Gongbi paintings engraved with fresh winds in the era

The "gongbi" in Chinese painting has a long history and profound tradition. Its structure is neat and rigorous, exquisite in shape, and clear and elegant. Development prompts gongbi painting to continue to seek new changes, and injects new vitality into the development of gongbi painting. A few days ago, the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum launched the theme of the "Preface to the Profile: Six hundred years of Jiangsu Gongbi Painting", exhibited nearly 200 works from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, allowing the audience to intuitively and systematically see the evolution of the inheritance of gongbi paintings since the Ming Dynasty. And development. In August, the "Eleventh National Gongbi Painting Works Exhibition" forums, hosted by the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, launched 4 forum activities one after another, which focused on the contemporary exploration and latest development of gongbi painting. So what are the new characteristics of Chinese gongbi painting and what are the problems in creativeness? In the face of complex social changes and the development of the times, how will Gongbi painting keep pace with the times?

▲ Cross Xilong (Chinese Painting) Lin Fan in 2018

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Time gives new features to Gongbi Painting

The "National Gongbi Painting Works Exhibition" was initiated by the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society and has been held for 10 consecutive years since 1987. In fact, the "Eleventh National Gongbi Painting Works Exhibition", as the 2020 National Art Fund funding project, was the first exhibition in the China Art Museum in April 2021, and has successively held in the Guanshan Moon Art Museum in Shenzhen, Shanghai Chinese Art Palace , Tour Exhibition of Huai'an Museum of Art in Jiangsu Province. The more than 400 works on display on the exhibition showed the latest achievements of the development of Chinese gongbong painting in the past five years, and therefore attracted much attention. In the view of Chen Mengxin, president of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, these works represent the academic height of contemporary Chinese gongbi painting, and with a clear personal style and unique aesthetic interest, leaving in the inheritance of traditional culture and the path of modern transformation in Gongbi painting and the path of modern transformation. The trajectory of exploration and advancement. The "Eleventh National Gongbi Painting Works Exhibition" series of forums are based on this exhibition, and discuss the development of the development, existing problems, and future development and presentation of the development of brushwork.

Liu Wanming, deputy director of the National Museum of China and deputy director of the China Artists Association of the Chinese Artists Association, said that from a series of gongci painting exhibitions represented by the "11th National Gongbi Painting Exhibition", it can be seen that the current brushwork Creative talents have emerged, with diverse styles, showing unique era style and personal style, which is an inevitable product of the times. "The times are developing, even if the same thing is the same thing, what the ancients saw that today people saw different perspectives. The different views of the view of the observation affect the feelings of the matter, and the different emotions and feelings have led to the painting. The difference between things. The formation of new techniques, new materials, and new styles becomes inevitable. When the creation of permanent workmanship inherits the excellent content of the traditional, the new realm has been opened up, and the prospects are expected. "Liu Wanming said.

In recent years, whether it is a gongbi painting, a light gongbi, a heavy brushwork, or a boneless pen, it has a very prominent performance in the innovation of form language. The director of the Research Department of the China Art Museum commented that this stems from contemporary workmoks more attention to the research and exploration of gongbi media, as well as cross -border integration of expressions, greatly expanding the artistic expression of the language of Gongbi painting. The form of sexual work strokes has a strong sense of modernity.

Shang Hui, director of the Art Theory Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, believes that the current brush painting has become one of the most dynamic and artistic exploration territories in the field of Chinese painting. At the same time, the appearance of Gongbi painting has also changed huge changes. "From reproduction to modern forms, to symbols and conceptual art almost include all the creative methods and expression methods of human art from classical forms to modernism and postmodernism. Discover the huge potential of unprecedented Chinese painting. Its distinctive characteristics of the times are the most strong manifestations in the shaping of the image of the people in the new era, concern for ordinary people's lives, description of emerging cities' lives, capture of the spiritual dimension of post -modern society, etc., etc., etc. The diverse ways of expression have deeply engraved the humanistic style of the new era. "Shang Hui said.

Jia Guangjian, the dean of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and vice president of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, used "the extremely similar meaning in the same shape" to express the artistic characteristics of Chinese gongbi painting. He emphasized that the grasp of the traditional paradigm and inner spirit of traditional gongbi painting needs to be discussed in depth from the aspects of practice and theory. "The richness of language form must be supported by inner spirit, so as not to make the language exploration of the Periodwork strokes flowing on the surface renovation." Jia Guangjian said.

▲ New semester (Chinese painting) 160 × 180 cm 2011 Sun Zhensheng

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The development of gongbi painting is prominent

As far as the exploration of artistic language is concerned, when the penalty strokes are inherited, evolved, and innovated, they have achieved historic breakthroughs from the composition of the pattern, the use of color, the accuracy of the shape, and the diversity of materials, and achieved unprecedented development. Essence But when the penalty strokes also have development problems. Gao Yun, Vice President of the Chinese Painting Society and chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Society, bluntly said: "According to the requirements of art, art works must have 'three fines': profound thought, exquisite art, and good production. The development is unprecedented, but in terms of the connotation, character, and meaning of the work, in terms of spiritual and profound nature, we still have room for effort. Therefore, the painter must strive to inject soul into the work and pursue moving things. After all, the ultimate purpose of any art language exploration is to express. "Gao Yun said. Zhou Jingxin, the vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, also bluntly stated that when the penalty strokes still need to be improved, these problems are also needed by contemporary Chinese painting. "For example, the understanding of classic values ​​and classic technical standards of traditional Chinese painting continues to generalize; some painters blindly pursue popular popular styles and passionate imitation, resulting in the convergence of the work, which has led to the continuous lack of independent creativity; too much attention to materials production It often ignores the expression of emotions and the performance of art. In response to these issues, we should carefully consider reflection, actively act, effectively improve, and jointly promote the high -quality and diversified development of Chinese contemporary painting art. "Zhou Jingxin said.

