a real thing, but it is not a real thing, and it cannot be forced to look like a real thing. China's traditional painting tools and techniques themselves determine that they can't force the shape, but they can't, but they are exactly what they want. "Similarity means dissimilarity" and "between similarity and dissimilarity" have become a realm pursued by China painters and directly become painting. The painting tools and techniques in the western world determine that it can be forced, and if there is no photography, it can continue. But photography and videotaping came, forcing it to add impressions, abstractions and concepts, and forcing it to move from "painting" to "painting". In this sense, Chinese painting has determined its characteristics of abstraction, impression and subjectivity from the very beginning, which is directly close to the essence of painting.

Many people will say that foreigners can't understand Chinese painting. I don't know that western artists never want their works to be understood by China people. Do you understand what it's none of your business? And we always want to do something that westerners understand, so-called "contemporary" and "international". To put it bluntly, it is because we have a part of the market in the west. Westerners will pick up writing brushes if they want to make a living in the East. We'll see.

6. An important feature of contemporary painting is non-repeatability. First-class Chinese painting is half done by people and half done by heaven. Draw a non-human picture, and have the feeling of growing out of paper. Great works are accomplished by a man and a god, both of whom have artificial hands and are indispensable. What is effective is the word turtle, and the dragon is a treasure.

7. Full of foul language, dull eyes, boring thoughts, mediocre skills and poor cultivation, it is not terrible to admit it boldly. Daily reminder and daily practice are a bit vulgar and interesting, and so do sages. I have the experience that when I am diligent, I intend to enter this country, and when people enter this country, God helps me.

8. The Five Dynasties Hao Jing's "Bi Tan" said that there are two diseases in painting, one is physical illness, which is obvious and changeable at first sight. The other is an invisible disease, which appears to be disease-free on the surface, but is actually a terminal disease. There are many such paintings now, and it is a good thing that this kind of Chinese painting is dead.

9. As the old saying goes, it has both form and spirit. Everyone has seen "shape", but have you seen "God"? Does God exist? So materialists should stay away from art and don't even look at it.

10. Everyone has idols, but learning to draw, especially beginners such as patients, should not be supplemented. I don't advocate learning from masters. I should learn something basic, easy to digest, easy to absorb and easy to get in and out. The more you admire a person, the more you should keep your distance from him. Because it's easy to get in, but difficult to get out. A lesson from the past can only be a teacher's intention, and can never be a teacher's trace. As a disciple of a master, I have nothing to be proud of. So, don't look for traces and inheritance of masters in my paintings. Essentially, I don't want you to see it. But outside the painting, it is best not to hear high notes.

1 1. Innocence is a product. There is escape in a naive heart. That's adult innocence, not childlike innocence, or false innocence. Stop pretending. If you are fake, the escape in your chest will not be smooth and your mind will not be broad. Draw if you are sick. In my opinion, innocence is nature, and the more you learn, the less naive you become. Ishiguro studies Yunlin, which is difficult to rhyme and has no escape. The ancients said that learning from nature, I think the only thing I can't learn is nature. If nature can learn, it is not called nature, and it is not naive to learn naively.

12. When I was a student, I thought I could take off my clothes and hold the machine in my hand without being arrested by the master and wandering outside the law. Now it's troublesome to feel that artists look like them.

13. Pictures, pictures, can't be distinguished for many years. What is a picture and what is a painting, many people are also in a daze. Art historians are mainly keen on distribution, such as South School, North School, Beijing School and Shanghai School. But few people pay attention to the so-called "painting animals, painting fairies", which is clearly stated in the "Thousand Words" that used to teach children. This sentence is very essential, telling us that "map" is functional, which was originally used as a sacrifice, totem worship or a recording tool. But painting is different. Painting pays attention to aesthetics, "picking fairy forest" and the unique expression of spiritual level. There have always been many good paintings, and some masters have painted them, such as The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. Of course, there are also many bad paintings. But painting is painting, and even the best painting is not painting. The paintings are not necessarily good, and most of them are not even as good as paintings. I hope I draw well and draw well.

