Knowing the Taste by Looking at Pictures —— The Significance of Mo Landi

Probably always imagine life is too long, and often forget the changes of mountains and rivers and the ruthlessness of the four seasons. In fact, I also know what life wants, but the word peace and joy. I don't know when I can wait until the future, but when I think of today, will I quietly sigh "that year was in a hurry"!

This week, we will explore the meaning of life with the help of giorgio morandi's works.

Giorgio morandi (1890- 1964, giorgio morandi) is a famous Italian printmaker and oil painter.

At first glance, his works can't capture any excitement and enthusiasm. They are still lifes and bottles, silent as a mystery. He spent his whole life studying these bottles and the surrounding scenery. He created 65,438+0,264 oil paintings alone, not including sketches, watercolors and prints. Looking at his self-portrait is more like painting a monk and a man. Art and theory are in harmony, which is not bad at all.

A work of art is the best annotation of an artist's own life. Mo Landi lived a lonely and ordinary life, and did not enter the noisy crowd or the art exhibition that attracted bloggers' attention. He just stays with ordinary people in life and leads a dull life. As he himself said, "I am essentially just a painter who paints still life, but I just have a quiet and secret atmosphere." The world is very complicated, but what artists do is not necessarily to restore the objective world, but to present their own spiritual garden through artistic creation, so willing to be lonely and distracted, so that people can see the possibility of another kind of beauty.

Looking at Mo Landi's pictures, those bottles and jars don't seem to have any sharp edges and corners, and they don't have much light and shadow, angle and perspective accuracy. More importantly, it is a perfect visual balance that objects restrict and cancel each other. Mo Landi's paintings almost never use bright colors, but only use some seemingly gloomy intermediate tones to express objects. Everything is unobtrusive, quietly releasing the simplest shock and elegance that goes straight to the heart. Therefore, Mo Landi's painting style and color have become the classic colors in modern home design. If you observe carefully, you will really appreciate the noble and low-key luxury quality. Just like a woman, this is actually the ugliest.

Balthus, who was called "the greatest painter in the 20th century" by Picasso, once commented: "Mo Landi is undoubtedly the closest European painter to China's painting, and he thrives on pen and ink! His paintings have a different realm, which is consistent with China's art in concept. These bottles and jars are similar to the landscape flowers and birds of Chinese painting. " It can be seen that in the field of art, there are too many discoveries, too many songs that lead to the same goal from different routes, and too many wonderful surprises!

The enduring reason of painting art is not because of how close those works of art are to real life. Since the development of photography technology, people will not stay in the concrete representation and expression of artistic aesthetics for a long time, just as the clever use of pens in words often comes from implication, and a picture can bear the parts that cameras, cameras and even pen and ink can not present, which is value. And those artists are very different in temperament and style, which is the most precious gift they left to the world.

Look at Mo Landi's paintings, perhaps not passionate, not ups and downs, but a calm and clear water, at best, coils of moving ripples, rippling in the bottom of my heart.

In the complicated life, we often have no time to lament the rush of time, let alone to explore the meaning of life. Mo Landi's paintings give us a kind of comfort and calm, let us calm down and listen to our inner voice.

I thought that women of my age often don't experience great changes, but it was in these two years that I left the place where I worked for 18 years, the office and workshop where I could go subconsciously without thinking, and so many colleagues and partners who were super tacit with one eye without words. Just adjusted for more than a year, I left again and came to a strange country. And what I leave to you is so calm.

Am I really that calm? On the subway full of strangers, I will suddenly think of the poem of North Island: "I am not familiar with this world, which is not the reason why I am quiet." I still have many questions, asking about the south, my hometown, my hope, my distance ... "

How many thousands of turns, this is actually the crux. From beginning to end, we all live in an environment full of comfort, warmth and security that we are used to. However, a year or two is too short to love anyone, but enough to lose some people. Therefore, no matter what happens, we must learn to be indifferent.

In fact, this has something in common with art appreciation. However, we always demand too much of ourselves, or we always think that those who are used to nature cannot become better. Over time, we lost trust and confidence in ourselves, and regarded the judgment and reaction of the outside world as more important than anything else, so that we regarded our life as a work.

I remember this time last year, I wrote such a sentence: the sun and the moon are normal, so why bother? Just a turning point, a new beginning.

So I am shocked that there are not many things I can really love in my hurried footsteps. We should know how to care and cherish in time, and also know how to cherish and miss in time.

This is the meaning of life that I felt and understood before Mo Landi's painting.