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Xiangjiang Red Sea Garden is behind Jinshan Park, next to a beautiful Liuhuaxi. Two years ago, my wife and I went to see the real estate and paid a deposit. I don't know why, but we didn't buy a house there later. It was not until I had a tea chat with Professor Hu Zhende, vice president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Fujian Normal University, on the top floor of No.6 Red Sea Garden in Xiangjiang River that I regretted losing an opportunity to be a neighbor with Professor Hu Zhende.

Professor Hu Zhende's home and studio are a unit of Xiangjiang Red Sea Garden Phase I. The upper and lower floors are unpretentious. The living room and the corner of the stairs are covered with his works, mostly landscape paintings, as well as some portraits and female bodies. Home is a place to settle down. Imagine that in such a quiet and clean studio, birds and flowers are painted. For Professor Hu Zhende, perhaps art is also the place where he lives. A set of 2 1 rosewood furniture filled the living room, study room, bedroom and studio, which is very interesting in the traditional aesthetics of China.

When interviewing Hu Zhende, he had just returned from Shandong and was traveling in Qingdao and Yantai. In a few days, he painted six paintings, plus some oil paintings he brought, totaling more than a dozen, which were "intercepted" by the presidents and chairmen of some enterprises with great artistic investment vision in Shandong. Finally, I brought one back. Hu Zhende pointed to an oil painting on an easel and said to me, "This is it." This is a picture depicting an old house in Yantai. Pale red western-style old buildings, lush green trees, quiet streets and telephone poles standing on street corners remind people of a quiet afternoon and a lazy time, and it seems that people read the inner peace of the painter.

Some people say that when you look at Hu Zhende's paintings, the complicated and noisy heart will calm down immediately. His paintings give people a quiet beauty, and it can be seen from the frame that he is very keen on observing things. Especially the trees in his oil paintings, which are very creative. He used the techniques of traditional Chinese painting for reference, and the outline of lines was relaxed, smooth and steady. He believes that sunlight gives trees their colors and reasons for existence, and gives them their own characteristics. As Cezanne said, "A tree, if I want to draw it … isn't it just a picture of nature lying quietly in front of us and showing us itself?" ? That is a conscious tree. "In order to show conscious trees, Hu Zhende asked questions from nature attentively. In the process of learning from nature, he tried to figure out and ask about the trees in his heart. In the oil paintings hanging in Hu Zhende's studio and living room, you can see his different ways of treating trees, such as sketching, dragging, rubbing or dyeing, which make the trees extremely diverse. He mobilized all kinds of harmonious elements of painting, combined with the rational, aesthetic and self-concept of painting in modernist painting, expressed his feelings from the inside out, and constructed a poetic picture space through a composition with strong sense of form and meaningful color blocks, expressing the painter's inner experience of wandering between ideal and reality.

Many of Hu Zhende's works are landscapes, and the "walking" scenery is actually a portrayal of his quiet heart. As Fan Dian, a famous art critic and curator of China Art Museum, mentioned in "Preface to Hu Zhende's Painting Collection": "In Hu Zhende's works, landscape painting occupies a large proportion. Such works, taken from southern villages and fishing ports, or recorded his travels, are all works of people's perception of nature during their travels ... Facing natural scenery, he mobilized various skills to express the shape and image of objects. With creative experience, the structure is handled easily, and the key descriptions and generalizations complement each other, forming different rhythms in each work. Sometimes, in his description of trees or close-up performance, he uses active brushwork to create the effect of swaying light and shadow, reminding people of the advantages of French impressionist painting; Sometimes, he uses flat color levels and overall tones to represent the vast sky, and uses building blocks to shape rocks and buildings in his paintings, which makes people see the influence from Russian oil paintings. Although his style of painting is realistic, in the framework of realism, he has integrated a variety of references and infiltrated the nature of lyrical freehand brushwork. " Hu Zhende has always believed that as an artist, you must have a quiet heart. Without a quiet heart, we will lose our way in the noisy and utilitarian real world. And I always think that people like Hu Zhende have all the basic things, a house to live in and a car to drive, so they don't envy those luxurious things in their hearts. This may have a lot to do with getting out of the educated youth farm of Xianyou Dewey Commune. I believe he is happy even if he has a piece of dirt in his hand.

