Photographic Prose Luo Zhongli's Oil Painting Father

Luo Zhongli wrote about his father. He is not only the father of Luo Zhongli, but also the father of the working people in China. Father is the representative image of farmers and the crystallization of Luo Zhongli's generation of young people's thoughts.

The painting "Father" is an ordinary, poor and bitter common people in China, and it is inspired by the huge portrait of American painter Close. The characters are all familiar images of old farmers. The old man's black and thin face is covered with furrows and ruts, and his deep-set eyes reveal sadness, confusion and sincere eyes, as if remembering the past and looking forward to the future. The chapped and anxious lips seem to have been sealed for a long time. Only one front tooth has tasted a lot of ups and downs in his mouth, especially a broken hand like a rake plow holding a broken coarse porcelain bowl that surfaced again. I don't know how much sweat has slipped from tiny pores. The sparse beard and the mole of bad karma symbolize tragedy, all of which are branded with his hard and miserable life. It makes people feel the unique smell of tobacco leaves on his body, his skin is shaking, his blood is flowing, it makes people think, arouses the attention of the whole society, arouses the audience's admiration for his father, and makes us feel that this is an ordinary old farmer who has suffered a lot in Cang Sang, but he is always full of hope and expectation for life, optimistic and tenacious. In him, the indomitable creativity of the excellent tradition of the Chinese nation is gathered. This strong visual effect produces an ordinary and great emotion in the hearts of the audience, which is thrilling. It is Luo Zhongli's undisguised expression of the ugliness of peasants that makes the image of "father" more real and flesh-and-blood.

"Father" is innovative in both theme and formal language, and it must be the product of specific social conditions and political climate. Especially in the early 1980s, the society was in an era of change, people's values changed greatly, the subjective consciousness began to awaken, the artistic expression consciousness deepened, and a good objective environment was formed. Reflected in artistic creation, artists began to have a strong interest in trivial matters and ordinary people around them, thus changing the creative method with revolutionary leaders as the main object. Father was born in such a good atmosphere, with full composition, deep color and rich connotation. The appearance description is very delicate, the feelings are complex, and the meaning is profound. The subject image is not affected by the detailed description, but is more prominent. This is not only a formal innovation. Moreover, it is a breakthrough in subject matter, which shows the painter's courage and courage. "Father" opened up a new field to describe the complex character of ordinary farmers and express their inner thoughts, which greatly shocked the art world in the 1980 s and made people start thinking about the past, present and future. Some people say that the image of "father" is not the father of a farmer, but the father of 800 million farmers who have experienced ten years of catastrophe in China, and it is also the image of contemporary farmers in China, and the power embodied in this image. It is a great force that supports our whole nation and country from the past to the future. This image has great generality and inclusiveness, and is of epoch-making significance. However, the painting "Father" also reflects the contradiction in his conception. He wanted to sing and praise the virtues of the working people in China, but he was sad about the feudal consciousness attached to the peasants, so the peasants' faces were covered with a trace of gloom, so Father was reflected to some extent. Father is more like a monument, standing in the hearts of people of that era.