Feng Jicai: Mr. Lin Fengmian in my heart

I have never seen Mr. Lin Fengmian. In 1962, the exhibition hall of the Tianjin American Association held the "Lin Feng Sleeping Painting Exhibition". For the first time, I was strongly attracted to see his paintings. I immediately wrote my feelings "Lin Fengmian and his paintings" and published it in the Tianjin Evening News. I was twenty years old that year.

Feng Jicai

In this essay, I analyzed his style and technique. I appreciate the light of light in the ink, the expression of the scattered culture of the artistic conception, the structure of music, the strong sense of form and form of the structure, and the painting method that integrates tradition and the modern Western modernity.

I remember that I was ignorant at that time. After the article was published, I sent the newspaper to Mr. Lin Fengmian. As a result, I was not interesting, and I didn't even receive the reply. But this did not affect my obsession and worship of my husband. Although my roots were the landscapes of the Song Dynasty, Zongfa Ma Yuan and Guo Xi, and Lin Fengmian's "contemporary ink" wind and horses, but I gradually appeared in the shadow of Lin.

The root cause is mainly because Lin Fengmian painting has a melancholy temperament, which is similar to my young personality. This phase is spiritual, essential, natural. This kind of temperament was not found in traditional Chinese paintings, but I met in Lin Fengmian's paintings and "coincided with me".

Lin Fengmian's paintings adopt a subjective way. This direct expression, I have only seen in the paintings of Ni Yan, Zheng Zheng, and the eight major, but in ancient things, there was a diaphragm of the times after all. Lin Fengmian's paintings are modern and scattered culture. They are very kind and refreshing. In particular, he is committed to spiritual exploration and emotional expression, which has a deep impact on me.

In "Lin Fengmian and his paintings", I wrote such a text: there is a work in the exhibition. The painter is written in the stroke of the wind, and the low pressure in the water is written in the wind. The beach, the flowing clouds ... but there are only water birds, leading their neck wings, and walking against the wind. The two strong contradictions on the picture show a stubborn and perseverance of stubbornness, not fear of difficulties, and is very symbolic and inspiration. This is the unique state of Lin Fengmian.

Lin Fengmian works

The 1960s and 1970s was the dark period of my life. During this period, the "Northern Song Landscape" I originally loved me. I feel that I am getting closer to Lin Fengmian in style. I didn't deliberately imitate him, just because my mood coincided with his painting.

However, I am afraid that I will become his shadow, or I can't get out of his huge shadow. In the 1980s, I published a collection of various Lin Fengmian. Every time I saw it, I rarely looked at it. I was afraid that I would enter too deeply about him, or he entered me too deep.

Lin Fengmian works

I believe that it is the times and life that really changes a person's style.

Since the 1980s, I have been engaged in literature and almost left my ink and wash career. In writing, in the process of dealing with countless fictional characters that I fictional novels, the "painting" on my body changed quietly, and I don't know. By the 1990s, I returned to Dan Qing for a while, moved, and suddenly found that my painting had changed. When did it become? Why does it become?

Is there too much literature in my heart and too many literary scenes, landscapes, realms, poetry, and imagination? Or is it because of the feeling of being touched by literary writing too much, too deep, and too much, and there are too many things to express? For example, "Past", "Expectation", "Old Gate", "The Road to You", "Behind the Tree", "Avenue", "Performing the Clouds", "Confusion of Tender", etc. Is these paintings or prose? Is the inspiration of art or the perception of life? Did I come here from traditional Song painting or through Lin Fengmian?

Now I know it is Lin Fengmian. It is the attraction of Lin Fengmian's art and charm, which makes the prose temperament and life emotions on my body incorporate into the pen and ink, so that my imagination obey my heart, and enters my personal new painting world. Formed self.

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