Hu Zhende likes to scribble on textbooks since he was a child, and he doesn't know what to draw. He is not interested in what is in the textbook, nor can he listen to what the teacher is saying, but he is very interested in drawing. Hu Zhende's grandfather Hu, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, was a famous old Chinese doctor. He used to be the president of Fujian College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and had close contacts with famous painters such as Chen Zifen. When Hu Zhende was a child, he often went to Chen Zifen's house with his grandfather. When his grandfather visits Chen Zifen's house, Chen Zifen will show him many famous masterpieces. Hu Zhende has appreciated the original charm of China's flower-and-bird paintings since he was a child.

Hu Zhende's family has seven brothers and sisters. He is the youngest. During the Cultural Revolution, he could have stayed in the city, but decided to go back to his hometown in Xianyou to jump the queue. He thought it would be nice to have mountains and water. Dewey's educated youth farm is a beautiful place to put silent souls in his life. He once stubbornly believed that he wanted to be a farmer all his life, so he exercised every day and made himself like a tiger. Sending sugar cane, from the educated youth farm to the destination, is 20 Li, which can go back and forth three times a day; When it comes to 300 Jin stone mill, many educated youths can't do it. Only he can do it, just to get two more work points than the average educated youth.

Hu Zhende still thinks Dewey's educated youth farm is beautiful, where there are sparkling reservoirs in the sun, trees everywhere, endless sugarcane forests and simple mountain people. There, he painted portraits of farmers with great interest. After painting, farmers will give him a poached egg. Later, when the commune discovered that the educated youth from the provincial capital could draw, it recommended him to go to the Xianyou Agricultural Dazhai Exhibition Hall to draw. There, for the first time, Hu Zhende was very happy to find that painting can be done without spending money; Later, the military representative introduced Hu Zhende to Dewey Middle School as a private teacher, and he was very successful, because teaching sports and art was his "strength". He drew a standard portrait of Chairman Mao in the center of the auditorium. He wrote a huge painting word "Unity, Nervousness, seriousness and vividness" on the playground, which made his colleagues and students admire him.

I always thought that Hu Zhende painted so many landscape oil paintings later, which had a lot to do with his unforgettable "educated youth" complex. The mountains there and the water there are the places where his life first began. Those indelible marks of educated youth's life are often inadvertently revealed in Hu Zhende's works.

Later, Hu Zhende was recommended to Fujian Normal University, which was a major turning point in his life-the "educated youth" who never lost to farmers and ran fast in wooden barrels with rice on his shoulders finally stepped into the door of an institution of higher learning and really picked up a brush.

When Hu Zhende came to Fujian Normal University at the foot of Chang 'an Mountain, Normal University stood aloof. I didn't know what a market economy was at that time. There are only 16 students in a class, and many old professors who have been sent down or squatting in the bullpen are transferred back from all directions to teach by hand, such as Gao Yihu, Lin Yiyou, Xie Yijia, Sukie Yip ... These famous artists have helped Hu Zhende find his artistic and life goals, and he is like a duck to water. After graduation, he stayed in school, and he was admitted to the class teacher of grade 77. This is the strongest student, such as Chen, Chen Beichen, who later became indispensable professors and painters in Fujian.

