Creation of traditional Chinese painting

Zheng Yaoyun, member of Yangjiang Artists Association and director of Yangchun Artists Association. In 2015, he graduated from Wu Shanming’s figure painting creative training class and studied under Wu Shanming. His works have been selected into the 12th Guangdong Province Art Calligraphy and Photography Joint Exhibition, the 3rd Guangdong Lingnan Art Exhibition, etc.

My hometown, Yangchun, Guangdong, is a city rich in tourism resources. There are many cultural monuments and beautiful natural scenery here, and it is known as "Ink and Spring, Baili Gallery". The gorgeous sunset at Yuwang Stone, the graceful Malan Peaks, Lingxiao Rock, known as the "No. 1 Cave in the South", etc., form beautiful pictures spread out on this magical land. Every scenery makes me admire and be intoxicated by it, and it also prompts me to pick up a paintbrush to sketch and create.

At first, I just sketched some landscapes, and my specialty is ink and wash realistic figure painting. Therefore, I also pay special attention to the materials about the characters and customs in my hometown. But I couldn't find a good subject matter for a while, so I had to draw some ethnic minority characters. Ink figure painters generally have a common understanding that the long-sleeved clothing of some ethnic minorities has natural formal beauty and is particularly suitable for the use of ink, while straight-leg trousers and shirts are more difficult to paint with ink. deal with. This is also the reason why I was a little reluctant to paint people in my hometown at first. After creating a batch of works depicting ethnic minority characters, I always felt that such themes were too far away from my current life experience. Therefore, I had to slowly look for materials in the process of sketching landscapes. By chance, I found what I was looking for while visiting Gaoliuhe Ruins. Gaoliuhe Market has only one market day a year. This is a market with a history of thousands of years in Lingnan and has now become a symbol of Yangchun folk culture. Gaoliu River is located in Heshui Town, Yangchun City, Guangdong Province. The river is more than ten kilometers long, and the market is located here. Gaoliuhe Market falls on the fourth day of the fifth lunar month every year. During the market season, a large number of tourists come here to gather together with local market goers, about 100,000 people. At this time, weaving products, bamboo and wooden products, and handicrafts with local characteristics will be gathered in the market. The popularity of the market reflects the prosperity of contemporary people's lives and their love and pursuit of a better life. These vivid characters and rich and lively life scenes deeply affected me, and I couldn't help but sigh: "There is a good subject right in front of me, so why bother looking for something far away!"

So, my "Gaoliuhe" One of the "Ruins" (see attached picture 1) was created. In this work, I particularly emphasize the calligraphy of lines. When painting the bamboo chair, I used the sharp strokes in seal script to pursue thick and simple lines. The lines of the clothes are alternately used in the center and side, showing the richness of the brushwork. The whole painting is mainly ink, with slight embellishments of color. The contrast of color and ink increases the interest of the picture, thereby producing a certain artistic effect. This work was finally selected for the 3rd Guangdong Lingnan Art Exhibition.

My painting method originates from the Zhejiang School. In 2013, I was fortunate enough to be admitted to the "Wu Shanming Figure Painting Creative Research Class" and became a disciple of Mr. Wu Shanming, a figure painter from the Zhejiang School. In two years, I systematically studied the realistic figure painting techniques of Zhejiang School of ink painting. From the initial messy understanding of figure painting to receiving formalized and systematic training, I gained a completely new understanding of freehand figure painting from painting techniques to theory. As I understand it, Zhejiang style figure painting is based on accurate modeling, integrating the pen and ink language of flower and bird painting in figure techniques, and integrating more other pen and ink vocabulary into the shape of figure painting. At the same time, it pays attention to the use of calligraphy brushes. Use, more emphasis on the meaning of "writing".

Ink and wash figure painting, both in terms of modeling methods and brush and ink techniques, has gone through many generations of exploration, practice and creation accumulation, and the system is very complete. Xu Beihong and Jiang Zhaohe explored the integration of Chinese and Western art. Lu Chen, Zhou Sicong, Yao Duo and other painters who represented the northern ink figure painting system were all influenced. Among the Zhejiang style figure paintings in the south, Li Zhenjian's deepness, Zhou Changgu's richness, and Fang Zengxian's chicness all have their own strengths. My teacher Wu Shanming creatively used Su Mo to draw figures, which expanded Huang Binhong's Su Mo method. I believe that the essential issue in ink figure painting is how to express people, especially how to express contemporary people in new forms. Shi Tao of the Qing Dynasty said: "Brush and ink should follow the times." With the development of the times, the techniques and languages ??of ink painting have become more and more rich. I think every figure painter must establish a unique artistic language system of his own to express his inner emotions and understanding of the world. I think this is also the ultimate goal of painting art creation. Therefore, I created the "Gaoliu River Ruins" series of works (picture 2 shows the second part of "Gaoliu River Ruins") and continued to create in this direction. I will take "Gaoliuhe Ruins" as a research topic, express this thousand-year-old ancient ruins that represents Yangchun customs and culture in the art form of Chinese painting, and work hard to promote excellent culture.

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