Huang Zhou: Life is the only source of artistic creation.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kang Youwei once asked the whole painting world loudly: If you paint the magnificent atmosphere of Zhang Jian Palace and the majestic momentum of thousands of troops on the outskirts of the Royal Guards, who can be called a famous painter for hundreds of years?

Until a person appeared, he not only painted the magnificent atmosphere of thousands of families; Depicting the majestic momentum of thousands of rides; He also painted Chun Xue on the land of China after Wild Snow. Painted the "vast world" that the Chinese people have been searching for for for many years.

He is Huangzhou.

The vast world and great achievements

Huangzhou

(1925.3 ——1997.4.23) Master of Chinese painting, social activist and collector.

Founder of Yanhuang Art Museum, the first large private art museum in China; Founder of Chinese Painting Research Institute and China Arts and Crafts Museum; Founder of Huangzhou Fine Arts Foundation. Take the lead in donating their own paintings and calligraphy works and ancient cultural relics, paintings and calligraphy collections. He presided over many important exhibitions and academic activities with far-reaching influence, such as "93 Science and Art Seminar" and "95 Economic and Cultural Seminar". Huang Zhou creatively integrated sketch into Chinese painting, which opened a brand-new paradigm of figure painting and expanded the artistic language of Chinese painting.

From 65438 to 0949, Huangzhou joined the army and came to Xinjiang. The life of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang has become an important theme of Huang Zhou's paintings. In order to better show the uninhibited temperament of Uygur, Kazak and other nationalities who can sing and dance in the desert oasis and show the beauty of the northwest frontier of the motherland, he has repeatedly sketched and painted in various parts of Xinjiang.

For decades, he once shared a bowl of pilaf and a felt room with the border shepherd, and forged a profound friendship. Once, in order to draw two herdsmen well, he drove more than 200 miles. Because his feelings with local herders are so blended and he is so familiar with the life of local herders, everything he writes is vivid, amiable and natural.

Fengle map

Song-carrying line

Play on the grassland

Tajik female teacher

Huang Zhou paints quickly. In the 1960s, the huge work "The Picture of Tibetan Children Going to School" was completed in less than three hours. The running horse is full of energy, its mane is about to fly, and its front legs are bent like lightning. The children were riding on horseback, clutching the saddle tightly for fear of falling off the horse.

Photos of Tibetan children going to school

1957 The Chinese painting Snow Map in Yuan Ye won the gold medal in the World Youth Student Festival.

The characters in this painting are sketched in colored ink, with bold and unrestrained pen and strong folk characteristics. They played the piano and sang in the snow, showing a warm and optimistic attitude. Camel is also the protagonist in the picture, with delicate fur texture and brown body becoming a landscape in cold white.

This idea comes from Huang Zhou's personal experience when he was in road trip, Qinghai-Tibet. At that time, he and his companions trudged in the Gobi desert for a week and saw no one. Suddenly, camel bells came from a distance, which refreshed them. A team of geologists came face to face, and this unexpected surprise was unforgettable, which gave the painting the tone. Many years later, he still often recalls this moment: "I dare to paint, mainly in my life."

Snowstorm in the wild

Huang Zhou followed the principle that "life is the only source of creation", went deep into life for a long time, devoted himself to creation and painted tens of thousands of paintings. Drawings are calculated by sacks, which is rare in the whole history of Chinese painting. He once said: "Learning painting is also sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Can't keep it, you must attack. " The fundamental premise of "attacking but not defending" is persistent diligence.

bluntly

Song Ying.

narcissus

Of course, his "offensive" has a solid "defensive" foundation. While he is learning from life, he is also learning from tradition, classics and masters of past dynasties. The preciseness and life interest of Tang and Song paintings, the profound artistic conception and pen and ink interest of Yuan paintings, the frankness and distinctive personality of Ming and Qing painting schools, and even the simple style of folk works and unearthed cultural relics all inspired Huangzhou.

Appreciation of Huang Zhou's works

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