From 65438 to 0982, Hu Zhende went to Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts) to study sketch for half a year, and accumulated good modeling skills. 1985, Hu Zhende entered the second advanced oil painting seminar of Central Academy of Fine Arts. There used to be a "148 classroom" in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, which was the cradle for the growth of top oil painting figures in China. Zhan Jianjun and Jin Shangyi both went out on 148, and Hu Zhende was lucky to be the 65438+ who entered the classroom for further study. At that time, among his classmates were,, Hong Ling, and so on. Many of them are famous. For example, Wu Yunhua, the monitor of the class, once painted Chairman Mao's inspection of Fushun, and now he is the president of Liaoning Painting Academy, and some of them have won silver prizes in national art exhibitions. Being classmates with these people, Hu Zhende felt great pressure, and he began to bury himself in painting desperately to shorten the distance with his classmates. After staying in Beijing for two years, he didn't go anywhere, not even to the Great Wall. At that time, almost all the respected predecessors in China oil painting had taught them, such as Jin Shangyi, Zhu Naizheng, Zhao Youping and Han Zhong. Mr. Han Zhong is their head teacher. Under the careful guidance of these famous artists, Hu Zhende made rapid progress and his artistic perception of oil painting advanced by leaps and bounds. His graduation creation "Hui An Nv" and other five works received a good response when they were exhibited in China Art Museum, even Mr. Zhu Naizheng was very surprised after reading them.

In Fujian, Hu Zhende was one of the earliest oil painters who painted the theme of Huian women. After returning from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, she was obsessed with "Hui 'an Women Series" and created nearly 20 Hui 'an women's works. In Hu Zhende's series of Hui 'an girls, Hui 'an girls did not praise suffering, but emphasized its social side, but integrated into nature. The clothes and trousers wet by the waves, the reflection of girl Hui 'an on the beach, the casual expression of fisherman's girl when she weaves fishing nets, and the uncertain eyes of the girl who pries shells all make people have infinite associations.

After Hu Zhende came back from Beijing, many people tried their best to go abroad, and Hu Zhende was also eager to try. Accidental waiting, an opportunity came. 199 1 year, he arrived in Beijing from Fuzhou and boarded the international train to Moscow alone. He will go to Europe to find his artistic dream, because the hometown of oil painting is in Europe. In Moscow, which has just experienced drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, he was upset, but he was amazed by the grandeur of the Moscow subway and fascinated by the colorful Arbat Street. In the next three years, he wandered around Budapest, Vienna, Hamburg and Frankfurt ... admiring the treasures of local museums and art galleries. Hu Zhende firmly established his own artistic language style by absorbing and drawing lessons from western oil painting artistic language. By chance, he held a small solo exhibition in Taiwan Province-China Friendship Association. A boss saw his paintings and liked them very much. The stationery business owner in Taiwan Province Province has done a lot of business in the Middle East. He told Hu Zhende that the Dubai Art Center in the United Arab Emirates urgently needed teachers. If interested, he can help Hu Zhende apply for a visa. With a try, Hu Zhende came to Dubai. Dubai is a commercial center in the Middle East that combines Arab culture, Western culture and southern subculture. Hu Zhende was deeply moved by its fabulous wealth, luxury and mystery. This is another chance. In Dubai, Hu Zhende met a royal photographer by chance. Through his matchmaking, Hu Zhende held several solo exhibitions in Dubai, which were very sensational and sold very high. Later, Hu Zhende went to Abu Dhabi and went to the palace to paint portraits of members of the royal family. An China painter entered a palace in the United Arab Emirates to paint portraits of members of the royal family, which is unprecedented. At that time, the Gulf Times reported on the topic of "Hu Zhende: an envoy to promote cultural exchanges between China and the West", which made many people look at this oil painter from the East with new eyes. As we all know, the United Arab Emirates is a country of peanuts. At that time, many oil tycoons and presidents were interested in Hu Zhende's oil paintings. "You can make a lot of money just by tinkering, but unfortunately you have no economic mind." Hu Zhende said these words without a trace of regret. After going abroad for several years, the plane ticket cost tens of thousands of dollars, but Hu Zhende finally chose to return to China. He gave up two American visas. I've seen everything I need to see, I've done all the exhibitions I need to do, and I've earned all the money I need to earn. Hu Zhende felt very satisfied. He thought it was time to go back.