14. Things about Kung Fu are becoming more and more unclear. Ni Yunlin said that his paintings are "nothing more than scribbled brushstrokes, not seeking shape, but chatting for self-entertainment." For 500 years, this sentence has hurt many people. There are too many things that are sloppy, do not seek shape, and entertain themselves. However, Yi Bi can't find it. So Chen Duxiu said that his family had seen more than 200 works by Wang, all of which were evil paintings. Not only Wang Shigu, but also Ni Huangwenshen will fall to the ground. Liu Haisu also thought thoroughly, saying that the deeper a painter's kung fu is, the more dull his technique is, the more frustrated his painting style is, and the more distorted his beauty is. They have different starting points. Although Chen Duxiu is a layman, his overall situation is thorough and urgent for Chinese painting. But Liu Haisu has little kung fu, and it is not enough to make irresponsible remarks about kung fu. In my opinion, the reason why the road of Chinese painting is biased is because I thought that a few strokes can approach beauty, but I forgot that escape is kung fu.

15. once in zhouzhuang painter village, the village chief received a phone call and roared: we want to invite contemporary artists, but Chinese painting is not welcome! I don't know. You're out. Why don't you go? In fact, the village cadres are right. As early as the May 4th Movement, Chinese paintings were like rats crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat them. The food is terrible, the problem is the chef; Football stinks, the problem lies in the players, the Chinese painting has a problem, and the problem lies in the Chinese painters. Although football stinks, it is still playing, and Chinese painting is still participating when it stinks. There must be a spirit of sacrifice. Because the unique paintings of this nation are not really produced, I am willing to be a stepping stone.

16. since the establishment of the academy of fine arts, modeling has long been a problem. It's only been more than ten years, and modeling is no longer an art. Now the most fashionable concept is concept. I want to ask, is there a more complicated and essential concept than escape?

17. As the old saying goes, "If you look for a paradise and enter its door, then that joy is really inhuman." If I don't tell you, even if I don't want to tell you where Guinness is, the problem will come. No wonder the vast history of China's art is obscure. Every historian says that Chinese painting contains supreme philosophy, and it cannot be explained without hundreds of thousands of words. But is it necessary for people who look at paintings to understand the mystery? The death of Chinese painting, China painters can not escape the blame, theorists can not escape the blame.

18. The word "tradition" is so pitiful that few people say it. When it comes to good news, the word "broken" must be added before it. Because tradition means no perspective, no light and shade, no color, no this and no that, just like being naked. People who are criticized are always blushing and thick-necked, so people must see that they are wearing clothes. It turned out to be fog, getting darker and darker. It's not embarrassing to admit "no" There are many things that we don't have. Nothing means nothing, and nothing is not necessarily a bad thing. The top beauty in the world is neither here nor there, pure as fine. Diamonds have nothing but charcoal; Gold is gold. Mix something else and it will be discounted.

19. "Innovation" is about originality, meaning and philosophy. Establishing a new ideological system is the real innovation. Other forms, materials, methods, etc. It's just technically new, not new.

20. Kind friends often give me advice, "You can't say that you paint Chinese paintings, out." He also advised me: "You'd better draw on the cloth!" Or "just make a device." I used to be an avant-garde artist, and I started doing it in the late 1980s. I have played many kinds of music, ink painting, collage and photos, but I studied Chinese painting. One day, I suddenly began to reflect, why did something beneficial to a nation become a big mistake? Why do we all avoid studying Chinese painting? We have undertaken a lot of foreign processing and manufacturing work, and of course we have done it seriously, but does this represent China? Is it an excellent work of contemporary China? Or, should we introduce ourselves like this? I understand very well that Chinese painting was abused by violence during the May 4th Movement. In the 1950s and 1960s, Chinese painting was gang-raped. It was stuffed into a coffin in the 1970s and 1980s, and now it has been nailed and buried with thick soil. On the thick soil, flowers are everywhere. People in China don't paint Chinese paintings, but contemporariness is interpreted as rebellion and agitation. But how long can adolescence last? Today, the world has changed, and I want him back. Otherwise, no matter how beautiful the flowers in the bottle are, they can't escape withering, because they have no roots.

2 1. Chairman Mao said that literature and art should blossom, not just a hundred flowers. Silence seems to be a crime in this bizarre world. He is so inappropriate that he is even at a loss. I admit that my painting is silent, majestic under silence, and exists strangely in blooming flowers.

22. No leaf or stone in the world is the same. Six billion people have six billion styles and are worthless, so pure personal style is equal to zero. What I care about is how many people can be influenced by one person's style.

As a professional artist, you can't be satisfied with cultivating and entertaining yourself unless you are modest. We are not retired workers or universities for the aged. If professional workers want to have a plan, they must use their strength to suck milk.

24. Thinking is blind thinking, which is more civilized and profound than blind thinking. The main content is to say no to the old. As for whether it is wonderful or not, those who can only watch it have the final say.