With the development of the times, the connotation and extension of gongbi painting have also expanded greatly, and even the trend of cross -border integration, such as the fusion of gongbin and ink, the fusion of gongbi painting and new media, but this innovation innovation, but this innovation innovation Development will also bring some hidden concerns. Zhang Jian, the dean of the Gongbi Painting Academy of the Chinese Academy of Art and the vice president of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, believes that we must be alert to this expansion and integration. "Some of the so -called cross -border fusion, part of which is based on the new artistic concept based on the body of the gongbi painting language, and the other part has no inevitable relationship with Gongbi painting. These works have entered a broader comprehensive material, multimedia and other fields. This is not only the change of visual aesthetic, but also ideological innovation. It is completely impossible to measure with the original artistic standard art standards, and new value standards need to be established. " Can't replace the pens and painters to insist on the efforts of the language body of Gongbi Painting. When the expansion of the boundary of the Period Pen Painting is to expand on the core essential of the gongbi painting, it is necessary to exclude the 'pseudo -gong pen', dazzling skills, etc. To the majority of 'standards, create a modern brushwork that has a profound thought, exquisite art, and excellent production'. "

Whether Gongbi must be "realistic" is also a problem that plagues the artist. Chen Xiangbo, the head of the Guanshan Moon Museum and the vice president of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, believes that the realistic theme gongbi painting should most realize the reality of contemporary life, but the truth does not mean realistic. On the one hand, the actual theme of the gongbi is based on the "response pictograph" and has realistic requirements. On the other hand, its formal factors determine that it cannot be fully realistic. Therefore, gongbi painting actually has the duality of realism and non -realistic contradictions. In his opinion, it is impossible for Gongbi to paint. The so -called realism of traditional gongbi paintings is just relative to the realistic painting of ink and ink literati. "We should see that this virtuality of Gongbi Painting Art Language is increasingly displayed and plastic. Provide a broad space to the modern form. "Chen Xiangbo said.

▲ The Nu Flower Festival · Life Ru Song (Chinese Painting) 2020 Chen Mengxin

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Highlight the theme creative advantage

It can be seen from the gongbi painting works in recent years that paying attention to the times and showing life have become a major feature of current Chinese gongbi painting. At the beginning of the 21st century, the two major art creation projects implemented by the state: "National Major Historical Theme Art Creation Project" and "Chinese Civilization Historical Theme Art Creation Project", which not only opened the climax of national theme art creation, but also promoted contemporary work pens The prosperity of the theme creation. It is worth noting that most of the Chinese paintings of these two major projects are artistic paintings. It can be seen that the great potential of the work of the work in contemporary theme creations.

So, why is the gongbi painting better enough to show major themes? From the perspective of Xiao Yutian, an artistic consultant and honorary director of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, Gongbi Painting is mature in the cultural environment of Confucianism and Taoism, and has always carried the dual functions of "expressive" and "narrative". The perceptual expression of "sending affection" and "expressiveness" and the enlightenment narrative of "Mian Zhi" and "morality" are not contrary to promoting the expansion of the field of painting and the development of value functions.

Not only that, Gongbi painting has obvious advantages in the creation of contemporary theme painting. "Its precision, exquisite language methods, and realistic artistic styles have formed a rich and magnificent temple spirit that is highly fitted with the prosperous weather, especially in the height of the two -way dimension of 'to the vastness' and 'sophisticated micro -' two -way dimension. Make Gongbi painting in the docking of the two aesthetic categories of the extension and profound Chinese cultural characteristics. "Xiao Yutian said.

Wang Zhichun, the consultant of the Art Committee of the Beijing Academy of Painting and the vice president of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, in the opinion of the theme creation of contemporary Chinese painting, gongbi painting is the main force. Both the author's lineup and the number of works occupy a considerable advantage. In the theme of contemporary Chinese painting, the theme Sexual creation plays a huge role. "Theme creation should generally adapt to the requirements of the new era, so as to be profound, exquisite in art, and excellent production. For gongbi painting, it should also be deeply emotional and exquisite in language. Not only should they be deep的理解，更应该充满深情，才能创作出优秀的工笔画作品。”而工笔画对于现实生活的关注不断加强，以及在主题性绘画作品中的凸显也表明当代工笔画家对现实的关切，展现出The painter's efforts to synchronize with the times and enjoy the people. They broaden their cognitive fields and emotional worlds in deepening their lives and the masses, vividly depict the style of the times, accurately and objectively reflect the theme of the people's voices, and create a large number of works that promote the main theme.

The in -depth deepening of life determines the intensity of artistic performance, and the brush painter is no exception. How to go deep into life? How to create a masterpiece that really impresses people? The descendants are blunt, and the deepening of life needs to be attentive. "If the emotion is metaphorized to the magnetic stick, then with the magnetic rod of emotion to collect the wind, everything that is interested will be attracted and become an effective creative material. In -depth life, in a sense, emotional betting is emotional betting in a sense. The concentration of the magnetic rod has the strength of the magnetic rod. The stronger the emotional betting, the more real concern for the reality, the stronger the expression and appeal of art works. The intensity finally determines the height of art works, "said Yu Yu.

"China Culture News" on August 28, 2022

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